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Life Sketches

Autore: John Hersey

Numero di pagine: 384

This collection—harvest of a lifetime of brilliant reportage and reflection—brings together the most memorable biographical pieces John Hersey has written over the past fifty years. His subjects range from Sinclair Lewis, for whom the twenty-three-year-old Hersey was secretary, and the young John F. Kennedy as he related to Hersey the dramatic story of PT 109, to Private John Daniel Ramey and his efforts to overcome illiteracy with the help of the U.S. Army, and Jessica Kelley, an elderly widow trapped in a buckling tenement as the 1955 Connecticut floods raged outside. Whether describing a brisk morning stroll with President Truman or hours spent fishing for blues with Lillian Hellman, recounting Benjamin Weintraub’s harrowing escape from a Nazi death camp or Varsell Pleas’s dangerous struggle for voting rights in the Mississippi of 1964, Hersey brings us face to face with some of the extraordinary events and people of the past half century. And it is with his profoundly curious and sympathetic mind and unsurpassed journalistic eloquence that he brings each startlingly to life. “The skill that won Hersey a Pulitzer Prize in 1945 is more than evident… an important...

A Bundle of Life

Autore: John Oliver Hobbes

Numero di pagine: 196

DAILY NEWS. It abounds in epigrams, and is full of sentiment and satire. The characters are drawn with a deft touch, the dialogue is swift and pointed, the setting is delicately artificial.... The book is full of felicities of phrase, of shafts of wit. DAILY TELEGRAPH. The style will be found to exhibit the same polish and frigid glitter as before. It is the story which is so poor and disappointing.... Nor is the character-drawing very felicitous, for although John Oliver Hobbes says very shrewd things about her personages, she seems hardly to have interpreted them to herself. If only this indubitably clever writer would forego the luxury of writing for a twelve-month! ATHENAEUM. It is like entering a new world to suddenly come across a book by John Oliver Hobbes.... There is hardly a page on which at least one epigram does not occur, or some admirably phrased description: the whole very cynical and pessimistic of course, but somehow all the more amusing for that.... Though some of the women are hardly dealt with, at least one and possibly two are charming.... This book must certainly be placed very high among the books which have given the Pseudonym Library its reputation. PALL...

Take It from Me

Autore: Neal O'hara

Numero di pagine: 284

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully...

'Way Out Yonder, the Romance of a New City

Autore: William Lightfoot Visscher

Numero di pagine: 250

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully...

In Honour's Cause

Autore: George Manville Fenn

Numero di pagine: 258

"[...] "Pooh! no one can hear." "But what do you mean about the five pounds?" "Didn't you hear? They say he wrote to some one in Hanover saying that he could not understand the English, for when he came to the Palace they told him it was his, and when he looked out of the window he saw a park with a long canal in it, and they told him that was his too. Then next day the ranger sent him a big brace of carp out of it, and when they told him he was to behave like a prince and give the messenger five guineas, he was astonished. Oh, he isn't a bit like a king."[...]".

In Direst Peril

Autore: David Christie Murray

Numero di pagine: 120

I have told my wife quite plainly that in my opinion I am as little fitted by nature for the task she has laid upon my shoulders as any man alive. I have spent a great part of my life in action; and though the later part of it has been quieter and more peaceful than the earlier, and though I have enjoyed opportunities of study which I never had before, I am still anything but a bookish man, and I am not at all confident about such essential matters as grammar and spelling. The history I am called upon to tell is one which, if it were put into the hands of a professed man of letters, might be made unusually interesting. I am sure of that, for in a life of strange adventure I have encountered nothing so strange. But, for my own part, the utmost I can do is to tell the thing as it happened as nearly as I can, and if I cannot command those graces of style which would come naturally to a practised pen, I can only ask that the reader will dispense with them. The natural beginning of the story is that I fell in love with the lady who has now for eight-and-thirty blessed and happy years been my wife. It may be that I may not again find opportunity to say one thing that should be said....

Sunshine Bill

Autore: William Henry Giles Kingston

Numero di pagine: 238

Chapter One. Sunshine Bill, according to the world's notion, was not "born with a silver spoon in his mouth;" but he had, which was far better, kind, honest parents. His mother kept an apple-stall at Portsmouth, and his father was part owner of a wherry; but even by their united efforts, in fine weather, they found it hard work to feed and clothe their numerous offspring. Sometimes Sunshine Bill's father was laid up with illness, and sometimes his mother was so; and occasionally he and his brothers and sisters were sick also. Sometimes they had the measles, or small-pox, or a fever; and then there was the doctor to pay, and medicine to buy; consequently, at the end of these visitations, the family cash-box, consisting of an old stocking in a cracked basin, kept on the highest shelf of their sitting-room, was generally empty, and they considered themselves fortunate if they were not in debt besides. Still, no one ever heard them complain, or saw them quarrel, or beat their children, as some people do when things do not go straight with them; nor did their children ever fight among themselves. Even, indeed, in the worst of times, Sunshine Bill's mother managed to find a crust of...

Fairfax and His Pride

Autore: Marie Van Vorst

Numero di pagine: 106

One bitter day in January in the year 1880, when New York was a tranquil city, a young man stood at the South Ferry waiting for the up-town horse car. With a few other passengers he had just left the packet which had arrived in New York harbour that afternoon from New Orleans. Antony Fairfax was an utter stranger to the North. In his hand he carried a small hand-bag, and by his side on the snow rested his single valise. Before him waited a red and yellow tram-car drawn by lean horses, from whose backs the vapour rose on the frosty air. Muffled to his ears, the driver beat together his hands in their leather gloves; the conductor stamped his feet. The traveller climbed into the car, lifting his big bag after him. The cold was even more terrible to him than to the conductor and driver. He had come from the South, where he had left the roses and magnolias in bloom, and the warmth of the country was in his blood. He dug his feet into the straw covering the floor of the car, buttoned his coat tight about his neck, pushed his hands deep in his pockets and sat wondering at the numbing cold. This, then, was the North! He watched with interest the few other passengers board the little car: ...

Sunshine Bill

Autore: W. H. G. Kingston

Numero di pagine: 120

Sunshine Bill, according to the world's notion, was not "born with a silver spoon in his mouth;" but he had, which was far better, kind, honest parents. His mother kept an apple-stall at Portsmouth, and his father was part owner of a wherry; but even by their united efforts, in fine weather, they found it hard work to feed and clothe their numerous offspring.

Human Affairs

Autore: Vincent O'sullivan

Numero di pagine: 292

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully...

Humanistic Geography and Literature

Autore: Douglas C. D. Pocock

Numero di pagine: 232

This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition, which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded cartographic coverage.

BUNDLE OF LIFE

Autore: John Oliver 1867-1906 Hobbes

Numero di pagine: 172

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Cultural Landscape

Autore: James M. Rubenstein

Numero di pagine: 521

For introductory courses in Human Geography or Cultural Geography. This mid-edition revision of the seventh edition of The Cultural Landscape has been revised to incorporate the September 11th attack on the United States. The text has an established track record as the leader in the field due to its sound pedagogy, timeliness, and readability. It is widely adopted and praised because it is clearly written and organized, up-to-date, and approaches topics in ways that appeal to the majority of introductory human geography instructors and students. - NEW - New Contemporary Geographic Tools box in Chapter 1 called Aftermath of Terror - Reflects contributions of geographic tools to World Trade Center rescue. - NEW - New heading in chapter 6 called Taliban vs. Western Values -Discusses Islam in context of extremist positions. - Keeps students current on the latest information in this ever changing world. - NEW - New Key Issue in Chapter 8 called Why has terrorism increased? - NEW - Complete reworking of Chapter 1 The chapter is now entitled Thinking Like a Geographer. - Eases student comprehension by organizing the chapter around five basic themes. - Exceptionally clear organizat

The Oaks

Autore: Patrick Brown

Numero di pagine: 344

Doug Carlson is over-privileged, mean spirited, self centered, egotistical and evil. He will stop at nothing to get what he wants. He approaches every aspect of his life with the same level of insatiable greed. Business, friends, women are all the same to Doug; just there to satisfy his current need or desire. Doug hopes to buy "The Oaks", an upscale restaurant and bar located on the banks of the Tred Avon, but the current owner Harry is unsure about selling and retiring. Doug, of course, tries to help Harry make up his mind and in the process of doing this Doug experiences a life changing event that now has him reconsidering his view of life. For the first time since he was very young he has found the heart of a woman and wants nothing more than to become a new and better man. Will Doug be able to grow and become the man he truly wants to be, or is his past too close behind to let him get away?

