The Secret Of Rookery Manor

Author : Ruth Baker Walton
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528974578

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The Secret of Rookery Manor by Ruth Baker Walton Pdf

Rookery Manor, a large imposing country house in Somerset, holds many secrets and a dark tragedy which will lead James on a magical adventure. He travels back through time and meets Rory, his sister Becky who had lived at Rookery Manor, Mchawi the white witchdoctor Guardian of the Sacred Mountain, and Mtumwa the spirit guide, all of whom will play an important part in James’ future. Adam from the local village doesn’t know it yet, but he and James will solve a 300-year-old mystery and avenge Emily Beauregard whose spirit has touched them all.

Author : Natasha Farrant
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545942829

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The Secret Diary of Lydia Bennet by Natasha Farrant Pdf

In the tradition of Longbourn, Mr. Darcy's Diary, and Prom and Prejudice... Lydia is the youngest of the five Bennet girls. She's stubborn, never listens, and can't seem to keep her mouth shut--not that she would want to anyway. She's bored with her country life and wishes her older sisters would pay her attention . . . for once! Luckily, the handsome Wickham arrives at Longbourn to sweep her off her feet. Lydia's not going to let him know THAT, of course, especially since he only seems to be interested in friendship. But when they both decide to summer in the fasionable seaside town of Brighton, their paths become entangled again. At the seaside, Lydia also finds exciting new ways of life and a pair of friends who offer her a future she never dreamed of. Lydia finally understands what she really wants. But can she get it? A fresh, funny, and spirited reimagining of Jane Austen's beloved Pride and Prejudice, The Secret Diary of Lydia Bennet brings the voice of the wildest Bennet sister alive and center stage like never before.

Author : Karen E. Laird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317044505

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The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920 by Karen E. Laird Pdf

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to investigate the working practices of the first adapters of Victorian fiction. Laird’s juxtaposition between stage and screen brings to life the dynamic culture of literary adaptation as it developed throughout the long nineteenth-century. Focusing on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Laird demonstrates how adaptations performed the valuable cultural work of expanding the original novel’s readership across class and gender divides, exporting the English novel to America, and commemorating the novelists through adaptations that functioned as virtual literary tourism. Bridging the divide between literary criticism, film studies, and theatre history, Laird’s book reveals how the Victorian adapters set the stage for our contemporary film adaptation industry.

Author : Dr Karen Laird
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472424419

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The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920 by Dr Karen Laird Pdf

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to investigate the working practices of the first adapters of Victorian fiction. Laird’s juxtaposition between stage and screen brings to life the dynamic culture of literary adaptation as it developed throughout the long nineteenth-century. Focusing on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Laird demonstrates how adaptations performed the valuable cultural work of expanding the original novel’s readership across class and gender divides, exporting the English novel to America, and commemorating the novelists through adaptations that functioned as virtual literary tourism. Bridging the divide between literary criticism, film studies, and theatre history, Laird’s book reveals how the Victorian adapters set the stage for our contemporary film adaptation industry.

Author : Paul Meehan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476674582

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The Haunted House on Film by Paul Meehan Pdf

A popular phenomenon since antiquity, the image of the haunted house is one that has translated elegantly into the modern medium of film. The haunted house transcends genre, appearing in mysteries, gothic romances, comedies and horror films. This book is the first comprehensive historical and critical study of themes surrounding haunted houses in film. Covering more than 100 films, it spans from the Mystery House thrillers of the silent era to the high-tech, big budget productions of the 21st Century. Included are the works of such acclaimed directors as D.W. Griffith, Robert Wise, Mario Bava, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton and Guillermo Del Toro. The book also covers the real-life "haunted house" phenomenon and movies based on paranormal case files, including those featured in films like the Conjuring series.

Author : Charles Palliser
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345371133

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The Quincunx by Charles Palliser Pdf

An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary—a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century—London itself. “So compulsively absorbing that reality disappears . . . One is swept along by those enduring emotions that defy modern art and a random universe: hunger for revenge, longing for justice and the fantasy secretly entertained by most people that the bad will be punished and the good rewarded.”—The New York Times “A virtuoso achievement . . . It is an epic, a tour de force, a staggeringly complex and tantalizingly layered tale that will keep readers engrossed in days. . . . The Quincunx will not disappoint you. It is, quite simply, superb.”—Chicago Sun-Times “A bold and vivid tale that invites the reader to get lost in the intoxicating rhythms of another world. And the invitation is irresistible.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A remarkable book . . . In mood, color, atmosphere and characters, this is Charles Dickens reincarnated . . . It is an immersing experience.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “To read the first pages is to be trapped for seven-hundred odd more: you cannot stop turning them.”—The New Yorker “Few books, at most a dozen or two in a lifetime, affect us this way. . . . For sheer intricacy and ingenuity, for skill and clarity of storytelling, it is the kind of book readers wait for, a book to get lost in.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1768 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Times (London, England)
ISBN : UOM:39015066156707

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The Times Index by Anonim Pdf

Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.

