Author: General William Booth
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734081750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: In Darkest England and the Way out by General William Booth
In Darkest England and the Way out
Author: General William Booth
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734081750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: In Darkest England and the Way out by General William Booth
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734081750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: In Darkest England and the Way out by General William Booth
Darkest England
Author: Idries Shah
Publisher: Octagon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0863040756
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This work offers coverage of England in an anthropological sense and from the Sufi perspective.
Publisher: Octagon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0863040756
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This work offers coverage of England in an anthropological sense and from the Sufi perspective.
Youth of Darkest England
Author: Troy Boone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135872708
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book examines the representation of English working-class children — the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England" — in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, Boone focuses on how the writings for and about youth undertook an ideological project to enlist working-class children into the British imperial enterprise, demonstrating convincingly that the British working-class youth resisted a nationalist identification process that tended to eradicate or obfuscate class differences.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135872708
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book examines the representation of English working-class children — the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England" — in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, Boone focuses on how the writings for and about youth undertook an ideological project to enlist working-class children into the British imperial enterprise, demonstrating convincingly that the British working-class youth resisted a nationalist identification process that tended to eradicate or obfuscate class differences.
Think of England
Author: Alice Elliott Dark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743234979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
N rural eastern Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Jane MacLeod is writing a book about the happy family she desperately wishes she had. Her mother, Via, is dissatisfied and petulant, always resentful of the time Jane's father, Emlin, a heart surgeon, must spend with his patients at the hospital. One night in 1964, the family (including Jane's two younger brothers and sister and Via's homosexual brother, Uncle Francis) gathers to watch the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. All goes well until Emlin discovers that someone has taken the phone off the hook, so that he can't receive emergency calls. Angrily, he accuses Via (who accuses Jane) and rushes off to the hospital. He is killed in an automobile accident. Fifteen years later, Jane has moved to London, where she's become friends with bohemians Nigel and Colette. A political bombing and an affair with aloof (and married) American writer Clay West lead Jane to confront her long-buried guilt over her parents' unhappiness and father's death.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743234979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
N rural eastern Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Jane MacLeod is writing a book about the happy family she desperately wishes she had. Her mother, Via, is dissatisfied and petulant, always resentful of the time Jane's father, Emlin, a heart surgeon, must spend with his patients at the hospital. One night in 1964, the family (including Jane's two younger brothers and sister and Via's homosexual brother, Uncle Francis) gathers to watch the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. All goes well until Emlin discovers that someone has taken the phone off the hook, so that he can't receive emergency calls. Angrily, he accuses Via (who accuses Jane) and rushes off to the hospital. He is killed in an automobile accident. Fifteen years later, Jane has moved to London, where she's become friends with bohemians Nigel and Colette. A political bombing and an affair with aloof (and married) American writer Clay West lead Jane to confront her long-buried guilt over her parents' unhappiness and father's death.
Darkest England
Author: Idries Shah
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1784791733
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 807
Book Description
In his best-selling Darkest England, Idries Shah asserts that the English hail from a little-known place called 'Hathaby', but their roots go back much farther, perhaps to the distant Asian realm of Sakasina. Once a nomadic tribe of warriors, the English fled westward, bringing with them epic tales, traditions, and an Oriental way of thought.Shah charts the genius of the English in adopting and adapting 'almost anything spiritual, moral or material' for their own use - a faculty that has transformed them from warrior nomads into successful diplomats, businessmen, thinkers and scientists.
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1784791733
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 807
Book Description
In his best-selling Darkest England, Idries Shah asserts that the English hail from a little-known place called 'Hathaby', but their roots go back much farther, perhaps to the distant Asian realm of Sakasina. Once a nomadic tribe of warriors, the English fled westward, bringing with them epic tales, traditions, and an Oriental way of thought.Shah charts the genius of the English in adopting and adapting 'almost anything spiritual, moral or material' for their own use - a faculty that has transformed them from warrior nomads into successful diplomats, businessmen, thinkers and scientists.
In Darkest England, and the Way Out
Author: William Booth
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In William Booth's 'In Darkest England, and the Way Out,' readers are transported to a society plagued by poverty and social injustice, where Booth provides a detailed analysis of the harsh conditions faced by the lower class. Written in a straightforward and compelling style, the book offers a stark portrayal of the struggles of the poor and marginalized in Victorian England, shedding light on the urgent need for social reform. Booth's insightful observations and pragmatic solutions make this work a pioneering piece of social criticism, reflecting the literary context of the late 19th century. By incorporating real-life examples and statistics, Booth effectively conveys the urgency of addressing these societal issues. William Booth, a visionary social reformer and founder of the Salvation Army, was deeply committed to alleviating poverty and advocating for the disadvantaged. His firsthand experiences with the plight of the poor motivated him to write 'In Darkest England, and the Way Out,' making it a seminal work in the history of social welfare. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in social history, poverty alleviation, and reform movements, offering valuable insights into the challenges faced by marginalized communities and the importance of taking action.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In William Booth's 'In Darkest England, and the Way Out,' readers are transported to a society plagued by poverty and social injustice, where Booth provides a detailed analysis of the harsh conditions faced by the lower class. Written in a straightforward and compelling style, the book offers a stark portrayal of the struggles of the poor and marginalized in Victorian England, shedding light on the urgent need for social reform. Booth's insightful observations and pragmatic solutions make this work a pioneering piece of social criticism, reflecting the literary context of the late 19th century. By incorporating real-life examples and statistics, Booth effectively conveys the urgency of addressing these societal issues. William Booth, a visionary social reformer and founder of the Salvation Army, was deeply committed to alleviating poverty and advocating for the disadvantaged. His firsthand experiences with the plight of the poor motivated him to write 'In Darkest England, and the Way Out,' making it a seminal work in the history of social welfare. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in social history, poverty alleviation, and reform movements, offering valuable insights into the challenges faced by marginalized communities and the importance of taking action.