Joan

Autore: Stephen Belber

Numero di pagine: 86

"With the craft and depth of a fine novelist, Mr Belber creates a mosaic of pointed incidents imparting vital information. Beautifully dramatized is the subtext of enduring the damage by a troubled family background, as evidenced by Joan's circuitous life journey with its bouts of self-sabotage, irrational decisions, selfishness and redemptive self-awareness. The form of the memory play is taken to the zenith by JOAN." Theatre Scene "With bold ambition to do just that, to tell the story of one woman's life with honesty and integrity, playwright Stephen Belber's JOAN offers a kaleidoscopic look at its fictional, titular character through a lens of sweeping longitude that slowly creates an absorbing and dramatically effective portrait. The humanity painted by Mr Belber's play is moving precisely because of its simplicity and ordinariness. Every person has a story. Joan's is worth seeing." Stage Left "In many ways, Joan has led a normal existence: daughter and mother, lover and wife, sister and friend, artist and teacher. She has had affairs and heartaches, hopes and frustrations. What's less ordinary is how the playwright Stephen Belber tells her story: in nonchronological vignettes ...

A Philanthropist

Autore: Josephine Daskam Bacon

Numero di pagine: 44

A Philanthropistby Josephine Daskam Bacon suspected him from the first," said Miss Gould, with some irritation, to her lodger. She spoke with irritation because of the amused smile of the lodger. He bowed with the grace that characterized all his lazy movements. "He looked very much like that Tom Waters that I had at the Reformed Drunkards' League last year. I even thought he was Tom-" We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope ...

Homework

Autore: Howard Colyer

Numero di pagine: 118

What is an individual but a collection of memories on legs? Take away the memories and what's left? Legs. And even they aren't working well any more. Homework is a one act play with two characters and thirty phone calls. It opened at the Brockley Jack Theatre in London on 8 November, 2011. 'Howard Colyer's Homework is not only reminiscent of Waiting for Godot's literal and actual inaction, but also of its cyclical and repetitive rhythms.' Sandra Giorgetti, British Theatre Guide. 'There is not one dull moment in this production.' Carolin Kopplin, UK Theatre Network.

Two Roads to Dodge City

Autore: Nigel Nicolson , Adam Nicolson

Numero di pagine: 312

Two Roads to Dodge City offers a vividly fresh look at today's Americans and their ways, by two gifted observers--father and son. This portrait of the country and its people from coast to coast is revealing, understanding, entertaining, and full of surprises. Nigel, the father, starts in Miami, driving in easy stages with stops in small towns and large cities up the coast to Canada, then down the middle of the country to New Orleans, and up to his rendezvous with Adam. Thanks to his frequent visits to the States and his fame as a writer, he has easy access to the grand houses as well as the modest, to leaders of society, government, business, academia, as well as folks in towns and roadside stops. Son Adam, not yet thirty, but already author of several books--one of which, Frontiers, won the 1986 Somerset Maugham Award--wanders a lower road from Los Angeles through San Francisco, Oregon, Idaho, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Santa Fe, and Wyoming. A tall, unmistakably upper-class Englishman, he has an uncanny gift for swiftly striking up acquaintance with any kind and age of man or woman. His California, for example, has an astonishing freshness, and his experiences with the young and wild,...

And The Oscar Goes To

Autore: Matthew Garlin

Numero di pagine: 100

When two estranged brothers find an Oscar amongst their dearly departed mother's possessions and it's not in her name, things get worst for them as they decide to either sell it or give it back to the Academy. This is a play that deals with the themes of death but also of letting go and coming to terms with the past and forgiving others as well as yourself. From the writer of Curtain Call and Woods comes a new comedy/drama dealing with loss and sadness but ultimately being healed by it all.

Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray

Autore: Mike Parker

Numero di pagine: 110

5 m., 9 f.19th Century British playwright, Oscar Wilde, wrote only one novel. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel of exquisite beauty. American playwright, Mike Parker, breathes new life into this classic retelling of the Faust myth by reversing the genders of some of the primary characters, including that of Dorian Gray.Fee: $70 per performance

LItter

Autore: John Doriot

Numero di pagine: 366

Even in a world of beauty, things that can hurt you are all around you. Sometimes they are hiding in plain sight, right in front of you. The Brodies have moved into a beautiful new neighborhood, but all is not as idyllic as it first seems - and the Brodies have secrets of their own. ** Transgressions should never be forgiven a third time - Chinese proverb

