The Chimney Sweep's Ransom

The Chimney Sweep's Ransom
Author: Dave Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1992
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781556612688

A young English boy is sold to be trained as a chimney sweep and is rescued by his brother with the help of John Wesley. Ages 8-12.

Chimney Sweep's Ransom

Chimney Sweep's Ransom
Author: Dave Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1992-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781417607761

In this Trailblazer Book, a young English boy is sold to be trained as a chimney sweep and his rescued by his brother with the help of John Wesley.

A King's Ransom

A King's Ransom
Author: Simon Burrows
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2010-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1441178961

If Charles Théveneau de Morande was a character in a novel, he would be considered the ultimate anti-hero. Morande's historical significance far transcends his success as a blackmailer and scandalous pamphleteer. Having extorted the French monarchy he turned coat and during the War of American Independence and throughout the 1780s was France's leading political spy in London. In addition, he was a highly successful police agent among his fellow exiles and one of the most influential journalists of his time. His enemies or victims - who invariably suffered intense damage to their reputations - included many of the most colourful figures of his day. Nevertheless, Morande survived the wrath of both Louis XV and the revolution, outlived his enemies, and died peacefully in his bed. Morande's life story is a tale of intrigue, blackmail, espionage, duels, kidnap, murder, politics, conspiracy and crime. At the same time, it offers a chance to examine some of the most important issues of French history and revolution.

Charlie the Chimneysweep and Sooty

Charlie the Chimneysweep and Sooty
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 47
Release: 1983
Genre: Chimney sweeps
ISBN: 9780907159414

Father Christmas pays a surprise visit to Charlie, an orphaned chimneysweep, and gives him presents which lead to a permanent home for Charlie and his cat, Sooty.

Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps

Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps
Author: Bruce Montague
Publisher: Metro Publishing
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2014-04-07
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1784180424

Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps is a wideranging, highly readable collection of information about marriage, a miscellany of facts, lore, statistics, old wives' tales, historical snippets, anecdotes, quotations, myths and superstitions.From the origin of the reading of banns to marriages conducted by ships' captains, the significance to a bride of the wooden spoon to the tradition of tossing her garter, the red tape required before a marriage can take place to Amish weddings and wedlock in literature, here is a book in which readers, married, soon-to-be-married, or determinedly single, are bound to find something to interest, amuse, astonish or, sometimes, appal them.Whether read or dipped into by anxious fiancé, nervous bride, doubtful father-in-law, doting aunt, beaming bridesmaid or melancholy former lover - or simply someone with a passing interest in some of our oldest traditions, religious and pagan - this is a book to delight even the least romantically minded reader.

The Sweep's Boy

The Sweep's Boy
Author: Jim Eldridge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Burglars
ISBN: 9781407111148

In The Sweep's Boy, My Story readers will be transported back to the fog-choked streets of 1870 London, a truly perilous place for a boy like Will. Forced by the Workhouse Master into employment as a chimney sweep, it isn't long before Will's aptitude for scaling small spaces attracts the attention of Hutch, a burglar with big ambitions . . .