The Victorian Book of the Dead

The Victorian Book of the Dead PDF Author: Chris Woodyard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988192522
Category : Bereavement
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Book Description
Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.

The Victorian Book of the Dead

The Victorian Book of the Dead PDF Author: Chris Woodyard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988192522
Category : Bereavement
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Book Description
Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.

Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead PDF Author: E. A. Wallis Budge
Publisher: Wellfleet Press
ISBN: 1577151216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Book Description
A collection of ancient Egyptian magic spells and road maps to assist individuals through the underworld and into the afterlife.

The Toronto Book of the Dead

The Toronto Book of the Dead PDF Author: Adam Bunch
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 145973808X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Book Description
Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. If these streets could talk... With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto’s first lighthouse keeper; from the rise and fall of the city’s greatest Victorian baseball star to the final days of the world’s most notorious anarchist. Toronto has witnessed countless lives lived and lost as it grew from a muddy little frontier town into a booming metropolis of concrete and glass. The Toronto Book of the Dead tells the tale of the ever-changing city through the lives and deaths of those who made it their final resting place.

The Victorian Celebration of Death

The Victorian Celebration of Death PDF Author: James Stevens Curl
Publisher: Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780750938730
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Book Description
Professor Curl has fashioned an absorbing, lucid and entertaining book describing the Victorian response to the only certainty in life--death. It includes disposal of the dead, landscaped cemeteries funerals and more.

Massachusetts Book of the Dead

Massachusetts Book of the Dead PDF Author: Roxie J. Zwicker
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614237379
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Book Description
A historical tour of the Bay State’s oldest burial grounds—and the sometimes-spooky stories behind them. Massachusetts's historic graveyards are the final resting places for tales of the strange and supernatural. From Newburyport to Truro, these graveyards often frighten the living, but the dead who rest within them have stories to share with the world they left behind. While Giles Corey is said to haunt the Howard Street Cemetery in Salem, cursing those involved in the infamous witch trials, visitors to the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain enjoy an arboretum and a burial ground with Victorian-era memorials. One of the oldest cemeteries in Massachusetts, Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, has been the final resting place for residents for nearly 375 years. Author Roxie Zwicker tours the Bay State's oldest burial grounds, exploring the stones, stories and supernatural lore of these hallowed places. Includes photos

Necropolis City of the Dead

Necropolis City of the Dead PDF Author: Mark Davis
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445635062
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Book Description
A fascinating history of Undercliffe Victorian Cemetery - 'works of art', created as much for the living as they were for the dead.

The Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead PDF Author: Douglas Preston
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780759516038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Book Description
An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala... Memento Mori

The Dead of Winter

The Dead of Winter PDF Author: Chris Priestley
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408825465
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Book Description
Michael Vyner recalls a terrible story, one that happened to him. One that would be unbelievable if it weren't true! Michael's parents are dead and he imagines that he will stay with the kindly lawyer, executor of his parents' will . . . Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large and desolate country house. His arrival on the first night suggests something is not quite right when he sees a woman out in the frozen mists, standing alone in the marshes. But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself as he is kept from his guardian and finds himself spending the Christmas holiday wandering the silent corridors of the house seeking distraction. But lonely doesn't mean alone, as Michael soon realises that the house and its grounds harbour many secrets, dead and alive, and Michael is set the task of unravelling some of the darkest secrets of all. A nail-biting story of hauntings and terror by the master of the genre, Chris Priestley.

The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse PDF Author:
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141958677
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 928

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Book Description
Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes room for several poem-sequences in their entirety. It is wonderful, too, in its discovery and inclusion of eccentric, dissenting, un-Victorian voices, poets who squarely refuse to 'represent' their period. It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, James Thomson and Augusta Webster.

The Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead PDF Author: John Mitchinson
Publisher: Crown Pub
ISBN: 0307716406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Book Description
A whimsical treasury of biographical profiles of famous and lesser-known individuals now dead includes hundreds of entries that reveal embarrassing-but-true details typically omitted by official biographers. Co-authored by the award-winning producer of Blackadder and the writer of QI.