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A father's decision to undertake a do-it-yourself-project for his
daughter is made not with love, but spite; a daughter returns to
the home of her childhood not so much to attend her father's
funeral, as to carry out a long-planned revenge; once a month a
professor leaves campus to look in on her senile mother, only to
find herself caught in a test of will and wit, and unaware that it
is a contest in which the winners always lose; a waitress who
nightly pines for the one she had allowed to slip away,
uncharacteristically reaches out for one intense moment of intimacy
with a mysterious stranger.<br><br>Those are the
stories of just a few of the people whose lives are played out in
Moon Alley. David Appleby's carefully crafted stories are written
in what the New England Review has termed, 'an easy, fluid style,"
and that, entwined with compassion, and an acute awareness of
language, provides the reader of Moon Alley with a compelling look
into the lives of those who live there.
Black Bartholomew's Day explores the religious, political and
cultural implications of a collision of highly-charged polemic
prompted by the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church
of England in 1662. It is the first in-depth study of this heated
exchange, centres centring on the departing ministers' farewell
sermons. Many of these valedictions, delivered by hundreds of
dissenting preachers in the weeks before Bartholomew's Day, would
be illegally printed and widely distributed, provoking a furious
response from government officials, magistrates and bishops. Black
Bartholomew's Day re-interprets the political significance of
ostensibly moderate Puritan clergy, arguing that their preaching
posed a credible threat to the restored political order This book
is aimed at readers interested in historicism, religion,
nonconformity, print culture and the political potential of
preaching in Restoration England. -- .
Battle-scarred investigates the human costs of the British Civil
Wars. Through a series of varied case studies it examines the
wartime experience of disease, burial, surgery and wounds,
medicine, hospitals, trauma, military welfare, widowhood,
desertion, imprisonment and charity. The percentage population loss
in these conflicts was far higher than that of the two World Wars,
which renders the Civil Wars arguably the most unsettling
experience the British people have ever undergone. The volume
explores its themes from new angles, demonstrating how military
history can broaden its perspective and reach out to new audiences.
-- .
Battle-scarred investigates the human costs of the British Civil
Wars. Through a series of varied case studies it examines the
wartime experience of disease, burial, surgery and wounds,
medicine, hospitals, trauma, military welfare, widowhood,
desertion, imprisonment and charity. The percentage population loss
in these conflicts was far higher than that of the two World Wars,
which renders the Civil Wars arguably the most unsettling
experience the British people have ever undergone. The volume
explores its themes from new angles, demonstrating how military
history can broaden its perspective and reach out to new audiences.
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A father's decision to undertake a do-it-yourself-project for his
daughter is made not with love, but spite; a daughter returns to
the home of her childhood not so much to attend her father's
funeral, as to carry out a long-planned revenge; once a month a
professor leaves campus to look in on her senile mother, only to
find herself caught in a test of will and wit, and unaware that it
is a contest in which the winners always lose; a waitress who
nightly pines for the one she had allowed to slip away,
uncharacteristically reaches out for one intense moment of intimacy
with a mysterious stranger.
Those are the stories of just a few of the people whose lives are
played out in Moon Alley. David Appleby's carefully crafted stories
are written in what the New England Review has termed, 'an easy,
fluid style," and that, entwined with compassion, and an acute
awareness of language, provides the reader of Moon Alley with a
compelling look into the lives of those who live there.
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