The Charlatan S Boy
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The Charlatan S Boy
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Author : Jonathan Rogers
language : en
Publisher: WaterBrook
Release Date : 2010-10-05
The Charlatan S Boy written by Jonathan Rogers and has been published by WaterBrook this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-05 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
“I only know one man who might be able to tell me where I come from, and that man is a liar and a fraud.” As far back as he can remember, the orphan Grady has tramped from village to village in the company of a huckster named Floyd. With his adolescent accomplice, Floyd perpetrates a variety of hoaxes and flimflams on the good citizens of the Corenwald frontier, such as the Ugliest Boy in the World act. It’s a hard way to make a living, made harder by the memory of fatter times when audiences thronged to see young Grady perform as “The Wild Man of the Feechiefen Swamp.” But what can they do? Nobody believes in feechies anymore. When Floyd stages an elaborate plot to revive Corenwalders’ belief in the mythical swamp-dwellers known as the feechiefolk, he overshoots the mark. Floyd’s Great Feechie Scare becomes widespread panic. Eager audiences become angry mobs, and in the ensuing chaos, the Charlatan’s Boy discovers the truth that has evaded him all his life—and will change his path forever.
The Book Of Charlatans
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Author : Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2022-05-03
The Book Of Charlatans written by Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-03 with History categories.
"The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt"--
Boy On Fire
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Author : Mark Mordue
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2021-03-04
Boy On Fire written by Mark Mordue and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which charts his family, friends, influences, milieu and, most of all, his music, it reveals how Nick Cave shaped himself into the extraordinary artist he would become. A powerful account of a singular, uncompromising artist, Boy on Fire is also a vivid and evocative rendering of a time and place, from the fast-running dark rivers and ghost gums of country-town Australia to the torn wallpaper, sticky carpet and manic energy of the nascent punk scene which hit staid 1970s Melbourne like an atom bomb. Boy on Fire is a stunning biographical achievement.
Trains Literature And Culture
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Author : Steven D. Spalding
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2011-12-29
Trains Literature And Culture written by Steven D. Spalding and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-29 with Social Science categories.
This volume delves into the rich connections between rail travel and the creation of cultural products from short stories to novels, from photographs to travel guides, and from artistic manifestos of the avant-garde to Freud’s psychology. Each of the contributions engages in critical readings of textual or visual representations of trains across a wide spectrum of time periods and traditions—from English and American to Mexican, West African, and European literary cultures.
The Boy S Yearly Volume For
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
The Boy S Yearly Volume For written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with Children's literature, English categories.
Holy Men And Charlatans In The Ancient Novel
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Author : Stelios Panayotakis
language : en
Publisher: Barkhuis
Release Date : 2015-01-01
Holy Men And Charlatans In The Ancient Novel written by Stelios Panayotakis and has been published by Barkhuis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with Art categories.
The present volume comprises the papers delivered at RICAN 6, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 30-31, 2011. The focus is placed on male and female characters in the ancient novel and related texts, both pagan and Christian; these characters are presented either as holy or as charlatans but in several cases the two categories cannot be easily distinguished from each other. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives.
Fraudsters And Charlatans
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Author : Linda Stratmann
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2010-06-01
Fraudsters And Charlatans written by Linda Stratmann and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with True Crime categories.
In 1817 a young woman of exotic appearance was found wandering near Bristol. She spoke in a language that no one could understand except, seemingly, a Portuguese sailor. He claimed that she was a Sumatran princess from the island of Javasu. Princess Caraboo, as she was known, became a national celebrity and lived in a grand style, entertaining many distinguished visitors. A few weeks later, however, she was exposed as Mary Baker, the daughter of a cobbler from Devonshire. Mary's deception is one of several intriguing stories of nineteenth-century fraudsters brought to light in Linda Stratmann's entertaining look at some of history's greatest rogues. From bankers who forged share certificates, ruining hundreds of small investors, to 'Louis de Rougemont' whose tales of high adventure branded him The Greatest Liar on Earth', these riveting tales of true crime expose the seedy side of life in which corruption, avarice and scandal hold sway.
Our Friend The Charlatan
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Author : George Gissing
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1976
Our Friend The Charlatan written by George Gissing and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Fiction categories.
Medical Charlatanism In Early Modern Italy
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Author : David Gentilcore
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-09-21
Medical Charlatanism In Early Modern Italy written by David Gentilcore and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-21 with History categories.
From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians, or Health Offices (jurisdiction varied from state to state) required charlatans to submit their wares for inspection and, upon approval, pay a licence fee in order to set up a stage from which to perform and sell them. The licensing of charlatans became an administrative routine. As far as the medical magistracies were concerned, charlatans had a defineable identity, constituting a specific trade or occupation. This book studies the way charlatans were represented, by contemporaries and by historians, how they saw themselves and, most importantly, it reconstructs the place of charlatans in early modern Italy. It explores the goods and services charlatans provided, their dealings with the public and their marketing strategies. It does so from a range of perspectives: social, cultural, economic, political, geographical, biographical and, of course, medical. Charlatans are not just some curiosity on the fringes of medicine: they offered health care to an extraordinarily wide sector of the population. Moreover, from their origins in Renaissance Italy, the Italian ciarlatano was the prototype for itinerant medical practitioners throughout Europe. This book offers a different look at charlatans. It is the first to take seriously the licences issued to charlatans in the Italian states, compiling them into a 'charlatans database' of over 1,300 charlatans active throughout Italy over the course of some three centuries. In addition, it makes use of other types of archival documents, such as trial records and wills, to give the charlatans a human face, as well as a wide range of artistic and printed sources, not forgetting the output of the charlatans themselves, in the form of handbills and pamphlets.
Shakespeare The Boy
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Author : William James Rolfe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Shakespeare The Boy written by William James Rolfe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with categories.