The Woman Who Made A Pact With The Devil

Author : Ray Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549876516
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman Who Made a Pact with the Devil written by Ray Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She hadn't expected to like him. And yet Abby Rainveil -- a writer assigned to interview the strange man everyone calls Kumulous -- finds herself deeply drawn to his relaxed disposition, his erudition, the way he listens to her every word, his strength. Thus, increasingly mesmerized by the charged mystery of a man described by her boss as "Mephistophelean," she accepts his invitation to come with him back to his home. Shortly after that, the enigmas begin. This book contains four scenes of strong sexual content.

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lolly Willowes written by Sylvia Townsend Warner and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful and witty novel, Laura Willowes rebels against pressure to be the perfect 'maiden aunt'. Not interested in men or the rushed life of London, Laura is forced to move there from her beloved countryside after the death of her father. Her relatives like dead things; they treasure stuffed animals and parade possible husbands ('suitable and likely undertakers', as Laura calls them) in front of Miss Willowes. Finally, Laura strikes out for the countryside on her own, selling her soul to an affable but rather simple-minded devil, and becomes a witch. First written in the 1920s, this book is timely and entertaining. It was the first selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926.

Author : Stephen Williams
Publisher : Seal Books
ISBN 13 : 0385673477
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karla written by Stephen Williams and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People want me in max so my life will be hard but it really isn't. There are absolutely no responsibilities here. Everything is provided. We can spend the day sleeping, sun-tanning or doing whatever we want all day every day." --Karla Homolka in a letter to author Stephen Williams "Well, they say 'Never say never' and they're right," Karla wrote in her startling first letter to Stephen Williams. "Never in a million years did I think I would ever write a letter to someone from the media, let alone you who has condemned me so harshly." Thus began one of the most controversial correspondences in Canadian history. Karla picks up where Williams's first book on the case, Invisible Darkness, left her, painting her nails in her cell in solitary confinement in the gothic tower of Kingston's Prison for Women. After testifying against her ex-husband in 1995, Karla's life in prison was soon going to take a very different, dramatic turn. With a thriller's pace, Karla: A Pact with the Devil charts the inner life of the world's most notorious female prisoner. In Karla, Williams lets Karla and the other key players speak for themselves. And what they have to say will surprise, horrify and enlighten.

Author : Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822203032
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil and Daniel Webster written by Stephen Vincent Benet and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1943-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.

Author : Tony Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135086532
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pact with the Devil written by Tony Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the overwhelming opposition on the left to the war in Iraq, many prominent liberals supported the war on humanitarian grounds. They argued that the war would rid the world of a brutal dictator and liberate the Iraqi people from totalitarian oppression, paving the way for a democratic transformation of the country. In A Pact with the Devil Tony Smith deftly traces this undeniable drift in mainstream liberal thinking toward a more militant posture in world affairs with respect to human rights and democracy promotion. Beginning with the Wilsonian quest to ‘make the world safe for democracy’ right up to the present day liberal support for regime change, Smith isolates leading strands of liberal internationalist thinking in order to see how the ‘liberal hawks’ constructed them into a case for American and liberal imperialism in the Middle East. The result is a reflection on an important aspect of the intellectual history of American foreign policy; establishing how a sophisticated group of thinkers came to fashion their recommendations to Washington and working to see what role liberalism may still play in deliberations in the country on its role in world events now that the failure of these ambitions in Iraq seems clear.

Author : Joan Young Gregg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438404790
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devils, Women, and Jews written by Joan Young Gregg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary misogyny and antisemitism have their roots in the demonization of women and Jews in medieval Christendom. In church art and mass preaching, the construct of the devil as an outcast from heaven and the source of all evil was linked both to the conception of women as sensual and malicious figures betraying man's soul on its arduous journey to salvation and to the notion of Jews as treacherous dissidents in the Christian landscape. These stereotypes, widely disseminated for over three hundred years, persist today. The exemplum, or cautionary story incorporated into preachers' manuals and popular homilies, was an important mode of religious teaching for clerical and lay folk alike. Sermon narratives drawn from Hindu mythology, Arab storytelling, and secular folktales entertained all classes of medieval society while dispensing theological and cultural instruction. In Devils, Women, and Jews, the vital genre of the medieval sermon story is, for the first time, made accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike. Rendered in modern English, the tales provide an invaluable primary resource for medievalists, anthropologists, psychologists, folklorists, and students of women's studies and Judaica. Critical introductions and explanatory headnotes contextualize the tales, and comprehensive endnotes and a bibliography allow readers to follow up analogue and subject studies in their own areas of interest.

Author : Ruth A. Tucker
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310206383
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parade of Faith written by Ruth A. Tucker and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this lively narrative of church history, readers will discover that the story of Christianity is an exhilarating adventure. Tucker's engaging writing style, informative historical overview, and selection of colorful characters are sure to attract and fascinate students and lay learners alike.

Author : Elaine Pagels
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679731180
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Satan written by Elaine Pagels and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award-winning and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. "Arresting...brilliant...this book illuminates the angels with which we must wrestle to come to the truth of our bedeviling spritual problems." —The Boston Globe With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.

Author : Roop Naipaul
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595344895
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diana Lucifera written by Roop Naipaul and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Lucifera is based on biblical facts and fiction. It draws on Christian and pagan beliefs to relate the story of one woman's struggle to have a child; how she dabbled with the devil and evil forces and through persistence overcame all adversities. The story combines elements of suspense and emotion and is designed to entertain as well as enlighten and provoke thought. The story centers on Diana-Artemis, the biblical goddess of fertility. John, a biblical archaeologist took along his barren wife Karen on a dig in search of the lost statue of Artemis. Karen sold her soul to the devil and made a pact in order to have a child unbeknownst to John. Karen became pregnant and possessed and began having unnatural sex with a demonic entity. Now the couple was really scared. The fetus just wouldn't abort and an exorcism was a failure. Finally Karen gave birth to Desmond. John and Karen separated and then divorced. The super wealthy Rhams adopted Desmond in a sealed adoption. At puberty, killing powers erupted in Desmond. After murdering his adoptive parents and biological father, Desmond went to kill his mother. She, now exorcised, kills him instead, thus good overcoming evil.

Author : Tom Brass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135761892
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Peasants written by Tom Brass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America. Among the issues covered are the impact of globalization and neo-liberal economic policies.