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Publisher :Bloomsbury Publishing Release Date :2015-10-08 ISBN :1474276555 Pages :96 pages Rating :4.4/5 (742 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Liberian Girl by Diana Nneka Atuona:
Download or read book Liberian Girl written by Diana Nneka Atuona and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Every single one of you has been chosen for this great moment, you are revolutionary freedom fighters, changing your future, one day at a time. This is for you, it's all for you and don't you ever forget that! Set during the early years of the First Liberian Civil War (1989 – 1996), this startling debut play by Diana Nneka Atuona tells the story of fourteen-year-old Martha who flees her country, disguised as a boy, when it's invaded by rebels. Investigated and cruelly interrogated, she is separated from her grandmother as they attempt to escape the conflict under false identities and, convincing in her boy's apparel, Martha is forced to join the rebels' army. Exposed to the violence of this brutal and seemingly misguided conflict, both as victim and perpetrator, Martha's experience of the First Liberian Civil War is one of excessive cruelty and, in particular, abuse against female prisoners of war. Liberian Girl received its world premiere at the Royal Court Upstairs, London in December 2014. This second edition was published post-production with some changes to the original script.
Publisher :Broadview Press Release Date :2023-03-16 ISBN :1770488928 Pages :971 pages Rating :4.7/5 (74 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 1: The Medieval Period – Revised Third Edition by Joseph Black:
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 1: The Medieval Period – Revised Third Edition written by Joseph Black and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 971 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations, and an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials. Innovative, authoritative and comprehensive, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader in the field. The full anthology comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; the latter has been edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and is accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes. In the revised third edition of this volume, the term “Anglo-Saxon” has been removed from our editorial apparatus—a change made in response to recent scholarly work that has drawn attention to the term’s historical and current usage by white supremacists. We have also taken the opportunity to implement a small number of additional improvements. We have also taken the opportunity to implement a small number of additional improvements; the pagination, however, remains the same.
Publisher :Random House Release Date :2008-10-02 ISBN :1407046934 Pages :320 pages Rating :4.4/5 (7 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Boy Soldier by Andy McNab:
Download or read book Boy Soldier written by Andy McNab and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Gripping, action-packed SAS thriller from the best-selling author of BRAVO TWO ZERO. Ideal for adventure-seeking readers. Danny Watts's grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. One of the worst sort. An SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his Regiment for money. Drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Colombian jail. At least, that's what seventeen-year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever. But he knows something the army doesn't seem to know. Fergus Watts is alive and in the UK, living in secret under an assumed name - but where? Fergus is Danny's only living relative. Burning with fury and desire for revenge, Danny sets out to track down his grandfather and expose him. In doing so he sets in train an explosive sequence of events which throw Danny and Fergus together on the run from the people who want Fergus, and now Danny, dead. Packed with breathtaking action, SAS procedures and surveillance and survival techniques, this is a fast-moving, action-packed thriller for teenagers.
Publisher :Lulu.com Release Date :2007-06-08 ISBN :1257115634 Pages :228 pages Rating :4.2/5 (571 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Big Book of Gospel Drama - Volume 1 by Douglas Christian Larsen:
Download or read book The Big Book of Gospel Drama - Volume 1 written by Douglas Christian Larsen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Dramatic Parables, God's method of teaching the Gospel. More than 30 complete scripts, with How To section on how to produce Christian plays, and a Bible study section presenting the case for parables and plays in a church setting. Dramatic Parables, teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Includes unresolved plays, mimes, comedies and tragedies, with always a parable, and storytelling making the difference.
Publisher :Random House Release Date :2006 ISBN :0552552216 Pages :324 pages Rating :4.5/5 (525 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Boy Soldier by Andy McNab:
Download or read book Boy Soldier written by Andy McNab and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Danny Watts's grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Columbian jail. That's what Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed. But he knows something the army doesn't seem to know. Ages 12+.
