White King

Author : Leanda de Lisle
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473546073

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White King by Leanda de Lisle Pdf

The subject of a BBC TV series on Charles I The prize-winning biography of Charles I * Winner of the HWA Crown for Best Work of Historical Non-Fiction 2018 * * Times Book of the Year * * Shortlisted for the Catholic Herald Biography Award 2019 * Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I, who would change the face of the monarchy for ever. His reign is one of the most dramatic in history, yet Charles the man remains elusive. To his enemies he was the 'white tyrant of prophecy: to his supporters a murdered innocent. Today many myths still remain. It is an epic story of glamour and strong women, of populist politicians and religious terror, of mass movements and a revolutionary new media: one that speaks to our own divided and dangerous times. 'This is the most gripping piece of revisionist history I have read for a long time' - The Spectator

Author : T. H. White
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547194712

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The Once and Future King by T. H. White Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : György Dragomán
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618945177

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The White King by György Dragomán Pdf

An international sensation, this startling and heartbreaking debut recounts the adventures of eleven-year-old Djata in one life-changing year. To be published in twenty countries around the world this spring. Djata doesn't know what to make of the two men who lead his father away one day, or understand why his mother bursts into tears when he brings her tulips on her anniversary. He does know that he must learn to fill his father's shoes, even though among his friends he is still a boy: fighting neighborhood gang wars, volunteering to dig ditches, playing soccer on radioactive grass, having inappropriate crushes, sneaking into secret screening rooms, and shooting at stray cats with his gun-happy (and politically influential) grandfather. But this depiction of life in a totalitarian state--the only world Djata knows--is tempered by the sheer, hilarious absurdity of the situations he finds himself in, by his enduring faith in his father's return, and by the moments of unexpected beauty and hope and the small acts of kindness that mark out any life. As in the works of Mark Haddon, David Mitchell, and Marjane Satrapi, Djata's child's-eye view lends a power and immediacy to his story, making us laugh and ache in recognition and reminding us all of our shared humanity.

Author : James Mallard
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595268702

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White King to Black Pawn by James Mallard Pdf

Against the magnificent panorama of Louisiana, this story of the past is made vividly real. A novel that carries you back to the exotic world of old New Orleans. In this historical story I have combined fact and fiction to present the situations and times that the people endured.

Author : Cyan Abad-Jugo
Publisher : Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9786214200580

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Yaya Maya and the White King by Cyan Abad-Jugo Pdf

Ina Guinto certainly does not feel welcome in her new home in Laguna, although Biboy and her father like it. While Mr. Guinto goes to work, they are left in the care of Mayang, whom Biboy likes to call “Yaya Maya.” Ina insists she is too old to have a nanny, but no one listens to her, especially when it’s about wanting to go back to Manila. Then some strange things happen: Yaya Maya talks to frogs, Papa’s bookcase turns to splinter and dust, and someone has left a note wanting Ina and her family to go away. Who is Yaya Maya? Who—or what—is behind these events? As Ina finds more answers to her questions, and more questions to her answers, will she still want to go back to the home she left in the city?

Author : Daniel Johnson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0547133375

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White King and Red Queen by Daniel Johnson Pdf

Daniel Johnson--journalist, scholar, and chess enthusiast--is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination.

Author : Isaac BICKERSTAFF (pseud.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1710
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024546587

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The Famous Prophesie of the White King and the Dead Man Explain'd to the Present Times by Isaac BICKERSTAFF (pseud.) Pdf

Author : Elisabeth Brewer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859913935

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T.H. White's The Once and Future King by Elisabeth Brewer Pdf

Malory's chivalric virtues are rejected in favour of White's own 20th-century values; the love affair of Lancelot and Guenever is interpreted in terms of modern psychology.

Author : Benjamin Merkle
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781418581039

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The White Horse King by Benjamin Merkle Pdf

The unlikely king who saved England. Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe. Then, when the hour was most desperate, came an unlikely hero. King Alfred rallied the battered and bedraggled kingdoms of Britain and after decades of plotting, praying, and persisting, finally triumphed over the invaders. Alfred's victory reverberates to this day: He sparked a literary renaissance, restructured Britain's roadways, revised the legal codes, and revived Christian learning and worship. It was Alfred's accomplishments that laid the groundwork for Britian's later glories and triumphs in literature, liturgy, and liberty. "Ben Merkle tells the sort of mythic adventure story that stirs the imagination and races the heart?and all the more so knowing that it is altogether true!" ?George Grant, author of The Last Crusader and The Blood of the Moon

Author : Faustin Wirkus,Taney Keplinger Dudley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Gonave Island
ISBN : UCAL:$B96358

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The White King of La Gonave by Faustin Wirkus,Taney Keplinger Dudley Pdf

Author : Lee Kessler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1411634004

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White King and the Doctor by Lee Kessler Pdf

Imagine a television actress who did an exercise to create the back-story of the terrorist, Ayman Al-Zawahiri. She observed his documented actions and penetrated his mind to discover what his intentions were, what he would do, and what happened to Osama Bin Laden. And imagine that, as the events unfolded, all of her predictions proved true.

Author : A.S. King
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101994924

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Dig by A.S. King Pdf

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”—Horn Book, starred review “I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket.” Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account—wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.

Author : Leanda de Lisle
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780099555278

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White King by Leanda de Lisle Pdf

The subject of a BBC TV series on Charles I The prize-winning biography of Charles I * Winner of the HWA Crown for Best Work of Historical Non-Fiction 2018 * * Times Book of the Year * * Shortlisted for the Catholic Herald Biography Award 2019 * Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I, who would change the face of the monarchy for ever. His reign is one of the most dramatic in history, yet Charles the man remains elusive. To his enemies he was the 'white tyrant of prophecy: to his supporters a murdered innocent. Today many myths still remain. It is an epic story of glamour and strong women, of populist politicians and religious terror, of mass movements and a revolutionary new media: one that speaks to our own divided and dangerous times. 'This is the most gripping piece of revisionist history I have read for a long time' - The Spectator

Author : Daniel Johnson
Publisher : Atlantic
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Chess
ISBN : 1843546108

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White King and Red Queen by Daniel Johnson Pdf

The Cold War transformed the cloistered world of chess. As Daniel Johnson explains in this gripping account, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. Under the Bolsheviks, the game had become the national sport, taught in schools as a form of intellectual and military training. Those with talent were moulded into champions from a young age and Soviet players, such as Mikhail Botvinnik and Tigran Petrosian, dominated international competitions throughout the Cold War years. White King and Red Queen illuminates the lives and times of the players and matches at the forefront of this confrontation, from the famous 1972 encounter between American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer and Soviet champion Boris Spassky; to the struggle between anti-Communist Viktor Korchnoi and loyal Kremlin supporter Anatoly Karpov; to the emergence of Garry Kasparov, the last Soviet world champion. Daniel Johnson's book offers a dramatic new perspective on the post-war struggle for supremacy between the superpowers.

Author : Alain Campbell White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Chess problems
ISBN : WISC:89015919939

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The White King in Chess Strategy by Alain Campbell White Pdf