Author: Geoff Brookes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838428921
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Grave Tales from Wales, a sequel to the popular Stories in Welsh Stone, is about the Welsh history behind gravestones in Wales.
Grave Tales from Wales
Author: Geoff Brookes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838428921
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Grave Tales from Wales, a sequel to the popular Stories in Welsh Stone, is about the Welsh history behind gravestones in Wales.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838428921
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Grave Tales from Wales, a sequel to the popular Stories in Welsh Stone, is about the Welsh history behind gravestones in Wales.
Welsh Legends and Myths
Author: Graham Watkins
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291985271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A mythology collection of eighty Welsh Legends and Myths, gathered from across Wales. The Welsh, like other Celtic races, love a good story. From the time of the Mabinogion and the Black Book of Carmarthen welsh folk have passed dark winter nights in front of roaring fires and entertained with mythical stories. Welsh Legends and Myths is a compendium of traditional myths, Welsh fables, Welsh fairy tales and real stories. Like other Celtic Mythology many of the myths and legends told here are based on factual events. While some have mythical roots, all are entertaining.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291985271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A mythology collection of eighty Welsh Legends and Myths, gathered from across Wales. The Welsh, like other Celtic races, love a good story. From the time of the Mabinogion and the Black Book of Carmarthen welsh folk have passed dark winter nights in front of roaring fires and entertained with mythical stories. Welsh Legends and Myths is a compendium of traditional myths, Welsh fables, Welsh fairy tales and real stories. Like other Celtic Mythology many of the myths and legends told here are based on factual events. While some have mythical roots, all are entertaining.
Grave Tales
Author: Helen Goltz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648709343
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Visiting Melbourne cemeteries, 'Grave Tales: Melbourne Vol. 1' tells the stories of everyday people who willingly or unwillingly, were participants in events that made local and national headlines. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now in towns and cities along the way, and finished their days in cemeteries in Melbourne. These are tales of early settlement, unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, health epidemics, scandal and sacrifice. 'Grave Tales' reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places. This is number seven in the awarded and popular 'Grave Tales' series.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648709343
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Visiting Melbourne cemeteries, 'Grave Tales: Melbourne Vol. 1' tells the stories of everyday people who willingly or unwillingly, were participants in events that made local and national headlines. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now in towns and cities along the way, and finished their days in cemeteries in Melbourne. These are tales of early settlement, unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, health epidemics, scandal and sacrifice. 'Grave Tales' reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places. This is number seven in the awarded and popular 'Grave Tales' series.
Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories
Author: P. H. Emerson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387319967
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387319967
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
The Gravediggers
Author: Hauke Friederichs
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782834591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the Reichstag. In the shadows, would-be saviours of the nation vie for control. The great rivals are the chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher. Both are tarnished by the republic's all-too-evident failures. Each man believes he can steal a march on the other by harnessing the increasingly popular National Socialists - while reining in their most alarming elements, naturally. Adolf Hitler has ideas of his own. But if he can't impose discipline on his own rebellious foot-soldiers, what chance does he have of seizing power?
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782834591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the Reichstag. In the shadows, would-be saviours of the nation vie for control. The great rivals are the chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher. Both are tarnished by the republic's all-too-evident failures. Each man believes he can steal a march on the other by harnessing the increasingly popular National Socialists - while reining in their most alarming elements, naturally. Adolf Hitler has ideas of his own. But if he can't impose discipline on his own rebellious foot-soldiers, what chance does he have of seizing power?
Folk-lore of West and Mid-Wales
Author: Jonathan Ceredig Davies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Cake Tree in the Ruins
Author: Akiyuki Nosaka
Publisher: Pushkin Collection
ISBN: 1782274197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex. In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly memorable stories of The Cake Tree in the Ruins are based on his own experiences as a child in Japan during the Second World War. They are stories of a lonely whale searching the oceans for a mate, who sacrifices himself for love; of a mother desperately trying to save her son with her tears; of a huge, magnificent tree which grows amid the ruins of a burnt-out town, its branches made from the sweetest cake imaginable. Profound, heartbreaking and aglow with a piercing beauty, they express the chaos and terror of conflict, yet also how love can illuminate even the darkest moment.
Publisher: Pushkin Collection
ISBN: 1782274197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex. In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly memorable stories of The Cake Tree in the Ruins are based on his own experiences as a child in Japan during the Second World War. They are stories of a lonely whale searching the oceans for a mate, who sacrifices himself for love; of a mother desperately trying to save her son with her tears; of a huge, magnificent tree which grows amid the ruins of a burnt-out town, its branches made from the sweetest cake imaginable. Profound, heartbreaking and aglow with a piercing beauty, they express the chaos and terror of conflict, yet also how love can illuminate even the darkest moment.
Welsh History: Strange But True
Author: Geoff Brookes
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780750983426
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book contains hundreds of 'strange but true' facts and anecdotes about Welsh history.
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780750983426
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book contains hundreds of 'strange but true' facts and anecdotes about Welsh history.
The Gravedigger's Daughter
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061744727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father—a former high school teacher—is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca heads out into America. Embarking upon an extraordinary odyssey of erotic risk and ingenious self-invention, she seeks renewal, redemption, and peace—on the road to a bittersweet and distinctly “American” triumph.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061744727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father—a former high school teacher—is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca heads out into America. Embarking upon an extraordinary odyssey of erotic risk and ingenious self-invention, she seeks renewal, redemption, and peace—on the road to a bittersweet and distinctly “American” triumph.
Mary Jane
Author: Linden Peach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838075286
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This novel of speculative historical fiction tells the tale of the last victim of one of Britain's most infamous serial killers, Jack the Ripper. Mary Kelly's story unfolds through a third person narrative and an alternating contemporary narrative of a young woman vet in rural Wales who discovers she is a descendant of Mary Jane Kelly.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838075286
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This novel of speculative historical fiction tells the tale of the last victim of one of Britain's most infamous serial killers, Jack the Ripper. Mary Kelly's story unfolds through a third person narrative and an alternating contemporary narrative of a young woman vet in rural Wales who discovers she is a descendant of Mary Jane Kelly.