Mrs Stone changed from a famous, rich American actress to a notorious, very rich American widow. But the transition took years & all that time her youth & legendary beauty slipped away. So she escapes to Rome. But even the distractions of the Eternal City cannot stop old age wrinkling its way into her life. Frantic, she decides to take a lover, a young & very handsome Italian, being prepared to invest in his body for good return. But the price is too expensive. Not in money, but in her dignity. ...

To undestand the success of the Romans you must understand their piety. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. For over a thousand years, Roman religion satisfied the spiritual needs of a wide range of peoples throughout the empire, because is offered an intelligent & dignified interpretation of how the world functions. It was a firm, yet tolerant, religion whose adherents committed very few crimes in its name & who were healthily free of neuroses. In this short, perceptive study of Roman religious life between 80 BC & AD 69, Professor Ogilvie shows how intimately involved were the Roman gods with human activities. Drawing widely on original material (all of it"ed in translation), he tells us how the Romans prayed, what happened at a sacrifice, what sort of gods they believed in, & how seriously they took their religion
- a religion in which actions, , not dogma, was paramount.
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Polly Anna never knew her father, & when her mother died, in poverty, when Polly Anna was just three, the workhouse was the only place for her. Helped by Jonty, a misfit & a cripple who became her best friend, she ran away with the fairground folk & travelled around as a horserider & acrobat
- to Appleby Horse Fair, Nottingham Goose Fair & Hull Fair. Her friends became the circus people & the gypsies, & her home the caravans & tents of the travellers.

Meanwhile, in a great house in the Yorkshire Wolds, old Mrs Winthrop had never given up hope of finding her daughter, who ran away with a handsome Romany & was never seen again. Young Richard Crossley from the neighbouring estate set out to find the missing daughter, & discovered the colourful world of the fairs & the gypsies. He also discovered Polly Anna
- once the waif from the workhouse, & now a fully-fledged Romani Chi
- the Romany girl.




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Polly Anna never knew her father, & when her mother died, in poverty, when Polly Anna was just three, the workhouse was the only place for her. Helped by Jonty, a misfit & a cripple who became her best friend, she ran away with the fairground folk & travelled around as a horserider & acrobat
- to Appleby Horse Fair, Nottingham Goose Fair & Hull Fair. Her friends became the circus people & the gypsies, & her home the caravans & tents of the travellers.

Meanwhile, in a great house in the Yorkshire Wolds, old Mrs Winthrop had never given up hope of finding her daughter, who ran away with a handsome Romany & was never seen again. Young Richard Crossley from the neighbouring estate set out to find the missing daughter, & discovered the colourful world of the fairs & the gypsies. He also discovered Polly Anna
- once the waif from the workhouse, & now a fully-fledged Romani Chi
- the Romany girl.




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Polly Anna never knew her father, & when her mother died, in poverty, when Polly Anna was just three, the workhouse was the only place for her. Helped by Jonty, a misfit & a cripple who became her best friend, she ran away with the fairground folk & travelled around as a horserider & acrobat
- to Appleby Horse Fair, Nottingham Goose Fair & Hull Fair. Her friends became the circus people & the gypsies, & her home the caravans & tents of the travellers.

Meanwhile, in a great house in the Yorkshire Wolds, old Mrs Winthrop had never given up hope of finding her daughter, who ran away with a handsome Romany & was never seen again. Young Richard Crossley from the neighbouring estate set out to find the missing daughter, & discovered the colourful world of the fairs & the gypsies. He also discovered Polly Anna
- once the waif from the workhouse, & now a fully-fledged Romani Chi
- the Romany girl.




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The Roots of Romanticism at last makes available in printed form Isaiah Berlin's most famous lecture series, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965, recorded by the BBC, & broadcast several times. A published version has been keenly awaited ever since the lectures were given, & indeed Berlin had always hoped to complete a book based upon them. But, despite extensive further work, this hope was not fulfilled, & this book is an edited transcript of his spoken words. For Berlin, the Romantics set in train a vast unparalleled revolution in humanity's view of itself. They destroyed the traditional notions of objective truth & validity in ethics, with incalculable, all-pervasive results. As he said of them elsewhere: 'the world has never been the same since, & our politics & our morals have been deeply transformed by them. Certainly this has been the most radical, & indeed terrifying...change in men's outlook in modern times.' In these brilliant lectures Berlin surveys the myriad attempts to define Romanticism, distils its essence, traces its development from its first stirrings to its unbridled apotheosis, & shows how its lasting legacy permeates our contemporary outlook. ...

Only a killer hears their prayers...
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Only a killer hears their prayers...
In the most brutal killing crusade Philadelphia has seen in years, a series of young Catholic
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