The Venice Atonement

Author : Merryn Allingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788638700

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The Venice Atonement by Merryn Allingham Pdf

A tragic accident at the opera - or the murder of someone keeping dangerous secrets? While watching the opera at La Fenice, Nancy Tremayne is shocked to see a woman fall to her death. But how did this tragedy occur? Newlywed Nancy is accompanying her art professor husband, Leo, on a work trip. As she explores Italy's beautiful city on the water, she is increasingly compelled to uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding the woman's death. Leo is adamant it was an accident but his assistant, Archie, reluctantly helps Nancy despite his seeming coldness to her. Nancy's determination to reveal the facts puts her in harm's way more than once. As she learns more about Venice's secrets she realises she may be forced to make a choice - the truth, or her life? An engaging and atmospheric historical crime novel perfect for fans of Kate Furnivall and Rachel Rhys.

Author : Christopher Hampton,Ian McEwan
Publisher : Newmarket Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106019568994

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Atonement by Christopher Hampton,Ian McEwan Pdf

Filmed on location in the U.K., the story of Atonement spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony—who has a crush on Robbie— is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested—and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever. Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love. In addition to the complete script, this Newmarket Shooting Script® book includes an exclusive introduction by screenwriter ChristopherHampton, a color photo section, and the complete cast and crew credits.

Author : Terence Hawkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136568046

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Shakespeare and the Reason by Terence Hawkes Pdf

'Mr Hawkes is a good critic, oriented towards history of ideas. He operates on the formula that Shakespeare was interested in the available distinctions between discursive and intuitive reason, and disliked a growing tendency for the first to be thought of as manly and the second effeminate. One sees how this action-contemplation polarity works, in Hamlet for instance, and Mr Hawkes thinks the kind of choices forced on tragic heroes can be better understood in terms of it.' Frank Kermode, New Statesman. In the seven plays on which the book concentrates, Terence Hawkes finds Shakespeare investigating the operation of two opposed forms of reason, and constructing dramatic metaphors such as the opposition between appearance and reality, or that between true 'manliness' and its false counterpart, which express to the full the tragic nature of the situation.

Author : Clare Mackintosh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451490582

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After the End by Clare Mackintosh Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a deeply moving and page-turning novel about an impossible choice—and the two paths fate could take. “A beautifully written novel, compelling and clever, tender and true. I can’t stop thinking about it.”—Liane Moriarty “Tailor-made for book clubs and for fans of Jodi Picoult.”—Publishers Weekly Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're best friends, lovers—unshakable. But then their son gets sick and the doctors put the question of his survival into their hands. For the first time, Max and Pip can't agree. They each want a different future for their son. What if they could have both? A gripping and propulsive exploration of love, marriage, parenthood, and the road not taken, After the End brings one unforgettable family from unimaginable loss to a surprising, satisfying, and redemptive ending and the life they are fated to find. With the emotional power of Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper, Mackintosh helps us to see that sometimes the end is just another beginning.

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795303692

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The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan Pdf

A twisted relationship between two couples reaches a terrible climax in this novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of Machines Like Me. Colin and Mary are lovers on holiday in Italy, their relationship becoming increasingly problematic as they become increasingly alienated from one and other. They move from place to place in this foreign land but seemingly without aim or purpose, seemingly bored and without attachment. Then they meet a man named Robert and his disabled wife, Caroline. Colin and Mary seem happy for the diversion—happy to meet another couple that takes their focus off of each other for a while. But things become strange when they attempt to leave: Robert and Caroline insist that they stay with them for a while longer. While Mary and Colin do rediscover an erotic attraction to each other during this time, they also find that their relationship with Robert and Caroline is taking a dreadful and horrific turn, in this “fine novel” by the Booker Prize-winning author of Saturday and On Chesil Beach (New Statesman). “McEwan perfectly captures the thrill of travel when one is divorced from familiar surroundings and the chance of something unusual and out-of-character seems possible. Of course, this being a McEwan fiction, the possibility is a brutal truth about how people find love in extreme ways.”—The Daily Beast

Author : Alisa Meyuhas Ginio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135299811

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Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Mediterranean World After 1492 by Alisa Meyuhas Ginio Pdf

The expulsion of the Jews, and later the Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula marked the beginning of a new era in the life of the Mediterranean world. The articles in this volume discuss the aftermath of the crucial historical events that took place in the Mediterranean world in 1492, focusing on the social, economic and cultural consequences of these occurrences.

