The Custom House

Author : Andrew Motion
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571288120

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The Customs House by Andrew Motion Pdf

Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of the poems are in the voices of combatants, others are based on memories of the poet's father, who landed at D-day and fought in France and Germany. The poems combine understatement with a clear-eyed and unswerving candour.The Customs House has other rooms: a group of topographies, mapping moments in a marriage against the contingencies of place and family history; and several 'found poems', in which the poet collaborates with his source, mixing what is there already with what is about to be there: whether a remarkable sonnet sequence on the last days of the Baroque genius Francesco Borromini, or in other poems a richly imagined extrapolation from the silent premises of a painting.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019577949

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Gautham Rao
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226367071

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National Duties by Gautham Rao Pdf

Epilogue: Charleston, 1832 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index

Author : Ann Coburn
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1840021144

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Get Up And Tie Your Fingers/Safe by Ann Coburn Pdf

On 14 October 1881, forty-five fishing boats set out from Eyemouth harbour, heart of the Scottish Borders' fishing industry. Only twenty-five returned. A small community was torn apart by the loss of husbands, brothers, fathers and sons. Get Up And Tie Your Fingers dramatises the daily lives of the herring lassies and fishwives who lived in this community: lives dominated by work, overshadowed by the moods of the sea, but released in the telling of stories and the singing of songs. Safe plunders story-telling techniques of a different kind - namely fairytales - to investigate a very contemporary concern: the safety versus freedom debate for parents and children. As a group of parents gather in a disused warehouse to construct a carnival float, fairytale conventions and symbols begin to invade reality, and the parents have to face up to the dilemmas of modern parenting and the failings of their own fathers and mothers.

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951041298

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The Custom House Murders by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

James Denis gives Captain Lacey a task, to deliver a mysterious package to a man with an office near the Custom House on the bank of the Thames. Lacey, who has been drawn into danger delivering items for Denis before, opens the package to find a single chess piece, a white queen. The piece tells Lacey nothing, but he soon realizes it plays deeply into Denis’s ongoing battle for control of London’s underworld. Meanwhile Lacey encounters an old army friend just returned from Antigua, who is being accused of smuggling and possibly murder. Lacey decides to help the man, whom he considers honorable, to clear his name. But Lacey is drawn farther into the dark games of James Denis and his rival, until only his wits and memories from his past can save himself and his family from gravest danger. Book 15 of the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries

Author : Isabel Hofmeyr
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781478022367

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Dockside Reading by Isabel Hofmeyr Pdf

In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dockside customs officials would leaf through publications looking for obscenity, politically objectionable materials, or reprints of British copyrighted works, often dumping these condemned goods into the water. These practices, echoing other colonial imaginaries of the ocean as a space for erasing incriminating evidence of the violence of empire, informed later censorship regimes under apartheid in South Africa. By tracking printed matter from ship to shore, Hofmeyr shows how literary institutions like copyright and censorship were shaped by colonial control of coastal waters. Set in the environmental context of the colonial port city, Dockside Reading explores how imperialism colonizes water. Hofmeyr examines this theme through the concept of hydrocolonialism, which puts together land and sea, empire and environment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520317277

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The Custom House of Desire by Anonim Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Author : John Folds,Roy Hoopes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : 9780878336531

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Everything You Need to Know about Building the Custom Home by John Folds,Roy Hoopes Pdf

Complete with illustrations, checklists, sample contracts, forms, and survey maps, and a must-have homebuilding timetable, this guide gives you everything you need to know to build your dream home.

Author : William Hunter (of the Custom House, London.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1766
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019876758

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The Merchants Clerk: Or, the Business at the Custom-House Made Easy, Etc by William Hunter (of the Custom House, London.) Pdf

Author : Jane Meredith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020448382

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Around and about the Custom House by Jane Meredith Pdf

There has been much written about James Gandon's great masterpiece, completed in 1791, and plans, paintings, drawings, etchings, photographs, etc. abound. This selection of images, each with its own commentary, takes a detailed look at the Custom House and its surrounds over the last two centuries from the point of view of the changes in the structure of the building itself, dock development and dockside activity, the adjoining buildings in Beresford Place and on the Quays, river traffic and the movement of bridges towards the sea. The title itself evokes the nature the contents which are introduced by noted architectural historian, Maurice Craig.

Author : Erin Napier
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316463836

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The Lantern House by Erin Napier Pdf

From the nationally beloved co-host of the #1 hit show Home Town comes the quintessential celebration of home. Imagine a house's early days as a home: A young family builds a picket fence and plants flowers in its yard, children climb the magnolia tree and play the piano in the living room, and there is music inside the house for many happy years. But what will happen when its windows grow dark, its paint starts to crumble, and its boards creak in the winter wind? The house dreams of a family who will love it again...and one day, a new story will emerge from within its walls. In this modern classic, Erin Napier’s lyrical prose and Adam Trest’s warm and comforting paintings deeply evoke the soul of a house cherishing the seasons of life and discovering the joy of rebirth.

Author : Darryl Cheng
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781683353249

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The New Plant Parent by Darryl Cheng Pdf

The creator of Instagram’s House Plant Journal mixes love with scientific logic in this beautifully photographed guide for indoor gardeners. For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng offers a new way to grow healthy house plants. He teaches the art of understanding a plant’s needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. With this book, indoor gardeners can be less a passive follower of rules for the care of each species and much more the confident, active grower, relying on observation and insight. And in the process, the plant owner becomes a plant lover, bonded to these beautiful living things by a simple love and appreciation of nature. The New Plant Parent covers all of the basics of growing house plants, from finding the right light, to everyday care like watering and fertilizing, to containers, to recommended species. Cheng’s friendly tone, personal stories, and accessible photographs fill his book with the same generous spirit that has made @houseplantjournal, his Instagram account, a popular source of advice and inspiration for over half a million indoor gardeners.

Author : Kate Atherley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781620337776

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Custom Socks by Kate Atherley Pdf

Whether you knit them toe-up or top-down, getting just the right fit on hand knit socks can be a major challenge! In Custom Socks, Kate Atherley sets out to teach knitters of all levels the skills and tools they need to understand sock fit, and to knit a pair of socks that fit properly. She calls on her years of experience as Knitty's Managing Technical Editor, where she has edited hundreds of sock patterns, to share this information in a way that is easy to understand with patterns that inspire. So go ahead and treat yourself to these 15 original sock patterns that are easily customizable and work with any needle configuration. Your feet will thank you!

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1018848037

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Dennis Daly
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780984661411

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The Custom House by Dennis Daly Pdf

Again and again, in poems of precision, conscience, and formal elegance, Dennis Daly arrests our vertiginous world so we may see its beauty, horror, and promise. Daly is a masterful poet, whether he is writing in free or formal verse, and the poems in this substantial gathering of his work accrue to a mature vision of our world as it is and as it could be. The Custom House is a book to savor, a book to treasure. - Richard Hoffman, author of Gold Star Road and Emblem