Paper Sparrow
Title | Paper Sparrow PDF eBook |
Author | Magda Palmer |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2022-08-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1663243085 |
Paper Sparrow is a historical novel inspired by real-life events, Australia 1943 to 1955. PEGGY is born to circumstances that deny her opportunities afforded to others. Before her thirteenth birthday, she has no choice but to work as a Nursing Aide in a home for the elderly. Aged fourteen, Peggy is drugged and raped. She travels from Sydney to Melbourne to see out her pregnancy without family or financial support. Her dark journey reveals a massive baby farming industry, untold sufferings, and life-long consequences to thousands of post-WWII victims-single women. Their babies are officially recognised today as The Stolen White Generation. Peggy's core conflict comes from her necessary involvement with a network of welfare officers and medical teams, all fuelled by monetary greed. Torment, near-slavery, and degradation are encouraged through social bigotry. Peggy meets PETER, a man of the cloth, BINEHAM, a master of Chinese psychology and LILY, a welfare officer fighting for social justice. They foster her potential and lighten her journey. Peggy's baby is kidnapped from the birthing table and sold to a couple who have a ruthless plan to forbid Peggy to approach her child legally. This action leads Peggy to incite reform through civil society to end social prejudice against single mothers and their children. Fortune brings work in the fashion industry, and Peggy wins a scholarship which will lead to a career in live theatre. Peggy has a heart-rending meeting with her child aged one year, but the cherished experience loses its worth when he spits at her feet under instruction from his adoptive parents. This action and a sordid society party meant to launch Peggy in the Miss Australia quest destroy her will to live. Yet, she miraculously survives a deep-sea baptism and finds the strength and means to promote benevolence, communication, and beauty.
Kangaroo
Title | Kangaroo PDF eBook |
Author | David Herbert Lawrence |
Publisher | |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | New South Wales |
ISBN |
Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers, and his German wife Harriet, in the early 1920s. The novel includes a chapter ("Nightmare") describing the Somers' experiences in wartime Cornwall, vivid descriptions of the Australian landscape, and Richard Somers' sceptical reflections on fringe politics in Sydney. "Kangaroo" is the nickname of one of Lawrence's characters, Benjamin Cooley, a prominent ex-soldier and lawyer, who is also the leader of a secretive, fascist paramilitary organisation, the "Diggers Club". Cooley fascinates Somers, but he maintains his distance from the movement itself.
Kangaroo (Historical Novel)
Title | Kangaroo (Historical Novel) PDF eBook |
Author | D. H. Lawrence |
Publisher | e-artnow |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2019-12-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Kangaroo is a tale of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife Harriet in the early 1920s. "Kangaroo" is the nickname of Benjamin Cooley, a prominent ex-soldier and lawyer, who is also the leader of a secretive, fascist paramilitary organisation, the "Diggers Club". Cooley fascinates Somers, but he maintains his distance from the movement itself. The novel is autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda, in 1922.
Kagami
Title | Kagami PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Kata |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 453 |
Release | 2017-04-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1448215609 |
Passions and intrigues abound in this epic historical novel. Kagami follows three families in 19th Century Japan, the Yamamotos and the Okuras, traditionalists dedicated to the old feudal Samurai ways, and the commercial Fukudas, eager to seize trading opportunities opened up by the arrival of Commodore Perry's force in 1853. The Kagami, or sacred mirror, is said to reflect the secret self of anyone who looks into it; what will it reveal of Lady Masa, the gentle aristocrat; her son, Renzo, a student at one of the mysterious Seignorial schools, once Japan's only point of contact with the outside world; the swaggering Samurai, Kenichi, and his sharp witted friend, Fukuda; free-thinking Aiko, with her quick tongue, and Osen, the beguiling courtesan?
Kangaroo
Title | Kangaroo PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence D.H. |
Publisher | Рипол Классик |
Pages | 543 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 5521072055 |
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. “Kangaroo” is writer’s eighth novel, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda in 1922. This book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of the political situation in Sydney.
Kangaroo
Title | Kangaroo PDF eBook |
Author | D. H. Lawrence |
Publisher | Good Press |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2019-11-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
"Kangaroo" is a novel by D.H. Lawrence set in Australia. Richard Somers and his wife Harriet are an English couple who had moved to Australia with a search for a better life. While there they meet the oddly nicknamed 'Kangaroo' a revolutionary who is leading a band of rebels intent on causing anarchy to Australian society. And Kangaroo has an interesting proposition for Richard... The book is considered one of D.H. Lawrence's most ideological and politically motivated pieces.
Jack Jones and the Pirate Curse
Title | Jack Jones and the Pirate Curse PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Rossell |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2007-05-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0802796613 |
With the death of his Great-Uncle Mungo, Jack learns to his dismay that, as the tenth-generation descendant of the Caribbean pirate Blackstrap Morgan, he is next in line to inherit the Pirate Curse and is fated to spend his life running from a vengeful band of pirates--unless he finds a way to outsmart them.