The Man Who Went Too Far

The Man Who Went Too Far
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Publisher : Good Press
Total Pages : 31
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4064066314811
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Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Man Who Went Too Far by : E. F. Benson

The Man Who Went Too Far is a short story by E.F. Benson. A man dedicates himself to realizing "unity" in conjunction with nature. In time he gets it, but it is not at all what he expected.

The Undying Monster

The Undying Monster
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781257040520
ISBN-13 : 1257040529
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis The Undying Monster by : Jessie Kerruish

Beware the curse composed in verse! The night is cold and clear and starry. Don't walk in the woods, or you'll be sorry. ESPECIALLY if you happen to be the last heir of the Hammands! The super-sensitive Miss Luna Bartendale, psychic investigator extraordinaire, has had success in the past laying family curses, but the Monster of Hammand will prove harder than any challenge she has faced before. And Dannow Old Manor is home to more than one secret, with a trail that leads from its Hidden Room to the ancient barrow of a Saxon chieftain and back again -- and from a family legacy birthed in the Bronze Age to the Twilight of the Gods!

A New History of the Isle of Man: The modern period 1830-1999

A New History of the Isle of Man: The modern period 1830-1999
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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : 0853237263
ISBN-13 : 9780853237266
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis A New History of the Isle of Man: The modern period 1830-1999 by : Richard Chiverrell

A New History of the Isle of Man will provide a new benchmark for the study of the island’s history. In five volumes, it will survey all aspects of the history of the Isle of Man, from the evolution of the natural landscape through prehistory to modern times. The Modern Period is the first volume to be published. Wide in coverage, embracing political, constitutional, economic, labor, social and cultural developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the volume is particularly concerned with issues of image, identity and representation. From a variety of angles and perspectives, contributors explore the ways in which a sense of Manxness was constructed, contested, continued and amended as the little Manx nation underwent unprecedented change from debtors’ retreat through holiday playground to offshore international financial center.

The Abbot's Tale

The Abbot's Tale
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9781681778082
ISBN-13 : 1681778084
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Abbot's Tale by : Conn Iggulden

In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to go to war in the north. His dream of a united kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field—on the passage of a single day. At his side is the priest Dunstan of Glastonbury, full of ambition and wit (perhaps enough to damn his soul). His talents will take him from the villages of Wessex to the royal court, to the hills of Rome—from exile to exaltation. Through Dunstan’s vision, by his guiding hand, England will either come together as one great country or fall back into anarchy and misrule . . . From one of our finest historical writers, The Abbott’s Tale is an intimate portrait of a priest and performer, a visionary, a traitor and confessor to kings—the man who can change the fate of England.

Weird Woods

Weird Woods
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Publisher : Tales of the Weird
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 0712353429
ISBN-13 : 9780712353427
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Weird Woods by : John Miller

Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic, and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't see where you are or what is around you. Supernatural creatures thrive in the thickets. Trees reach into underworlds of earth, myth, and magic. Forests are full of ghosts. In this new collection, immerse yourself in the whispering voices between the branches in Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor, witness an inexplicable death in Yorkshire's Strid Wood and prepare yourself for an encounter with malignant pagan powers in the dark of the New Forest. This edition also includes notes on the real locations and folklore which inspired these deliciously sinister stories.

Flemington

Flemington
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433112048677
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Flemington by : Violet Jacob

Pleasures of the Table

Pleasures of the Table
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0712357807
ISBN-13 : 9780712357807
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Pleasures of the Table by : Christina Hardyment

This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and about great cooks. Napoleon famously declared that an army marched on its stomach; less familiar is the idea that great authors were as eager to feed their stomachs as their imaginations. Far-ranging in both time and place, this exploration of literary eating and great writing about food will amuse, surprise, and make the mouth water. The anthology begins with examples of hospitality, ranging from Chaucer's convivial Franklin to Walter Scott's bountiful breakfasts and dinner with Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Ramsay. Next comes eating to impress--dazzling banquets from Flaubert to F. Scott Fitzgerald--and some great fictional love feasts (there is no doubt that in literature food and love go together rather better than love and marriage). Many of our most vivid memories of food in literature were laid down in childhood, and nostalgia is to the fore in such classic scenes as Pinocchio aching with hunger, Ratty and Mole picnicking, enchanted Turkish delight in Narnia, and a seaside picnic from Enid Blyton. A section on distant times and places ranges from seethed tortoise in ancient China to seal's liver fried in penguin blubber as a treat for Captain Scott. Those who relish simplicity rather than excess will enjoy Sydney Smith's delicate salad dressing and Hemingway's appreciation of oysters.

She's All the World to Me

She's All the World to Me
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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9781465554529
ISBN-13 : 1465554521
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis She's All the World to Me by : Sir Hall Caine