Author : Joseph P. Farrell
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781936239740

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Financial Vipers of Venice by Joseph P. Farrell Pdf

In this sequel to Babylon's Banskters. The banksters have moved from Mesopotamia via Rome to Venice. There, they have manipulated popes and bullion prices, clipped coins, sacked Constantinople, destroyed rival Florence, waged war, burned "heretics" and suppressed hidden secrets threatening their financial supremacy... until Giordano Bruno and Christopher Columbus, broke the banking cartel's control of information and bullion...

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1349 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Films Based on British Novels by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Porton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1979-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004667235

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The Traditions of Rabbi Ishmael, Volume 3: Exegetical Materials in Amoraic Collections by Porton Pdf

Author : David Anonby
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798385202997

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Shakespeare on Salvation by David Anonby Pdf

This cutting-edge book explores Shakespeare’s negotiation of Reformation controversy about theories of salvation. While twentieth century literary criticism tended to regard Shakespeare as a harbinger of secularism, the so-called “turn to religion” in early modern studies has given renewed attention to the religious elements in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Nevertheless, there remains an aura of uncertainty regarding some of the doctrinal and liturgical specificities of the period. This historical gap is especially felt with respect to theories of salvation, or soteriology. Such ambiguity, however, calls for further inquiry into historical theology. The author explores how the language and concepts of faith, grace, charity, the sacraments, election, free will, justification, sanctification, and atonement find expression in Shakespeare’s plays. In doing so, this book contributes to the recovery of a greater understanding of the relationship between early modern religion and Shakespearean drama. While the author shares David Scott Kastan’s reluctance to attribute particular religious convictions to Shakespeare, in some cases such critical guardedness has diverted attention from the religious topography of Shakespeare’s plays. Throughout this study, the author’s hermeneutic is to read Shakespeare through the lens of early modern theological controversy and to read early modern theology through the lens of Shakespeare.

Author : Robert C. Davis
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0801886252

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Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal by Robert C. Davis Pdf

The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous shipyards. This is the social history of the men and women who helped maintain not only the city's dominion over the sea but also its stability and peace. Drawing on a variety of documents that include nearly a thousand petitions from the shipbuilders to the Venetian governments as well as on parish records, inventories, and wills, Robert C. Davis offers a vivid and compelling account of these early modern workers. He explores their mentality and describes their private and public worlds (which in some ways, he argues, prefigured the factories and company towns of a later era). He uncovers the far-reaching social and cultural role played by women in this industrial community. He shows how the Venetian government formed its shipbuilders into a militia to maintain public order. And he describes the often colorful ways in which Venetians dealt with the tensions that role provoked—including officially sanctioned community fistfights on the city's bridges. The recent decision by the Italian government to return the Venetian Arsenal to civilian control has sparked renewed interest in the subject among historians. Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal offers new evidence on the ways in which large, state-run manufacturing operations furthered the industrialization process, as well as on the extent of workers' influence on the social dynamics of the early modern European city.

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Venice (Italy)
ISBN : UOM:39015063830817

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History of the Venetian Republic by William Carew Hazlitt Pdf

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10078300

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History of the Venetian Republic: Her Rise, Her Greatness, and Her Civilization by William Carew Hazlitt Pdf

Author : Roddy Flynn,Tony Tracy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538119587

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Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema by Roddy Flynn,Tony Tracy Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on key Irish actors, directors, producers and other personnel from over a century of Irish film history.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1761 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Nonlinear Narrative Films by Wikipedia contributors Pdf