Books with title The Golden Bough

The Golden Bowl is a novel by Henry James first published in 1904. Against the backdrop of England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery complete what some critics call the "major phase" of James career. The Golden Bowl explores the confusing relationship between father and daughter and their respective spouses. The novel focuses deeply and almost exclusively on the consciousness of the central characters. The title is a quotation from Ecclesiastes 13:6-7: "Before they break the silver cord, and break the golden cup". The novel has been adapted to film.*This book contains a small biography of the author.

In biblical times, Itamar, the tailor's son, has carefully carried the High Priest's robe―with its little golden bells sewn onto the hem―home for his father to mend. But one day, one of the bells is missing! When nobody turns in the lost bell at the Claiming Stone, Itamar wonders if the tiny bell will ever be found. A surprise ending brings the story into modern times when an archaeologist finds a golden bell at a Jerusalem dig.

Theresa Bertilla Acquah Theresa Bertilla Acquah (nee Fitz-Williams) was born in Effie-Kuma, in the Western Region of Ghana in 1952. Her father was an academic, a school planter and headmaster and her mother was a confectionary and a baker. She developed a keen interest in education as a young girl and followed in her father’s footsteps after secondary school by completing her tertiary education at Holy Child Teacher Training Colleague in Takoradi, with a focus on Primary Education. She started her career at the Methodist School in Takoradi and worked in that region before moving to Slovenia (former Yugoslavia) with her husband who was completing his PHD in that country. Whilst in Yugoslavia, she learnt Slovenian at the National University and also taught English at various schools in the capital city, Ljubljana. The family returned to Ghana in 1980 and Mrs Acquah took a role at Association International School in Accra, one of the premier schools in Ghana at the time, where she served as a classroom teach in the Primary department and as a Drama teacher to the wider school community. From Association International School, she moved to Legon Primary School linked to the renown University of Ghana, Legon, where she taught as a Primary School teacher until she and her husband's relocation to Vienna, Austria in 1985. After settling the family in Vienna, Austria, she took on substitute teaching roles at the prestigious Vienna International School before moving into full time Primary School teaching at the school in 1992, retiring recently in 2014. She taught numerous classes and was privileged to see many of the students she taught at primary school graduating from secondary school and subsequently university. In addition to the on-going training and development provided by the international school, Mrs Acquah took part in teacher training and development programmes in the US, including at John Hopkins University, and in the UK, including at Warwick University. One of her focus areas are teaching of the English language to foreign students, which was particularly vital in the international school setting where she taught students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Her vision for education is fuelled by a desire to make education appealing to every child. Each individual learns differently: at a different pace and with diverse cognitive abilities. Recognizing this, she tuned her teaching style to supplement the general classroom teaching with individualized learning strategies that were tailored to the individual learning needs of the child. She achieved success in two distinct ways. Firstly, by using games and art as a form of teaching, which allows the teacher to come to the child’s level thereby building trust that served as a platform to impart knowledge. Secondly, by devising one-to-one focused teaching time during the school day and/or after school activities, which benefited low achieving students by giving them additional attention and drawing out their confidence to learn as well as high achieving students by encouraging and not suppressing their eagerness to learn. In addition to the her formal teaching role, Mrs Acquah provides support both financially and in kind to various charities, orphanages and organizations in Ghana that focus on children and educational development. Mrs Acquah is married with 3 children and lives between Ghana and Austria.

In biblical times, Itamar, the tailor's son, has carefully carried the High Priest's robe—with its little golden bells sewn onto the hem—home for his father to mend. But one day, one of the bells is missing! When nobody turns in the lost bell at the Claiming Stone, Itamar wonders if the tiny bell will ever be found. A surprise ending brings the story into modern times when an archaeologist finds a golden bell at a Jerusalem dig.

Shy Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, shares an uncommonly close bond with her father. Widower Adam Verver, a financier and art connoisseur, has bought everything he wants, including a titled husband for his daughter. Maggie is charmed by Prince Amerigo, an Italian nobleman of reduced means. Wishing to provide her father with companionship, she persuades him to marry her best friend, Charlotte Stant. But unbeknownst to Maggie and Adam, Charlotte and the Prince are concealing a guilty secret that will strike at the foundations of both marriages.Henry James explores his favorite themes in this novel — money, class, desire, and the collision of European and American cultures. Rich in the author's characteristic psychological insights, the story constitutes a fascinating study of character in a privileged, claustrophobic backdrop. James examines the illusions that unite people, the deceits that keep them together, and the way that trust can become a form of denial.

'This story of the alliance between Italian aristocracy and American millionaires is "a work unique among all [James'] novels: it is [his] only novel in which things come out right for his characters ...he had finally resolved the questions, curious and passionate, that had kept him at his desk on his inquiries into the process of living. He could now make his peace with America - and he could now collect and unify the work of a lifetime' - Leon Edel in "The Life of Henry James".

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses. The novel focuses deeply and almost exclusively on the consciousness of the central characters, with sometimes obsessive detail but also with powerful insight. The title is a quotation from Ecclesiastes 12:6, "…or the golden bowl be broken, …then shall the dust return to the earth as it was".