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A compelling and extraordinary interview with a remote viewer, who shares his own personal experiences with remote viewing and reveals some very disturbing things about our past and future. Please review this book, if you liked it!
Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25th June 1903 in Motihari, Bihar, in what was then British India. When Eric was one his mother took him to England and they settled at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. His education was at the nearby convent school before moving on to St Cyprian's School at Eastbourne and finally Eton where his academic studies were sidelined in favour of work on college publications. University could not be achieved without a scholarship, which depended on good grades, and so it was decided that Eric should join the Imperial Police. Now 19 he chose a posting in Burma, then a province of British India. He was appointed an Assistant District Superintendent in November 1922. In Burma, he was an outsider. However, he acquired a moustache and some local tattoos—small badly drawn blue circles on his knuckles. In 1927 he contracted dengue fever and returned to England to convalesce. At home he reappraised his life and resigned his job to become a writer. His police experiences were later used for ‘Burmese Days’. By 1932 he had a literary agent who secured him an offer to publish a non-fiction work ‘Down and Out in London and Paris’ for a £40 advance, through the radical and socialist Victor Gollancz publishing house. It was published in January 1933 as ‘by George Orwell’, it was modestly successful. ‘Burmese Days’ (1934) and ‘A Clergyman's Daughter’ (1935) were published whilst Orwell kept on with writing ‘Keep the Aspidistra Flying’. In January 1936, he set out by public transport to research life for the ordinary man and woman in Wigan. From these experiences emerged ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’. He also caught the eye of Special Branch who kept him under surveillance until the year before the release of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’. Later in December 1936 Orwell set out to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Initially stationed at Alcubierre 1,500 feet above sea level, in the depth of winter on the Aragon Front. Military action was scant as was the lack of munitions, food and firewood. In April, Orwell returned to Barcelona and was caught up in the Barcelona May Days and its factional in-fighting. Returning to the Aragon Front he was almost immediately hit by a sniper's bullet through the throat. The bullet barely missed the artery but he survived. His experiences were expressed in ‘Homage to Catalonia’ (1938) but, out of fashion with its times, it was a commercial failure. When World War Two started Orwell was declared ‘unfit for any kind of military service’ but finally obtained ‘war work’ with the BBC's Eastern Service. In September 1943, after two years Orwell left the BBC to concentrate on a new idea: ‘Animal Farm’. By April 1944 ‘Animal Farm’ was ready for publication. It was a huge and resounding success. Orwell left London for the island of Jura in April 1947 to work on ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’. Once more health became an issue and in December a chest specialist was summoned from Glasgow who diagnosed tuberculosis. By the end of July Orwell was able to return to Jura to finish ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’. It was published the following June to immediate critical and popular acclaim. By Christmas Orwell's health had again begun to decline. Early on the morning of 21st January, an artery burst in Orwell's lungs. It was fatal. He was dead at 46.Voir livre
Ryūnosuke Niihara was born in Kyōbashi, Tokyo in Japan on the 1st March 1892. Sadly, his mother suffered severe mental illness after his birth and so, at only eight months old, he was sent to be raised by his maternal uncle and aunt, from whom he received the Akutagawa family name. He was fascinated by classical Chinese literature from his early years and began writing after entering what was then the Tokyo Imperial University in 1913 to study English Literature. The following year Akutagawa and his friends revived the literary journal ‘New Currents of Thought’ which published their own works and translations of such icons as W B Yeats and Anatole France. Akutagawa published "Rashōmon" in 1915 and whilst it was disliked by his friends everyone else knew better. As other short stories followed so did his growing literary reputation as the father of the Japanese short story. Much of his work reinterpreted former classical works and incidents and this, melded with his strong dislike of naturalism, produced a writer of rare and genuine quality. His character palette featured strong and domineering women, mainly based on his mother and the aunt who helped raise him. In 1921, he spent four months in China as a reporter. Whilst there his health was compromised by several illnesses and both his physical and mental health spiralled downwards. He began to suffer from hallucinations and dreaded that he might have inherited his mother’s mental disorders. Although he survived one suicide attempt Ryūnosuke Akutagawa died on the 24th July 1927 in Tokyo from an overdose of Veronal, a barbiturate. He was 35.Voir livre
A dog sets out on an unlikely path of revenge against the family who left him to die -- by publishing his tell-all memoirs! An elderly man is at his wit’s end trying to figure how to deal with his wife’s inexplicable decision to divorce him. A “girl” in her 40s learns on a dating site that there are no free lunches and free iPhones in this world. A failed writer sets out to commit suicide and finds himself catapulted into a future where he is successful – and dead under suspicious circumstances. A hypochondriac steps out of his comfort zone to do one brave act during the Covid lockdown… Here’s a novelette and a collection of short stories to put a smile on your face. Filled with characters and situations ranging from silly and mundane to quirky and absurd, this is a breezy rollercoaster ride.Voir livre
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "Markheim" is a dark tale of crime, mysteries, and the choices that shape our destinies. In an antique shop on Christmas Eve in London, Markheim commits a dreadful act – murder. But is it just an ordinary crime? Or is there something more hidden behind it? When a mysterious man appears in the shop, Markheim must make a decision that will change his life forever. Will he choose light or darkness? Find out for yourself in this intriguing story of sin and temptation.Voir livre
Arthur Cecil Gask was born on 10th July 1869 in Marylebone, London. He began his career as an author late in life. It was only in 1920 when he and his second wife and family emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia to set up a dental practice that writing took its hold. Gask paid for the publication of his first work, ‘The Secret of the Sandhills’, which was an immediate success, both commercially and critically. Over the next 3 decades Gask wrote over thirty books, usually featuring his detective invention Gilbert Larose, as well as short stories. Many of his works were translated, serialised and even broadcast on the radio. HG Wells and Bertrand Russell were avid fans. In the last years of his life he was still writing, usually two novels a year. Arthur Gask died on 25th June 1951, in Adelaide, Australia. He was 81 In this story we meet his most popular character, Detective Gilbert Larose, who, whilst on holiday, is drawn into a case of dogs being poisoned. But why would anyone do that?Voir livre
Christmas with the family takes a dark turn in this chilling short story by the acclaimed author of “The Call of Cthulhu”.Beckoned by his family, a man travels to a snowy, seaside Massachusetts town to observe an ancient festival. His family has long celebrated it since the days when it was forbidden. But when he arrives, he notices something is off about this community . . . little details that just don’t add up. What the man witnesses at his family’s house does little to comfort him. Soon he is drawn into a world unlike any he has known, and its sights will haunt him for the rest of his life . . .Voir livre
