A City Of Bells

Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473655881

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A City of Bells by Elizabeth Goudge Pdf

Returning injured from the Boer War, Jocelyn Irvin travels to the quiet cathedral town of Torminster. Welcomed there by his young cousin Hugh Anthony, his grandparents and their adopted daughter Henrietta, Jocelyn begins to rediscover his enjoyment of life. As he embraces old friendships and new relationships, Jocelyn becomes captivated by the mystery of writer Gabriel Ferranti, a man whose unexplained disappearance months before has cast a shadow which only his return can lift. A charming story of love, family and laying to rest ghosts of the past. What readers are saying about Elizabeth Goudge 'Miss Goudge is a born storyteller' - 5 STARS 'I wish I had discovered Elizabeth Goudge a long time ago!' - 5 STARS 'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - 5 STARS 'Her writing is unique' - 5 STARS 'Elizabeth Goudge is an author par excellence' - 5 STARS

Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1937-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0698100557

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A City of Bells by Elizabeth Goudge Pdf

Author : Richard Harvell
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307358257

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The Bells by Richard Harvell Pdf

Dazzling, enchanting and epic, The Bells is the confession of a thief, kidnapper and unlikely lover — a boy with the voice of an angel whose exquisite sense of hearing becomes both his life's tragic curse and its greatest blessing. Moses Froben was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, the bastard son of a deaf-mute woman banished to the church tower to ring each day the Loudest and Most Beautiful Bells in the land. His life is simple but he is content, until the day his father recognizes Moses's singular sense of hearing and its power to expose his sins. Cast into the world with only his ears to protect and guide him, Moses finds refuge in the choir of the great Abbey of St. Gall and becomes its star singer, only to endure the horrifying act of castration meant to preserve his angelic voice and turn him into a musico. In a letter to his son, Moses recounts his humble birth in eighteenth-century Switzerland and his life as a novice monk, and tells of the two noble friends — and a forbidden lover — whom he cherished during his chaotic years in Mozart's Vienna as apprentice to the great Gaetano Guadagni, and even as he ascended Europe's most celebrated stages as Lo Svizzero. But in this letter he will also reveal the astonishing secrets of his past and answer the question that has shadowed his fame: how did Moses Froben, world-renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he could never have sired?

Author : Anna Sherman
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781529000474

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The Bells of Old Tokyo by Anna Sherman Pdf

As read on BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 'Sherman’s is a special book. Every sentence, every thought she has, every question she asks, every detail she notices, offers something. The Bells of Old Tokyo is a gift . . . It is a masterpiece.' - The Spectator A hauntingly original book about Tokyo and the Japanese relationship to time, memory and history. For over 300 years, Japan closed itself to outsiders, developing a remarkable and unique culture. During its period of isolation, the inhabitants of the city of Edo, later known as Tokyo, relied on its public bells to tell the time. In her remarkable book, Anna Sherman tells of her search for the bells of Edo, exploring the city of Tokyo and its inhabitants and the individual and particular relationship of Japanese culture - and the Japanese language - to time, tradition, memory, impermanence and history. Through Sherman’s journeys around the city, The Bells of Old Tokyo presents a series of hauntingly memorable voices in the labyrinth of the Japanese capital: An aristocrat plays in the sea of ashes left by the Allied firebombing of 1945. A scientist builds the most accurate clock in the world, a clock that will not lose a second in five billion years. A sculptor eats his father’s ashes while the head of the house of Tokugawa reflects on the destruction of his grandfather’s city. 'This mesmerising cultural history explores the neighbourhoods where Tokyo's bells once rang . . . As our own locked-down days squeeze and elongate, Tokyo time feels strangely familiar.’ - Daily Telegraph

Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619700819

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The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge Pdf

Dean of the cathedral in an 1870s English town, Adam Ayscough is respected and misunderstood. A dogged crusader against corruption, he's also acutely shy. When his watch breaks, he forms an unlikely friendship with watchmaker Isaac Peabody, who doesn't think he has anything in common with God. Will their relationship open the door to grace?

