Synopsis This text is a magical fable about learning to listen to your heart, read the omens strewn along life''s path and, above all, following your dreams. The book tells the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who dreams of travelling the world in search of a worldly treasure as fabulous as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers, and from there into the Egyptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him. With a visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism and folklore, the author hopes that "The Alchemist" has the power to inspire nations and change people''s lives.
This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1912 Wessex Edition,emended to correct errors that have crept into the text from the manu-* onwards and to incorporate revisions that Hardy made in his "study copy" of the novel and in his marked printer's copy and pageproofs for a Harper and Brothers "sixpenny edition" of 190 I, whenever these revisions can confidently be judged to represent Hardy's final de-liberate intention. The resulting text includes revisions by Hardy that have never before appeared in a modern edition. The novel is fully an-notated and is accompanied by Hardy's map of Wessex and a simplified map of the landscape of Far from the MaddbN Crou,d. Textual notes in-clude a list of emendations, examples of variant readings from the man-u* to the Wessex Edition, and a discussion of the choice of copytext. The textual history of the novel is traced in extracts from studies by Richard Little Purdy and Simon GatrelI. Background and source materials include extracts from correspon-dence and contemp
Stefan and Damon weren't always fighting or succumbing to theirbloodlusts. Once they were loving siblings, who enjoyed all theriches and happiness that their wealthy lifestyle afforded them;loyal brothers who happened to both fall for the same beautifulwoman.Once they were alive...
At once conservative and radical in her beliefs, she saw noconflict in idealizing and mythologizing the Irish peasantry, forexample, while her landlord husband introduced legislation thatwould, in part, lead to the widespread misery, poverty andstarvation of the Great Famine. Nevertheless, as founder of theAbbey Theatre, an outspoken opponent of censorship and mentor, museand mother-figure to W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory played a pivotalrole in shaping Irish history and dramatic history. Moreover,despite her parents' early predictions of spinsterhood, she was nomatronly figure, engaging in a passionate affair while newly-weddedand, as she approached 60, falling for a man almost 20 years herjunior.
While the cops out of Hollywood station deal with the costumed crackheads, prostitutes, purse snatchers, tweakers and ordinary lunatics that haunt the boulevards, in the streets behind the lights and crowds, the real Los Angeles simmers, never far from boiling point. Under the watchful eye of the veteran sergeant they call Oracle, the Hollywood station squad are as different as the streets they police. Budgie Polk's back on duty while still breast-feeding her son, begrudgingly teamed with old school patrol officer Fausto Gamboa. Flotsam and Jetsam live only for surfing and the petite - but intrepid - Meg Takara. Andi McCrea goes off duty and into night classes, while rich kid rookie Wesley Drubb is as desperate to see some action as Nathan 'Hollywood' Weiss is to get his * developed. Under-staffed and over-worked, bound by red tape and hobbled by political correctness, these men and women hold the front line in LA's epicentre, but add a diamond robbery, the Russian mafia and a cluelessly ambitious glass
lder teens and adult readers can't get enough of Gossip Girl, the anonymous narrator who made her catty debut in the bestselling Gossip Girl and titillated readers in the juicy sequel, You Know You Love Me. Now in All I Want Is Everything, readers will love her even more as Gossip Girl dishes up dose after hefty dose of dirt on all her friends-New York's wealthiest private school teens. Sharp wit, intriguing characters, and high-stakes melodrama drive the action of this wildly popular new series.
Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure? The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that wil
AnAnita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel 'They will play with us, thendestroy us...They are what we fear in the dark.' The first warningis unexpected, calculated. The second warning is a gift: a plainwhite mask, carefully wrapped. But white is good -- white means weare only being watched. It seems the power that connects me, AnitaBlake, with Jean-Claude Vampire Master of the City and Richard,leader of the werewolves, is attracting very unwelcome attention --from creatures so feared no vampire will willingly speak theirname. They are known as the Harlequin, and they have the authorityto pass judgement upon me. It is forbidden to speak of theHarlequin unless you've been contacted. And to be contacted is toface a sentence of death.
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The unforgettablenovel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis ofconscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both aninstant bestseller and a critical success when it was firstpublished in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 andwas later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also aclassic. Compassionate,dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers tothe roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindnessand cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18million copies in print and translated into forty languages, thisregional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal.Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story.Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
What do you when your boyfriend tells you he wants space? You give him six thousand miles of it... Frankie's life is falling apart. In less than a week she's gone from having everything - a great job, lovely flat and gorgeous Hugh - to having nothing at all. Devastated, dumped and on the dole, she packs her bags and flies to Los Angeles to stay with an old friend. Her goal? To sort out her life and get over Hugh. She does not, repeat not, go to LA to fall head over heels for an American photographer called Reilly and to run away to Las Vegas. But what happens when Hugh wants her back? Who will she choose? And is it really true that whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? Alexandra Potter's deliciously funny romantic comedy is for every girl who has ever dreamt of running away to Hollywood... or just wished she could reach for the stars.
We love the Gossip Girl girl series…there s enough gossip back-stabbing and bitching to character assassinate the entire population of Manhattan But all done over a lovely cup of skinny latte or three in the cute neigh bourhood coffee house These girls could write Carrie s Sex and the city colunmn in their steep Elle Girl.
