The Uncertain Feast
Author | : Solita Solano |
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Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : Solita Solano |
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Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : Margaret Kennedy |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2023-06-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1946022519 |
"Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist." —Anita Brookner Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster. Everyone else makes a narrow escape. As the survivors tell their stories, the events of the previous week are revealed, and a parade of sins exposed. Gluttony, Lecherousness, Sloth, Pride, Covetousness, Envy and Wrath: all are in residence at Pendizack Manor, and as the day of the disaster creeps closer, it becomes clear that who’s spared and who’s lost might not be as arbitrary as first assumed. A modern upstairs-downstairs comedy with an old-fashioned morality play tucked away inside, The Feast is sly, kaleidoscopic, and utterly ingenious, a novel that only Margaret Kennedy could have written.
Author | : University of Missouri |
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Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Journalism |
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Total Pages | : 838 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Book collecting |
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Author | : Horatio Booth Moore |
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Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Advertising |
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Author | : Kaori O'Connor |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472520939 |
Feast! Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts – dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment? The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and history to look at the dynamics of feasting among the great societies of antiquity renowned for their magnificence and might. Reflecting new directions in academic study, the focus shifts beyond the medieval and early modern periods in Western Europe, eastwards to Mesopotamia, Assyria and Achaemenid Persia, early Greece, the Mongol Empire, Shang China and Heian Japan. The past speaks through texts and artefacts. We see how feasts were the primary arena for displays of hierarchy, status and power; a stage upon which loyalties and alliances were negotiated; the occasion for the mobilization and distribution of resources, a means of pleasing the gods, and the place where identities were created, consolidated – and destroyed. The Never-Ending Feast transforms our understanding of feasting past and present, revitalising the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, material culture and food studies, for all of which it is essential reading.
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Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 1925 |
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Total Pages | : 1238 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Geoffrey Dell Eaton |
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Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Farm life |
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"Farm life in central Michigan." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation.