Maison d'édition: Free Spirit
These stories are themed arounf the phrase 'Speak Of THe Devil' . By doing this we get you, real life excerpts or imaginative creations of writers. The writers in this book are from Canada and USA.
When our hero, Victor, needs a pseudonym to avoid embarrassing his wife after deciding to pen a book about up-sticking to Greece, he dusts off his original name of V. D. Bucket, the name he was stuck with after being abandoned in a bucket as a baby. As Victor adapts to his adopted homeland, he battles an obsession with the exacting hygiene standards he demanded during his illustrious career as a public health inspector, against the rather less exacting standards of rural Greece. His attempts to master the complexities of the language lead to a number of embarrassing misunderstandings. Crossing paths with the local undertaker, Spiros, was a stroke of good luck for Victor and Marigold, since Spiros just happened to have a house to sell in the charming Greek mountain village of Meli. Of course Spiros didn't explain the strange arrangement of an Albanian living in the stone shed at the bottom of the garden, or mention the old lady's next door filthy habit of burning plastic every morning. He also failed to mention his late uncle had plunged to his death from the roof terrace, but did a wonderful job of selling them on the spectacular views.Voir livre
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMES 'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON 'A PAGE-TURNER' ROBERT LACEY 'CAREFUL AND COMPELLING' KATE MORGAN 'YOU WILL READ IT IN ONE SITTING' MARC MULHOLLAND 'A REAL-LIFE GOLDEN-AGE CRIME NOVEL' SEAN O'CONNOR A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham. On a bleak Tuesday morning in February 1921, 48-year-old Katharine Armstrong died in her bedroom on the first floor of an imposing Edwardian villa overlooking the rolling hills of the isolated borderlands between Wales and England. Within fifteen months of such a sad domestic tragedy, her husband, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, would be arrested, tried and hanged for poisoning her with arsenic, the only solicitor ever to be executed in England. Armstrong's story was retold again and again, decade after decade, in a thousand newspaper articles across the world, and may have also inspired the new breed of popular detective writers seeking to create a cunning criminal at the centre of their thrillers. With all the ingredients of a classic murder mystery, the case is a near-perfect whodunnit. But who, in fact, did it? Was Armstrong really a murderer? One hundred years after the execution, Agatha-Award shortlisted Stephen Bates examines and retells the story of the case, evoking the period and atmosphere of the early 1920s, and questioning the fatal judgement.Voir livre
Society tells us all sorts of lies: "I've got my truth, you've got yours"; "Death is the end"; "I can't ever change"; "Jesus isn't relevant." By approaching these common-held beliefs, author and evangelist J. Mack Stiles comes alongside listeners to explain the flaw in society's thinking and shows how Jesus responds to these untruths. Each lie is held alongside an encounter that Jesus had in the Gospels and takes the listener directly to Jesus's words and actions. Aimed at the questioning inquirer, this book will help listeners understand the relevance of Jesus in today's culture.Voir livre
Your Elected Representatives is the tale of a legislator and how he got to the State Capitol. It is filled with stories about political characters and their interactions with others, alternating between humorous and more telling situations. These are simply curious stories from your elected representative to amuse readers.Voir livre
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was born on 22nd October 1870 in Voronezh province, in the South-West of the Russian Empire. His early life was plagued by his Father’s gambling habits which caused his education to be erratic and the family to lose most of their wealth. Bunin published his first poem in 1887 in St Petersburg and later in Oryol he worked for the local paper and became its editor, handily allowing him to publish his own poems and short stories. There he met and married Varvara Pashchenko. Ivan Bunin's debut book of poetry ‘Poems (1887–1891)’ was published in 1891. This poetry and his translation of Longfellow garnered him his first Pushkin Prize. Now he switched to writing prose and his novella ‘Antonov Apples’ is regarded as his first masterpiece. Many more would follow. The October Revolution of 1905 found Bunin in the Crimea. Scenes of ‘class struggle’ he saw more as the oppressed people's craving for anarchy and destruction. In November 1906 he began a passionate affair with Vera Muromtseva, within a few months they were touring through Egypt and Palestine. ‘The Bird's Shadow’ collection was the result. His second Pushkin Prize came in 1909 for Poems (1903–1906) and further translations. He was now elected to the prestigious Russian Academy. More widespread fame came in 1910 with ‘The Village’, a controversial and bleak portrayal of Russian country life. Travel too beckoned them back to the Middle East, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and for winters in Capri with their friend Maxim Gorky. That friendship suddenly ended in April 1917 as the revolution began to ferment in war-ravaged Russia. After the Bolsheviks took power and the upheavals continued, he decided to leave Russia, finally achieving that in early 1920. It would take some time to heal the wounds and stress he had been under and for his writing to begin again. Settled in France, Bunin published many of his previous works and collections of novellas. He also made regular contributions to the Russian emigre press. Although reluctant to become involved in politics, Bunin was now feted as both a writer and the figurehead of non-Bolshevik Russian values and traditions. In 1933 he became the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ‘for following through and developing with chastity and artfulness the traditions of Russian classic prose.’ In 1938 Bunin began working on the celebrated cycle of nostalgic, and erotically themed stories known Dark Avenues (or Dark Alleys). As World War II broke out he chose to remain in Grasse spending the war at his remote Villa Jeanette, high in the mountains. Ivan Bunin was a staunch anti-Nazi, and often, under difficult conditions, sheltered fugitives after Vichy was occupied by the Germans. He wrote but did not publish during these years until on August 23rd the Nazi’s fled Grasse without a fight. The next day the Americans came. In May 1945 he returned to Paris and, apart from convalescing at times in Juan-les-Pins, he stayed for the rest of his life. After 1948, with his health deteriorating, Bunin concentrated upon writing his memoirs and a book on Chekhov. His last years were overshadowed by bitterness and despair at the situation in Russia and the treatment of its peoples. He was suffering now from asthma, bronchitis and chronic pneumonia. Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin died in a Paris attic flat on 8th November 1953. Heart failure, cardiac asthma and pulmonary sclerosis were given as the causes of death. He was 83.Voir livre
This engaging collection of essays was originally published in The Daily Post Athenian newspaper during the tumultuous 2-year period of 2020-2021. The author, Kathryn L. Hunter, who holds a masters degree in Forestry from Yale University, deftly weaves natural science with social commentary into each article, creating a result that is both entertaining and wise.Voir livre
