Village Tales

Author : Alina Mungiu
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9639776785
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Two Villages written by Alina Mungiu and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dramatic story of land and power from twentieth-century Eastern Europe is set in two extraordinary villages: a rebel village, where peasants fought the advent of Communism and became its first martyrs, and a model village turned forcibly into a town, Dictator Ceauşescu’s birthplace. The two villages capture among themselves nearly a century of dramatic transformation and social engineering, ending up with their charged heritage in the present European Union. "One of Romania’s foremost social critics, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi offers a valuable look at several decades of policy that marginalized that country’s rural population, from the 1918 land reform to the post-1989 property restitution. Illustrating her arguments with a close comparison of two contrasting villages, she describes the actions of a long series of “predatory elites,” from feudal landowners through the Communist Party through post-communist leaders, all of whom maintained the rural population’s dependency. A forceful concluding chapter shows that its prospects for improvement are scarcely better within the EU. Romania’s villagers have an eminent and spirited advocate in the author.”

Author : Miss Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140233780
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from a Village School written by Miss Read and published by . This book was released on 1995-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers together 25 early short stories by Miss Read, about life as a village schoolteacher. These stories led to her writing her first novel, Village School, and reveal the seeds of her later novels.

Author : Maxine Johnson
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 163630527X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dickens' Christmas Village Tales written by Maxine Johnson and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas villages warm the heart and hearth of many homes. Have you ever wondered what the people in those villages are doing? Where they are going? Where did they come from? Have they lived in that village all their lives? Elizabeth has lived in Hillshire Downs all her life. She has suffered the loss of her family in a plague that swept away almost more lives than it left. Will she and her youngest brother and sister survive the coldest winter remembered? God is their refuge and strength and ever-present help in time of trouble. He never fails. Richard returns after his wife and youngest child die - not from the plague. His heart is heavy, and he is at the end of his means. He must recover from his loss of everything. His son, Billy, needs him to be strong. Richard realizes he needs help and prays God will send him a job and some way to survive. Billy has loved Rebekah since childhood. Will she love him back? Will family complications create a situation in which hi love will never be declared? What of the lost boys and their futures? As Hillshire Downs comes back from the devastating plague, will the townsfolk be able to take care of their own and those who have been widowed, orphaned, and left destitute? As the village people find their Christmas treasure, or see their Christmas wishes come true, they find a Christmas worth waiting for.

Author : Harvey M. Tattelbaum
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497632714
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Village Rabbi written by Harvey M. Tattelbaum and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm, witty memoir of Greenwich Village in the late 1950s and ’60s by a young rabbi who led a local synagogue in the midst of it all. In the late fifties and sixties, Greenwich Village was the quirkiest, most charming, jazzy, eccentric, and urban of environments, the center of all that was both quaint and “cool”: brownstones and beatniks, coffeehouses and college students, folksingers and freethinkers, poets and “prophets.” Into this fascinating mix of cultural archetypes came a young rabbi, Harvey M. Tattelbaum, who became known as the Village Rabbi of the Village Temple. The spirit of Sholom Aleichem infuses his Tales of the Village Rabbi, a touching and laugh‐out‐loud-funny memoir of his tenure at a small synagogue in the heart of Greenwich Village. Though his years in this magical place were productive and soul‐filling, rabbinical training had not exactly prepared him for the bikers, thieves, ex‐cons, eccentric old ladies, drug users, cleavage‐baring brides, and other Village denizens he encountered while serving the congregants of his spirited little temple. Rabbi Tattelbaum shares his insider's tales—both downtown and uptown—of wayward weddings (and funerals), contentious Temple boards, irreverent interfaith shenanigans, heartaches, and triumphs. But the Tales also reveal a deep personal struggle with some of the most profound philosophical problems of ancient and modern religion, and are filled with a warm, humane, and rational approach to spirituality and religious meaning.

Author : Alice Elizabeth Dracott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simla Village Tales; Or, Folk Tales from the Himalayas written by Alice Elizabeth Dracott and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald Bruce Andrews
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588383881
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mill Village Story written by Gerald Bruce Andrews and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mill Village Story is the record of one man’s upbringing in a place and time that is quickly vanishing. A quintessentially American small town, West Point, Georgia is a place defined by its local industry—a world-class textile mill run by the West Point Pepperell corporation—and adherence to traditional Southern values of congeniality, manners, and friendliness. Everyone author Gerald Andrews knew or even just rubbed shoulders with worked at the mill, and it was Andrews's experiences there that would take him from relative poverty to the corporate boardroom. A Mill Village Story is an account of Andrews's early years, his rapid rise to leadership in various textile firms, and the special character of the village that shaped him. How does a young man go from night watchman to corporate sales in a matter of years? A Mill Village Story offers some explanation. Creativity and kindness set him on the right path, those characteristics nurtured in him by family members and the mill community. Gerald Andrews also quickly gained a reputation as a problem-solver—even at the lowest position at the mill—and for recognizing the importance of every employee, no matter their rank. This compassion for his employees contributed to his success. In A Mill Village Story, a lifetime of wisdom comes to file, with Andrews peppering his tale with the homegrown philosophies he developed from the unique social relationships he enjoyed growing up. Add to the mix personal encounters with Southern characters like country psychic Mayhayley Lancaster and A Mill Village Story becomes a memorable time capsule that serves as a portrait of a uniquely American place.

Author : Henry Williamson
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in a Devon Village written by Henry Williamson and published by Constable. This book was released on 1983 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Prafulla Mohanti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Village Tales written by Prafulla Mohanti and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478611642
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales written by Bessie Head and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bessie Head’s short stories have an extraordinary simplicity and breadth of vision,” heralded a review in The Tribune after publication of Head’s first collection of short stories, The Collector of Treasures. Regarded today as one of Africa’s best-known woman writers in English, Head draws on the rich oral tradition of southern Africa and masterfully applies storytelling’s language and imagery. Carefully sequenced, the anthology gives special focus to village people from independence-era Botswana and the status, position, and plight of African women.

Author : Mary Chamberlin
Publisher : Barefoot Books
ISBN 13 : 1782855084
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mama Panya's Pancakes written by Mary Chamberlin and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On market day, Mama Panya's son Adika invites everyone he sees to a pancake dinner. How will Mama Panya ever feed them all? This clever and heartwarming story about Kenyan village life teaches the importance of sharing, even when you have little to give.