A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain
Author: Ann Williams
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781852640477
Category : Anglo-Saxons
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book provides a unique work of reference cutting across ancient cultural divisions within Dark Age Britain, and it enables the reader to follow the careers of people as far apart in time and place as the early Kentish kings and Viking earls of Orkney. Entries range from well-known characters such as Merlin, Alfred the Great, the historian Bede and the Danish warlord Cnut to the more obscure Pictish kings and abbots of Iona. Each entry is presented in a succinct and compact form in an easily accessible A to Z format. Here experts on a multitude of early historic peoples in Britain have brought together a dossier of scholarly findings on all those whose lives can be reconstructed from an examination of early source material, incorporating the very latest research. Englishmen from Wessex to Northumbria, Welshmen and Cornishmen, Northern Britons, Scots and Picts, Scandinavians from the Danelaw and York as well as from the Viking earldom of Orkney and the Southern Isles, all take their place in this wide-ranging survey of the people of Dark Age Britain. This detailed work of reference, supplemented by chronological and genealogical tables, will be an essential tool for all those with an interest in Dark Age Britain.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781852640477
Category : Anglo-Saxons
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book provides a unique work of reference cutting across ancient cultural divisions within Dark Age Britain, and it enables the reader to follow the careers of people as far apart in time and place as the early Kentish kings and Viking earls of Orkney. Entries range from well-known characters such as Merlin, Alfred the Great, the historian Bede and the Danish warlord Cnut to the more obscure Pictish kings and abbots of Iona. Each entry is presented in a succinct and compact form in an easily accessible A to Z format. Here experts on a multitude of early historic peoples in Britain have brought together a dossier of scholarly findings on all those whose lives can be reconstructed from an examination of early source material, incorporating the very latest research. Englishmen from Wessex to Northumbria, Welshmen and Cornishmen, Northern Britons, Scots and Picts, Scandinavians from the Danelaw and York as well as from the Viking earldom of Orkney and the Southern Isles, all take their place in this wide-ranging survey of the people of Dark Age Britain. This detailed work of reference, supplemented by chronological and genealogical tables, will be an essential tool for all those with an interest in Dark Age Britain.
The seven spirits; or, What I teach my officers
Author: William Booth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Darkest Hour
Author: Anthony McCarten
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062749544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
“McCarten's pulse-pounding narrative transports the reader to those springtime weeks in 1940 when the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of Winston Churchill. A true story thrillingly told. Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable.”—Michael F. Bishop, Executive Director of the International Churchill Society From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revelatory look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill’s ascendancy to Prime Minister “He was speaking to the nation, the world, and indeed to history....” May, 1940. Britain is at war. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell. Invasion seems mere hours away. Just days after becoming Prime Minister, Winston Churchill must deal with this horror—as well as a skeptical King, a party plotting against him, and an unprepared public. Pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, how could he change the mood and shore up the will of a nervous people? In this gripping day-by-day, often hour-by-hour account of how an often uncertain Churchill turned Britain around, the celebrated Bafta-winning writer Anthony McCarten exposes sides of the great man never seen before. He reveals how he practiced and re-wrote his key speeches, from ‘Blood, toil, tears and sweat’ to ‘We shall fight on the beaches’; his consideration of a peace treaty with Nazi Germany, and his underappreciated role in the Dunkirk evacuation; and, above all, how 25 days helped make one man an icon. Using new archive material, McCarten reveals the crucial behind-the-scenes moments that changed the course of history. It’s a scarier—and more human—story than has ever been told.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062749544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
“McCarten's pulse-pounding narrative transports the reader to those springtime weeks in 1940 when the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of Winston Churchill. A true story thrillingly told. Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable.”—Michael F. Bishop, Executive Director of the International Churchill Society From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revelatory look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill’s ascendancy to Prime Minister “He was speaking to the nation, the world, and indeed to history....” May, 1940. Britain is at war. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell. Invasion seems mere hours away. Just days after becoming Prime Minister, Winston Churchill must deal with this horror—as well as a skeptical King, a party plotting against him, and an unprepared public. Pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, how could he change the mood and shore up the will of a nervous people? In this gripping day-by-day, often hour-by-hour account of how an often uncertain Churchill turned Britain around, the celebrated Bafta-winning writer Anthony McCarten exposes sides of the great man never seen before. He reveals how he practiced and re-wrote his key speeches, from ‘Blood, toil, tears and sweat’ to ‘We shall fight on the beaches’; his consideration of a peace treaty with Nazi Germany, and his underappreciated role in the Dunkirk evacuation; and, above all, how 25 days helped make one man an icon. Using new archive material, McCarten reveals the crucial behind-the-scenes moments that changed the course of history. It’s a scarier—and more human—story than has ever been told.
The Anarchy
Author: Teresa Cole
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445678500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The bitter civil war for the English throne, which drew in Scotland and Normandy, when a princess's rightful throne was seized by her male cousin, and plunged England into 'the Anarchy'.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445678500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The bitter civil war for the English throne, which drew in Scotland and Normandy, when a princess's rightful throne was seized by her male cousin, and plunged England into 'the Anarchy'.