The Lights of Manchester
Author: Tony Warren
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13: 9780712638593
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The Lights of Manchester
Author: Tony Warren
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 792
ISBN-13: 9780099971900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning a total of 40 years, this book follows the lives of two people - Sorrel Starkey and Mick Grimshaw - who cannot wait to escape from their childhood background of a suburban Manchester housing estate. The author is the original creator of the TV programme Coronation Street.
A World Lit Only by Fire
Author: William Manchester
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 2009-09-26
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0316082791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth: the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains. "Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." --Chicago Tribune
The Lights of Manchester
Author: T Warren
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-12-31
Total Pages: 687
ISBN-13: 1448134609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the creator of Coronation Street comes a classic love story Tony Warren, the man who invented Elsie Tanner and Ena Sharples now introduces a whole new gallery of unforgettable characters in a stunning debut novel. It is a story - spanning forty years - of a woman, and of a city. It is the story of Sorrel Starkey, destined to become one of the greatest television stars, fated to rise to the heights of fame and fortune, and to do battle with sorrow and humiliation. It is a story of joy, of hope and of human fallibility. Above all it is a love story you will never forget.
Eternal Light and Earthly Concerns
Author: Paul Fouracre
Publisher: Artes Liberales
Published: 2021-05-25
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781784993016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study, Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these 'eternal' lights. It investigates how the cost of lighting was met across western Europe throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, revealing the social organisation that was built up around maintaining the lights in the belief that burning them reduced the time spent in Purgatory. When that belief collapsed in the Reformation the eternal lights were summarily extinguished. The history of the lights thus offers not only a new account of change in medieval Europe, but also a sustained examination of the relationship between materiality and belief.
The Magical Imagination
Author: Karl Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-02-23
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1107002001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInnovative history of the popular magical imagination and ordinary people's experience of urbanization in nineteenth-century England.
