A Song Once Heard

Author : Anne Goring
Publisher : Headline
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472225214

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A Song Once Heard by Anne Goring Pdf

When rich, handsome Daniel Penhale proposes to Sophy Beardmore, she is swift to accept. The marriage seems to offer the security and respectability she has always dreamed of in a life overshadowed by her mother's feckless, radical way of living. But Daniel's wealth has not made Kildower, his Cornish house, a happy place. It is haunted by old memories, not least those of his first wife, Meraud. No one seems to know the true facts about her death, though rumours and suspicions abound, fostered by the tragic legends that cling to Kildower. Daniel's young daughter, Kensa, is resentful and sullen, her nurse, Jess Southcote, is sly and manipulative, the local people hostile. Then there is Meraud's brother Conan, who seems determined to strike up a friendship with Sophy, but out of what dubious motives? Only when Sophy has unravelled the truth about the past and faced up to her true feelings for both Conan and Daniel himself can she find the happiness she seeks.

Author : Anne Goring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 1840673761

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A Song Once Heard by Anne Goring Pdf

Author : Michigan Ornithological Club
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Birds
ISBN : UOM:39015019709917

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Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club by Michigan Ornithological Club Pdf

Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780525520955

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Hearing Homer's Song by Robert Kanigel Pdf

From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric studies." So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a "before" Parry and an "after." Kanigel describes the "before," when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930's, assumed that the Homeric epics were "written" texts, the way we think of most literature; and the "after" that we now live in, where we take it for granted that they are the result of a long and winding oral tradition. Parry made it his life's work to develop and prove this revolutionary theory, and Kanigel brilliantly tells his remarkable story--cut short by Parry's mysterious death by gunshot wound at the age of thirty-three. From UC Berkeley to the Sorbonne to Harvard to Yugoslavia--where he traveled to prove his idea definitively by studying its traditional singers of heroic poetry--we follow Parry on his idiosyncratic journey, observing just how his early notions blossomed into a full-fledged theory. Kanigel gives us an intimate portrait of Parry's marriage to Marian Thanhouser and their struggles as young parents in Paris, and explores the mystery surrounding Parry's tragic death at the Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. Tracing Parry's legacy to the modern day, Kanigel explores how what began as a way to understand the Homeric epics became the new field of "oral theory," which today illuminates everything from Beowulf to jazz improvisation, from the Old Testament to hip-hop.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Birds
ISBN : HARVARD:32044093261048

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The Oölogist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Birds
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069174021

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Young Oologist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wang Zhaopeng
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003858577

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Literary Communication in Song Dynasty by Wang Zhaopeng Pdf

Based on first-hand historical materials, this book explores the various aspects of literary communication during the Song Dynasty in China. The book investigates the single-channel dissemination of poetry and ci works, the dissemination of literary collections, the dissemination through wall inscriptions, the oral dissemination of Song ci, the remuneration and commercialization of literature in the Song Dynasty, the paths to fame for Song writers, the non-literary factors in the dissemination of literature and the dissemination of literary works through paintings and songs. The author provides insights into the six major questions in the study of literary communication: Who disseminates, where, how, what, to whom and the effects of dissemination. The author also seeks to provide detailed answers to the following questions. What was the role of female singers in both domestic and official entertainment? What were the costs and prices of the books? Who paid the authors? What methods did writers use to gain fame and social recognition? This work will be essential reading for scholars and students of Chinese studies, communication studies and media and cultural studies.

Author : Robert Steiginga
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780557940011

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A Song I've Heard by Robert Steiginga Pdf

A memoir of growing up in a large, noisy household in New Jersey and the life lessons learned from an older brother who suffered through MS

Author : Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Manitoba
ISBN : MINN:319510022477727

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Transactions - Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba by Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015014341948

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The American Midland Naturalist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433082165345

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Musical News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081686010

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The Lakeside Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francis Fisher Broune
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015033919567

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The Lakeside Monthly by Francis Fisher Broune Pdf

Author : Marie Corelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Elixir of life
ISBN : HARVARD:32044058250069

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The Soul of Lilith by Marie Corelli Pdf

"A novel in which a mystic named El Rami, a practioner of the arts of healing drawn from the occult science of the ancient Egyptians, attempts to control and dominate the soul of a dead girl. El Rami travels from London to Syria where he meets a caravan in the desert with two ailing women in need of care and attention. He agrees to help, and he restores one, an old women, to health. The other, a young orphan girl called Lilith, succumbs to her illness and dies. El Rami practices his mysterious arts on Lilith in an attempt to demonstrate the existence of life after death. He administers an elixir that brings her body back to life, and returns to London with the breathing corpse of Lilith. He hides her in a room in his mansion for six years, and summoning all his powers succeeds in being able to summon her soul back to her body at will. The head of the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross of which El Rami was a member, Heliobas, arrives. Readers know him from The Romance of Two Worlds and Ardath. Heliobas is alarmed by El Rami's experiments, and tells him that he must release the girl and allow her to die. But El Rami is obsessed with the beautiful Lilith, and intends on making her his soulmate. Despite Lilith's pleas and warnings, as El Rami kisses her she crumbles to ashes in from of him. When El Rami recovers himself, he is taken to the Brotherhood's monastery in Cyprus, a mental wreck."--Synopsis from MarieCorelli.org.uk

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009175162

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The Woman's World by Anonim Pdf