Publisher :Broadview Press Release Date :2014-12-08 ISBN :1770485546 Pages :964 pages Rating :4.7/5 (74 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 1: The Medieval Period - Third Edition by Joseph Black:
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 1: The Medieval Period - Third Edition written by Joseph Black and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations, and an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials. Innovative, authoritative and comprehensive, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader in the field. The full anthology comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; the latter has been edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and is accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes. For the third edition of this volume a number of changes have been made. The Old English material has been substantially revised and expanded, including new translations by Roy Liuzza of “Deor,” “Wulf and Eadwacer,” and “The Battle of Brunanburh.” A selection from Adrienne Williams Boyarin’s new translation of “The Miracles of the Virgin” will be included, along with Sian Echard’s translation of selections from Y Gododdin. Matthieu Boyd’s translation of the first two branches of the Mabinogi is also new to this edition, together with several Early Irish lyrics. The “Love and Marriage” Contexts section has been expanded to include additional material by Christine de Pizan and excerpts from Holy Maidenhood, and the “Religious and Spiritual Life” Contexts section now includes excerpts from Wycliffite writings. The selection of material by Sir Thomas Malory has also been substantially revised and expanded. In addition, the online component of the anthology includes several new selections, including “The Gifts of Men,” “The Fortunes of Men,” “The Feast of Bricriu,” material by Robert Henryson, and a broader selection of medieval drama.
Publisher :Broadview Press Release Date :2016-12-13 ISBN :1770485805 Pages :1927 pages Rating :4.7/5 (74 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume A - Third Edition by Joseph Black:
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume A - Third Edition written by Joseph Black and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 1927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations, and an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials. Innovative, authoritative and comprehensive, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader in the field. The full anthology comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; the latter has been edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and is accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes. The two-volume Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Concise Edition provides an attractive alternative to the full six-volume anthology. Though much more compact, the concise edition nevertheless provides instructors with substantial choice, offering both a strong selection of canonical authors and a sampling of lesser-known works. With an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials, accessible and engaging introductions, and full explanatory annotations, the concise edition of this acclaimed Broadview anthology provides focused yet wide-ranging coverage for British literature survey courses. Among the works now included for the first time in the concise edition are Chaucer’s The Prioress’s Tale; the York Crucifixion play; more poems from Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella; an expanded section of writings by Elizabeth I, more poems by Lady Mary Wroth, and an expanded selection of work by Margaret Cavendish. The literatures of Ireland, Gaelic Scotland, and Wales are now much better represented, and a selection of work by Laboring Class Poets is now included. There are also new contextual materials—including a substantial section on “Transatlantic Currents.” In the case of several authors and texts (among them The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, Julian of Norwich, Sir Thomas Malory, and Phillis Wheatley), the new edition will incorporate substantial improvements that have been made in the new editions of the period volumes published in recent years. As before, the Concise edition includes a substantial website component, providing instructors with a great degree of flexibility. For the first time, a selection of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales will be available online in facing-column format (with versions in modern English included opposite the original text).
Publisher :Broadview Press Release Date :2012-12-05 ISBN :1770483837 Pages :700 pages Rating :4.7/5 (74 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama by Christina M. Fitzgerald:
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama written by Christina M. Fitzgerald and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The past generation has been an extraordinarily active one in medieval drama scholarship; our appreciation of the range of medieval drama has been significantly broadened, and our understanding of certain medieval genres—most notably, biblical drama—has been fundamentally altered. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has been widely praised for the degree to which it has taken this scholarship into account in its selection of and presentation of medieval plays. Now Broadview launches a new anthology that takes those plays as its base while expanding very substantially beyond them to represent the full range of drama in English (and, where strong connections exist, in French, Latin, Cornish, and Welsh as well) through to 1576. In all, over forty plays are included. Each work has been fully annotated and is prefaced by a substantial introduction. In many cases the language is to some extent modernized in order to make the plays more accessible to readers today.
Publisher : Release Date :2000 ISBN : Pages :328 pages Rating :4.3/5 ( users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Arch-traitor's Lament by Garry Satherley:
Download or read book The Arch-traitor's Lament written by Garry Satherley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The Arch-Traitor's Lamentis epic in scope and breathtaking in its execution. Steve Sankey is flying to London with his wife and daughter when his plane makes an unscheduled stopover in a strange and forbidding European country. He steps out of the Hotel Karl Marx to buy his child a drink and is arrested by the secret police. Terrifying dangers await him in his new life. In this tragic and exuberant novel Garry Satherley describes the metamorphosis of Sankey into Senki Istvan, a man destined to wait out his days in a crumbling tenement in the capital. Here, remembering his old life in Australia, he meets the arch-traitor, who tells his own heartbreaking tale of life in his 'regrettable' country. Peopled by the likes of Major Jozsef, Madam Toth and Doktor Ember, The Arch-Traitor's Lamentis a sweeping fable about love and loss, about truth and betrayal, about history and politics. It is the work of a masterly new storyteller.
Publisher :Sourcebooks, Inc. Release Date :2006-10-01 ISBN :9781402207532 Pages :416 pages Rating :4.2/5 (75 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The First American Army by Bruce Chadwick Chadwick:
Download or read book The First American Army written by Bruce Chadwick Chadwick and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This is the first book that offers a you-are-there look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the enlisted men. Through searing portraits of individual soldiers, Bruce Chadwick, author of George Washington's War, brings alive what it was like to serve then in the American army. With interlocking stories of ordinary Americans, he evokes what it meant to face brutal winters, starvation, terrible homesickness and to go into battle against the much-vaunted British regulars and their deadly Hessian mercenaries. The reader lives through the experiences of those terrible and heroic times when a fifteen-year-old fifer survived the Battle of Bunker Hill, when Private Josiah Atkins escaped unscathed from the bloody battles in New York and when a doctor and a minister shared the misery of the wounded and dying. These intertwining stories are drawn from their letters and never-before-quoted journals found in the libraries belonging to the camps where Washington quartered his troops during those desperate years.
Publisher :Morgan Rice Release Date :2017-04-17 ISBN :1640290605 Pages :500 pages Rating :4.6/5 (42 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Of Crowns and Glory Bundle: Soldier, Brother, Sorcerer and Hero, Traitor, Daughter (Books 5 and 6) by Morgan Rice:
Download or read book Of Crowns and Glory Bundle: Soldier, Brother, Sorcerer and Hero, Traitor, Daughter (Books 5 and 6) written by Morgan Rice and published by Morgan Rice. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: “Morgan Rice has come up with what promises to be another brilliant series, immersing us in a fantasy of valor, honor, courage, magic and faith in your destiny. Morgan has managed again to produce a strong set of characters that make us cheer for them on every page.…Recommended for the permanent library of all readers that love a well-written fantasy.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (regarding Rise of the Dragons) A bundle of books 5 and 6 in Morgan Rice’s new #1 Bestselling epic fantasy series OF CROWNS AND GLORY (SOLDIER, BROTHER, SORCERER and HERO, TRAITOR, DAUGHTER). Here are two bestselling novels, all in one convenient file. Over 120,000 words of reading, all for an incredible price—it also makes the perfect gift! In SOLDIER, BROTHER, SORCERER (Book #5), Ceres has won the battle for Delos—and yet a complete victory still awaits her. As the rebellion looks to her as their new leader, Ceres must find a way to topple the Empire’s royalty, and to defend Delos from the pending attack from a greater army than she has ever known. She must try to free Thanos before his execution, and help him clear his name in the murder of his father. Thanos himself is determined to hunt down Lucious across the sea, to avenge his father’s murder, and to kill his brother before he can return with an army to Delos’ shores. It will be a treacherous journey into hostile lands, one, he knows, that will result in his own death. But he is determined to sacrifice for his country. Yet all may not go as planned. Stephania travels to a distant land to find the sorcerer who can, once and for all, put a stop Ceres’ powers. She is determined to enact a treachery that will kill Ceres, and instill herself—and her unborn child—as ruler of the Empire. In HERO, TRAITOR, DAUGHTER (Book #6), Ceres wakes to find herself powerless. Poisoned by the sorcerer’s vial, held captive by Stephania, Ceres life reaches a low point as she is made cruel sport of—and is unable to do anything to stop it. Thanos, after killing his brother Lucious, embarks for Delos, to save Ceres and to save his homeland. But the Felldust fleet has already set sail, and with the might of the world bearing down on it, it may be too late to save everything he holds dear. An epic battle ensues, one that may determine the fate of Delos forever. Of CROWNS AND GLORY tells an epic tale of tragic love, vengeance, betrayal, ambition, and destiny. Filled with unforgettable characters and heart-pounding action, it transports us into a world we will never forget, and makes us fall in love with fantasy all over again. Book #7 in OF CROWNS AND GLORY will be released soon!
