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The only one of Sayers' twelve major crime novels not to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, her most famous detective character, written in collaboration with Robert Eustace. This is an epistolary novel, told primarily in the form of letters between some of the characters. This collection of documents — hence the novel's title — is explained as a dossier of evidence collected by the victim's son as part of his campaign to obtain justice for his father.
Lord Peter Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back, the stagger, the fall, down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth. But was it an accident? Or murder? Six people did not regret Campbell's death… five were red herrings. Set in the unusual background of an artists' colony in Galloway, in the south of Scotland, the book is one of the best of Dorothy Sayers' murder-mystery novels which made her the leading writer in the detective fiction field.
Dorothy L. Sayers published "The Wimsey Papers" in in 1939 and 1940, purporting to be between characters from the Wimsey novels. Aside from their interest to fans of Sayers, who would like to know more about her characters and about her views on the war, they're also interesting pieces of social history — these must be one of the last few pieces of writing where the word 'propaganda' is used in a neutral meaning, for example.
Now a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns — they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile nurses. But only the Fat Man —the Clam, all-knowing resident — could sustain them in their struggle to survive, to stay sane, to love-and even to be doctors when their harrowing year was done.
There are rules for dealing with ghosts. Too bad Ree Hutchins doesn’t know them.
When her favorite patient at a private mental hospital passes away, psychology student Ree Hutchins mourns the elderly woman’s death. But more unsettling is her growing suspicion that something unnatural is shadowing her.
Amateur ghost hunter Hayden Priest believes Ree is being haunted. Even Amelia Gray, known in Charleston as The Graveyard Queen, senses a gathering darkness. Driven by a force she doesn’t understand, Ree is compelled to uncover an old secret and put abandoned souls to rest—before she is locked away forever….
My name is Amelia Gray. I'm a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. In order to protect myself from the parasitic nature of the dead, I've always held fast to the rules passed down from my father. But now a haunted police detective has entered my world and everything is changing, including the rules that have always kept me safe.
It started with the discovery of a young woman's brutalized body in an old Charleston graveyard I've been hired to restore. The clues to the killer—and to his other victims—lie in the headstone symbolism that only I can interpret. Devlin needs my help, but his ghosts shadow his every move, feeding off his warmth, sustaining their presence with his energy. To warn him would be to invite them into my life. I've vowed to keep my distance, but the pull of his magnetism grows ever stronger even as the symbols lead me closer to the killer and to the gossamer veil that separates this world from the next.
Anton ist Soziologe und lebt getarnt als Adliger namens Rumata auf einem fremden Planeten, welcher sich noch tief im Feudalismus befindet. Er darf sich als Wissenschaftler von der Erde eigentlich nicht in die gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen des Planeten einmischen. Angesichts der menschenunwürdigen Lebensumstände seiner Mitbürger fällt ihm diese Neutralität aber sehr schwer. Der derzeitige Innenminister Don Reba nutzt die allgemeine Schwäche des Fürsten weidlich aus um ein fast schon faschistisch zu nennendes System aus Folter, Denunziantentum und Mord zu installieren, welches für volle Kerker und kurzweilige Hinrichtungen sorgt. Hier brennen nicht nur die Bücher; auch die Autoren kommen mit auf den Scheiterhaufen. Rumata kann durch Bestechung und Erpressung einige verfolgte Intellektuelle retten, aber das Leiden des Volkes kann er so nicht entscheidend lindern. Immer mehr beginnt er an dem Sinn dieser Nichteinmischung zu zweifeln…
La novela de madurez más sugerente de los maestros de la ciencia ficción rusa.
Un vívido retrato del totalitarismo y la alienación del individuo en manos del poder.
La ciudad se extiende en una franja limitada al este con un muro que cubre el horizonte y al oeste con un abismo insondable. Nadie sabe desde cuándo existe y sus habitantes, procedentes de distintas épocas y culturas, han resucitado en ella después de morir. Al sur se hallan los cultivos que la alimentan y al norte los yermos que, según cuentan, ocultan la anticiudad.
Rica y cargada de simbolismo, Ciudad maldita no pudo ver la luz hasta la llegada de la perestroika. En esta obra, los hermanos Strugatski reflexionan sobre la aplicación de los experimentos sociales sobre el individuo, a la par que satirizan la estructura misma del sistema impuesto, que abarca desde la burocracia anquilosada a la paranoia intervencionista y policial, tal como denunció Orwell en 1984.
Rejetant la douce nature rousseauiste, Sade dévoile le mal qui est en nous et dans la vie. La vertueuse Justine fait la confidence de ses malheurs et demeure jusque dans les plus scabreux détails l'incarnation de la vertu. Apologie du crime, de la liberté des corps comme des esprits, de la cruauté 'extrême sensibilité des organes connue seulement des êtres délicats', l'oeuvre du marquis de Sade étonne ou scandalise. C'est aussi une oeuvre d'une poésie délirante et pleine d'humour noir.
Infortunée Justine! Orpheline, ingénue, vertueuse… La voilà lancée sans défense sur les chemins du vice. Non qu'elle soit elle-même pervertie, mais les caprices du sort, ou peut-être son incroyable soumission, l'exposent aux plus odieux tourments. Voyage infernal à l'issue duquel elle se retrouve dans un couvent. De pratiques abominables en exercices cruels, les moines libertins célèbrent alors de curieuse façon les mystères divins. Et la trop sage Justine, victime rêvée, ne sait qu'attiser leurs coupables désirs. Justine ne saurait décidément guérir de sa vertu. Est-ce pour cela que le ciel lui réserve une dernière surprise?
Wei Ho was death incarnate. He could slake his thirst for blood whenever and wherever he wanted. He had chosen the hunters of his private army very carefully — they were some of the most vicious hoodlums in the world.
Now he had his own plutonium factory. And it was protected by a web of organized intrigue. Only one squad could take out Wei Ho and prevent global tragedy: Mack Bolan s Able Team!
To neutralize Ho s goulish scheme, Lyons, Schwarz, and Blancanales probed to the core of the maniac s domain in South America — but all they found there were blameless native slaves. Would there be a massacre of innocents before the despots could be delivered to hell?
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