The Clockmaker
Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Harvest Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156181709
Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Harvest Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156181709
Author : Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 1838
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Kate Morton
Publisher : Washington Square Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145164941X
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the New York Times bestseller Homecoming—“An ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of characters…Kate Morton at her very best.” —Kristin Hannah “An elaborate tapestry…Morton doesn’t disappoint.” —The Washington Post "Classic English country-house Goth at its finest." —New York Post In the depths of a 19th-century winter, a little girl is abandoned on the streets of Victorian London. She grows up to become in turn a thief, an artist’s muse, and a lover. In the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she travels with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a bend of the Upper Thames. Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. It is not until over a century later, when another young woman is drawn to Birchwood Manor, that its secrets are finally revealed. Told by multiple voices across time, this is an intricately layered, richly atmospheric novel about art and passion, forgiveness and loss, that shows us that sometimes the way forward is through the past.
Author : Ceri Williams
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1789011086
The Clockmaker waits for you... A gripping supernatural novel set in post-blitz Scotland, the first of a planned trilogy.
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Publisher : Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781845079147
When Johnny, who loves to make things out of wood, decides he wants to build a grandfather clock, but the only person who believes he can complete it is his friend Susannah.
Author : Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752355999
Reproduction of the original: The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Author : Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770484787
The serial publication of The Clockmaker in 1835-36 launched Canadian judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton to literary fame. A broad satire with a garrulous, deceitful American clock-seller, Sam Slick, as its central character, the book was embraced by reviewers and readers internationally. Some Canadian reviewers were often less enthusiastic, however, with one calling Slick’s comical American slang “low, mean, miserable, and witless.” Almost two centuries later The Clockmaker is still central to Canadian literary history—and still highly controversial, particularly for its treatment of women and black Canadians. Richard A. Davies provides a nuanced and illuminating discussion of the controversies about The Clockmaker from 1835 to the present, and of the complex historical and political factors that led to its mixed reception. Historical documents include other writings and speeches by Haliburton, earlier satires of Canadian and American culture, and contemporary reviews.
Author : Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Canada
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Author : Daisy Wood
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008402310
The world is at war. And time is running out...
Author : John North
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1852855711
Clocks became common in late medieval Europe and the measurement of time began to rule everyday life. God's Clockmaker is a biography of England's greatest medieval scientist, a man who solved major practical and theoretical problems to build an extraordinary and pioneering astronomical and astrological clock. Richard of Wallingford (1292-1336), the son of a blacksmith, was a brilliant mathematician with a genius for the practical solution of technical problems. Trained at Oxford, he became a monk and then abbot of the great abbey of St Albans, where he built his clock. Although as abbot he held great power, he was also a tragic figure, becoming a leper. His achievement, nevertheless, is a striking example of the sophistication of medieval science, based on knowledge handed down from the Greeks via the Arabs.