Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The Penny Post
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Marion. [A tale. Reprinted from the “Penny Post.”]
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Author: The Heart-Stone. [Reprinted from the “Penny Post.”]
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Author: Mary Merton. [A tale; reprinted from the “Penny Post.”]
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Author: Mary MERTONThe Two Widows. A Tale. Reprinted from the “Penny Post.”
Author: The Two-penny post
Author: The Edinburgh and District Penny Post - A Postal History Exhibit
Author: Jack A. GunnPublisher:
ISBN: 1291911871
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Edinburgh and District Penny Post has basically been ignored in print since the work of Auckland and Bonar in 1972. This book provides a detailed, award winning exhibit showcasing this area of long ignored British / Scottish postal history; it is the example to go with the theory of the Auckland / Bonar text. This book is important for those wanting to know more about the Edinburgh and Distrct Penny Post and for those wishing to examine how an award winning exhibit is displayed.
Posting It
Author: Catherine J GoldenPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813047889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Although "snail mail" may seem old fashioned and outdated in the twenty-first century, Catherine Golden argues that the creation of the Penny Post in Victorian England was just as revolutionary in its time as e-mail and text messages are today. Until Queen Victoria instituted the Postal Reform Act of 1839, mail was a luxury affordable only by the rich. Allowing anyone, from any social class, to send a letter anywhere in the country for only a penny had multiple and profound cultural impacts. Golden demonstrates how cheap postage--which was quickly adopted in other countries--led to a postal "network" that can be viewed as a forerunner of computer-mediated communications. Indeed, the revolution in letter writing of the nineteenth century led to blackmail, frauds, unsolicited mass mailings, and junk mail--problems that remain with us today.
The Penny Post
Author: Frank StaffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal rates
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Glass Houses
Author: Louise PennyPublisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 146687368X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An instant New York Times Bestseller and August 2017 LibraryReads pick! “Penny’s absorbing, intricately plotted 13th Gamache novel proves she only gets better at pursuing dark truths with compassion and grace.” —PEOPLE “Louise Penny wrote the book on escapist mysteries.” —The New York Times Book Review “You won't want Louise Penny's latest to end....Any plot summary of Penny’s novels inevitably falls short of conveying the dark magic of this series.... It takes nerve and skill — as well as heart — to write mysteries like this. ‘Glass Houses,’ along with many of the other Gamache books, is so compelling that, for the space of reading it, you may well feel that much of what’s going on in the world outside the novel is ‘just noise.’” —Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized. But when the figure vanishes overnight and a body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied. Months later, on a steamy July day as the trial for the accused begins in Montréal, Chief Superintendent Gamache continues to struggle with actions he set in motion that bitter November, from which there is no going back. More than the accused is on trial. Gamache’s own conscience is standing in judgment. In Glass Houses, her latest utterly gripping book, number-one New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience. A court that supersedes all others.