Rod a demobbed Navy officer finds himself alone in a new flat he bought for married life with a girl who left him for another man. As a background to this he joins a small local sailing club and finds a friend with another bachelor called Bill. Lonely and frustrated he falls in with Rose a rich nymphomaniac who owns a large luxury yacht. While she is sexy, demanding and beautiful she is dominated by her sadistic Captain who she and Rob have to avoid, Her boat the Jezebel, under the influence of the Captain is used for arms smuggling while she shares in the profit from the trade he is the mastermind and demands sexual rewards from her but because of his rough and crude way his advances are not enjoyed. It is only Rob and Bill's discovery of a buoy off shore that makes Rob suspicious of Jezebel's real purpose and leads to eventually tell his worries to the police. They persuade Rob to join the crew as Dan her captain has left and Rose is in need of a replacement, not only does Rob's naval experience and his sexual performance attract her but makes it easy for Rob to join her team. Following the story now leads to a number of experiences for Rob that make up the heart of the book. It is set against the love of a young girl for Rob who as she grows up and suffers his belief that she is no more to him than a charming schoolgirl but as she matures his interest grows a he falls in love with her. This would seem perfect except that he is still on board Jezebel and in mortal danger
Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the plight of the working classes sharply to the attention of the reading public. The 'two nations' of the alternative title are the rich and poor, so disparate in their opportunities and living conditions, and so hostile to each other. that they seem almost to belong to different countries. The gulf between them is given a poignant focus by the central romantic plot concerning the love of Charles Egremont, a member of the landlord class, for Sybil, the poor daughter of a militant Chartist leader.
A controversial cult classic, Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber is the extraordinary story of a woman who suffered from multiple personality disorder.'How are you today?' the doctor asked. 'I'm fine', was the reply. 'But Sybil isn't. She was so sick she couldn't come. So I came instead.'A collaboration between journalist Flora Rheta Schreiber and Sybil's psychiatrist, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, Sybil is the story of a woman with sixteen separate personalities, and was instrumental in influencing the definition and diagnosis of multiple personality disorder. Sybil's diagnosis has since been called into question - but, forty years after it was first published, her story remains a gripping and disturbing account of one woman's struggle for mental stability and happiness.
In this "spellbinding" bestseller that inspired the electrifying Emmy-award winning TV movie starring Sally Fields, a journalist chronicles the first ever case of multiple personalities to be psychoanalyzed (Time Magazine). You're about to meet Sybil-and the sixteen selves to whom she played host, both women and men, each with a different personality, speech pattern, and personal appearance. You'll experience the strangeness and fascination of one woman's rare affliction, and travel with her on her long, ultimately triumphant journey back to wholeness. More amazing than any work of fiction, Sybil is one woman's story of survival you won't soon forget.
Title: Sybil: or, the Last of the Barons. An historical drama, in three acts and in verse].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Lee, M A.; 1878. 8 . 11781.df.7.
Sybil is a vampire who is desperately trying to live as a human. She has to give up her humanity when she faces the Angel of Death and the Black Widow in this story that begins in Boston, when two bombs go off. Sybil's friends, Jack and Catherine, find themselves at the center of the carnage.Jack works for the Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU), while Catherine works for an altogether different organization that deals with the supernatural. They must find out who planted the bombs, and soon they discover a vampire is behind the terrorists setting off the bombs at the Boston marathon. The vampire's next plan is to have the terrorists set off a biological-virus bomb that will kill thousands.When Sybil finally faces the vampire behind the terrorists, a new evil is released when Dr. Josef Mengele-the Angel of Death-escapes from Hell.Sybil is an exciting, dark fantasy, horror based on real-life events and was previously released as two separate books: The Black Widow (in 2016) and Help (in 2017).
Lesbians are often told that we have no culture, that we have no history, and yet lesbians are always rediscovering hidden histories, literary traditions, codes and behaviours that have been obscured, obliterated or proclaimed irrelevant. Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue challenges that version of history. Gillian Hanscombe has written an exhilarating and richly textured collection of poems.
Sybil traces the plight of the working classes of England. The "two nations" of its subtitle refers to the huge economic and social gap between the privileged few and the deprived working classes. Disraeli was interested in dealing with the horrific conditions in which the majority of England's working classes lived - or, what is generally called the Condition of England question. The book is a novel with a thesis - which was meant to create a furor over the squalor that was plaguing England's working class cities.
