Under the Molehill
Author : John Bossy
Publisher :
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Catholics
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Author : John Bossy
Publisher :
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Catholics
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Author : John Bossy
Publisher :
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300084009
"Drawing on the group's surviving letters, poems and Dorothy's diaries, Worthen throws new light on many old problems. He examines the pre-history of the events of 1802, the dynamics of the group between March and July, the summer of 1802, when Wordsworth and Dorothy visited Calais to see his ex-mistress and his daughter Caroline and the wedding between Wordsworth and Mary in October of that year. In an epilogue he looks forward to the ways in which relationships changed during 1803 and in the years to come."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John Bossy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300094510
This book tells a true detective story set mainly in Elizabethan London during the years of cold war just before the Armada of 1588. The mystery is the identity of a spy working in a foreign embassy to frustrate Catholic conspiracy and propaganda aimed at the overthrow of Queen Elizabeth and her government. The suspects in the case are the inmates of the house, an old building in the warren of streets and gardens between Fleet Street and the Thames. These include the ambassador, a civilized Frenchman, his wife, his daughter, his secretary, his clerk and his priest, the tutor, the chef, the butler, and the concierge. They also include a runaway friar, the Neapolitan philosopher, poet, and comedian Giordano Bruno, who wrote masterpieces of Italian literature, who was later burned in Rome for his anti-papal opinions, and who has been revered in Italy for his honorable and heroic resistance to papal authority. Others in the cast are Queen Elizabeth, her formidable secretary of state Sir Francis Walsingham, and King Henry III of France; poets, courtiers, and scholars; statesmen, conspirators, go-betweens, and stool-pigeons. When not in London, the action takes place in Paris and Oxford; a good deal of it happens on the river Thames. The hero or villain, who calls himself Fagot, does his work most effectively, is not found out, and disappears. In the first part of the book these events are narrated. In the second the spy is identified and his story put together. John Bossy's brilliant research, backed by his forensic and literary skills, solves a centuries-old mystery. His book makes a major contribution to the political and intellectual history of the wars of religion in Europe and to the domestic history of Elizabethan England. Not least, it is compelling reading.
Author : Jeff Nicholls
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Moles (Animals)
ISBN : 1905237766
A tradition that is disappearing, molecatching has always been seen as a mystery. This book lays bare the closely guarded techniques that molecatchers have used for centuries.
Author : Cathy McSporran
Publisher : Cargo Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1910449350
Maggie thinks she is an ordinary teenager. But, when she loses her father in the evacuation of France in the summer of 1940, she discovers within herself a devastating power that could change the future of the war. To defend the country in its hour of need, she must join a special group of wizards tasked with stopping the Gothi, a coven of German teenage necromancers led by the goddess Freya, hell-bent on crushing British resistance. As the Battle of Britain rages, Maggie meets and falls in love with Polish Spitfire pilot Michal. Will she be able to keep Michal safe? Will she, her brother and their friends manage to fight the overwhelming occult forces of the Nazi witches channelling the power of the ancient Aryan goddess Freya?
Author : Marc Hamer
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781771649940
"A wonderful memoir ... hands down the most charming book I read last year."--Margaret Renkl, The New York Times A country gardener explores his kinship with the natural world in this heartwarming, human book where "each page is filled with love, regret, humility and a sense of wonder (and oneness) with nature" (Washington Post). Marc Hamer is a humble gardener with the heart of a poet and the mind of a philosopher. In this peaceful memoir, he shares how, from boyhood into old age, he has lived with, and not against, nature. How his proximity to soil, sun, and shade has unleashed the greatest joys and profoundest sorrows of his life. And how our humanity is inextricably linked to the natural world, so we should have the good sense to leave it alone. In simple, striking sentences, Marc offers a kind of poetic field guide to living in nature. He shares memories of childhood homelessness, his own poetry, wisdom about plants, and vivid descriptions of the garden he works in daily. He tells of flowers that are planted, bloom, and then die, of trees that burst into color, and of moles who burrow below pristine lawns. As a hired gardener, he has hunted moles for decades, but now he decides to let them be. Like him, moles do their work in the soil. Allowing them to continue is allowing all life to flourish. Beautifully written, life-affirming, and meditative, How to Catch a Mole is a portrait of one man's unshakable bond with his natural surroundings, offering hope and inspiration for readers looking to reconnect to nature, to each other, and to life itself.
Author : Lindley Murray
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 1827
Category : Readers
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Author : Thomas Ewing
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 1852
Category :
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Author : John Harley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1409409333
In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training, and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them.
Author : Lindley MURRAY
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 1803
Category : Readers
ISBN :