These Silent Mansions

Author : Jean Sprackland
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781448182442

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These Silent Mansions by Jean Sprackland Pdf

'A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself' Literary Review Graveyards are oases: places of escape, peace and reflection. Liminal sites of commemoration, where the past is close enough to touch. Yet they also reflect their living community - how in our restless, accelerated modern world, we are losing our sense of connection to the dead. Jean Sprackland - the prize-winning poet and author of Strands - travels back through her life, revisiting her once local graveyards. In seeking out the stories of those who lived and died there, remembered and forgotten, she unearths what has been lost.

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307379306

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Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith Pdf

CORDUROY MANSIONS - Book 1 In the Corduroy Mansions series of novels, set in London’s hip Pimlico neighborhood, we meet a cast of charming eccentrics, including perhaps the world’s most clever terrier, who make their home in a handsome, though slightly dilapidated, apartment block. Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in London’s vibrant Pimlico neighborhood and the home turf of a captivating collection of quirky and altogether McCall-Smithian characters. There’s the middle-aged wine merchant William, who’s trying to convince his reluctant twenty-four-year-old son, Eddie, to leave the nest; and Marcia, the boutique caterer who has her sights set on William. There’s also the (justifiably) much-loathed Member of Parliament Oedipus Snark; his mother, Berthea, who’s writing his biography and hating every minute of it; and his long-suffering girlfriend, Barbara, a literary agent who would like to be his wife (but, then, she’d like to be almost anyone’s wife). There’s the vitamin evangelist, the psychoanalyst, the art student with a puzzling boyfriend and Freddie de la Hay, the Pimlico terrier who insists on wearing a seat belt and is almost certainly the only avowed vegetarian canine in London. Filled with the ins and outs of neighborliness in all its unexpected variations, Corduroy Mansions showcases the life, laughter and humanity that have become the hallmarks of Alexander McCall Smith’s work.

Author : R. Thomas Ashbrook
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780470454725

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Mansions of the Heart by R. Thomas Ashbrook Pdf

A practical program for developing a deeper, more authentic relationship with God Written for anyone who wants to develop a deeper more meaningful relationship with God, Mansions of the Heart offers a step-by-step guide through a spiritual formation road map based on Teresa of Avila's Seven Mansions. The book includes a Mapping Tool that will help you discern your place on your spiritual journey and offers church leaders a process for helping church members to grow into spiritual maturity. Contains a spiritual program based on the writings of Teresa of Avila, one of Christianity's most profound and beloved mystical teachers Offers a complete, step-by-step program for spiritual growth Includes information for leading others in their spiritual journeys Appropriate for all kinds of Christians

Author : William Wheater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : WISC:89054420302

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Some Historic Mansions of Yorkshire and Their Associations by William Wheater Pdf

Author : Peter Ross
Publisher : Headline
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 1472267788

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A Tomb with a View - the Stories and Glories of Graveyards by Peter Ross Pdf

"Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? What is the remarkable truth about Phoebe Hessel, who disguised herself as a man to fight alongside her sweetheart, and went on to live in the reigns of five monarchs? Why is a Bristol cemetery the perfect wedding venue for goths? All of these sorrowful mysteries - and many more - are answered in A Tomb With A View, a book for anyone who has ever wandered through a field of crooked headstones and wondered about the lives and deaths of those who lie beneath"--Publisher's description.

Author : James Gordon Emmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082209853

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Mingled Memories by James Gordon Emmons Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Methodist Episcopal Church
ISBN : UCAL:B2891892

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The Ladies' Repository by Anonim Pdf

The idea of this women's magazine originated with Samuel Williams, a Cincinnati Methodist, who thought that Christian women needed a magazine less worldly than Godey's Lady's Book and Snowden's Lady's Companion. Written largely by ministers, this exceptionally well-printed little magazine contained well-written essays of a moral character, plenty of poetry, articles on historical and scientific matters, and book reviews. Among western writers were Alice Cary, who contributed over a hundred sketches and poems, her sister Phoebe Cary, Otway Curry, Moncure D. Conway, and Joshua R. Giddings; and New England contributors included Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Hannah F. Gould, and Julia C.R Dorr. By 1851, each issue published a peice of music and two steel plates, usually landscapes or portraits. When Davis E. Clark took over the editorship in 1853, the magazine became brighter and attained a circulation of 40,000. Unlike his predecessors, Clark included fictional pieces and made the Repository a magazine for the whole family. After the war it began to decline and in 1876 was replaced by the National Repository. The Ladies' Repository was an excellent representative of the Methodist mind and heart. Its essays, sketches, and poems, its good steel engravings, and its moral tone gave it a charm all its own. -- Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.

Author : Jean Sprackland
Publisher : Random House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781409028123

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Strands by Jean Sprackland Pdf

Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. This is a series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, Strands is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation - about sea-change.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781595341990

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The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style she combines commentary on history, justice, war and peace, and explorations of place, art, and community, all while writing with the lyricism of a poet to achieve incandescence and wisdom. Gathered here are celebrated iconic essays along with little-known pieces that create a powerful survey of the world we live in, from the jungles of the Zapatistas in Mexico to the splendors of the Arctic. This rich collection tours places as diverse as Haiti and Iceland; movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring; an original take on the question of who did Henry David Thoreau’s laundry; and a searching look at what the hatred of country music really means. Solnit moves nimbly from Orwell to Elvis, to contemporary urban gardening to 1970s California macramé and punk rock, and on to searing questions about the environment, freedom, family, class, work, and friendship. It’s no wonder she’s been compared in Bookforum to Susan Sontag and Annie Dillard and in the San Francisco Chronicle to Joan Didion. The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness proves Rebecca Solnit worthy of the accolades and honors she’s received. Rarely can a reader find such penetrating critiques of our time and its failures leavened with such generous heapings of hope. Solnit looks back to history and the progress of political movements to find an antidote to despair in what many feel as lost causes. In its encyclopedic reach and its generous compassion, Solnit’s collection charts a way through the thickets of our complex social and political worlds. Her essays are a beacon for readers looking for alternative ideas in these imperiled times.

Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736804982

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Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister Pdf

In a southern city called Kings Port, where conservativism and old-fashioned customs have remained from before the Civil War, a young man from the north sojourns within its sacred limits and into the inner circles of society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101065272393

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The Ladies' Repository by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Boardman,A citizen of the world
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCAL:$B61263

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America, and the Americans ... by James Boardman,A citizen of the world Pdf

Author : James Kirke Paulding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3347324

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Salmagundi by James Kirke Paulding Pdf

Author : William I. Paulding
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752564358

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Literary Life of James K. Paulding by William I. Paulding Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Author : James Kirke Paulding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015038691906

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Paulding's Works: Salmagundi; or, The whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, esq. [pseud.] and others [by Washington Irving, William Irving and J.K. Paulding] A new ed., corrected by the authors. 1835 by James Kirke Paulding Pdf