In the Heart of the StormD C Books, 2013 - 480 страница The ""First War of Indian Independence' or the Mutiny' was a turning point in the history of both India and Britain. Indians and Britons had their own perspectives on the events. A heroic struggle against the British or the conspiracy of disloyal natives? These novels from the 19th and early 20th century England capture the anger, anxiety and anguish of the crucial years, 1857- 1858, when the Raj trembled in the face of the advancing sepoys, as the authors sought to understand the 'uprising' and their own roles in the making native dissent. |
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... Turning Point Chapter III: Philip's Second Turning PART I Chapter I: Peace Chpater II: At the Ball Chapter III: A Cruel Blast Chapter IV: Leaving the Old Home Chapter V:Miss Blushford's Establishment for Young Ladies Chapter VI ...
... Turning Point Chapter III: Philip's Second Turning PART I Chapter I: Peace Chpater II: At the Ball Chapter III: A Cruel Blast Chapter IV: Leaving the Old Home Chapter V:Miss Blushford's Establishment for Young Ladies Chapter VI ...
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... turned drowsily to a drowsy music in the stillness, the brown roof-tiles were mellowed, the grey walls whitened, the trees in the garden and those by the road-side slightly powdered by a drifting mist offloating meal. There was about ...
... turned drowsily to a drowsy music in the stillness, the brown roof-tiles were mellowed, the grey walls whitened, the trees in the garden and those by the road-side slightly powdered by a drifting mist offloating meal. There was about ...
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... turned to its lulling music; the sunshine slept on the garden and house; it steeped the flowers and grass in a trance-like stillness, and dissolved itself in golden languors among the broad leaves of the spreading plane-tree; the depths ...
... turned to its lulling music; the sunshine slept on the garden and house; it steeped the flowers and grass in a trance-like stillness, and dissolved itself in golden languors among the broad leaves of the spreading plane-tree; the depths ...
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... turned with pretty baby gestures and rolled on the sunny grass, until her eye was caught by the snowy gleam of a swan sailing majestically towards the grassy bank. The languid grace of the snow-white swan pleased the children. Slowly ...
... turned with pretty baby gestures and rolled on the sunny grass, until her eye was caught by the snowy gleam of a swan sailing majestically towards the grassy bank. The languid grace of the snow-white swan pleased the children. Slowly ...
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... turning-mills, prattling through a village, and then flowing through a chain of willow-edged mill-pounds, singing its tranquil way to Philip and the swan, thence reaching the wharves and the quay where another stream joined it, and the ...
... turning-mills, prattling through a village, and then flowing through a chain of willow-edged mill-pounds, singing its tranquil way to Philip and the swan, thence reaching the wharves and the quay where another stream joined it, and the ...
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Whisepring Reeds Chapter XI The Storm Gathers | 273 |
The Storm Breaks | 283 |
PART III | 291 |
Paradise | 302 |
A Letter from Home | 315 |
By the Waterfall | 326 |
Philips Welcome Home | 338 |
The Riverside | 348 |
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Miss Blushfords | 106 |
Redwoods | 116 |
Marwell Court | 127 |
The Snake in the Grass | 133 |
Engaged | 145 |
PART II | 156 |
The Hindoo Lady | 168 |
The Two Comrades | 179 |
In Arcadia | 193 |
Jessies Confessor | 208 |
The PictureGallery | 220 |
Confidences | 232 |
The Comet | 239 |
The Breaking | 250 |
The Search | 359 |
Face to Face | 375 |
Fanny | 385 |
Philip is surprised | 396 |
The Picture | 407 |
Flight | 417 |
Lost in London | 425 |
Westminster Bridge | 437 |
At Rest | 447 |
Bereaval | 458 |
Sunset | 469 |
Bibliography | 476 |
Glossary | 478 |
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