Book Description
This report discusses the results of a programme of research in 1985 and 1986 into the history of the hillfort of Maiden Castle.
Author : N M Sharples
Publisher : English Heritage
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848021674
This report discusses the results of a programme of research in 1985 and 1986 into the history of the hillfort of Maiden Castle.
Author : John Cowper Powys
Publisher :
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780912568188
The novels of John Cowper Powys are like none other, containing the romantic extravagance and comic exuberance of the great nineteenth-century novels with the self-conscious depth and introspection of the great Modernists. Maiden Castle portrays in pointillist detail the complexities of sexual and romantic feeling that bedevil an eccentric cast of characters, and explores the psychological idiosyncrasies that fuel their hopes and dreams, fantasies and failures. At the center of the novel is the aptly named Dud No-man, a historical novelist widowed after a yearlong unconsummated marriage to a woman who continues to haunt him. Inspired by pity and his own deep loneliness, Dud takes Wizzie Ravelston, an itinerant circus performer, into his home and heart. Their awkward yet endearing efforts to create a life together unfold in counterpoint to the romantic and familial relationships that sizzle and simmer in the village of Dorchester. Yet even as the characters in Maiden Castle struggle with the perplexities of love, desire and faith -- readjusting their sights and affections -- it is the looming fortress of Maiden Castle that exerts the otherworldly force that irrevocably determines the course of their lives.
Author : David Macpherson
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2010-12
Category : Britons
ISBN : 9781906651084
This novel follows the fortunes of a young orphan boy called Conn who lives on Maiden Castle and an inexperienced Tribune in the Roman army called Julius. As Vespasian's soldiers sweep through the land of Durotriges, Julius and Conn's lives are intertwined with a compelling inevitability.
Author : Lloyd Alexander
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2006-05-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1429961961
The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander, Book Three in The Chronicles of Prydain Princess Eilonwy hates to leave her friend Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and her beloved home, Caer Dallben. Why does she have to go to the Isle of Mona to train as a proper lady when she's already a princess? But Eilonwy soon faces much more than the ordeal of becoming a dignified young maiden, for she possesses magical powers sought by the evil enchantress Queen Achren. When Eilonwy is put under a deep spell, Taran and his companions set out on a dangerous quest to rescue her. Yet how can a lowly Assistant Pig-Keeper hope to stand against the most evil enchantress in all of Prydain?
Author : Sam Wiseman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1942954018
Analyses key texts by D.H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf, charting their respective attempts to forge new identities, perspectives and literary approaches that reconcile tradition and modernity, belonging and exploration, the rural and the metropolitan.
Author : Martin J. P. Davies
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784910791
Martin Davies examines Thomas Hardy's involvement with the past and the role it plays in his life and literary work. Hardy's life encompasses the transformation of archaeology out of mere antiquarianism into a fully scientific discipline. He observed this process at first hand, and its impact on his aesthetic and philosophical scheme was profound.
Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812988647
Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Dwight Garner, The New York Times • Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air • Chicago Tribune • Newsday • New York • AV Club • Publishers Weekly “Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century.”—New York “A posthumous masterpiece.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The Boston Globe • New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Bloomberg The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves. Finished shortly before Johnson’s death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come. Praise for The Largesse of the Sea Maiden “An instant classic.”—Newsday “Exceptional luminosity . . . hits a powerful vein.”—The New York Times Book Review “Grace and oblivion are inextricably yoked in these transcendent stories. . . . [Johnson’s] gift is to extract the beauty in all that brokenness.”—The Wall Street Journal “Nobody ever wrote like Denis Johnson. Nobody ever came close. . . . We’re just left with this miraculous book, these perfect stories, the last words from one of the world’s greatest writers.”—NPR
Author : British Archaeological Association
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Archaeology
ISBN :
Author : John Bartholomew
Publisher :
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Timothy Darvill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 1996-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521551328
This book provides a bird's eye look at the monumental achievements of Britain's earliest inhabitants. Arranged thematically, it illustrates and describes a wide selection of archaeological sites and landscapes dating from between 500,000 years ago and the Roman conquest. Timothy Darvill brings to life many of the familiar sites and monuments that prehistoric communities built, and exposes to view many thousands of sites that simply cannot be seen at ground level. Throughout the book, he makes a unique application of social archaeology to the field of aerial photography.