Author : Libbie Grant
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063070998

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The Prophet's Wife by Libbie Grant Pdf

A sweeping, lyrical tale of historical fiction that tells the unbelievable story of the early days of the Mormon church through the eyes of the woman who saw it all—Emma, the first wife of the prophet Joseph Smith. In 1825, in rural Pennsylvania, Emma Hale marries an itinerant treasure-digger, a man who has nothing but a peep-stone in his pocket and a conviction that he can speak directly to God. His name is Joseph Smith and in a few short years, he will found his own religion, gather zealous adherents by the tens of thousands, and fracture Emma’s life and faith While the Mormon religion finds its feet and runs beyond the grasp of its founder, Emma struggles to maintain her place in Joseph’s heart—and in the religion that has become her world. The Mormons make themselves outcasts everywhere they go. Joseph can only maintain his authority by issuing ever-stranger commandments on God’s behalf, culminating in an edict that men should marry as many women as they please. The Mormons’ adoption of polygamy only sets them further apart, and soon their communities are ravaged by violence at the hands of their outraged fellow Americans. For Emma, things take a more personal toll as Joseph brings in a new wife—a woman whom Emma considers a sister. As Emma’s family grows along with Joseph’s infamy, she knows there will never be peace until Joseph faces the law. But on the half-wild edge of the frontier, he’s more likely to find death at the hands of a vigilante posse than a fair trial. For the sake of her people—and her soul—Emma must convince the Prophet of God to surrender... and perhaps to sacrifice his life.

Author : Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300246728

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The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar Pdf

Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later. "Gilbert and Gubar have written a pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World

Author : G. Garratt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375016814

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Marvels and Mysteries of Instict or Curiosities of Animal Life by G. Garratt Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

Author : G. Garratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Instinct
ISBN : HARVARD:HNMGVJ

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Marvels and Mysteries of Instinct, Or, Curiosities of Animal Life by G. Garratt Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Polygon
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UCSD:31822003052644

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Original Prints by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gillian Tindall
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448189885

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The Tunnel Through Time by Gillian Tindall Pdf

Crossrail, the ‘Elizabeth’ line, is simply the latest way of traversing a very old east–west route through what was once countryside to the city and out again. Visiting Stepney, Liverpool Street, Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, Gillian Tindall traces the course of many of these historical journeys across time as well as space. The Tunnel Through Time uncovers the lives of those who walked where many of our streets still run. These people spoke the names of ancient farms, manors and slums that now belong to our squares and tube stations. They endured the cycle of the seasons as we do; they ate, drank, worked and laughed in what are essentially the same spaces we occupy today. As Tindall expertly shows, destruction and renewal are a constant rhythm in London’s story.

Author : Anne DeLong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781440860447

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The Victorian World by Anne DeLong Pdf

An indispensable resource for readers investigating Victorian literature and culture, this book offers a comprehensive summary of the historical, social, political, and cultural contexts of Victorian England. The Victorian era was a time of great social, scientific, and cultural change. The literary works of that period reflect that change and help us to better understand the Victorian world. This book examines the historical, political, social, and cultural contexts of several important Victorian literary works: Jane Eyre,, by Charlotte Brontë; Wuthering Heights,, by Emily Brontë; A Tale of Two Cities,, by Charles Dickens; and several poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, including "The Cry of the Children," "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point," "A Curse for a Nation," and Aurora Leigh.. The volume provides historical explanations, literary analyses, and cultural context for each literary work, including primary documents from the nineteenth century. Topics investigated include women's rights, workers' rights, education reforms, marriage laws, race relations, inheritance and heredity, and other issues concerning gender, race, and class in the nineteenth century. Readers will gain a greater understanding of these major literary works as well as their historical context.

Author : Kate Atkinson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409094586

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Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson Pdf

The brilliant and profound second novel from the three-times Costa prizewinner and number one bestseller Kate Atkinson. 'Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns' Observer Once it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all. But Isobel Fairfax, who drops into pockets of time and out again, knows about the past. She is sixteen and waiting for the return of her mother - the thin, dangerous Eliza with her scent of nicotine, Arpège and sex, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest.