![]() ![]() She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.Īgatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. ![]() Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. ![]() Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. ![]()
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![]() Learning Turkish with them as they were schooled, she also found her political voice - and went on to become, in 1991, the first Kurdish woman elected to the Turkish Parliament. Married at 14 to Mehdi Zana, a political Kurd some 20 years her senior who became mayor of Diyarbakir and spent 16 years in jail after the 1980 military coup, she found herself the single mother of two children. Generally reluctant to speak to journalists, Leyla Zana has come by caution the hard way but has lost none of her determination to fight for the rights of Kurds, and of women.īorn in the province of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey in 1961, she dropped out of elementary school because she could not understand the language of instruction - Turkish - and was forbidden to speak her own. Arriving at a cafe in a crowded shopping mall, she sits only after her brother has checked out the locale. ANKARA - At 51, she is petite yet powerful. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just when I think I won’t read a certain topic she says now come on Mel sure you can. Together they begin something innocent Until it’s not. He’s tasked with helping her find her way. ![]() But it’s K Webster and I love her and I know she pushes the boundaries and if anything I think after reading this I love her even more. by K Webster (Author) (185) A man who made countless mistakes. Ask me a few years ago hell ask me yesterday and I would have said hell naw if I’m being honest. This story isn’t for everyone that’s for sure. Maybe its too hot for Amazon Dont worry because titles like Bad Bad Bad, This is War, Baby, The Wild, and Hale can all be found for sale on Ks website. Because it makes you think outside of the box and it makes you feel something you didn’t think you could, would or should. I felt their connection, did I agree with it ? I’m still not sure if I’m being honest and that’s why I loved this book. She’s a master at making me feel a connection to her characters and with Hale it was no different. ![]() ![]() And here’s what I will say, it’s K Webster. It’s not exactly the same in terms of the situation but it’s pretty damn close and I couldn’t do it.īut Hale I loved Hale. HOW !!! How is it that K Webster always manages to push me right the fuck out of my comfort zone and get me to read and love something that I would have normally said na huh no fucking way !!!!Īnd I’ll tell you I’ve tried a book before that deals with the topic this book deals with. ![]() ![]() I also wanted to write a story using characters at mid-life because it’s something I haven’t done (with the exception of The Notebook, in which they’re elderly, not middle-aged). If I don’t have the “conflict,” I don’t have the story, and for the life of me, I couldn’t come up with something new to keep the characters apart. Thus, it gets progressively harder and harder to write new novels, but in the end, it’s what makes a story memorable. In all love stories, there has to be an element that keeps the characters apart in order to create drama, and throughout the course of my career, I’ve tried never to use the same element twice. ![]() I suppose I’d been thinking about it since I was working on The Rescue, but as much as I tried, the pieces just didn’t seem to come together. It had been in my mind for some time to write another short love story, a story that harkens back to the poignant emotional intensity of The Notebook. ![]() ![]() ![]() The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendices that present excerpts from Guerney's translations of other drafts of Gogol's work and letters Gogol wrote around the time of the writing and publication of Deal Souls. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best translation of Dead Souls ever published. Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. ![]() ![]() So which way did the story fall? Read on to discover my thoughts, and as usual there are going to be minor spoilers, with a section of major spoilers at the end. ![]() When Port of Shadows was first announced, I was both excited and a little nervous: excited that it was set after the first book, but nervous that it would have too many elements of the latter books, and I had some problems with some of Cook’s Garrett PI books. Later books in the series dropped in quality, though I still read them religiously upon release. Its importance to my love of the fantasy fiction genre cannot be underestimated. Witty with equal amounts of action and mischief, the characters come alive and the villains are outstanding. ![]() The Black Company stands out as one of the top 10 books I have ever read. One sentence synopsis: The Black Company tries to head off rebellion against The Lady as well as the threat of the Dominator returning, while Croaker becomes a family man who tries to fight off memory loss that could affect the precious Annals, the history of The Black Company. ![]() ![]() ![]() Puvis' prominence is illuminated in a totally different way by Jennifer Shaw's book, Dream States. The exhaustive, six pound, 567 page catalogue began with a tree tracing Puvis' influence across boundaries of nation and style, insisting that he is the father of modernism, of much more formal innovation than the pale palette of Maurice Denis. The international extravaganza for 2002 at Venice's Palazzo Grassi exhibition space was De Puvis de Chavannes a Matisse et Picasso: Vers l'art modern. Merely a secondary Symbolist? More distance in time and more study of that elusive movement called Symbolism has brought renewed prominence to Puvis. This grand reputation appeared to be eclipsed by the modernist developments of the first half of the twentieth century when he was noted mostly as a transition to artists such as Maurice Denis. He was admired by both conservative and avant-garde critics and by an equally broad range of artists. ISBN 2-3Īt the time of his death in 1898, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was the most broadly accepted of artists in France. Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France. ![]() ![]() ![]() His growing emphasis on emotion and beauty resulted in tensions with other Enlightenment figures and made him a key figure in the development of Romanticism.Ĭonfessions was published in two parts after Rousseau’s death. ![]() Rousseau is associated with the 18th-century Enlightenment, a movement initiated in France that celebrated reason, independence, liberty, and fraternity and helped inspire revolutions in both France and North America. Rousseau was a philosopher, writer, and composer, and he is best known for his contribution to liberal democracy his The Social Contract, which advocates for independence in a civil society governed by laws that promote the common good, is a classic work of political philosophy that inspired anti-monarchical reforms and revolutions. After a lifetime of struggles-many self-inflicted-Rousseau decided to counter attacks on his character by publishing his memoirs. Confessions, by the Genevan author Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78), explores the intimacies of his personal life and is often considered the first modern autobiography published in the global West. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sally and Jack are now married and Sally adores Jack with every inch of her fabric seams. Sally Skellington is the first ever Pumpkin Queen of Halloween Town after a whirlwind courtship with her true love, Jack. What is Long Live The Pumpkin Queen about? Fans will delight in spending more time with NBC’s rag doll darling, Sally (and Jack’s beloved ghost pup, Zero!), in her quest to navigate her new role and save Halloween Town. ![]() Author Shea Ernshaw does a caring and clever job of weaving renowned Burton magic through her own story. I had high hopes for this book and they were met nay, exceeded. Long Live The Pumpkin Quee n is Sally’s much-anticipated story following on from the classic Tim Burton film, The Nightmare Before Christmas. ![]() ![]() “ When Nietzsche Wept is the best dramatization of a great thinker’s thought since Sartre’s The Freud Scenario. The element of surprise is a magical, jolting moment.” - Washington Post Book World “An intelligent, carefully researched, richly imagined novel.” - Boston Globe In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense, to unfold an unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship. We use cookies to collect and analyse information on site performance usage, and to enhance and customise content and advertisements. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient. 35,672 Ratings In 19th-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era.When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental “talking cure,” Breuer never expects that he too will find solace in their sessions. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe’s greatest living philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 19th-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. ![]() |