Legend Land (Vol 1-4) - Collection of Old Tales Told in Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway

Various Authors

Sinopsis

Legend Land is a four-volume anthology compiled by G. Basil Barham. It is a collection of some of the old tales told in those western parts of Britain served by the Great Western Railway.
Table of Contents:
Volume 1:
The Mermaid of Zennor
The Stone Men of St. Cleer
How St. Piran Came to Cornwall
The Lost Child of St. Allen
The Giants who Built the Mount
The Tasks of Tregeagle
The Lady of Llyn-y-Fan Fach
St. David and His Mother
The Vengeance of the Fairies
The Old Woman who Fooled the Devil
The Women Soldiers of Fishguard
How Bala Lake Began
The Furry Day Song (Supplement)
Volume 2:
The Church the Devil Stole
The Parson and the Clerk
The Weaver of Dean Combe
The Demon Who Helped Drake
The Samson of Tavistock
The Midnight Hunter of the Moor
The Lost Land of Lyonesse
The Piskie's Funeral
The Spectre Coach
St. Neot, the Pigmy Saint
The Old Man of Cury
The Hooting Carn
The Padstow May Day Songs (Supplement)
Volume 3:
A Prince who would hang a Mouse
St. Melangell and Her "Lambs"
Where King Arthur Sleeps
Bronwen and the Starling
The Swan of Glasfryn
The Wonders of St. Govan's Chapel
The Fairy Gardens of Treen
How the Dodman was Named
The Charmer of Pengersick
How St. German left Cornwall
The Spectre of Rosewarne
The Legend of the Four Halls
"John Dory," a "Three Man's" Song (Supplement)
Volume 4:
The Whispering Knights
The Shadow Curse of the Raggedstone
How Bath was Discovered
King Arthur's Camelot
The Witch of Wookey
Guy of Guy's Cliff
The Ghostly Bishop of Fingest
Wayland Smith and His Cave
Herne the Hunter
The Ghost of Bisham Abbey
The Evil Wedding of Stanton Drew
The Story of Wild Darrell
Sumer is icumen in (Supplement)

Disponible desde: 07/10/2022.

Longitud de impresión: 170 páginas.

Otros libros que te pueden interesar

50 Great Russian Short Stories -...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy,...

The collection includes the best works of famous Russian writers:
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN
THE BEGGAR BOY AT CHRIST'S CHRISTMAS TREE
 
Leo Tolstoy
THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH
A LETTER TO A HINDU
A CONFESSION
GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS
A RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS PARTY
 
Anton Chekhov
THE LADY WITH THE DOG
A SLANDER
THE HORSE-STEALERS
THE PETCHENYEG
A DEAD BODY
A HAPPY ENDING
THE LOOKING-GLASS
OLD AGE
DARKNESS
THE BEGGAR
IN TROUBLE
FROST
MINDS IN FERMENT
GONE ASTRAY
AN AVENGER
THE JEUNE PREMIER
A DEFENCELESS CREATURE
AN ENIGMATIC NATURE
A HAPPY MAN
A TROUBLESOME VISITOR
AN ACTOR'S END
A STORY WITHOUT A TITLE
VANKA
 
Ivan Turgenev
FIRST LOVE
THE DISTRICT DOCTOR
MUMU
 
Nikolay Gogol
THE MANTLE
MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN
THE NOSE
A MAY NIGHT
THE CLOAK
THE VIY
CHRISTMAS EVE
THE VIY
 
Alexsandr Pushkin
THE QUEEN OF SPADES
 
Maxim Gorky
ONE AUTUMN NIGHT
HER LOVER
 
Leonid Andreyev
LAZARUS
THE LITTLE ANGEL
 
Aleksandr Kuprin
THE OUTRAGE
 
Mikhail Bulgakov
THE EMBROIDERED TOWEL
 
Ivan Bunin
THE GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO
 
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS

Ver libro

A Dead Woman's Secret - From...

