Author: John Ellsworth
Publisher: Subjudica House
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
From the highly acclaimed attorney-turned-writer comes a historical thriller about a kidnapped Jewish boy and a Nazi army officer. Their paths collide in World War II and crimes follow crimes. Seventy years later their case goes to trial in a legal drama set in Chicago. For the defense is Thaddeus Murfee, a Chicago attorney who refuses to lose cases, even where there's a smoking gun. Courtroom drama takes over the final third of the book as Thaddeus puts on the stand the Nazi's grandson, a Catholic priest, to help with the defense. A startling ending has readers everywhere discussing this timely thriller. Note: This novel, like World War II, contains Nazi concentration camp scenes and portrays that brutality. If that isn't your cuppa, you may want to try a different Thaddeus Murfee adventure. Categories include legal thrillers, courtroom drama, lawyer novels, courtroom thrillers, crime thrillers, crime fiction, psychological thrillers, heist
Unspeakable Prayers
Author: John Ellsworth
Publisher: Subjudica House
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
From the highly acclaimed attorney-turned-writer comes a historical thriller about a kidnapped Jewish boy and a Nazi army officer. Their paths collide in World War II and crimes follow crimes. Seventy years later their case goes to trial in a legal drama set in Chicago. For the defense is Thaddeus Murfee, a Chicago attorney who refuses to lose cases, even where there's a smoking gun. Courtroom drama takes over the final third of the book as Thaddeus puts on the stand the Nazi's grandson, a Catholic priest, to help with the defense. A startling ending has readers everywhere discussing this timely thriller. Note: This novel, like World War II, contains Nazi concentration camp scenes and portrays that brutality. If that isn't your cuppa, you may want to try a different Thaddeus Murfee adventure. Categories include legal thrillers, courtroom drama, lawyer novels, courtroom thrillers, crime thrillers, crime fiction, psychological thrillers, heist
Publisher: Subjudica House
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
From the highly acclaimed attorney-turned-writer comes a historical thriller about a kidnapped Jewish boy and a Nazi army officer. Their paths collide in World War II and crimes follow crimes. Seventy years later their case goes to trial in a legal drama set in Chicago. For the defense is Thaddeus Murfee, a Chicago attorney who refuses to lose cases, even where there's a smoking gun. Courtroom drama takes over the final third of the book as Thaddeus puts on the stand the Nazi's grandson, a Catholic priest, to help with the defense. A startling ending has readers everywhere discussing this timely thriller. Note: This novel, like World War II, contains Nazi concentration camp scenes and portrays that brutality. If that isn't your cuppa, you may want to try a different Thaddeus Murfee adventure. Categories include legal thrillers, courtroom drama, lawyer novels, courtroom thrillers, crime thrillers, crime fiction, psychological thrillers, heist
The Russian Peasant
Author: Howard Percy Kennard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peasantry
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peasantry
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev
Author: Jack V. Haney
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1626743150
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
The folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas’ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The result of his own collecting, the collecting of friends and correspondents, and in a few cases his publishing of works from earlier and forgotten collections is truly phenomenal. In his lifetime, Afanas’ev published more than 575 tales in his most popular and best-known work, Narodnye russkie skazki. In addition to this basic collection he prepared a volume of Russian legends, many on religious themes, an anthology of mildly obscene tales, and voluminous writings on Slavic folk life and Slavic mythology. His works were subject to the strict censorship of ecclesiastical and state authorities that lasted until the demise of the Soviet Union at the end of the twentieth century. Overwhelmingly, his particular emendations were of a stylistic nature, while those of the censors mostly concerned content. The censored tales are generally not included. Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of Afanas’ev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov’s edition (Moscow: Nauka, 1984-1986), widely regarded as the authoritative edition. The present edition includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international classification number.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1626743150
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
The folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas’ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The result of his own collecting, the collecting of friends and correspondents, and in a few cases his publishing of works from earlier and forgotten collections is truly phenomenal. In his lifetime, Afanas’ev published more than 575 tales in his most popular and best-known work, Narodnye russkie skazki. In addition to this basic collection he prepared a volume of Russian legends, many on religious themes, an anthology of mildly obscene tales, and voluminous writings on Slavic folk life and Slavic mythology. His works were subject to the strict censorship of ecclesiastical and state authorities that lasted until the demise of the Soviet Union at the end of the twentieth century. Overwhelmingly, his particular emendations were of a stylistic nature, while those of the censors mostly concerned content. The censored tales are generally not included. Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of Afanas’ev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov’s edition (Moscow: Nauka, 1984-1986), widely regarded as the authoritative edition. The present edition includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international classification number.
Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, C. 1500-1700
Author: Ulla Koskinen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319406884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society. The contributors highlight the social stratification, inner divisions, contradictions and conflicts of the peasant communities, but also pay attention to the elite as leaders of resistance against the authorities. With the formation of more centralised states, the elites’ status and room for agency diminished, but regional and temporal variations were great in this relatively drawn-out process, and there still remained several favourable contexts for their agency. Even though the peasant elite was not a homogenous entity, the chapters in this collection present us one uniting feature – the peasant elites’ tendency to assert themselves with an active and aggressive agency, even if this led to very different outcomes.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319406884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society. The contributors highlight the social stratification, inner divisions, contradictions and conflicts of the peasant communities, but also pay attention to the elite as leaders of resistance against the authorities. With the formation of more centralised states, the elites’ status and room for agency diminished, but regional and temporal variations were great in this relatively drawn-out process, and there still remained several favourable contexts for their agency. Even though the peasant elite was not a homogenous entity, the chapters in this collection present us one uniting feature – the peasant elites’ tendency to assert themselves with an active and aggressive agency, even if this led to very different outcomes.
Richard Scarry's Peasant Pig and the Terrible Dragon
Author: Richard Scarry
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402762956
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
When Princess Lily is captured by a dragon, Peasant Pig bravely attempts her rescue.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402762956
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
When Princess Lily is captured by a dragon, Peasant Pig bravely attempts her rescue.
An Anthology of Russian Folktales
Author: Jack V. Haney
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317476905
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This anthology gathers a broad selection of Russian folktales, legends, and anecdotes, and includes helpful features that make them more accessible and engaging for English-language readers. Editor Jack V. Haney has selected some of the best tales from his seven-volume "Complete Russian Folktale" collection and added examples of anecdotes and the long 'serial tales' told in the far north.The 114 tales included here represent every genre found in the Russian tradition. They date from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries and come from all geographic regions of the Russian-speaking world. The collection is enhanced by a detailed introduction to the folktale and its types, brief introductions to each grouping of tales, head notes with interesting background for individual tales, and a glossary explaining Russian terms.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317476905
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This anthology gathers a broad selection of Russian folktales, legends, and anecdotes, and includes helpful features that make them more accessible and engaging for English-language readers. Editor Jack V. Haney has selected some of the best tales from his seven-volume "Complete Russian Folktale" collection and added examples of anecdotes and the long 'serial tales' told in the far north.The 114 tales included here represent every genre found in the Russian tradition. They date from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries and come from all geographic regions of the Russian-speaking world. The collection is enhanced by a detailed introduction to the folktale and its types, brief introductions to each grouping of tales, head notes with interesting background for individual tales, and a glossary explaining Russian terms.
The Peasants
Author: Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Polish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Polish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
The Peasants
Author: Wladyslaw Reymont
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241524253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer, has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride - but she only has eyes for his impetuous son Antek. Over the course of four seasons - Autumn to Summer - the tangled skein of their story unravels, watched eagerly by the other peasants: the gossip Jagustynka, pious Roch, hot-blooded Mateusz, gentle Witek ... Richly lyrical and thrillingly realist, at turns comic, tragic and reflective, Wladyslaw Reymont's magnum opus is a love song to a lasting dream of rural Poland, and to the eternal, timeless matters of the heart.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241524253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer, has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride - but she only has eyes for his impetuous son Antek. Over the course of four seasons - Autumn to Summer - the tangled skein of their story unravels, watched eagerly by the other peasants: the gossip Jagustynka, pious Roch, hot-blooded Mateusz, gentle Witek ... Richly lyrical and thrillingly realist, at turns comic, tragic and reflective, Wladyslaw Reymont's magnum opus is a love song to a lasting dream of rural Poland, and to the eternal, timeless matters of the heart.
How the Peasant Owner Lives in Parts of France, Germany, Italy, Russia
Author: Lady Frances Parthenope Verney
Publisher: London ; New York : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Peasantry
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher: London ; New York : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Peasantry
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Nineteenth Century
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description