Sheridan Le Fanu,wrote fellow author, M.R. lames,'stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories: A best-selling author from 1860 to 880. Le Fanu is feted today as a master of his art. In a Glass Darl,'lv is a remarkable collection of tales of the supernatural, in which the patients of Dr Heselius are plagued by malignant apparitions and vampires, or are drugged into a state of living death. The good doctor can usually explain such phenomena in terms of psychopathology, but Le Fanu seems deliberately ambivalent about the doctor's theories, and many disturbing implications remain unsolved. Each story exerts the compelling appeal of a thoroughly good yarn, but In a Glass Darkly is a profoundly disorienting book that has become a classic of mystery and occult literature.
London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her husband David making a living as‘The Angriest Man in Holloway’，she figured she could put up with anything Until．that is，David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too．A far-too-good person who starts committing crimes of Charity like taking in the homeless and giving their kids’toys away．Suddenly Katie's feeling very bad about herself，and thinking that if charity egins at home．then maybe it's time to move…
Eine Reminiszenz an Helene Hanff's ' Charing Cross Road'. Eine warme, witzige und durch und durch unterhaltsame Ode an die Kraft des geschrieben Wortes.
Latina superstar Thalia isback with Radiante! , a gorgeous guide for women seeking afit and fabulous pregnancy. Having just enjoyed the same herself,Thalia is the perfect woman to advise and inspire, sharingnutrition advice, fitness tips, fashion dos and don'ts, and so muchmore. She's broken the book down into trimesters (including thelittle acknowledged but very real "fourth" trimester). Each sectionaddresses a woman's state of mind, body, and spirit. Thalia and herpersonal ob-gyn, Dr. Kramer, advise first time moms on theimportance of prenatal care, what tests will be offered when, andhow best to cope with any attendant anxieties. With its soundadvice and Thalia's bright personality stamped on every page, Radiante! is a go-to resource formoms-to-be.
This edition of Meredith's satirical novel of manners reprints that of 1897, which incorporated Meredith's revisions to the first edition of 1879.The editor has further emended some errors which escaped Meredith's attention and has provided exceptionally useful notes to the novel. As background, Meredith's "Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit" is provided. The critical essays are by Robert D. Mayo,Richard B. Hudson, Jenni Calder, Gillian Beer, John Goode, Charles J.Hill, Michael Sundell, Virginia Woolf, John Lucas, and Robert M.Adams.
Following the hugely successful hardback, thisextraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to bethe non fiction paperback for 2002. Hidden behind velvet curtainsabove a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormousand beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map ofanywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named WilliamSmith. Born in 1769 his life was beset by troubles: he wasimprisoned for debt, turned out of his home, his work wasplagiarised, his wife went insane and the scientific establishmentshunned him. It was not until 1829, when a Yorkshire aristocratrecognised his genius, that he was returned to London in triumph:The Map That Changed the World is his story.
After long travels Merlin has returned to Alba the futre England Likewise Urtha High King of the Cornovidi is coming home as well And Jason is sailing in on the Argo to seek his son who hides somewhere in the kingdom. But Urthas stronghld has been taken by warriors form Ghostland They claim it as their own Now there will be war-against the Otherworld.
During World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz'sAngel of Death is told in counterpoint to the lives of thesurvivors, who until now have kept silent about their heinousdeath-camp ordeals. 8 pages of photographs.
Elizabeth Bennet is at first determined to dislike Mr. Darcy, who is handsome and eligible. This misjudgment only matched in folly by Darcy's arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to truer feelings in a comedy concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved. Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775. Her father, the Reverend George Austen, was rector of Steventon, where she spent her first twenty-five years, along with her six brothers (two of them later naval officers in the Napoleonic wars) and her adored sister, Cassandra. She read voraciously from an early age, counting among her favorites the novels of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Fanny Burney, and the poetry of William Cowper and George Crabbe. Her family was lively and affectionate and they encouraged her precocious literary efforts, the earliest dating from age twelve, which already displayed the beginnings of her comic style. Her first novels, Elinor and Marianne (1796) and First Impressions (1
A new erotic paranormal series, starring dragon shapeshifters,kicks off with a very sexy debut... Prince Dylan MacLeod is one of the last pure-blood dragon shape-shifters-and ruler of a dying race, the Dragonstar clan. It fallsto him to protect his people and their ancient magic. But he hasone important duty: to provide an heir... Like all dragons, Dylan, who has a dark, rampant sexual appetite,can only procreate with his destined mate-for whom he's searchedfor the last five hundred years. But his quest is delayed when adisease sweeps through the Dragonstars, and Dylan must venture tothe human world to find a cure. He tracks down bio-chemist PhoebeQuillum, never imagining the beautiful scientist would be the matehe's been seeking. But even with the fate of the clan on theirshoulders, Phoebe and Dylan are overcome by their sexualdesire. Their passion turns to something truer, but when Phoebe iskidnapped by Dylan's oldest enemy, he must risk everything for hislove and his clan...
Passing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistan's cities tothe harsh mud villages beyond, Daniyal Mueenuddin's linked storiesdescribe the interwoven lives of an aging feudal landowner, hisservants and managers, and his extended family, industrialists whohave lost touch with the land. In the spirit of Joyce's Dublinersand Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches, these storiescomprehensively illuminate a world, describing members ofparliament and farm workers, Islamabad society girls and desperateservant women. A hard-driven politician at the height of his powersfalls critically ill and seeks to perpetuate his legacy; a girlfrom a declining Lahori family becomes a wealthy relative'smistress, thinking there will be no cost; an electrician confrontsa violent assailant in order to protect his most valuablepossession; a maidservant who advances herself through sexualfavors unexpectedly falls in love. Together the stories in In OtherRooms, Other Wonders make up a vivid portrait of feudal Pakistan,describing the advan
Even is a slam-bam humdinger of a thriller, with breakneck pacing that won't leave you even a moment to catch your breath. Andrew Grant has created a hero sointriguing that readers will surely clamour for the next book in what I hope will be a long-lived series. I will certainly be looking forward to it!
Every day we produce loads of data about ourselves simply byliving in the modern world: we click web pages, shop with creditcards, and make cell phone calls. Companies like Yahoo and Googleare harvesting an average of 2,500 details about each of us everymonth. Who is looking at this data and what are they doing with it?Journalist Stephen Baker explores these questions and provides uswith a fascinating guide to the world we're entering--and to thepeople controlling that world. The Numerati have infiltrated everyrealm of human affairs, profiling us as workers, shoppers, voters,potential terrorists--and lovers. The implications are vast.Privacy evaporates. Our bosses can monitor our every move.Retailers can better tempt us to make impulse buys. But theNumerati can also work on our behalf, diagnosing an illness beforewe're aware of the symptoms, or even helping us find our soul mate.Entertaining and enlightening, "The Numerati" shows how a powerfulnew endeavor--the mathematical modeling of humanity--will t
One of the great classics of Western literature，Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical de*ion. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean. the street urchin Gavroche.the rascal Thenardier. the implacable detective lavert， and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosotte， have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis persoae. The reader is also treated to the unforgettable de*ions of the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean's flight through the Paris sewers.
" Pas d'adieu, guapa, parce que nous ne sommes pas séparés.J'espère que tout ira bien dans les Gredos.Va maintenant. Va pourde bon. Non ", il continuait à parler tranquillement, sagement,tandis que Pilar entra?nait la jeune fille. " Ne te retourne pas.Mets ton pied dans l'étrier. Oui. Ton pied. Aide-la ", dit-il àPilar. " Soulève-la. Mets-la en selle. " Il tourna la tête, ensueur, et regarda vers le bas de la pente puis ramena son regard àl'endroit où la jeune fille était en selle avec Pilar auprès d'elleet Pablo juste derrière. " Maintenant, va " dit-il. " Va. " Elleallait tourner la tète. " Ne regarde pas en arrière ", dit RobertJordan. " Va. " Et Pablo frappa le cheval sur la croupe avec uneentrave...