Publisher :Open Road + Grove/Atlantic Release Date :2012-03-11 ISBN :0802193900 Pages :368 pages Rating :4.8/5 (21 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan:
Download or read book My Traitor's Heart written by Rian Malan and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in “a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage” (Michael Kerr). Rian Malan’s classic work of reportage, My Traitor’s Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways that earned him comparisons to Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuściński and inspired the London Times to call him “South Africa’s Hunter S. Thompson.” An Afrikaner, Malan is the scion of a centuries-old clan deeply involved in the creation of apartheid. As a young crime reporter, he covered the atrocities of an undeclared race war and ultimately fled the country, unhinged by what he had seen. Eight years later, he returns to confront his own demons, and those that are tearing his country apart. With unflinching candor, Malan explores the grizzly violence and perverse rationalizations at the root of his nation’s identity. Written in the final years of apartheid’s bloody collapse, My Traitor’s Heart still resonates, offering a “passionate, blazingly honest testament” to the darkest recesses of the black and white South African psyches. “Those who read it will never again see South Africa the same way” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Publisher :W. W. Norton & Company Release Date :2016-04-04 ISBN :0393614697 Pages :2310 pages Rating :4.3/5 (936 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The English Bible, King James Version: The New Testament and The Apocrypha (International Student Edition) (Vol. 2) (Norton Critical Editions) by Austin Busch:
Download or read book The English Bible, King James Version: The New Testament and The Apocrypha (International Student Edition) (Vol. 2) (Norton Critical Editions) written by Austin Busch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 2310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: A stunning work of scholarship, the Norton Critical Edition of The English Bible, King James Version, is the most accessible edition available. In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, these long-awaited volumes bring together succinct introductions to each biblical book, detailed explanatory annotations, and a wealth of contextual and critical materials. Archaic words are explained, textual problems are lucidly discussed, and stylistic features of the original texts are highlighted. For the New Testament and the Apocrypha, the introductions and annotations by Austin Busch and Gerald Hammond provide necessary historical and cultural background, while illuminating the complexity of the original texts. Supporting materials are divided into five sections. “Historical Contexts” excerpts Greek, Roman, and Jewish sources, such as Josephus, Philo, Tacitus, Pliny, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Selections from Papias, Marcion, and Valentinus, among others, provide insight into the diversity of early Christianity. “Exegesis” explores classic New Testament commentary from Origen and Augustine to Strauss, Nietzsche, Wrede, and Schweitzer, who focus on the Gospels’ vexing relationship to history. Essays by contemporary scholars and critics complete the section by exemplifying a range of interdisciplinary approaches to New Testament literature. The New Testament’s powerful language and images have inspired some of the finest poems in the English language. This volume collects a wide selection of lyric poems, hymns and spirituals, and epics, from the Dream of the Rood to works by Countee Cullen, Elizabeth Bishop, and Anthony Hecht. Case studies designed to stimulate classroom discussion trace the development of Pontius Pilate as a character in post-biblical literature, follow the centuries-long exegetical debate about Romans 7, and survey competing hermeneutical approaches to Revelation. A final section samples fifteen translations of 1 Corinthians 13, from Wycliffe to contemporary versions.
Publisher : Release Date :1861 ISBN : Pages : pages Rating :4.A/5 ( users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Vanity Fair by :
Download or read book Vanity Fair written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Publisher : Release Date :1882 ISBN : Pages : pages Rating :4.:/5 (31 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Shakspere's Werke by William Shakespeare:
Download or read book Shakspere's Werke written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Publisher :Рипол Классик Release Date : ISBN :5885335370 Pages : pages Rating :4.8/5 (853 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The complete dramatic and poetical works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare:
Download or read book The complete dramatic and poetical works of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The complete dramatic and poetical works of William Shakespeare. With a summary outline of the life of the poet, and a description of his most authentic portraits.
Publisher :Longman Publishing Group Release Date :2002 ISBN :9780321106674 Pages :716 pages Rating :4.1/5 (66 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Longman Anthology of British Literature by David Damrosch:
Download or read book The Longman Anthology of British Literature written by David Damrosch and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The goal of this anthology is to present a wealth of poetry, prose, and drama from the full sweep of the literary history of the British Isles, and to do so in ways that will bring out both the works' original cultural contexts and their lasting aesthetic power.-
