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Philip Spires A Fool's Knot

The opening chapter of a novel set in Kenya

Fiction
English
2660 Words
No Age Recommendation
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John Mwangangi is an idealist. He turns his back on a successful legal career in London to return to his home in Migwani, a small, poor town in eastern Kenya. His ambition is to assist his country's development, to create a model that others might emulate. But in trying to rediscover his roots and his very identity, old tensions resurface and new battles have to be fought. John gradually finds himself isolated by irreconcilable demands, excluded from his own culture, never fully admitted to the one he adopts. His father seeks proof of his son's integrity and insists that John's daughter be initiated into adulthood, an act that John's wife would never sanction. And when the tensions force the family apart, John finds solace in the company of Janet Rowlandson, a young British volunteer teacher, who becomes more than a friend. It becomes clear that someone will try to force the issue. A Fool's Knot is a sensitive portrait of a man's attempt to reclaim his cultural identity and, at the same time, stimulate change. The contradictions he must confront in his campaign against the grinding poverty of his people lead almost inevitably to conflict. [more]

Keywords: kenya, africa, culture, change, society

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Peddlespoon Oar Knot

Fiction
English
2 Words
Ages 16 and up
365
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Pirate Tale of a modern day adventure found in a trip to a local flee market and the [more]

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Arthur Gask The Hangman's Knot

Fiction
English
104057 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Arthur Cecil Gask (10 July 1869—25 June 1951), dentist and novelist, was born on 10 July 1869 at St Marylebone, London, fourth of five children of Charles Gask, merchant, and his wife Fanny, née Edis.[1] Gask, accompanied by his second wife, their two sons, and by a daughter of his first marriage, emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia in 1920, where he set up practice as a dentist. He was among the first in the city to carry out extractions with gas.[1] [more]

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George Bernard Shaw The Irrational Knot

Being the Second Novel of His Nonage

Fiction
English
120519 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. He was also an essayist, novelist and short story writer. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems with a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Issues which engaged Shaw's attention included education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. [more]

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Ellis Meredith The Master-Knot of Human Fate

Fiction
English
33839 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Ellis Meredith (1865–1955) was an American suffragist, journalist, and novelist, known as the Susan B. Anthony of Colorado.[1][2] Her mother Emily R. Meredith was a suffragist as well.[2] Ellis Meredith was born in Montana in 1865, and later moved to Denver, where she joined the Rocky Mountain News in 1893.[2][3] She began writing the column A Woman's World for the Rocky Mountain News in 1889, where she (among other things) advocated women's suffrage.[4] In 1890 she and five other women founded the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association. [more]

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Ellis Meredith The Master-Knot of Human Fate

Fiction
English
34462 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Ellis Meredith (1865–1955) was an American suffragist, journalist, and novelist, known as the Susan B. Anthony of Colorado. [more]

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Georg Manville Fenn The Dark House A Knot Unravelled

Fiction
English
34666 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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"Don't drink our sherry, Charles?" Mr Preenham, the butler, stood by the table in the gloomy servants' hall, as [more]

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ELLIS MEREDITH THE MASTER-KNOT OF HUMAN FATE

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34545 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Ellis Meredith (1865–1955) was an American suffragist, journalist, and novelist, known as the Susan B. Anthony of Colorado.[1][2] [more]

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Ellis Meredith The Master-Knot of Human Fate

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34467 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Ellis Meredith (1865–1955) was an American suffragist, journalist, and novelist, known as the Susan B. Anthony of Colorado.[1][2] Her mother Emily R. Meredith was a suffragist as well.[2] Ellis Meredith was born in Montana in 1865, and later moved to Denver, where she joined the Rocky Mountain News in 1893.[2][3] She began writing the column A Woman's World for the Rocky Mountain News in 1889, where she (among other things) advocated women's suffrage.[4] In 1890 she and five other women founded the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association. [more]

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Ellis Meredith The Master-Knot of Human Fate

Fiction
English
34496 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Ellis Meredith (1865–1955) was an American suffragist, journalist, and novelist, known as the Susan B. Anthony of Colorado.[1][2] Her mother Emily R. Meredith was a suffragist as well.[2] Ellis Meredith was born in Montana in 1865, and later moved to Denver, where she joined the Rocky Mountain News in 1893.[2][3] She began writing the column A Woman's World for the Rocky Mountain News in 1889, where she (among other things) advocated women's suffrage.[4] In 1890 she and five other women founded the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association.[4] In 1893 she went to the Woman’s Congress at the Chicago World’s Fair in August 1893 to ask for help from Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone, leading suffrage activists, saying, "If Colorado goes for woman suffrage, you may count on a landslide in that direction throughout the west."[4] Susan B. Anthony agreed to send organizer Carrie Chapman Catt to help, and Meredith wrote to Anthony about the situation in Colorado while Carrie Chapman Catt traveled around Colorado organizing.[4][5] [more]

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