Worrying Won't Win

Autore: Montague Glass

Numero di pagine: 86

Like the human-hair business and the green-goods business it is not what it used to be. "Yes, Abe," Morris Perlmutter said to his partner, Abe Potash, as they sat in their office one morning in September, "the English language is practically a brand-new article since the time when I used to went to night school. In them days when a feller says he is feeling like a king, it meant that he was feeling like a king, aber to-day yet, if a feller says he feels like a king it means that he's got stomach and domestic trouble and that he don't know where the money is coming from to pay his next week's laundry bill. Czars is the same way, too. Former times when you called a feller a regular czar you meant he was a regular czar, aber nowadays if you say somebody is a regular czar it means that the poor feller couldn't call his soul his own and that he must got to do what everybody from the shipping-clerk up tells him to do with no back talk."

California

Autore: Sutton Palmer

Numero di pagine: 104

California. The Land of the Sun by Sutton Palmer Leopold is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. This means that we have checked every single page in every title, making it highly unlikely that any material imperfections - such as poor picture quality, blurred or missing text - remain. When our staff observed such imperfections in the original work, these have either been repaired, or the title has been excluded from the Leopold Classic Library catalogue. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in...

Peter Parley's Own Story (Classic Reprint)

Autore: Samuel G. Goodrich

Numero di pagine: 338

Excerpt from Peter Parley's Own Story In the western part of the State of Connecticut is a small town named Ridgefield. This title is descriptive, and indicates the general form and position of the place. It is, in fact, a collection of hills, rolled into one general and commanding elevation. On the west is a ridge of mountains, forming the boundary between the States of Connecticut and New York; to the south the land spreads out in wooded undulations to Long Island Sound; east and north, a succession of hills, some rising up against the sky and others fading away in the distance, bound the horizon. In this town, in an antiquated and rather dilapidated house of shingles and clapboards, I was born on the 19th of August, 1793. My father, Samuel Goodrich, was minister of the Congregational Church of that place, and there was no other religious society and no other clergyman in the town. He was the son of Elizur Goodrich, a distinguished minister of the same persuasion at Durham, Connecticut. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work....

The Way Home

Autore: Basil King

Numero di pagine: 317

"The Way Home" by Basil King. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Master Sunshine

Autore: C. F. Fraser

Numero di pagine: 26

"[...]wore her gray gown and her gray bonnet, with the purple violets tucked under the brim, that she was the most beautiful lady in the world. His own share of the fortune he planned to spend in many ways. He promised himself, among other things, that he would put up a fountain in the village, where tired people and thirsty horses and cows and dogs and birds would come for a drink. "I'd have a text on it too," he would say, with his eyes shining with excitement. "It should be, 'I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink.' And of course 'I' would mean the Lord; for the Bible tells us how kind he was to all helpless things, and I think he would be pleased to have all the animals tended to as well as the thirsty people. I wish I could be a man now, and they would not have to go thirsty any longer." He often told Almira Jane about the fountain too; and she always said that it was a capital idea. But it was to his father only that he told his secret. It was a queer secret, and a very real trouble, too, I can tell you. Part of it was that Master Sunshine was just the least bit bow-legged. Of course there could not be much of a secret about that. Lots of people knew it quite well. In fact, if...

Back to the Gaff

Autore: John P Brady

Numero di pagine: 146

Scandalous Narratives of Contemporary Ireland Back to the Gaff is a new book by new author John P Brady, which describes the excessive and outrageous nature of Irish night life. Meet an array of eccentric individuals who populate the bars of Dublin, living lives of decadence and abandon. Their frolics inevitably lead to a trip 'back to the gaff, ' which in Dublin-speak means gravitating towards someone's place of residence where the depravity continues. Many of the characters are figures who prop up some of the city centre bars and inhabit a parallel universe in which they never have a normal night out. The mundane is their enemy which they strike out against at every opportunity, escaping into a world of vice, where sex is casual and drugs are ubiquitous. 'Brady's writing renews the reconciliation between introspection and action.' Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Editor Zouch Magazine 'Keen, witty observations of ordinary people. John P Brady has a funny twist on life' Sam North - Editor of Hackwriters Magazine '...like a young Jack Kerouac...' Alice Walsh - Former editor of The Bohemyth

Escape from Penury to Independence

Autore: Kevin Patmore

Numero di pagine: 224

The story has two loosely connected narratives; the first is a semi autobiographical yarn about a country boy fresh out of catering college who vamooses off to London to find a future. When the country spirals into recession, he weighs anchor and joins the yachting fraternity in Monaco, cooking for the rich and famous. It doesn't end there! The second narrative follows a surreal fictional journey of two misfit anthropomorphic characters, who are trying to fathom out where they might find their place in the big wide world, of an unruly, untamed counter culture that thrives within Exmoor's indigenous wildlife. Both parties are buffeted by events that are way out of their control, as they travail along their respective rocky roads.

