The Boy With The Withered Arm

Author : Nadine Jackson-Croker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781669890034

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The Boy with the Withered Arm by Nadine Jackson-Croker Pdf

Two years after the visit to the fire station, Craig had had a great day at school. He had come top in his tables test.. He had scored goal in their games lesson, and then his class teacher had given him a house point for picking up some litter without being told to, and putting it in the bin. He had gone happily to bed that night, feeling very pleased with himself. What woke him up, Craig could never work out; but something had. He sat up in bed and listened. Something wasn't right. He pushed back the bedclothes and sliding out of bed, walked over to the door and opened it. That was when he smelled it - smoke.

Author : Nadine Jackson-Croker
Publisher : Xlibris UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 166989004X

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The Boy with the Withered Arm by Nadine Jackson-Croker Pdf

Two years after the visit to the fire station, Craig had had a great day at school. He had come top in his tables test.. He had scored goal in their games lesson, and then his class teacher had given him a house point for picking up some litter without being told to, and putting it in the bin. He had gone happily to bed that night, feeling very pleased with himself. What woke him up, Craig could never work out; but something had. He sat up in bed and listened. Something wasn't right. He pushed back the bedclothes and sliding out of bed, walked over to the door and opened it. That was when he smelled it - smoke.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726959864

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The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Milkmaid Rhoda Brooks cannot control her jealousy of Gertrude - a beautiful woman who has just married a rich farmer. So when Gertrude appears in her dream she cannot help but reach out and grab the arm of the woman she wishes she was. As Gertrude's arm begins to wither away in real life and no physicians are able to give her a solution, she must turn to a conjurer. Considered one of Hardy's most successful short stories, 'The Withered Arm' is unmissable for those who enjoyed the suspense of Edgar Allen Poe's 'A Tell-Tale Heart Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an architect by trade, but he is best remembered for the major contributions that he made to the literary world. He wrote both novels and poetry and was famed for his pessimistic outlook. The most notable of his works include 'Jude The Obscure', 'Far from the Madding Crowd', and 'Tess of the d'Ubervilles'. His gloomy prose is ideal for fans of Dickens, Defoe, and Keats.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141938110

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The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888 by Thomas Hardy Pdf

"See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine." So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm', the title story in this selection of Hardy's finest short stories. Hardy's first story, 'Destiny and a Blue Cloak' was written fresh from the success of Far From the Madding Crowd. Beautiful in their own right, these stories are also testing-grounds for the novels in their controversial sexual politics, their refusal of romance structures, and their elegiac pursuit of past, lost loves. Several of the stories in The Withered Arm were collected to form the famous volume, Wessex Tales (1888), the first time Hardy denoted 'Wessex' to describe his fictional world. The Withered Arm is the first of a new two-volume selection of Hardy's short stories, edited with an introduction and notes by Kristin Brady.

Author : Paul David Tripp
Publisher : Resources for Changing Lives
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0875526071

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Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands by Paul David Tripp Pdf

We might be relieved if God placed our sanctification only in the hands of trained professionals, but that is not his plan. Instead, through the ministry of every part of the body, the whole church will mature in Christ. Paul David Tripp helps us discover where change is needed in our own lives and the lives of others. Following the example of Jesus, Tripp reveals how to get to know people and how to lovingly speak truth to them. - Back cover.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781427027887

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The Withered Arm (EasyRead Large Edition) by Thomas Hardy Pdf

"The Withered Arm" presents a fine blend of suspense, coincidence and gothic elements. Referring to the contemporary practice of witchcraft, Hardy has touched upon the issue of troubled relationships between men and women. Marked by striking character contrasts, a well-knitted plot and elucidative language, the story is truly engrossing. This EasyRead Large Edition has been optimized for readers who prefer a standard 16pt large type.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194632294

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The Withered Arm - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library by Thomas Hardy Pdf

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. A woman and a man . . . words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her . . . It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time -- today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something different about it. Perhaps it is only a dream, or perhaps it is magic -- a kind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms . . .

Author : Rob Hale,Jerry Guardian Angel
Publisher : Jerry Hulse
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0615141846

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Ministering the Withered Hand by Rob Hale,Jerry Guardian Angel Pdf

This is a 191-page book about the life and ministry of a trucker that Almighty God raised up and trained for the end time revival that will usher in His harvest before the coming of our Lord. The stories in this book, which contain instances of miracles and healing, are true and can be proven. Our prayer is that God will use this book to take you behind the veil and into His presence, that you might get to know this Living God on a personal level. Lord, our prayer is for a special blessing to come upon everyone that will view this description. A-Men #xD;#xD;Special Note: All proceeds from this book will go to a special fund to help the needy in honor of Iris Wright and Hubert Meadows".

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781427031778

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The Withered Arm (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) by Thomas Hardy Pdf

"The Withered Arm" presents a fine blend of suspense, coincidence and gothic elements. Referring to the contemporary practice of witchcraft, Hardy has touched upon the issue of troubled relationships between men and women. Marked by striking character contrasts, a well-knitted plot and elucidative language, the story is truly engrossing. This Super Large 18pt Edition has been optimized for readers with considerable loss of normal vision who prefer intense bold 18pt large type.

Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Random House
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448173020

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Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff Pdf

Drem longs for the day he will win his Warrior Scarlet. But with a withered spear arm, how will he take part in the ritual Wolf Slaying which will prove his worth as a man of the tribe? With over forty books to her credit, Rosemary Sutcliff is now universally considered one of the finest writers of historical novels for children. Winer of the Carnegie Medal and many other honours, Rosemary was awarded a CBE in 1992 for services to children's literature.

Author : William Gerhardie
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612191898

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The Polyglots by William Gerhardie Pdf

The Anglo-Russian author William Gerhardie was hailed by writers including Graham Greene, Edith Wharton, Evelyn Waugh and others as a “genius,” and this, his long-out-of-print second novel, is generally acclaimed as his comic masterpiece—not to mention “the most influential English novel of the twentieth century,” according to William Boyd. It tells the unforgettable tale of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East during the turbulent years just after the First World War, which displaced them, and the Russian Revolution, which impoverished them. Recounted by a conceited young English cousin who visits during a military mission, the story is filled with a host of fascinatingly idiosyncratic characters—depressives, obsessives, sex maniacs, and hypochondriacs—often forced to choose between absurdity and tragedy. Yet Gerhardie depicts them as both charming and poignant, as they each struggle for love and safety in tumultuous times . . . and the protagonist finds his conceit shredded as he falls head over heels in love with one of them. Gerhardie’s portraits of Europeans in exile, attempting to escape from the era’s upheavals, draws on his own experiences as an officer in the British Mission. He has summoned up a world adrift, where war and revolution have broken up the old order, but nothing has come to replace it. And he does it with unforgettable humor and a sharp eye for the absurd. Hilarious, poignant, panoramic in scope, The Polyglots redeems, from the Babel of the interwar period, a stirring vision of love and human sympathy.

Author : Sophie Gilmartin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748632558

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Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction by Sophie Gilmartin Pdf

This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry. * Unique in providing a comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories. * Full, detailed, close readings of a number of key stories make this useful as a potential teaching resource. * Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional Wessex. * Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding of erratic men and women.

Author : Michael Millgate
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802039552

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Thomas Hardy Reappraised by Michael Millgate Pdf

In Thomas Hardy Reappraised, editor Keith Wilson pays tribute to Millgate's many contributions to Hardy studies by bringing together new work by fifteen of the world's most eminent Hardy scholars.

Author : David Malcolm,Cheryl Alexander Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 144430478X

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A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story by David Malcolm,Cheryl Alexander Malcolm Pdf

A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors Comprises chapters on women’s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781427041432

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The Withered Arm (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) by Thomas Hardy Pdf