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In a quiet Surrey village sits Leventree, an architectural practice set up by idealistic couple Florence and Arthur Mayhood, offering apprenticeships to young offenders after their release. Motivated by his own memories of Borstal, Arthur aims to mentor young adults with a troubled upbringing and give them opportunities to succeed.Their first protégées are siblings, Joyce and Charlie Savigear, who quickly settle in, but when a dangerous figure...

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Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and the European Union Prize for Literature 2019. "His mistakes are my inheritance. The rotten blood he gave me is the blood I will pass on." For twenty years, Daniel Hardesty has lived with the emotional scars of a childhood trauma which he is powerless to undo. One August morning, Daniel and his estranged father Francis-a character of irresistible charm and roiling self-pity-set out on a road trip th...

First published in the 1750s, The Ruins of Palmyra and The Ruins of Baalbek are a remarkable record of an expedition to the Levant by three antiquarians - Robert Wood, John Bouverie and James Dawkins - along with a draftsman, Giovanni Battista Borra. With over 100 engravings of the classical architecture of the two ancient cities of Palmyra and Baalbek, the volumes represent the earliest-known examples of monographs on archaeological sites. Th...

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Excerpt from Bugle Calls: Awake, Educate, Agitate, ActT HE author enters no deeper into the sociology and economics of the problem. All he desires is justice for all, and even though his remedy prove unavailing and another succeed he will feel more than delighted to have his single object realized.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a repr...

Excerpt from Fort Lafayette: Or Love and Secession, a NovelHaving thus domiciliated them comfortably in the old hall, we will leave them to recover from the fatigues of the journey, and to taste of the plentiful hospitalities of Riverside manor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Bo...

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Reproduction of the original: Fort Lafayette or Love and Secession by Benjamin Wood

Reproduction of the original: Fort Lafayette or Love and Secession by Benjamin Wood

Excerpt from A Centennial Address: Delivered at Upton, Mass., June 25, 1835In 1716, the General Court freely gave to the trustees of the legacy of Edward Hopkins, all the Province lands contained within the town of Hopkinton, to be appropri ated to the purpose of the trust. Both tracts of land amounted to about acres. In the same year, 1716, the trustees agreed upon the terms of their leases, which were to run ninety-nine years from the 25th o...

Excerpt from Speech of Benjamin Wood, of New York: On the State of the Union, in the House of Representatives, May 16th, 1862Sir, I counsel none but a moral interference with the work of these mischief makers. I would not have even fanaticism deprived of the right of free speech nor would I, in any emergency, advocate the slightest infringement by the Gov crament upon the liberty of the press. Let them sow the seeds of their infamous doctrine ...

Excerpt from A Sermon: Delivered at Sutton, (S. P.), March 18, 1812, as Preliminary to the Formation of a Society, in the County of Worcester, for the Aid of Pious Young Men, With a View to the MinistryChrist is King in Zion. Under this character, he has the sole and exclusive right of calling, and commissioning men to labour for the good of the church, and to extend the tri umphs of the cross. Hence those whom he sends into the harvest, on th...