Only Man is Vile

Only Man is Vile PDF Author: William McGowan
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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A journalist's account of his extensive travels in Sri Lanka and portrayal of the Sri Lankans who carry on in the midst of conflict and strife between warring factions of Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamils.

Only Man is Vile

Only Man is Vile PDF Author: William McGowan
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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A journalist's account of his extensive travels in Sri Lanka and portrayal of the Sri Lankans who carry on in the midst of conflict and strife between warring factions of Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamils.

From Greenland's Icy Mountains

From Greenland's Icy Mountains PDF Author: Reginald Heber
Publisher:
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Category : Christian poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Vile Men

Vile Men PDF Author: Rebecca Jones-Howe
Publisher: Dark House Press
ISBN: 9781940430515
Category : Short stories, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Vile Men is a collection of dark stories that touches on a mixture of subjects: abuse, regret, dysfunction, and desire.

The Splendid and the Vile

The Splendid and the Vile PDF Author: Erik Larson
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 038534872X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 609

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis “One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”—Time • “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.”—NPR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Vogue • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • The Globe & Mail • Fortune • Bloomberg • New York Post • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • LibraryReads • PopMatters On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally—and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports—some released only recently—Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents’ wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela’s illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill’s “Secret Circle,” to whom he turns in the hardest moments. The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today’s political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill’s eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.

VILE BODIES

VILE BODIES PDF Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
ISBN: 1667623796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...”

The Gospel in All Lands

The Gospel in All Lands PDF Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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The Fortnightly Review

The Fortnightly Review PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1212

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The Sydney Magazine

The Sydney Magazine PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Australian periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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The Ceaseless Chatter of Demons

The Ceaseless Chatter of Demons PDF Author: Ashok Ferrey
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9385890182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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‘I was born ugly. That’s what my mother always said.’ So begins the story of young Sonny Mahadewala who lives a dual life: between his adoptive England where he lives in eccentric union with a privileged American, and the mixed bliss of the Mahadewala Walauwa, the big house on the mountain belonging to his father’s family in Kandy— the ancient capital of Sri Lanka—where he has both cachet and awful memories. For Sonny’s mother, a wonderfully maleficent anti-heroine, is convinced that demons possess this awfully ugly son of hers. Demons and the devil himself are the playing field of this book, whether seated in the draughty chapels of Oxford or roaming the Kandyan countryside and, through their clever interplay, they speak of larger horrors with able grace. Who is utterly good or utterly evil—and who, indeed, is the devil?

Printer's Pie

Printer's Pie PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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