Author : William Bell
Publisher : Seal Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385674126

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Forbidden City by William Bell Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson comes home from school to find that his father, a CBC news cameraman, wants to take him to China's capital, Beijing. Once there, Alex finds himself on his own in Tian An Men Square as desperate students fight the Chinese army for their freedom. Separated from his father and carrying illegal videotapes, Alex must trust the students to help him escape. Closely based on eyewitness accounts of the massacre in Beijing, Forbidden City is a powerful and frightening story.

Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
ISBN : UCR:31210000790269

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A City of Bells by Elizabeth Goudge Pdf

Author : Lauren Belfer
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307764027

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City of Light by Lauren Belfer Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK It is 1901 and Buffalo, New York, stands at the center of the nation's attention as a place of immense wealth and sophistication. The massive hydroelectric power development at nearby Niagara Falls and the grand Pan-American Exposition promise to bring the Great Lakes “city of light” even more repute. Against this rich historical backdrop lives Louisa Barrett, the attractive, articulate headmistress of the Macaulay School for Girls. Protected by its powerful all-male board, “Miss Barrett” is treated as an equal by the men who control the life of the city. Lulled by her unique relationship with these titans of business, Louisa feels secure in her position, until a mysterious death at the power plant triggers a sequence of events that forces her to return to a past she has struggled to conceal, and to question everything and everyone she holds dear. Both observer and participant, Louisa Barrett guides the reader through the culture and conflicts of a time and place where immigrant factory workers and nature conservationists protest violently against industrialists, where presidents broker politics, where wealthy “Negroes” fight for recognition and equality, and where women struggle to thrive in a system that allows them little freedom. Wrought with remarkable depth and intelligence, City of Light remains a work completely of its own era, and of ours as well. A stirring literary accomplishment, Lauren Belfer's first novel marks the debut of a fresh voice for the new millennium and heralds a major publishing event.

Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction in English - 1900-1945 - Texts
ISBN : 0340396733

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The Cathedral Trilogy by Elizabeth Goudge Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1847451667

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Henrietta's House by Elizabeth Goudge Pdf

Author : Lars Mytting
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683358190

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The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting Pdf

The engrossing epic novel—a #1 bestseller in Norway—of a young woman whose fate plays out against her village’s mystical church bells—now in paperback As long as people could remember, the stave church’s bells had rung over the isolated village of Butangen, Norway. Cast in memory of conjoined twins, the bells are said to ring on their own in times of danger. In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard moves to the village, where young Astrid Hekne yearns for a modern life. She sees a way out on the arm of the new pastor, who needs a tie to the community to cull favor for his plan for the old stave church, with its pagan deity effigies and supernatural bells. When the pastor makes a deal that brings an outsider, a sophisticated German architect, into their world, the village and Astrid are caught between past and future, as dark forces come into play. Lars Mytting, bestselling author of Norwegian Wood, brings his deep knowledge of history, carpentry, fishing, and stave churches to this compelling historical novel, an international bestseller sold in 12 countries. With its broad-canvas narrative about the intersection of religion, superstition, and duty, The Bell in the Lake is an irresistible story of ancient times and modern challenges, by a powerful international voice.

Author : Kirsty Bell
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781635423457

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The Undercurrents by Kirsty Bell Pdf

Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories. The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city’s theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma. When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell—a British-American art critic, adrift in her midforties—becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city. Taking the view from her apartment window as her starting point, she turns to the lives of the house’s various inhabitants, to accounts penned by Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gabriele Tergit, and to the female protagonists in the works of Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A new cultural topography of Berlin emerges, one which taps into energetic undercurrents to recover untold or forgotten stories beneath the city’s familiar narratives.

Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619701328

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The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge Pdf

Matriarch of the family, Lucilla, has spent a lifetime making the Hampshire estate of Damerosehay a haven for the Eliots. When her favorite grandson, David, falls in love with a woman who belongs to another, Lucilla sees her most cherished ambitions put at risk. But can she persuade David and Nadine to put duty before love?

Author : Michael Kurland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 072782001X

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The Bells of Hell by Michael Kurland Pdf

March, 1938. Jacob Welker, President Roosevelt's own covert counter-intelligence agent, is brought in to investigate a Nazi threat - two men posing as FBI agents have attacked and beaten a man to death. The only witness, a homeless man, claims they were speaking German. Who exactly are these men, what is their target and when will they strike?

Author : Alain Corbin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Change ringing
ISBN : 0333752805

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Village Bells by Alain Corbin Pdf