Dramatic Works

Dramatic Works

Author: Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-06-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 3385487951

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.


Catywampus

Catywampus

Author: Dan Ryan

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-10-22

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1452077177

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Catywampus: is a continuation of the story begun in Admirals Son Generals Daughter and is a parallel to Jigsaw. This book describes in vivid detail what may have occurred in the United States Military between 1896 and 1906 during the McKinley and Roosevelt Presidential administrations. The narration is by the grandson of a career naval officer, born in Beaufort, South Carolina. He will serve as a cadet in Annapolis and as a member of the elite submarine commanders in the United States Navy. The historical events of 1896 through 1906 are carefully followed. The imagination of the author provides rich characters in powerful settings from the torpedo proving grounds in Newport, Rhode Island to the jungles of Central America when he joins his brother on a navy manhunt of killers. The love story between a man and a woman is woven throughout the book when the grandson graduates from the naval academy and marries his childhood sweetheart. He is unaware that his father and his Uncle Theodore Roosevelt have decided to tap his knowledge of modern submarines and his photographic memory to become one of this countries most successful counter intelligence officers. Scenes are set carefully with attention to accurate research of the low country of South Carolina as well as our Nation's Capital circa 1896 -1906. The second edition of Peoples Standard History of the United States written by Edward S. Ellis and published in 1906 by Western Book Syndicate and copyrighted by the Woolfall Company have provided background materials, maps of the period and needed information on how the federal government was organized and functioned during this period of history


A Family of Women

A Family of Women

Author: Jane H. Pease

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 1469620197

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The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state. Through vivid, interwoven life stories, the book offers a unique perspective on how these women conducted their lives, shared personal triumphs and defeats, endured the deprivations and despair of civil war, and experienced a social revolution. A Family of Women focuses on the female descendants of Louise Gibert Pettigrew (later changed to Petigru), who rose from upcountry obscurity to privileged prominence in Charleston and on low country plantations, where they variously flourished as belles, managed large households, shocked society with their unconventionality, educated their children, endured troubled marriages, and maintained close family ties. Using the letters, diaries, novels, and memoirs of the Petigru women and the material culture surrounding them, the authors weave a complex story of women well worth knowing.


Fast Forward from Schoonwater

Fast Forward from Schoonwater

Author: Willem Fritz

Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781770130623

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A funny, quirky and poignant coming-of-age story of a generation of ordinary South Africans who had to stumble their way through extraordinary times. It's a story of hope as past and present come together to allow for a new and more hopeful beginning ... The reader meets a series of bizarre characters: an epileptic truck driver who has visions of the Mother Mary with tears of blood running down her cheeks; the Baking Queen of the Northern Free State who tries to save six asparagus quiches, and kills herself and ten schoolchildren in the process; aunty Baby Bothma, who fled her home town only to find solace in the arms of a Polish count and his wife.