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Languages : en
Pages : 542
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The Bookman
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Languages : en
Pages : 542
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The Man in Black
Author: Stanley John Weyman
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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This novel by the prolific writer Stanley John Weyman takes us back to early seventeenth-century France. The central character is a twelve-year-old orphan boy, Jehan, who has the great misfortune to fall into the clutches of the cruel man in black. Weyman has the art of transporting his readers into the scene that he describes and this novel is a tense, suspenseful, and page-turning thrill of a read.
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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This novel by the prolific writer Stanley John Weyman takes us back to early seventeenth-century France. The central character is a twelve-year-old orphan boy, Jehan, who has the great misfortune to fall into the clutches of the cruel man in black. Weyman has the art of transporting his readers into the scene that he describes and this novel is a tense, suspenseful, and page-turning thrill of a read.
The Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Languages : en
Pages : 924
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The end of the house of Alard ...
Author: Sheila Kaye-Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Book Review Digest
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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The Cumulative Book Review Digest
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
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The Spectator
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
New York School Journal
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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The End of the House of Alard
Author: Sheila Kaye-Smith
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813235626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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The Catholic University of America Press is pleased to present the second volume in our Catholic Women Writers series, which will attempt to bring new attention to prose work of Catholic women writers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sheila Kaye-Smith was a best selling author who had published over 50 books in her lifetime, few of which remain in print since her death in 1956. The End of the House of Alard (1922) documents the choices made by the final generation of the aristocratic Alard family and the ways in which they, both willingly and reluctantly, bring the long line of their ancestral blood to a complete and sudden end. For some of them, the end of the Alard line is as painful to enact as it is for others to witness; for others it is welcomed as a necessary modernization or a true realignment toward religious integity and universal human truth. Some of the family's children yearn for individual liberty; others have it forced upon them. But none of them can find it under the burden of the Alard name and its crumbling estate. The End of the House of Alard is a novel about the human need for purpose, for a truth by which to live and for which to die. It is a novel about faith and idolatry, love and death, freedom and bondage, nature and grace. Put another way, it is about how human beings cannot escape the great challenge of salvation, of breaking free from false, man made gods in order to unite instead with the divine love of Christ. The novel's characters span a breadth of options on this spectrum and their various outlooks on life continue to reflect those available to us today.
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813235626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Catholic University of America Press is pleased to present the second volume in our Catholic Women Writers series, which will attempt to bring new attention to prose work of Catholic women writers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sheila Kaye-Smith was a best selling author who had published over 50 books in her lifetime, few of which remain in print since her death in 1956. The End of the House of Alard (1922) documents the choices made by the final generation of the aristocratic Alard family and the ways in which they, both willingly and reluctantly, bring the long line of their ancestral blood to a complete and sudden end. For some of them, the end of the Alard line is as painful to enact as it is for others to witness; for others it is welcomed as a necessary modernization or a true realignment toward religious integity and universal human truth. Some of the family's children yearn for individual liberty; others have it forced upon them. But none of them can find it under the burden of the Alard name and its crumbling estate. The End of the House of Alard is a novel about the human need for purpose, for a truth by which to live and for which to die. It is a novel about faith and idolatry, love and death, freedom and bondage, nature and grace. Put another way, it is about how human beings cannot escape the great challenge of salvation, of breaking free from false, man made gods in order to unite instead with the divine love of Christ. The novel's characters span a breadth of options on this spectrum and their various outlooks on life continue to reflect those available to us today.
Spirits of Community
Author: K. D. M. Snell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474268862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Concern about the 'decline of community', and the theme of 'community spirit', are internationally widespread in the modern world. The English past has featured many representations of declining community, expressed by those who lamented its loss in quite different periods and in diverse genres. This book analyses how community spirit and the passing of community have been described in the past – whether for good or ill – with an eye to modern issues, such as the so-called 'loneliness epidemic' or the social consequences of alternative structures of community. It does this through examination of authors such as Thomas Hardy, James Wentworth Day, Adrian Bell and H.E. Bates, by appraising detective fiction writers, analysing parish magazines, considering the letter writing of the parish poor in the 18th and 19th centuries, and through the depictions of realist landscape painters such as George Morland. K. D. M. Snell addresses modern social concerns, showing how many current preoccupations had earlier precedents. In presenting past representations of declining communities, and the way these affected individuals of very different political persuasions, the book draws out lessons and examples from the past about what community has meant hitherto, setting into context modern predicaments and judgements about 'spirits of community' today.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474268862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Concern about the 'decline of community', and the theme of 'community spirit', are internationally widespread in the modern world. The English past has featured many representations of declining community, expressed by those who lamented its loss in quite different periods and in diverse genres. This book analyses how community spirit and the passing of community have been described in the past – whether for good or ill – with an eye to modern issues, such as the so-called 'loneliness epidemic' or the social consequences of alternative structures of community. It does this through examination of authors such as Thomas Hardy, James Wentworth Day, Adrian Bell and H.E. Bates, by appraising detective fiction writers, analysing parish magazines, considering the letter writing of the parish poor in the 18th and 19th centuries, and through the depictions of realist landscape painters such as George Morland. K. D. M. Snell addresses modern social concerns, showing how many current preoccupations had earlier precedents. In presenting past representations of declining communities, and the way these affected individuals of very different political persuasions, the book draws out lessons and examples from the past about what community has meant hitherto, setting into context modern predicaments and judgements about 'spirits of community' today.