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Days of Atonement: A Mystery
“Be very careful, sir!” the young officer warned. “Colonel Lavedrine is a guest of this house, and this nation. I can hardly believe that any Prussian would be so foolhardy to doubt his word. Every man in Paris has heard of his capacities I see no reason why this Professor Kant of yours should not have heard of them, too.” Lavedrine sat back in his seat, a thin smile on his lips, stroking his chin with his thumb and forefinger. He seemed to be scrutinizing me, curious to hear what my reply would be. “If Colonel Lavedrine can prove the truth of what he says,” I returned, glancing between my accuser and the man I had accused, “I will apologize with all my heart. And if that apology does not satisfy him,” I added, leaning back in my chair, shrugging my shoulder, “the prison cells are waiting for Prussians such as me, who are obliged to have guests such as you!” I suddenly realized that the room was silent. It is 1807 and Napoleon’s army has swept over Prussia, leaving in its wake a conquered land occupied by the French. Local magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis has retreated to his home in the countryside in the hopes that he can keep himself away from the scrutiny of the occupying forces. But when Serge Lavedrine, Paris’s famed criminologist, requires his services, Stiffeniis has little choice but to accept. Three children have been found massacred in their beds. Their mother has disappeared without a trace. Terrified by the gruesome murders, the local townspeople have become convinced that the crimes are the work of the local Jewish population. The ghetto has been closed off, but the crowds gathered in the streets are desperate for justice of any kind. The French authorities want nothing more than a quick resolution and an end to the hysteria that has gripped the town. Stiffeniis has his own reasons for accepting the case. The victims’ father serves as a soldier in remote Kamentz, where the resistance to Napoleon’s occupation is already developing. If Stiffeniis cannot discover the whereabouts of the mother and the identity of the murderer in time, he risks exposing the Prussian rebellion to the French before it has the strength to succeed. To succeed he must once again put to use the powers of deduction learned from his late teacher, the famed philosopher Immanuel Kant. Michael Gregorio’s internationally bestselling debut, Critique of Criminal Reason, was hailed by critics across the world and named one of Playboy’s Best Books of 2006. Now its sequel, Days of Atonement, marks the thrilling return of one the most talented new voices in historical fiction. .
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The Sultan's Seal: A Novel
A stunningly lyrical debut novel about faith and desire, set within a gripping tale of murder in nineteenth-century Istanbul Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The naked body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a crime that was never solved. Kamil Pasha, a magistrate in the new secular courts, sets out to find the killer, but his dispassionate belief in science and modernity is shaken by betrayal and widening danger. In a lush, mystical voice, a young Muslim woman, Jaanan, recounts her own relationships with one of the dead women and her suspected killer. Were these political murders involving the palace or crimes of personal passion? An absorbing tale that transports the reader to nineteenth-century Turkey, this novel is also a lyrical meditation on the contradictory desires of the human soul..
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Thomas Fairchild: Puritan Merchant & Magistrate
This is the true story of Thomas Fairchild, a brave young Englishman caught up in the bitter religious conflict that caused the Great Migration to the New World in the 1630s. Four centuries ago, Thomas was a founder of Stratford in the fearful wilderness of the tiny new colony of Connecticut. He became a merchant, church elder, pioneer legislator, and judicial magistrate in troubling times. He sired ten children by two remarkable wives, ultimately becoming the forefather of a vast number of Americans living today. Early colonists coped with many dangers, but Thomas Fairchild also faced personal tragedy—the untimely death of his first wife and the challenge of caring for their youngsters. Undaunted, he returned to England, where in 1662 he courted and wed Katherine Cragg, promising this spinster most of his estate. Settled in America, Katherine devotedly sought the medical advice of John Winthrop, Connecticut’s colonial governor, for the ailments of her neighbors as well as her growing family. Meanwhile, Thomas was a key leader in resolving a controversy that nearly split the Puritan faithful. More than a century before the American Revolution, intrepid New England settlers wisely laid the unique foundation of what would become the mightiest and most respected nation on the globe. This is the fascinating story of one bold-spirited founder..
