Author: Nigel Patten
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1628575123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Peu avant la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale, Georges reve regulierement d'une jeune fille, qui ressemble beaucoup a une danseuse dans un temple minoen. D'origine grecque, Georges est envoye en Crete apres l'occupation allemande pour organiser la resistance dans les Montagnes Blanches. Il commence a avoir des hallucinations de la meme jeune fille. Il est attire dans une situation imaginaire ou il s'identifie avec la victime d'un sacrifice humain il y a 3600 ans. La jeune fille fut a l'epoque la pretresse du temple, detruit plus tard par un tremblement de terre. Georges n'est sauve d'une deuxieme mort suicidaire que par une nouvelle destruction du temple, cette fois sous les bombes allemandes. About the Author De nationalite suisse et britannique, Nigel Patten est ne en 1940 pres de Londres et habite depuis 50 ans en Suisse. Il enseigne toujours l'anglais dans un lycee alpin renomme pas loin de Montreux. Il connait bien la Crete, ayant passe plusieurs etes dans la region des Gorges de Samaria. Il a publie cinq livres avec SBPRA, dont deux sont disponible en francais. La version anglais DES MOLOSSES DE SAMARIA a gagne un prix litteraire en 2011. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/NigelPatten/"
Les Molosses de Samaria
Author: Nigel Patten
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1628575123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Peu avant la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale, Georges reve regulierement d'une jeune fille, qui ressemble beaucoup a une danseuse dans un temple minoen. D'origine grecque, Georges est envoye en Crete apres l'occupation allemande pour organiser la resistance dans les Montagnes Blanches. Il commence a avoir des hallucinations de la meme jeune fille. Il est attire dans une situation imaginaire ou il s'identifie avec la victime d'un sacrifice humain il y a 3600 ans. La jeune fille fut a l'epoque la pretresse du temple, detruit plus tard par un tremblement de terre. Georges n'est sauve d'une deuxieme mort suicidaire que par une nouvelle destruction du temple, cette fois sous les bombes allemandes. About the Author De nationalite suisse et britannique, Nigel Patten est ne en 1940 pres de Londres et habite depuis 50 ans en Suisse. Il enseigne toujours l'anglais dans un lycee alpin renomme pas loin de Montreux. Il connait bien la Crete, ayant passe plusieurs etes dans la region des Gorges de Samaria. Il a publie cinq livres avec SBPRA, dont deux sont disponible en francais. La version anglais DES MOLOSSES DE SAMARIA a gagne un prix litteraire en 2011. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/NigelPatten/"
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1628575123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Peu avant la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale, Georges reve regulierement d'une jeune fille, qui ressemble beaucoup a une danseuse dans un temple minoen. D'origine grecque, Georges est envoye en Crete apres l'occupation allemande pour organiser la resistance dans les Montagnes Blanches. Il commence a avoir des hallucinations de la meme jeune fille. Il est attire dans une situation imaginaire ou il s'identifie avec la victime d'un sacrifice humain il y a 3600 ans. La jeune fille fut a l'epoque la pretresse du temple, detruit plus tard par un tremblement de terre. Georges n'est sauve d'une deuxieme mort suicidaire que par une nouvelle destruction du temple, cette fois sous les bombes allemandes. About the Author De nationalite suisse et britannique, Nigel Patten est ne en 1940 pres de Londres et habite depuis 50 ans en Suisse. Il enseigne toujours l'anglais dans un lycee alpin renomme pas loin de Montreux. Il connait bien la Crete, ayant passe plusieurs etes dans la region des Gorges de Samaria. Il a publie cinq livres avec SBPRA, dont deux sont disponible en francais. La version anglais DES MOLOSSES DE SAMARIA a gagne un prix litteraire en 2011. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/NigelPatten/"
An Island Entire Unto Itself
Author: Nigel Patten
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1951530624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
By the end of the 18th century, Corsica had been occupied by France for over thirty years. Islanders yearned to recover their lost independence, and the French Revolution gave them the opportunity. Their leader, Pasquale Paoli, realized that alone they could never defeat the well-organized French forces. He offered Corsica to King George III of England, on condition that the French were driven from the island. Based on documented historical fact, the author paints a detailed portrait of Corsica through the captivating adventures of Damian Berra, a young man from what is today the Swiss canton of Valais. After wandering through Lombardy to the Ligurian coast, as the victim of a press gang on a French frigate, he becomes marooned on Corsica, an island infested with bandits and crippled with vendettas, where murders are seven times more numerous than in mainland France. The story also describes the attempts of the English to administer an island they eventually called “The Ungovernable Rock.”
