Stories by English Authors

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Author: Hardpress

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781318740703

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Stories by English Authors: Africa

Stories by English Authors: Africa PDF

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-08-22

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13:

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"Stories by English Authors: Africa" by Arthur Conan Doyle, Percy Addleshaw, H. Rider Haggard, W. C. Scully, J. Landers. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Oral Literature in Africa

Oral Literature in Africa PDF

Author: Ruth Finnegan

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 1906924708

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Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.

There Was a Country

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Author: Chinua Achebe

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-10-11

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1101595981

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From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.

Granada

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Author: Radwa Ashour

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2003-10-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780815607656

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Radwa Ashour skillfully weaves a history of Granadan rule and an Arabic world into a novel that evokes cultural loss and the disappearance of a vanquished population. The novel follows the family of Abu Jaafar the bookbinder—his wife, widowed daughter-in-law, her two children, and his two apprentices—as they witness Christopher Columbus and his entourage in a triumphant parade featuring exotic plants, animals, human captives from the New World. Embedded in the narrative is the preparation for the marriage of Saad, one of the apprentices, and Saleema, Abu Jaafar's granddaughter—which is elegantly revealed in a number of parallel scenes. As the new rulers of Granada confiscate books and officials burn the collected volumes, Abu Jaafur quietly moves his rich library out of town. Persecuted Muslims fight to form an independent government, but increasing economic and cultural pressures on the Arabs of Spain and Christian rulers culminate in forcing Christian conversions and Muslim uprisings. A tale that is both vigorous and heartbreaking, this novel will appeal to general readers of Spanish and Arabic literature as well as anyone interested in Christian-Muslim relations.

Stories By English Authors

Stories By English Authors PDF

Author: Sir H Rider Haggard

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-11-06

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13:

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Novellas by English Authors on Africa, first published in 1896 by Charles Scribner's Sons (New York) -- Contents: THE MYSTERY OF SASASSA VALLEY, By A. Conan Doyle; LONG ODDS, By H. Rider Haggard; KING BEMBA'S POINT, By J. Landers; GHAMBA, By William Charles Scully; MARY MUSGRAVE, By Anonymous; GREGORIO, By Percy Hemingway