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The Mirror For Magistrates
H i I 41 1 ffje jWtrror for f EDITED from ORIGINAL TEXTS in the HUNTINGTON LIBRARY by LILY B. CAMPBELL I I I I 1 BARNES NOBLE, INC. . NEW YORK PUBLISHERS . BOOKSELLERS . SINCE 1873 Published in 1938 by the Cambridge University Press Reprinted by Barnes Noble, Inc. by Special Arrangement with the Cambridge University Press All rights reserved First printing, 1960 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Contents Introduction pages 3-60 Tragedies of the 1559 Edition 61-240 Prefaces to the 1559 Edition 63 1. Robert Tresilian, Chief Justice of England 73 2. The Two Rogers, surnamed Mortimers 82 3. Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester 91 4. Lord Mowbray 101 5. King Richard the Second in 6. Owen Glendower 120 7. Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland 132 8. Richard, Earl of Cambridge 139 9. Thomas Montague, Earl of Salisbury 143 10. King James the First 155 n. William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk 162 12. Jack Cade 171 1 3 . Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York 182 14. Lord Clifford 192 15. John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester 197 1 6. Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick 205 17. King Henry the Sixth 212 1 8. George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence 220 19. King Edward the Fourth 236 CONTENTS Tragedies Added in the Edition of 1563 P a g es 241-421 Preface to the Second Part of the 1563 Edition 243 20. Anthony Woodville, Lord Rivers and Scales 245 21. Lord Hastings 268 Sackvilles Induction 298 22. Henry, Duke of Buckingham 318 23. The Poet Collingbourne 347 24. Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester 360 25. Shores Wife 373 26. Edmund, Duke of Somerset 388 27. The Blacksmith 402 Tragedies Added in the Edition of 1578 427-460 28. Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester 432 29. Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester 445 Tragedies Added in the Edition of 1587 461-51 1 30. Sir Nicholas Burdet 463 31. King James the Fourth 483 32. The Battle of Brampton or Flodden Field 489 33. Cardinal Wolsey 495 Appendices 513-554 A. Description of the Huntington Library Copies of the Texts 5I B. Indexes Showing the Arrangement of the Tragedies in the Various Editions 522 C. Collation of MS 364 in St Johns College, Cambridge, with Sackvilles Induction and Tragedy 22 532 D. Collation of Poems in Harleian MS 2252 with Tragedies 31 and 32 548 vi Illustrations IN COLLOTYPE Tide-page and Verso from the Dyce Copy of Way lands Edition of Lydgate frontispiece By the courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum Title-page from the Undated Wayland Edition of Lydgate pages A Page from the Undated Wayland Edition of Lydgate Additional Tide-page sometimes bound with Way lands Edition of Lydgate Verso of Additional Tide-page sometimes bound between 6 j with Waylands Edition of Lydgate The Recto and Verso of the Single Leaf extant from between the Suppressed Edition of the Mirror for Magistrates 8 9 The Verso of Fol. 39 introduced as a cancel into the 1578 Edition facing 430 LINE BLOCKS IN THE TEXT The Tide-page of the 1559 Edition 62 The Tide-page of the 1563 Edition 242 The Tide-page of the 1571 Edition 423 The Last Page of the Index to the 1571 Edition 424 The Tide-page of the 1574 Edition 425 The Tide-page of the 1575 Edition 426 The Tide-page of the 1578 Edition 428 The Original FoL 39 Recto and Verso from the 1578 Edition 429, 430 The Tide-page of the 1587 Edition 462 vii THE MIRROR for MAGISTRATES f INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION SINCE the publication of Wartons History of English Poetry, 1 some account of the Mirror for Magistrates has been included in almost every history of English literature. 2 Bibliographers have recognized as intriguing the complex history of its printing. 3 Sackvilles induction has been decreed the best poem in English between Chaucer and Spenser and is duly incorporated in anthologies of the period. Historians of the drama have from time to time noted that the work contains tragedies which in the reign of Elizabeth were remade in dramatic form....
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The Magistrate's Tale: An Investigation
When Trevor Grove was called up for Jury service, he became so intrigued with the justice system that he wrote a successful book about it— The Juryman’s Tale. Now he’s joined the magistracy and gives a fascinating, funny, and insightful account of just how the magistracy works at a time of great change. Interweaving his own personal experience of becoming a magistrate in north London with general observations, relevant interviews, and a little history, Trevor Grove takes us on a fascinating journey into this extraordinary and unique institution. He has visited courts all over the country to talk to magistrates and observe how crimes and criminals differ from region to region, and how the "benches" dealing with them differ too. He has visited jails and Young Offenders’ Institutions, and he has interviewed all of the principal players, from the Lord Chief Justice and Home Secretary, to more integral characters such as justices’ clerks, ushers, probation officers, local police and offenders. .
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Henry Fielding 1707-1754: Novelist, Playwright. Journalist, Magistrate, A Double Anniversary Tribute
This collection, to which many of the world's leading authorities on Fielding have contributed, contains papers on all the major aspects of his work and life, as one of the great early masters of the novel, as England's best-known playwright in his day, as a political journalist and activist, and as a social thinker and magistrate. The important new scholarship assembled in this volume is designed as a tribute to Fielding on the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of his death in 1754 and the tercentenary of his birth in 1707. The contributors include Robert Alter, Linda Bree, Simon Dickie, Bertrand A. Goldgar, Thomas Keymer, Guyonne Leduc, Thomas Lockwood, Frederic Ogee, Ronald Paulson, Claude Rawson, Joseph Roach, Pat Rogers, and Angela Smallwood. Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University..
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The Magistrates of the Roman Republic 1: Volume 1: 509 B.C. - 100 B.C. (Philological Monographs)
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Advocacy in the Magistrates' Court
This book deals with the real practicalities of getting results in the Magistrates' Court. It looks at who's who at court, and who holds what information, where forms are kept and how to fill them in. This new edition contains practical guidance which until now has been hard to find in other publications for example: how to get bail; how to argue for separate representation; what should you be looking for in disclosure; and a digest of jargon and shorthand used by the police, CPS and court staff. "Advocacy in the Magistrates' Court" is an excellent tool for Barristers and Solicitors who need to become accomplished at practicing in the Magistrates' Court..
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Tales of Magistrate Bao and His Valiant Lieutenants
Murder, mystery, and courtroom drama -- Chinese style "Sanxia wuyi" (later revised and called "Qixia wuyi") is a semi-historical narrative of adventure, crime-detection, and courtroom drama. It revolves around the famed Song dynasty magistrate, Bao Zheng (999-1072), who is more commonly known as Magistrate Bao (Bao Gong) and is the quintessential incorruptible government official. This novel, derived from the oral narrative attributed to the Qing storyteller Shi Yukun (fl. 1870s), was first published in 1879, after undergoing a complex and fascinating textual evolution. The non-historical component of narrative, which represents the creative genius of the storyteller and his tradition, revolves around a group of compelling heroes and gallants -- foremost among them are Zhan Zhao, Hero Par Excellence, Jiang Ping, Diplomat Supreme and Unparalleled Underwater Genius, Ai Hu, Youngest of the Tried and True, and the beloved Bai Yutang, Gallant of Incomparable Elegance and Passion..
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