Shannon's Way
Title | Shannon's Way PDF eBook |
Author | A J Cronin |
Publisher | Boxtree |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2016-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1743541015 |
Robert Shannon was a devoted scientist on the brink of a medical discovery of great importance. He had no time or inclination for women . . . or for any of the world outside his laboratory. But Jean Law had other plans for him. Strictly brought up by narrow-minded parents, confined by her hospital lectures and her dingy boarding-house, she hardly knew the fires that burned beneath her calm exterior . . . except that they burned for Robert Shannon. She knew she had to have him for herself, and, despite her family’s religious beliefs , their shocked disapproval, and all she had been taught was her destiny, she was determined to fight for him. In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, The Stars Look Down and Cronin’s other classic novels, Shannon’s Way is a great book by a much-loved author.
Shannon's Way
Title | Shannon's Way PDF eBook |
Author | Archibald Joseph Cronin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Large type books |
ISBN |
Shannons Way
Title | Shannons Way PDF eBook |
Author | Outlet |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1987-05-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780517650905 |
Democracy and Political Culture
Title | Democracy and Political Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Ross McKibbin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2019-02-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0192570978 |
Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century. To do so it chooses a number of particular subjects which nonetheless stand for this culture as a whole, and which together allow us to reach a number general conclusions about modern British history. In this sense it is a successor to McKibbin's previous collection of essays, The Ideologies of Class (1991), while it also takes up a number of the themes of his Classes and Cultures (1998). Above all, it is a study of British democracy and asks the questions: what does it mean to describe Britain as a democratic society and how might we measure it against other comparable societies? To do so, McKibbin has chosen not only more 'global' subjects - Britain's social structure and the sources of political authority; the social and political effects of the first world war; Britain's electoral and party system; its literary culture; its sporting culture, and the relation of that culture to the rest of the world, as well as to Britain itself; and a comparison of Britain's political culture with one of the closest comparable societies, Australia, and what that tells us about Britain - but also individual studies of three men, very prominent in British life, who, in different ways, both contributed to Britain's political culture and were also students of it: J.M. Keynes, an economist, Harold Nicolson, a politician and writer, and A.J. Cronin, a novelist. All three represented British political culture in its broadest spectrum.
The Wars of the Shannons
Title | The Wars of the Shannons PDF eBook |
Author | Allan Cole |
Publisher | Allan Cole |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2009-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1615465545 |
Young Patrick Shannon is the heir-apparent to the Shannon fortune, but murder and betrayal at a family gathering send him fleeing into the American frontier, with only the last words of a wise old woman to arm him against what would come. And when the outbreak of the Civil War comes, he finds himself fighting on the opposite side of those he loves the most. In The Wars of the Shannons we see the conflict, both on the battlefield and the homefront, through the eyes of Patrick and the members of his extended Irish-American family as they struggle to survive the conflict that ripped the new nation apart, and yet, offered a dim beacon of hope.
The Shannons of Broadway
Title | The Shannons of Broadway PDF eBook |
Author | James Gleason |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Actors |
ISBN |
The Glasgow Curse
Title | The Glasgow Curse PDF eBook |
Author | William Lobban |
Publisher | Birlinn |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2013-10-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0857906097 |
This chilling and disturbing memoir tells the story of one of Glasgow's most notorious criminals. In his own words, William Lobban tells how he was born in Exeter Prison to a violent, schizophrenic mother. His upbringing in the East End of Glasgow was just as bleak, and he ended up in care, destined for a life of violence and insecurity. Aged only 15 he masterminded a daring break-in to a Glasgow pub, and many years of armed robberies, dealing class A drugs and gang fights followed. When he wasn't causing mayhem on the streets, Lobban was serving terms in various young offenders' institutions and prisons, where he was involved in some of the most serious prison riots of recent years. In the course of his criminal career Lobban became closely associated with the infamous Paul Ferris, who was later to incriminate him as the murderer of fellow gangster Arthur Thompson Jr. Police also believed that Lobban was the man behind the brutal double killing of Bobby Glover and Joe 'Bananas' Hanlon, but none of these charges was made to stick. Finally released from prison in 1998, Lobban decided to walk away from a life of crime, but at first it proved impossible for him to break the way of life that had moulded him, and only in recent years has he found a measure of peace and stability. In this searing expose of the Glasgow underworld he reveals the true facts behind those crimes which he really committed, and those of which he is falsely accused.