When the beautiful pearl-fisher, Effie Williamson, arrives in a rural Scottish village, with her grandparents and siblings, the residents react in many different ways, from hospitable warmth to outright rejection, exacerbated when the religious, gentle Gavin Hamilton takes the family into his home, the Old Manse. A difficult love blossoms ...
15,000 biographies of distinguished people in every age and every walk of life. The coverage is international, and covers all aspects of human endeavour, including literary, political, artistic, musical, legal, medical, scientific, religious, historical, military and criminal. The dictionary is revised and updated regularly, the previous edition ...
This work provides answers to all aspects of the world's major faiths and ideologies, both historical and current. It contains 2900 concise, informative entries which are cross-referenced.
A natural companion to the Larousse Dictionary of Writers, this reference is a guide to the literary characters created by the greatest writers of literature in English, including authors from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Scotland, Ireland, as well as the United States and England. Sixty-five hundred entries detail all the favorite ...
Belief in anything, whether it be an earth goddess or a monthly horoscope, is guaranteed to be alien or almost incomprehensible to those who do not hold the same ideas. Yet, while it is easy to dismiss another's beliefs as irrational or misguided, it is rare to hold absolutely no personal opinion about what lies behind our existence.
Over 6000 biographical profiles of literary achievers with details of their lives and works. Features all fields and genres; poets and playwrights, modernists and romantics; essayists and scriptwriters, existentialists and surrealists, short-story writers and novelists including Booker and Pulitzer prizewinners.
A collection of 2200 biographies from traditional strongholds of Scottish excellence - law, medicine, the Church and education - as well as newer fields of interest and expertise, such as entertainment, music, crafts, engineering, crime, cuisine and conservation.
Over 6000 biographical profiles of literary achievers with details of their lives and works. Features all fields and genres; poets and playwrights, modernists and romantics; essayists and scriptwriters, existentialists and surrealists, short-story writers and novelists including Booker and Pulitzer prizewinners.
Here is Rosemary Goring's personal account of returning the the land of her childhood. Puerto San Julian, and her memories of the nearby ranch where she spent her early years. Return to Patagonia includes both childhood memories of the farm community and the recollections of her family who owned and managed it for over eighty years. It also breaks ...
Brisk, straightforward writing and superb judgment of selection make this work highly readable and entertaining. It will serve as a trustworthy source of meticulously researched facts, accessible to all general readers.
Spanning all periods of history, this book has more than 3000 A-Z entries covering major faiths and ideologies from Hinduism, Islam and Christianity to scientology, pantheism and witchcraft. Intended as a quick reference for the general reader and as a useful tool for academics and scholars. The book comprises terminology, biographies, descrptions ...
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