The Gypsy

Author : Maureen Fergus
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780143188315

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The Gypsy King by Maureen Fergus Pdf

A runaway slave with a shadowy past, sixteen-year-old Persephone has spent four long years toiling beneath the leering gaze of her despised owner and dreaming of a life where she is free to shape her own destiny. Then, one night, a chance encounter with a handsome chicken thief named Azriel changes her life forever. Sold to him for a small bag of gold coins, Persephone soon discovers what she already suspected: namely, that Azriel is not what he seems. And when she realizes that he believes Persephone has a special destiny—she is determined to escape him and his impossibly broad shoulders. But things are no longer as simple as they once were. Torn between her longing for freedom and her undeniable feelings for the handsome thief with the fast hands and the slow smile, Persephone faces the hardest choice she will ever have to make. And no one—least of all her—could have imagined the shocking truth her decision will reveal.

Author : Phoebe Gilman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0590038370

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The Gypsy Princess by Phoebe Gilman Pdf

A gypsy girl who gets the opportunity to live in a palace as a princess finds she prefers her gypsy life after all.

Author : Michael Stewart
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849042208

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The Gypsy 'menace' by Michael Stewart Pdf

Across Europe, Roma and Gypsies are suffering increasing intolerance and hostility. A new populist politics, that seeks political meaning in collective experiences and values forms of solidarity rooted in town, class, community or nation, finds in the Roma a suitable target population to which 'ordinary citizens" fears and frustrations can be attached. This politics draws on a rising tide of xenophobia; a feeling of loss of sovereignity and democratic oversight; disillusionment with political elites; frustrations with the failure of welfare programmes; the presentation of social and political conflicts as cultural issues; and a growing rejection of the ideal of a trans-national European order. The Gypsy 'Menace''s fifteen chapters range geographically from Belfast to Sofia, via Paris, Rome, Prague and Budapest. They show how, in their reactions to the presence of ten million or so Romany persons in their midst, some Europeans are testing the limits of the 'social imaginary' and beginning to flesh out new ways of thinking about the ties that bind and connect citizens in Europe - and those that can be severed. The authors, who include political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists from across the continent, set the rapid shifts in political debate regarding Roma against the background of huge social and economic changes in the past thirty years, the recent, frightening resurgence of populist politics, and a noticeable increase in inter-ethnic violence and hate crimes. This book resets the agenda for thinking about Europe's largest minority, analysing not only the challenges a liberal, tolerant politics confronts but also suggesting ways of acting against the new xenophobia.

Author : Steven Brust,Megan Lindholm
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765311925

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The Gypsy by Steven Brust,Megan Lindholm Pdf

Back in print: a stylish fantasy thriller from two bestselling masters of the form

Author : Sarah Houghton-Walker
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191030161

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Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period by Sarah Houghton-Walker Pdf

In early eighteenth-century texts, the gypsy is frequently figured as an amusing rogue; by the Victorian period, it has begun to take on a nostalgic, romanticized form, abandoning sublimity in favour of the bucolic fantasy propagated by George Borrow and the founding members of the Gypsy Lore Society. Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period argues that, in the gap between these two situations, the figure of the gypsy is exploited by Romantic-period writers and artists, often in unexpected ways. Drawing attention to prominent writers (including Wordsworth, Austen, Clare, Cowper and Brontë) as well as those less well-known, Sarah Houghton-Walker examines representations of gypsies in literature and art from 1780-1830, alongside the contemporary socio-historical events and cultural processes which put pressure on those representations. She argues that, raising troubling questions by its repeated escape from the categories of enlightenment discourses which might seek to 'know' or 'understand' in empirical ways, the gypsy exists both within and outside of conventional English society. The figure of the gypsy is thus available to writers and artists to facilitate the articulation of dilemmas and anxieties taking various forms, and especially as a lens through which questions of knowledge and identity (which is often mutable, and troubling) might be focussed. .

Author : George Hall
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752395570

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The Gypsy's Parson by George Hall Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Gypsy's Parson by George Hall

Author : Gypsy Lore Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Romanies
ISBN : PRNC:32101032308304

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Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society by Gypsy Lore Society Pdf

Author : Sara Whitford
Publisher : Seaport Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780986325267

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The Gypsy's Curse by Sara Whitford Pdf

In the fourth installment in the Adam Fletcher Adventure Series, a gypsy family sets up camp on the edge of town peddling tinctures, potions, magic, and fortunetelling. And like a moth to a flame, Adam Fletcher is drawn there. He decides to pay the mysterious Madame Endora a visit, just for fun — or so he thinks. Soon after, a series of worrisome circumstances begin to unfold, one after the other, sending the sleepy port town of Beaufort into a hysterical frenzy. Is there really a curse, or is something more sinister to blame?

Author : George Hall
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465611680

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The Gypsy's Parson: His Experiences and Adventures by George Hall Pdf

A TANGLE of sequestered streets lying around a triple-towered cathedral; red roofs and gables massed under the ramparts of an ancient castle; a grey Roman arch lit up every spring-time by the wallflower’s mimic gold; an old-world Bailgate over whose tavern yards drifted the sleepy music of the minster chimes; a crooked by-lane leading down to a wide common loved by the winds of heaven—these were the surroundings of my childhood’s home in that hilltop portion of Lincoln which has never quite thrown off its medieval drowsiness. Not far from my father’s doorstep, as you looked towards the common, lay a narrow court lined with poor tenements, and terminating in a bare yard bounded by a squat wall. Every detail of this alley stands out in my memory with the sharpness of a photograph; the cramped perspective of the place as you entered it from our lane, the dreary-looking houses with their mud-floored living-rooms fronting upon the roadway, the paintless doors and windows, the blackened chimneys showing rakish against the sky, all combined to make a picture of dun-coloured misery. There were, it is true, a few redeeming features gilding the prevailing drabness of the scene. The entrance to the court had a southerly outlook upon green fields stretching up to the verge of the Castle Dyking, or, to revive its more gruesome name, “Hangman’s Ditch,” so called from the grim associations of a bygone day. From these fields a clean air blew through the court, rendering it a less unwholesome haunt for the strange folk who dwelt within its precincts; while not half a mile distant lay the breezy common, a glorious playground for the children of Upper Lincoln.

Author : Thelma Madine
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007456970

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Tales of the Gypsy Dressmaker by Thelma Madine Pdf

Thelma Madine, star of Channel 4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and fairy godmother of extravagant wedding dresses, reveals the drama, secrets and surprises involved in ten incredible traveller weddings.

Author : William Brockie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Kirk Yetholm (Scotland)
ISBN : OXFORD:590120744

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The Gypsies of Yetholm by William Brockie Pdf

Author : George Nickels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89062175492

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The Gypsy Season by George Nickels Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015106003

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The Gypsy Scholar by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anat Elisabeth Meyers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Romanies
ISBN : UCAL:C2927122

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The Gypsy as Child Stealer by Anat Elisabeth Meyers Pdf

Author : Lawrence Thornton
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015019629107

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Under the Gypsy Moon by Lawrence Thornton Pdf

In World War II, a Spanish Civil War veteran writes for a Resistance and a woman must overcome a dark past, while the spirit of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca lives on in them both.