Author: James Long
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1780875312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
When Mike and Gally Martin move to a cottage in Somerset, it's to make a new start. But the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to an old countryman, Ferney, who seems to know everything about her. What is it that draws them together? Reluctantly at first, then with more urgency as he feels time slipping away, Ferney compels Gally to understand their connection - and to face an inexplicable truth about their shared past. b
Ferney
Author: James Long
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1780875312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
When Mike and Gally Martin move to a cottage in Somerset, it's to make a new start. But the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to an old countryman, Ferney, who seems to know everything about her. What is it that draws them together? Reluctantly at first, then with more urgency as he feels time slipping away, Ferney compels Gally to understand their connection - and to face an inexplicable truth about their shared past. b
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1780875312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
When Mike and Gally Martin move to a cottage in Somerset, it's to make a new start. But the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to an old countryman, Ferney, who seems to know everything about her. What is it that draws them together? Reluctantly at first, then with more urgency as he feels time slipping away, Ferney compels Gally to understand their connection - and to face an inexplicable truth about their shared past. b
Angelina's Children
Author: Ferney Alice
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN: 1912242001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
“Few gypsies want to be seen as poor, although many are. Such was the case with old Angelina’s sons, who possessed nothing other than their caravan and their gypsy blood. But it was young blood that coursed through their veins, a dark and vital flow that attracted women and fathered numberless children. And, like their mother, who had known the era of horses and caravans, they spat upon the very thought that they might be pitied.” So begins the story of a matriarch and her tribe, ostracized by society and exiled to the outskirts of the city. Esther, a young librarian from the town, comes to the camp to introduce the children to books and stories. She gradually gains their confidence, and accompanies them, as observer and participant, through an eventful and tragic year in all their lives. Alice Ferney’s distinctive style powerfully involves the reader in the family’s roller-coaster existence, with its disasters, its comic moments and its battles against an uncomprehending, hostile world; in the love lives of the five boys, the bravery of the children, and eventually, in Angelina’s final gesture of defiance.
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN: 1912242001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
“Few gypsies want to be seen as poor, although many are. Such was the case with old Angelina’s sons, who possessed nothing other than their caravan and their gypsy blood. But it was young blood that coursed through their veins, a dark and vital flow that attracted women and fathered numberless children. And, like their mother, who had known the era of horses and caravans, they spat upon the very thought that they might be pitied.” So begins the story of a matriarch and her tribe, ostracized by society and exiled to the outskirts of the city. Esther, a young librarian from the town, comes to the camp to introduce the children to books and stories. She gradually gains their confidence, and accompanies them, as observer and participant, through an eventful and tragic year in all their lives. Alice Ferney’s distinctive style powerfully involves the reader in the family’s roller-coaster existence, with its disasters, its comic moments and its battles against an uncomprehending, hostile world; in the love lives of the five boys, the bravery of the children, and eventually, in Angelina’s final gesture of defiance.
Catalogue
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A Lost Interest
Author: Mrs. George Wemyss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Two Voltairean Plays: The Triumvirate and Comedy at Ferney
Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479409715
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Set in Roman times, Voltaire's play THE TRIUMVIRATE details a meeting on an island between Anthony and Octavian, in which the two main players in the post-Caesar Roman world decide how to divide up the spoils of war--and eliminate all potential rivals. Anthony agrees to divorce his wife Fulvia and marry Octavian's sister; and Octavian wants to marry Julia, Lucius's daughter, who loves Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey the Great. When a storm lands Julia and Pompey Junior on the island, Fulvia agrees to help the star-crossed lovers--if they will aid her in gaining her revenge on Anthony and Octavian. Louis Lurine and Albéric Second's play COMEDY AT FERNEY features an elderly Voltaire, who must put off a starstruck young female fan who wants to meet him. But Voltaire's guest, the Prince de Ligne, decides to use the situation to sample the favors of the infatuated woman. A clever and swift-moving comedy.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479409715
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Set in Roman times, Voltaire's play THE TRIUMVIRATE details a meeting on an island between Anthony and Octavian, in which the two main players in the post-Caesar Roman world decide how to divide up the spoils of war--and eliminate all potential rivals. Anthony agrees to divorce his wife Fulvia and marry Octavian's sister; and Octavian wants to marry Julia, Lucius's daughter, who loves Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey the Great. When a storm lands Julia and Pompey Junior on the island, Fulvia agrees to help the star-crossed lovers--if they will aid her in gaining her revenge on Anthony and Octavian. Louis Lurine and Albéric Second's play COMEDY AT FERNEY features an elderly Voltaire, who must put off a starstruck young female fan who wants to meet him. But Voltaire's guest, the Prince de Ligne, decides to use the situation to sample the favors of the infatuated woman. A clever and swift-moving comedy.
The Search for a New Voltaire
Author: Ira O. Wade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge.
The Search for a New Voltaire
Author: Ira Owen Wade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Votes & Proceedings
Author: New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
The Lives She Left Behind
Author: James Long
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471142981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
One of the most brilliant timeslip novels ever written,The Lives She Left Behind will appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and Life After Life - and, of course, Ferney. In a Somerset village, a teenage boy confronts a teacher with a story he should know nothing about. The boy's impossible knowledge uncovers memories Michael Martin has done his utmost to forget - and soon propels him into danger. As Martin confronts his past once more, three girls arrive in the village of Pen Selwood, one of them drawn by an ancient instinct to find a man called Ferney. Her actions reignite a love story, an instinct that cannot be broken, irrespective of the hurt and danger it brings to those around them... A passionate love story that spans the centuries, fall under the spell of Ferney and Gally's enduring romance.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471142981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
One of the most brilliant timeslip novels ever written,The Lives She Left Behind will appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and Life After Life - and, of course, Ferney. In a Somerset village, a teenage boy confronts a teacher with a story he should know nothing about. The boy's impossible knowledge uncovers memories Michael Martin has done his utmost to forget - and soon propels him into danger. As Martin confronts his past once more, three girls arrive in the village of Pen Selwood, one of them drawn by an ancient instinct to find a man called Ferney. Her actions reignite a love story, an instinct that cannot be broken, irrespective of the hurt and danger it brings to those around them... A passionate love story that spans the centuries, fall under the spell of Ferney and Gally's enduring romance.