Mayme Holloway knows how to keep secrets. Wounded outlaws often call on her medical skills and trust her silence. When Charley Floyd and his wife pay their old friends, Mayme and O.C. a visit, everything changes. Charley, aka Pretty Boy Floyd, is wanted for killing a lawman. His wounds require more help than Mayme can provide which forces her to break her silence and seek help from Dr. Joe Stern. While O.C., safely cuts hair at his barbershop, whistling hymns and telling jokes, Mayme and Dr. Stern venture out into the Cookson Hills to treat Pretty Boy Floyd. Over time, Joe and Mayme forge a strong bond as they care for other wounded men. They share dangerous secrets, dangerous lives, dangerous patients and a dangerous love.
This is the second in a trilogy of works by the famed Bengali novelist Bankimcandra Chatterji (1838-1894), and the second to be translated by Julius Lipner. The first, Anandamath, or The Sacred Brotherhood was published by OUP in 2005. Bankim Chatterji was perhaps the foremost novelist and intellectual mediating western ideas to India in the latter half of the 19th century. Debi Chaudhurani is a didactic work that champions a particular interpretation of Hindu dharma and wifely duties reflective of the late 19th-century Calcutta context in which it was written. But the story is also compelling. Written in a conversational style, it features surprising plot twists and ideas that are, even today, revolutionary in their daring. Most notably, Bankim makes a woman the embodiment of Lord Krishna's salvific message, as originally enunciated in the Bhagavad Gita. The protagonist, Debi, is a complex figure who is a rejected wife, becomes a bandit queen, represents a goddess figure, and symbolizes the land of India. There is a creative tension between her strength as a leader and her correct role, from the perspective of the author, as a domestic wife. Bankim also focuses on caste and what it means to be a genuine Brahmin, who is transformed by the author into a man who executes responsibilities instead of demanding privileges. Within the context of the teachings of the Gita, the author shares his vision of social activism to improve India. Lipner's idiomatic translation is enhanced by his detailed commentary on the original Bengali text and by a readable introduction that sets the novel and its ideas in context.
This is comical retelling of an Indian legend from the Punjab, about alazy barber and his quick-witted wife. When the barber drives away allhis customers with his slapdash techniques, his wife sends him to theking to seek financial help - or else they'll starve. The king providesthem with a plot of barren land, but thanks to the clever wife'sfertile imagination the couple's fortunes take a turn for the better.But will her ingenuity be any match for the trickery of a persistentband of thieves, determined to cash in on the couple's new-foundsuccess?
"The real virtue of this most recent contribution by Dr. Srinivas is the consistently human, humane, and humanistic tone oft he observations and of the narration; the simple, straightforward style in which it is written; and the richness of anecdotal materials. . . . He writes modestly as a wise and knowledgeable man. He restores faith in the best tradition of ethnography. Without being popular, in the pejorative sense, it is a book any uninitiated reader can read with pleasure and enlightenment."--Cora Du Bois, Asian Student "Few accounts of village life give one the sense of coming to know, of vicariously sharing in, the lives of real villagers that this book conveys. . . . The work is holistic in the best anthropological manner; the principal aspects of Rampura life are lucidly sketched and the interrelations among them are cogently considered. . . . our collective knowledge and its practical relevance become enhanced."--David G. Mandelbaum, Economic and Political Weekly "[Srinivas] has described and analyzed life in Rampura in the late 1940s with charm and insight. His book is enjoyable as well as illuminating. . . . In addition to the rich detail of village life and of a number of individual villagers, Srinivas gives us valuable insights into the nature of ethnographic research. He relates how he came to study this particular village. He tells us how he got established in the village, and describes vividly his living quarters. . . . He describes, at various places throughout the book, his reactions to the villagers and his perceptions of their reactions to him. He freely admits his own negative reactions to certain things and certain behavior. He discusses the factors that could and did bias his research. . . . illuminate[s] both the problems and the rewards of the ethnographer. . . . must reading."--Robert H. Lauer, Sociology: Reviews of New Books
Issues for Sept. 1920-Dec. 1927 in 2 pts.: Amtlicher Teil; Nichtamtlicher Teil. Issues for 1928-39 in 6 pts.: T. 1. Amtlicher Teil; T. 2. Nichtamtlichter Teil; T. 3. Arbeitsschutz; T. 4. Amtliche Nachrichten für Reichsversicherung; T. 5. Reichsversorgungsblatt (called Jan.-June 1928 Bekanntmachungen über Tarifverträge); T. 6. Bekanntmachung von Tarifordnungen und von Richtlinien für den Inhalt von Betriebsordnungen und Einzelarbeitsverträgen (title varies). Issues for 1940-45 in 5 pts.: T. 1. [Amtlicher Teil]; T. 2. Amtliche Nachrichten für Reichsversicherung; T. 3. Arbeitsschutz; T. 4. Bekanntmachung von Tarifordnungen und von Richtlinien für den Inhalt von Betriebsordnungen und Einzelarbeitsverträgen; T. 5. Soziales Deutschland.
Describes how Dr. Bart Corbin, a wealthy dentist, staged his wife's murder to look like a suicide, and may have done the same thing to his former girlfriend Dolly Hearn some fourteen years earlier.