Wich her fist two irresistible novels,Anna Maxted won the hearts of readers everyhere.Now,in Behaving Like Adults,she introduces us to twenty-nine-year-old Holly,the sunny,optimistic owner of Girl Meets Boy,a dating service for those who are“beautiful inside and out.”She's ambitious-and successful-with her matchmaking,but she hasn't quite fulfilled her own relationship dreams(her ex-fiance,Nick,seems unlidely to progress from his job as Mr.Elephant,children's party entertainer).So when her friends dare her to pick a man off the top of the pile,she's game. But is one awful eveing the perfect-on-paper Stuart turns out to be a thorough cad,and Holly's belife in the goodness of humanity takes a hit,How can she make good matches when she can no longer trust her ability to read people?What does this mean for her business-and her romantic future?Holly's friends and colleagues are drawn into the compilcated drama of her life,while Holly learns her most important lesson:to truset herself. A must read for
Depuis Daniel Defoe et son Robinson Crusoé, le personnage dunaufragé solitaire a inspiré bien des écrivains. Chacun à samanière a réinventé l'aventure du naufrage, de la survie sur une?le déserte, de la rencontre avec Vendredi, de la solitude, duconflit entre la nature et la civilisation. Rassemblant des textesd'horizons variés et de nombreux documents iconographiques, cetteanthologie propose de découvrir le genre de la robinsonnade. Elleinvite à étudier ses motifs et ses procédés narratifs au fil dessiècles.
A first novel which became a major US film. From the wealthy homes of pre-Revolutionary China to downtown San Francisco, this is the story of four mothers and their first-generation Chinese-American daughters; two generations of women struggling to come to terms with their cultural identity.
In "Love in a Dark Time", Colm Toibin looks at the life and workof some of the greatest and most influential artists of thenineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figuressuch as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar, bornnearly a hundred years later. Toibin studies how a changing worldimpacted on the lives of people who, on the whole, kept theirhomosexuality hidden, and reveals that the laws of desire changedeverything for them, both in their private lives and in the spiritof their work. 'Honest, stimulating, perceptive...Toibin treats hissubject with confidence and authority, both of which attributes areonly strengthened by his moderation of tone and the depth of hiscompassion. He writes with rare tenderness of figures as disparateas Elizabeth Bishop and Francis Bacon, Thomas Mann and RogerCasement, Thom Gunn and Pedro Almodovar' - John Banville, "IrishTimes". 'Such readings are crucial, for it is only whenhomosexuality is removed from the margins and placed at the veryheart
With 90 millinon cipies solk worlkwide，the Key Words with Lodybird reading scheme is the springboard to reading for life. 12 Key Words make up one quarter of all those we read and write；100 Key Words make up half of all those we read and write This essential vocabulary is carefully introduced，practised and developed throughout the scheme. The a series introduces new Key Words The b series practises Key Words The c series develops Key Words using phonics and writing skills
Contre l'avis de sa famille, Doruntine s'est mariée loin deson pays. Une nuit, elle est de retour. Qui l'a ramenée ? Son frèreKonstantin, comme elle le prétend ? Mais il est mort à la guerre !A-t-il alors ressuscité pour tenir la promesse qu'il lui avaitfaite d'aller la chercher en cas de malheur ? S'agit-il d'unimposteur ? Doruntine meurt. Mais de quoi ? Au c?ur de l'Albanie duMoyen Age, le mystère s'épaissit, les conflits s'exacerbent,donnant à lire un thriller captivant et insolite.
What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? What can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? And, why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters. Their impact is huge; they're impossible to predict; yet after they happen we always try to rationalize them. A rallying cry to ignore the 'experts', "The Black Swan" shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertainty.
Serena's come home after getting kicked out of boarding school and everyone wants to know if the rumors are true. Was she pregnant and did she leave her baby in France? Is she really dealing drugs with her initial "S" stamped on each pill? And what's up with her clothes? Is she getting them from a homeless shelter? All Serena wants to do is hang with her friends and have her old life back. Unfortunately, her friends and old life don't seem to want her back. But don't waste any time feeling sorry for her. She's still rich and gorgeous, and manages to draw the attention of two photo-artists who ask her to model for them and then plaster the city with her pictures. (Well, pictures of some part of her. No one's really quite sure which part, though. Belly button, maybe?) Anyway, she also manages to make new friends and shows signs of adding some depth to her otherwise shallow world. Don't expect to walk away feeling enlightened after reading this page turner, however. It's not great literature, but it is
Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound--such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up--only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously. Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.
Far in the future, 60,000 light-years from Earth, a loose confederacy of Terran exiles is locked in battle with the enigmatic Protoss and the ruthless Zerg Swarm, as each species struggles to ensure its own survival among the stars -- war that will herald the beginning of mankind's greatest chapter or foretell its violent, bloody end. All Ardo Menikov ever dreamed of was to live in peace on the verdant colony world of Bountiful. But when the vicious Zerg Swarm attacked the colony and annihilated his loved ones, Ardo was forced to wake from his dream and accept the brutal realities of a war-torn galaxy. Now a confederate marine, charged with defending the worlds of the Terran confederacy, Ardo must come to terms with the painful memories of his past -- and the unsettling truths that may dominate his future.
