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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Ursula Tidd
Ursula is the legitimate daughter of the widower Dr Denis Minoret's deceased illegitimate brother-in-law by marriage, Joseph Mirou t; not only is she the doctor's niece, she is also his goddaughter and ward. Fifteen years old when the novel begins, she has been brought up by the doctor. Dr Minoret, an atheist rather than an agnostic, and a devoted student of the Encyclop die, has persisted in his rationalistic atheism for most of his eighty-three years. At the beginning of the novel he is, however, converted to Christianity - emotionally by the example of Ursulea's piety, and intellectually by his experience of animal magnetism, or the paranormal, and by his longstanding friendship with Abb Chaperon. Dr Minoret is determined that Ursula shall inherit all the savings he has accumulated during his lifetime. He intends, on the other hand, to bequeath the remainder (approximately half) of his total fortune of about 1,500,000 francs to his "h ritiers", nephews and cousins of his own bloodline who are members of the Minoret, Cr mi re and Massin families. Discontented with their inheritance prospects, the "heirs" seek to grab the whole of their wealthy relative's fortune, enlisting the help of the notary's clerk Goupil. The doctor conceals a letter of testamentary intention in a legal volume in his library. This, together with three bearer bonds, is stolen by one of the doctor's nephews, the postmaster Fran ois Minoret-Levrault, who, in the era before railways, owns and manages the carriage and postchaise services in and out of Nemours. The doctor dies, leaving Ursula much poorer than he had intended, for her inheritance would have become her dowry. Despite their best efforts - ransacking all the books in his library - the "heirs" (or "family") cannot find the clue to the money. But remorse strikes Minoret-Levrault, and the doctor, appearing to him in a vision, instructs him to make good his theft. By an act of poetic justice the postmaster's dandyish son D sir Minoret-Levrault is killed in a stagecoach accident. Ursula marries the man of her dreams, the young Army officer Viscount Savinien de Portendu re.
A short collection of poems. "Some of the most profound shit anyone has written down." "It was the shit. It was cool. It was real. I wish I could be a distributor." - Gordon Pryor "Harsh, sad, triumphant and beautiful." - Jeff Massingill "This is heartbreaking and masterful." - John Andrews
When Angela Collingham's drug-filled body is found on a banquette in the Avondale wine bar, Dover police are on the alert for a killer. Then Angie's client, a studmuffin called Bunny Daniel, is found dead on a bed. Nobody suspects big fat Nick, who works at the Avondale, but he's planning a major blackmail job on Angie's wealthy ex-husband, Mike Clayton.Enter briefly Angie's schoolgirl daughter, Judy, Clayton's estranged heir. With her nicely out of the way in a shallow grave, Nick can substitute her beautiful cousin Ursula, and get access to Clayton's business: The Jewellery Safe Deposit in London. Clayton accepts Ursula as his daughter, but will she play the game and help Nick and his loathsome colleague, Hardwood, to megabucks?In this taut tale of greed, desperation and mayhem, O A Davies takes potshots at people from all levels of society: the rich, the needy, the local bloodsuckers and the robber barons from overseas. Life is indeed cruel when you're poor
When Angela Collingham's drug-filled body is found on a banquette in the Avondale wine bar, Dover police are on the alert for a killer. Then Angie's client, a studmuffin called Bunny Daniel, is found dead on a bed. Nobody suspects big fat Nick, who works at the Avondale, but he's planning a major blackmail job on Angie's wealthy ex-husband, Mike Clayton.Enter briefly Angie's schoolgirl daughter, Judy, Clayton's estranged heir. With her nicely out of the way in a shallow grave, Nick can substitute her beautiful cousin Ursula, and get access to Clayton's business: The Jewellery Safe Deposit in London. Clayton accepts Ursula as his daughter, but will she play the game and help Nick and his loathsome colleague, Hardwood, to megabucks?In this taut tale of greed, desperation and mayhem, O A Davies takes potshots at people from all levels of society: the rich, the needy, the local bloodsuckers and the robber barons from overseas. Life is indeed cruel when you're poor
Written within the literary conventions of the Romantic movement and published decades before other Brazilian abolitionist novels, Úrsula (1859) offers a sensitive and nuanced portrayal of enslaved African and Afro-Brazilian characters. While readers follow the story of the plantation owner's daughter Úrsula, her doomed romance with Tancredo, and her uncle's diabolical schemes to entrap her in marriage, the novel's power lies in Reis's characterization of the enslaved Africans Tulio, Susana, and Antero. Shown in all their humanity as they narrate their personal histories and give voice to the abuse and injustices they have endured, these characters tell of the horrors of the Middle Passage, the daily indignities they face, and the brutality of their masters.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.
Ursula
Megali Verlag
2023
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