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Sons of the Rumour
Author | : David Foster |
Publsiher | : Picador Australia |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781741987690 |
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Sons of the Rumour is nothing short of a dazzling and genre-defying work of genius. Foster retells the tale of the legendary eighth-century King Shahrban of Persia who, furious at his wife's infidelity, has decided to marry and then behead a fresh virgin every day. But then the king meets Scheherazade, a beauty of such wiles and storytelling gifts she manages to entertain the him for 1001 nights, staving off death for both herself and her countrywomen. In the process, she also bears him three sons, wisely educates him in morality and kindness, and eventually convinces him to take her as his lawful wife. Intersecting with the historical tale is the story of Al Morrisey - a middle-aged, Anglo-Irish, former jazz-drumming everyman, on the run from a failed marriage, and cursed with Freudian daydreams of his mother and peculiar nightmares of all things Persian - as he vainly attempts to reconcile the past with the present and reclaim some of his youthful vigour. Ingeniously manipulating the frame tale of the Arabian Nights, and utilising all his narrative gifts of adventurous satire, David Foster has produced a work of fiction like no other. Sprawling, ambitious, explicit but frequently hilarious, Sons of the Rumour is a modern masterpiece, an utterly original novel by one of Australia's greatest living writers, a man who the Sydney Morning Herald critic Andrew Riemer has called Patrick White's worthy successor.
Enter Rumour
Author | : Robert Bernard |
Publsiher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2012-01-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780571287857 |
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The common perception of Britain's Victorian era as one of strict and strait-laced conformity has long been subject to rebuttal, and Robert Bernard Martin's Enter Rumour (1962) was an early and distinguished endeavour in this line. Herein Martin weighs the evidence of four scandalous incidents that aroused great public interest during the first dozen years of Victoria's reign, each of them emanating from 'what the Victorians might have called the higher orders of society.' Martin recounts the sorry tale of Lady Flora Hastings, victim of Court gossip; Lord Eglinton, who tried and failed to revive the medieval tournament; the strange case of the St Cross Hospital Charity; and George Hudson, 'Railway King', whose rise and fall remains a story for our times. Martin examines sources expertly and further explores how three of these scandals were transformed into fiction - by none less than Dickens, Disraeli and Trollope.
A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour
Author | : Grace A. Musila |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781847011275 |
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Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated.
Pivot Patterns in the Former Prophets
Author | : Nathan Klaus |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1999-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567403575 |
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The 'pivot pattern' is a unique type of chiasmus, a linguistic pattern characterized by an inversion of the internal order of a phrase or passage. The main idea is found primarily at its pivot, while its elements, normally of an uneven number, are distributed on both sides of the pivot in a mirrored symmetry. Klaus undertakes here to compile a 'grammar' of the pattern, and to characterize, exemplify and differentiate its various forms.
His Revenge Was Sweeter Than Honey
Author | : Dahn Batchelor |
Publsiher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2013-08-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781483652818 |
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This book of short stories has 20 stories in it and each story is vastly different than the others. Some of the stories refer to actual events that have occurred in history with fi ctional characters in the stories. Other stories raise moral issues and others still are adventure and mystery stories. Many of them have incredibly interesting endings that will tantalize the reader.
Mothers and sons
Author | : William Platt |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1138 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600056573 |
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Mothers and Sons a Story of Real Life
Author | : William PLATT (Novelist.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NLS:V000657208 |
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Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris 1792 1794
Author | : Lindsay Porter |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2017-12-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783319569673 |
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This book examines the impact of rumour during the French Revolution, offering a new approach to understanding the experiences of those who lived through it. Focusing on Paris during the most radical years of the Jacobin republic, it argues that popular rumour helped to shape perceptions of the Revolution and provided communities with a framework with which to interpret an unstable world. Lindsay Porter explores the role of rumour as a phenomenon in itself, investigating the way in which the informal authority of the ‘word on the street’ was subject to a range of historical and contemporary prejudices. Drawing its conclusions from police reports and other archival sources, this study examines the potential of rumour both to unite and to divide communities, as rumour and hearsay began to play an important role in defining and judging personal commitment to the Revolution and what it meant to be a citizen.