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Author : Austin Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:678827743
Author : Austin Clarke
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307364258
This is the second book in Austin Clarke’s groundbreaking Toronto Trilogy about the lives of black people in Canada. In Storm of Fortune, Clarke brings us into a circle of West Indian domestics—their friends, lovers, spouses, and employers—living in Toronto in the late 1950s. In lush, invigorating prose, Clarke illuminates the world of Bernice Leach—a world inhabited by earthy, garrulous, but terribly isolated people, all living, working, and struggling within an alien, white, Canadian culture. He brilliantly articulates the unsettled attitudes of his characters towards themselves, their community, and their fellow immigrants, exploring questions of status and social mobility. In turn, he unites these themes into a devastating commentary on the quest for success in North America. Dominated by warm, superbly drawn characters and pulsing with the nation language of Clarke’s characters’ speech, Storm of Fortune is a window into one of the most dynamic periods of Canadian history—one that has brought so much to bear on our present.
Author : Jehanne Wake
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451607635
The first American heiresses took Britain by storm in 1816, two generations before the great late Victorian beauties. Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton were descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and brought up in Baltimore by their grandfather Charles Carroll, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Author : James Conroyd Martin
Publisher : Janes Conroyd Martin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780997894592
KIRKUS REVIEWS: "A meticulously researched historical account presented in the form of a thrilling political drama." GRAND PRIZE 2019 Best Book, Chanticleer International Book Awards Theodora: actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist. And Byzantine Empress of the Roman world. Stephen: handsome Syrian boy, wizard's apprentice, palace eunuch. And Secretary to the Empress. How does this unlikely pair become such allies that one day Empress Theodora asks Stephen to write her biography? From a very young age, Theodora, daughter of a circus bearkeeper in Constantinople, sets her sights well above her station in life. Her exquisite beauty sets her apart on stages and in the eyes of men. Stephen, a Syrian lad of striking good looks, is sold by his parents to a Persian wizard, who teaches him a skill in languages that will serve him well. By the time Destiny brings them together in Antioch, Theodora has undergone heart-rending trials and a transformation, while Stephen has been sold again . . . and castrated. Discover the enduring bond that, however imperfect, prompts Theodora—as Empress—to request palace eunuch Stephen to write her biography.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWNS8E
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038534918
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590901390
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101076515699
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090270042
Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759522923
This magnificent novel transports readers to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man, with cataclysmic results. The Fortune Rock's Quartet collects four of Anita Shreve's most beloved novels-Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife, Sea Glass, and Body Surfing-for the first time. The novels highlight Shreve's ability to illuminate women's lives across different eras and share a delightful detail: they are all set in the same coastal New England home, one that has inspired Shreve for over a decade. Any house with age to it can tell a million stories about the families who have lived there, and Shreve has been quoted as saying, ''You could base an entire life's work on the people who come in and out of a house.'' Fortune's Rocks depicts a spirited young woman at the turn of the 20th century who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man. In Sea Glass, a young couple's new marriage is rocked to the core by the 1929 stock market crash. The Pilot's Wife brings us to the present day, where Kathryn is unprepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has been killed in a plane crash. Sydney, the heroine of Body Surfing has already been once divorced and once widowed by the age of 29, and finds the fragile existence she has rebuilt for herself threatened when two brothers vie for her affections. "There's something addictive about Shreve's tales," according to USA Today, and this quality is on full display in the critically acclaimed novels of The Fortune Rock's Quartet. No one writes more compellingly than Anita Shreve about marriage, family, the depths of our strength and resolve, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.
Author : Marlene Perez
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316233569
The end always comes at a price... To save his cousin Claire, Nyx Fortuna was forced to release the goddess Hecate. Free and bent on destroying the world, Hecate will kill anyone that gets in her way... starting with every member of the Wyrd family. Now, Nyx and company must join forces with the Fates and fight to return Hecate to her underworld prison. Magical and mortals alike must take sides to survive, but no war is without its casualties...
Author : Walter E. Campbell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080782268X
William Rand Kenan, Jr. (1872-1965) is best remembered throughout his native North Carolina as a major benefactor of his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But he was also a gifted scientist and business executive. In this first
Author : Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226669922
"Hanna Pitkin's study of Machiavelli was the first to place gender systematically at the center of its exploration of his political thought. Rife with contradictions, Machiavelli's writings have led commentators to characterize him as everything from a civic republican to a proto-fascist. Acknowledging these contradictions, Pitkin shows that they reflect three distinct ways of thinking about politics, each of which is tied to a different understanding of "manhood." In a new Afterword, Pitkin discusses the book's critical reception and situates its arguments in the context of recent interpretations of Machiavelli's thought."--Jacket.
Author : Janelle Taylor
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420127416
Maren James was unprepared for the torrent of emotions that engulfed her when her ship was boarded by the notorious Captain Hawk. Impatience turned to raging desire when the dashing buccaneer strode into her cabin, and before she could think to resist, the luscious ebon-haired beauty was succumbing to the pirate's masterful touch.
Author : James Conroyd Martin
Publisher : Hussar Quill Press
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Theodora: actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist. And Byzantine Empress of the sixth-century Roman world. Stephen: handsome Syrian boy, wizard's apprentice, palace eunuch. And Secretary to the Empress. How does this unlikely pair become such allies that one day Empress Theodora asks Stephen to write her biography? Fortune's Child is "a meticulously researched historical account presented in the form of a thrilling political drama." Kirkus Reviews OVERALL GRAND PRIZE 2019 Best Book, Chanticleer International Book Awards "I felt like I was there." ~Lisa Wingate, bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Too Soon the Night is "a gorgeous tapestry of impeccable research and intricate world-building. A must-have for any fan of ancient-world historical fiction." ~Kate Quinn, bestselling author of The Rose Code and The Diamond Eye "Readers will be enchanted with the inimitableTheodora in this elegant second novel." Eileen Stephenson, bestselling author of Tales of Byzantium Chaucer Grand Prize Winner, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Winner of an IPPI Bronze Medal