Dust

Autore: Haldeman-julius Marcet Haldeman-julius , Haldeman-julius Marcet , E. Haldeman-julius

Numero di pagine: 102

"[...]saddleless horse in search of Peter Mall. When he returned, the big, kindly man came with him, and in Martin's arms there squealed and wriggled a shoat. "A smart boy you've got, Jacob," chuckled Peter, jovially, after the first heart-warming greetings. "See that critter! Blame me if Martin, here, didn't speak right up and ask me to lend 'er to you!" And he collapsed into gargantuan laughter. "I promised when she'd growed up and brought pigs, we'd give him back two for one," Martin hastily explained. "That's what he said," nodded Peter, carefully switching his navy plug to the opposite cheek before settling down to reply, "and sez I, 'Why, Martin, what d'ye want o' that there shoat? You ain't got nothin' to keep her on!' 'If I can borrow the pig,' sez he, 'I reckon I can borrow the feed somewheres.' God knows, he'll find that ain't so plentiful, but he's got the right idea. A new country's a poor man's country and fellows like us have to stand together. It's borrow and lend out here. I know where you can get some seed wheat if you want to try puttin' it in this fall. There's a man by the name of Perry—lives just across the Missouri line—who has thrashed fifteen hundred...

A Very Good Man

Autore: Jim Trevis

Numero di pagine: 318

If your dying son asked you to become a very good man, and you weren't, what would you do? John Tatum's answer is to attempt suicide. This makes no sense to psychiatrist Rose Sacare. After all, as a vice president for Hamilton Pharmaceuticals, Tatum had just launched Multi- Zan, a drug that puts multiple sclerosis into remission. Dr. Sacare personally champions Tatum's recovery until his secret acts of bravery and generosity earn him the media's title of the "Hero of the Homeless." As Tatum heals and the magnitude of his good deeds mounts, his feelings for Rose grow as well, and he once again believes that happiness is within reach. Why, then, will he not reveal his true identity to his growing crowd of admirers. And why do his coworkers at Hamilton fear for his complete recovery? A story of loss and redemption, "A Very Good Man" confronts the moral issues of our times, and challenges the reader to think about what they would do to make the world a better place if given a second chance.

Witness to the Deed

Autore: George Manville George Manville Fenn

Numero di pagine: 124

"My darling! Mine at last!" Ting-tang; ting-tang; ting-tang. Malcolm Stratton, F.Z.S., naturalist, a handsome, dark-complexioned man of eight-and-twenty, started and flushed like a girl as he hurriedly thrust the photograph he had been apostrophising into his breast pocket, and ran to the deep, dingy window of his chambers to look at the clock over the old hall of Bencher's Inn, E.C. It was an unnecessary piece of business, for there was a black marble clock on the old carved oak chimney-piece nestling among Grinling Gibbons' wooden flowers and pippins, and he had been dragging his watch from his pocket every ten minutes since he had risen at seven, taken his bath, and dressed; but he had forgotten the hour the next minute, and gone on making his preparations, haunted by the great dread lest he should be too late. "Quarter to ten yet," he muttered. "How slowly the time goes!" As he spoke he sniffed slightly and smiled, for a peculiar aromatic incense-like odour had crept into the room through the chinks in a door. He stepped back to where a new-looking portmanteau lay upon the Turkey carpet, and stood contemplating it for a few moments. "Now, have I forgotten anything?"

Simon Fink

Autore: Jeff Paradis

Numero di pagine: 498

Simon Fink was a man beaten down by a lifetime of bad choices. Always seeking the easy path, he spent his life chasing adventure and excitement but invariably found disappointment and failure. Now broken and alone, Simon spends his time deep in drink or plotting childish pranks on his neighbor. When an unexpected guest turns up on his doorstep, Simon finds himself revealing every dark secret he has kept hidden away for years. Simon's road to redemption begins with a small act of kindness and a story of loss, betrayal, and murder.

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