The Dark Lantern

Author : Henry Williamson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571310060
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Lantern written by Henry Williamson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Lantern (1951) was the first of Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlightspanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. In it we meet Richard Maddison, a countryman working in London as a City clerk, struggling to make do on a few shillings a week. He falls for Hetty Turner, youngest daughter of a prosperous merchant, but her father rates Richard an unsuitable suitor. 'There is magic in Henry Williamson's novel . . . which raises it right out of the family saga class. The magic is of the steam train age of South London which is so lovingly described.' John Betjeman , Daily Telegraph 'Williamson's style is romantic, though rarely sentimental, and his sensuous response to nature is fresh and surprising.' Anthony Burgess, Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939

Author : Gerri Brightwell
Publisher : Crown Pub
ISBN 13 : 0307395340
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Lantern written by Gerri Brightwell and published by Crown Pub. This book was released on 2008 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clash between the genteel "upstairs" and servant "downstairs" and the dark secrets of two women turn the nineteenth-century London household of the Bentley family upside down, in an atmospheric tale of mistaken identity, dangerous deception, and mystery, set against the backdrop of Victorian England. 40,000 first printing.

Author : Henry WILLIAMSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Lantern written by Henry WILLIAMSON and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerri Brightwell
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307395359
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Lantern written by Gerri Brightwell and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1893. Elderly Mrs. Bentley is on her deathbed, and her son Robert has returned from France. But in the Bentleys’ well-appointed home, everyone has their secrets, including Robert’s beautiful and elusive wife, the orphan maid she hires from the country, and the mysterious young woman who arrives, claiming to be the bride of Robert’s drowned brother. Robert is quickly developing a reputation in anthropometry, the nascent science of identifying criminals by body measurements. Yet soon he is caught up in the deceptions swirling around him, for no one under his roof is quite what they seem. When an intruder enters the house and ransacks the study, a chain of events is set in motion that threatens not only the genteel, comfortable life the Bentleys have managed to secure but also their very survival. A fascinating portrayal of a vanished England as well as an unconventional mystery, The Dark Lantern exposes the grand “upstairs” of a Victorian home and the darker underbelly of its servants’ quarters. The clash between the classes makes for a suspenseful novel of mistaken identities, intriguing women, and dangerous deceptions.

Author : Henry Williamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Lantern. (Revised Edition.). written by Henry Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Robins
Publisher : New York : Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.B4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dark Lantern written by Elizabeth Robins and published by New York : Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1905 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deborah Lawrenson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062049712
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lantern written by Deborah Lawrenson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A whirlwind love affair, a wife who dies under mysterious circumstances, and a string of murder—and ghosts!—all set in a crumbling countryside estate in Provence. This haunting tale is everything you could want in a Gothic mystery that doesn’t also include a heroine named Jane Eyre.” — Redbook Set in the lush countryside of Provence, Deborah Lawrenson’s The Lantern is an atmospheric modern gothic tale of love, suspicion, and murder, in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. Drawn to a confident and artistic wealthy older man she barely knows, bookish Eve recklessly embarks on a whirlwind affair that soon offers a new life and a new home—Les Genévriers, a charming yet decaying hamlet nestled amid the fragrant lavender fields of Provence. But with autumn’s arrival the days begin to cool—and so, too, does Dom. Though Eve knows he bears the emotional scars of a failed marriage—which he refuses to talk about—his silence arouses suspicion and uncertainty. And, like its owner, Les Genévriers is also changing. Bright, warm rooms have turned cold and uninviting; shadows now fall unexpectedly; and Eve senses a presence moving through the garden. Is it a ghost from the past—or a manifestation of her current troubles with Dom? Can she trust Dom—or could her life truly be in danger? An evocative tale of romantic and psychological suspense, The Lantern masterfully melds past and present, secrets and lies, appearances and disappearances—along with our age-old fear of the dark.

Author : Kerstin Hau
Publisher : NorthSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 0735843856
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark and the Light written by Kerstin Hau and published by NorthSouth Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the land of darkness lives a shaggy but lovable creature. He is pining away because he has lost his home and has lived in the dark ever since. One day, the shaggy creature is overcome with curiosity and ventures out to the edge of the darkness. There, bathed in sunlight and bright colors, lives a very different and gentle creature. The two inhabitants of these different world become friends, and with his new friend, the shaggy creature overcomes his loss and finds his way back to the world of color. A quietly poetic story, told by Kerstin Hau, which gives hope and courage in difficult times. With contrasting imagery by Julie Völk, this book shows that life can be light, colorful, black, grey, and everything in between.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dark Lantern written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank L. Klement
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807115671
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Lanterns written by Frank L. Klement and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the agonizing days of the Civil War four secret political societies, often known as dark lantern societies, became household words throughout the North. Three of these groups--the Knights of the Golden Circle, the Order of American Knights, and the Sons of Liberty--supposedly were umbrellas for antiwar Democrats and were reportedly involved in treasonable activities. The Union League, on the other hand, was a patriotic political organization intent upon buttressing northern morale and giving support to the war program of the Lincoln administration. The accusations and counter accusations that passed between these opposing forces helped spread fantastic rumors about their power and influence. Treason trials held in Cincinnati and Indianapolis based convictions on hearsay, while the leaders of the Order of American Knights and the Knights of the Golden Circle spent much of the war in prison without benefit of trial. Today reputable reference sources still matter-of-factly credit these societies with large memberships and evil motives.In Dark Lanterns Frank L Klemment refutes past historical theories and shows quite clearly that these societies were never much more then paper-based organizations with vague goals and little ability to carry them out. Recounting the actual histories of these organizations, he shows how they were senationalized, even fictionalized, in both Republican and Democratic newspaper and magazine exposés. He also probes the trials arising from the supposed conspiracy to establish a separate confederacy in the Midwest and the so-called Camp Douglas conspiracy, which was intended to release the Confederate prisoners housed there. Despite the furor they generated, Klement concludes that these dark lantern societies were essentially engaged in nothing more than a war of words and that their alleged power was greatly exaggerated by political propaganda.Meticulously researched and lucidly argued, Dark Lanterns explores a controversial and puzzling aspect of the Civil war. It will be hard to dispute Klements' finding that generations of historians have swallowed whole a tale that was largely the product of myth and legend.