Guy de Maupassant

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5th, 1850 near Dieppe in France.
Maupassant’s early life was badly torn when at age 11 (his younger brother Hervé was then five) his mother, Laure, a headstrong and independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace in order to obtain a legal separation from her husband.
After the separation, Laure kept custody of her two boys. With the father now forcibly absent, Laure became the most influential and important figure in the young boy's life.
Maupassant’s education was such that he rebelled against religion and other societal norms but a developing friendship with Gustave Flaubert began to turn his mind towards creativity and writing.
After graduation he volunteered for the Franco-Prussian war. With its end he moved to Paris to work as a clerk in the Navy Department. Gustave Flaubert now took him under his wing. Acting as a literary guardian to him, he guided the eager Maupassant to debuts in journalism and literature. For Maupassant these were exciting times and the awakening of his creative talents and ambitions.
In 1880 he published what is considered his first great work, ‘Boule de Suif’, (translated as as ‘Dumpling’, ‘Butterball’, ‘Ball of Fat’, or ‘Ball of Lard’) which met with a success that was both instant and overwhelming. Flaubert at once acknowledged that it was ‘a masterpiece that will endure.’ Maupassant had used his talents and experiences in the war to create something unique.
This decade from 1880 to 1891 was to be the most pivotal of his career. With an audience now made available by the success of ‘Boule de Suif’ Maupassant organised himself to work methodically and relentlessly to produce between two and four volumes of work a year. The melding of his talents and business sense and the continual hunger of sources for his works made him wealthy.
In his later years he developed a desire for solitude, an obsession for self-preservation, and a fear of death as well as a paranoia of persecution caused by the syphilis he had contracted in his youth.
On January 2nd, 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Unsuccessful he was committed to the private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris. It was here on July 6th, 1893 that Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant died at the age of only 42.

Ver libro

The Fenway Effect - A Cultural...

David Krell

To be a part of Red Sox Nation is to be a hopeful romantic who neither betrays loyalty nor surrenders hope in the direst of circumstances. From Bangor to Back Bay, New Englanders endure in baseball matters. And life. The team's history has intersected with the history of Boston and well beyond it, through the Curse of the Bambino, the military service of Ted Williams during World War II, and the Boston Marathon bombing. The Fenway Effect chronicles these stories and others that have built the incredible saga of the Boston Red Sox. 
 
 
 
How did Cheers depict the passion of Boston's sports fans? Why is Narragansett beer so important to New England? What's the architectural impact of The Teammates—the statue of Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky, Ted Williams, and Dom DiMaggio outside Fenway Park? What did the Boston press really think about Red Sox owner Harry Frazee selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees? What was the origin of Fenway Park's predecessor—Huntington Avenue Grounds? 
 
 
 
Even Yankees fans will tip their caps to the rich impact of the Red Sox on music, movies, branding, broadcasting, and more. Plus, there's a chapter focusing on the oral history of Red Sox fans, some of whom share here anecdotes that are funny, insightful, and heartwarming.

Ver libro

Queer Little Nightmares

David Ly, Daniel Zomparelli

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the shadows as objects of fear, revulsion, and hostility, these characters have long conjured fascination and self-identification in the LGBTQ+ community, and over time, monsters have become queer icons. 
In Queer Little Nightmares, creatures of myth and folklore seek belonging and intimate connection, cryptids challenge their outcast status, and classic movie monsters explore the experience of coming into queerness. The characters in these stories and poems — the Minotaur camouflaged in a crowd of cosplayers, a pubescent werewolf, a Hindu revenant waiting to reunite with her lover, a tender-hearted kaiju, a lagoon creature aching for the swimmers above him, a ghost of Pride past — relish their new sparkle in the spotlight. Pushing against tropes that have historically been used to demonize, the queer creators of this collection instead ask: What does it mean to be (and to love) a monster? 
Contributors include Amber Dawn, David Demchuk, Hiromi Goto, jaye simpson, Eddy Boudel Tan, Matthew J. Trafford, and Kai Cheng Thom.

Ver libro

The Vivian Stanshall Interview...

Geoffrey Giuliano

Vivian Stanshall was an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for acting as Master of Ceremonies on Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells. Ki Longfellow is an American novelist, playwright, theatrical producer, theater director and entrepreneur with dual citizenship in Britain. She is best known in the United States for her novel The Secret Magdalene. This is the first of her works exploring the divine feminin. Silky Stanshall, the highly intelligent daughter of the great British musical and literary artist Vivian Stanshall, remembers life with her unarguably charmingly eccentric father and the turbulent yet touching times they had together. A must for all Bonzo Dog Band fans and followers of the great cultural legacy of the late great Vivian Stanshall.

Ver libro

Come Along with Me - An African...

Henrie Monteith Treadwell

Come Along with Me is a compelling memoir of resilience, activism, and breaking barriers in the causes of health equity and social justice. Henrie Monteith Treadwell recounts her personal and legal struggles to become the first African American student admitted to the University of South Carolina since Reconstruction, a pivotal moment in civil rights history. More than a personal narrative, the book is a call to action, inspiring young people of color―especially women―to push forward against systemic injustices.Through reflections on her experiences and accomplishments in health advocacy, policy reform, and social justice, Treadwell highlights the continued struggles for racial and gender equity in higher education, health care, and beyond. In Come Along with Me, Treadwell underscores the importance of acknowledging historical injustices while actively working toward a more inclusive and just society. For anyone committed to change―whether in education, health care, philanthropy, or public policy―these pages provide rich evidence that progress is possible when individuals challenge barriers, demand justice, and open doors for future generations. Treadwell's memoir is a testament to the power of perseverance and the necessity of collective action in shaping a better world.

Ver libro