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Timber-Wolf is a dashing rider who rides into the troublesome village called Big Pine. Big Pine is a tiny human outpost set well within the rim of the great south-western wilderness country. Wolf's friend is in big trouble amidst a mad-rush for suspected treasure. How will Wolf rescue his friend now? And who are the people he has pissed off?
How does an Art Gallery attendant pass the time? A former employee of the Walker, in Liverpool, reminisces, and recalls what happened when they gave their imagination free rein. Honestly, hilarious.Zum Buch
Twenty-one-year-old Stephanie Stephenson has been in a safehouse with her three sexy bodyguards for many months. She’s a lone witness to a murder and they’ve been protecting her from Santonio, the mob boss, who has vowed revenge if she dared to testify. It’s all been strictly professional and platonic with her hunky bodyguards. Now the trial is over and Stephanie is free to go. But her three bodyguards have other plans for Stephanie…very naughty plans.Zum Buch
Alexander Kuprin was born in Narovchat, Penza in Russia on 7th September 1870. At 3 his Father died and he and mother moved to Moscow. By 10 he was enrolled at the Second Moscow Military High School and there his interest in literature began. The Alexander Military Academy followed and two years later he was a sub-lieutenant and posted to an Infantry Regiment for a further four years. Despite his duties he was a now a keen writer and published his first short story at this time. His military duties also garnered him experiences for his breakthrough work ‘The Duel’. Leaving the military he left for Kiev to work for local newspapers. He continued to publish both stories and novels and by 1901 he was in St Petersburg becoming part of a group that included Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Maxim Gorky and Leonid Andreyev. In the years that followed further controversial works and acclaim followed. His comments on the regime meant he was also put under secret police surveillance. As World War I erupted, Kuprin opened a military hospital but was then given command of an infantry company in Finland. He was soon discharged on grounds of ill health. The October Revolution saw him praise Lenin, but he warned that the Bolsheviks threatened Russian culture and might cause further widespread suffering to the peasants. As Civil War raged he took his family to Helsinki and then on to Paris. Exile saw his talents decline further and his succumbing to alcoholism. He became lonely and withdrawn. The family's poverty increased his malaise. In May 1937, the Kuprin’s returned to Moscow. He now saw his work published but wrote almost nothing new. In 1938 his health rapidly deteriorated. Already suffering from a kidney problems and sclerosis, he had now developed cancer of the oesophagus. Alexander Kuprin died on 25th August 1938.Zum Buch
The love stories of Rachel Lawson from her Magicians and Stand and Deliver series. In this edition the book is read to you by the authorZum Buch
Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 1 - Six of the Best - Rudyard Kipling - An Introduction 2 - Rudyard Kipling - An Introduction 3 - The Phantom Rickshaw By Rudyard Kipling 4 - They by Rudyard Kipling 5 - Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling 6 - Mark Of The Beast By Rudyard Kipling 7 - The Maltese Cat by Rudyard Kipling 8 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling 9 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard KiplingZum Buch
As we grow from child to adult we are usually told short stories which soften and help us understand the vital information a story has to impart. It’s a clever concept by saying one thing―many times with an animal protagonist―and meaning another. In adult years these stories continue along the same lines but what they are really saying is that what you see is not always what you get. Words from the pens of Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, Henry James and others really can illuminate and explain subjects difficult to broach. 1 - Fables for Adults - An Introduction 2 - The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde 3 - The Altar of the Dead - Part 1 by Henry James 4 - The Altar of the Dead - Part 2 by Henry James 5 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 6 - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde 7 - The Rewards of Industry by Richard Garnett 8 - The Lightning Rod Man by Herman Melville 9 - The Man Who Hated God by Winifred Holtby 10 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson 11 - The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde 12 - How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials by Nikolai Schedrin 13 - The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde 14 - The Tale Of The Stairs by Hristo Smirenski 15 - The Juniper Tree by The Brothers Grimm 16 - The Three Palaces by Richard Garnett 17 - The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde 18 - Jeannot and Colin by VoltaireZum Buch