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1951530624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
By the end of the 18th century, Corsica had been occupied by France for over thirty years. Islanders yearned to recover their lost independence, and the French Revolution gave them the opportunity. Their leader, Pasquale Paoli, realized that alone they could never defeat the well-organized French forces. He offered Corsica to King George III of England, on condition that the French were driven from the island. Based on documented historical fact, the author paints a detailed portrait of Corsica through the captivating adventures of Damian Berra, a young man from what is today the Swiss canton of Valais. After wandering through Lombardy to the Ligurian coast, as the victim of a press gang on a French frigate, he becomes marooned on Corsica, an island infested with bandits and crippled with vendettas, where murders are seven times more numerous than in mainland France. The story also describes the attempts of the English to administer an island they eventually called “The Ungovernable Rock.”
Byron
Author: Nigel Patten
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1682354555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In 1823, Lord Byron rented the Casa Saluzzo at Albaro in the hills east of Genoa, Italy. The poet shared the 16th-century palazzo with his mistress, Teresa Giuccioli, her brother, and their exiled father, Count Gamba. His neighbors were Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, whose poet husband had recently drowned; Leigh Hunt, the critic and editor; and Edward Trelawney, a Cornish adventurer and close friend of both poets. A frequent visitor that summer was Lady Marguerite Blessington, who kept detailed notes of their many conversations. From these conversations, an intimate insight is gained into Byron’s personality, philosophy, mental state, opinion of himself, and the impression he made on others and society. The complexity of Byron’s character is revealed, as well as his phobias and rejection by English society for the scandals attached to his numerous amorous activities. This three-act play paints the portrait of a tormented man, obsessed with his congenital lameness and a pressing sense of solitude, despite or because of his numerous affairs with married women in his elusive quest for love.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1682354555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In 1823, Lord Byron rented the Casa Saluzzo at Albaro in the hills east of Genoa, Italy. The poet shared the 16th-century palazzo with his mistress, Teresa Giuccioli, her brother, and their exiled father, Count Gamba. His neighbors were Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, whose poet husband had recently drowned; Leigh Hunt, the critic and editor; and Edward Trelawney, a Cornish adventurer and close friend of both poets. A frequent visitor that summer was Lady Marguerite Blessington, who kept detailed notes of their many conversations. From these conversations, an intimate insight is gained into Byron’s personality, philosophy, mental state, opinion of himself, and the impression he made on others and society. The complexity of Byron’s character is revealed, as well as his phobias and rejection by English society for the scandals attached to his numerous amorous activities. This three-act play paints the portrait of a tormented man, obsessed with his congenital lameness and a pressing sense of solitude, despite or because of his numerous affairs with married women in his elusive quest for love.
The Rose of Balarm
Author: Nigel Patten
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1682356019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This intriguing transformation turns a legend into a person of history. The patron saint of Palermo, Italy (romanized as Balarm) is Santa Rosalia Sinibaldi. There’s no documented proof of her existence, so this historical tale imagines how Rosalia (Rusùlia in the book) may have lived, from her birth in 1130 to her death in 1165. The daughter of a Lombard count and a Norman noblewoman, she was also a distant cousin of King Roger II (Rujari). Educated in the Norman palace of Qasr, Rusùlia was given in marriage by the king at age fourteen to the French Count Baudouin. Rusùlia took refuge in a Basilian monastery to avoid the marriage. She then fled to her family estates and lived partly in a cave. Years later, she was forced to return to Balarm and became one of Queen Margaret’s ladies. Known for performing minor “miracles,” Rusùlia fled once more to live in another cave under Mount Pellegrino, where she lived until her death. In 1642 during the plague in Balarm, her bones were discovered, taken down the mountain, and paraded round the city. Three days later, the plague disappeared.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1682356019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This intriguing transformation turns a legend into a person of history. The patron saint of Palermo, Italy (romanized as Balarm) is Santa Rosalia Sinibaldi. There’s no documented proof of her existence, so this historical tale imagines how Rosalia (Rusùlia in the book) may have lived, from her birth in 1130 to her death in 1165. The daughter of a Lombard count and a Norman noblewoman, she was also a distant cousin of King Roger II (Rujari). Educated in the Norman palace of Qasr, Rusùlia was given in marriage by the king at age fourteen to the French Count Baudouin. Rusùlia took refuge in a Basilian monastery to avoid the marriage. She then fled to her family estates and lived partly in a cave. Years later, she was forced to return to Balarm and became one of Queen Margaret’s ladies. Known for performing minor “miracles,” Rusùlia fled once more to live in another cave under Mount Pellegrino, where she lived until her death. In 1642 during the plague in Balarm, her bones were discovered, taken down the mountain, and paraded round the city. Three days later, the plague disappeared.
An Intermediate English Drill Book for French Speakers, with Answers
Author: Nigel Patten
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 194653904X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
An Intermediate English Drill Book for French Speakers offers a complete series of intermediate bilingual drills in French/English that is presented in ten sections. The drills cover all major tenses, irregular, modal, and phrasal verbs, as well as everyday and idiomatic expressions. Drills can also be used individually or in the classroom, orally, and as written assignments. To facilitate use, the verbs appear in alphabetic order in each section. This drill book has been tested on the author’s students with good results.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 194653904X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
An Intermediate English Drill Book for French Speakers offers a complete series of intermediate bilingual drills in French/English that is presented in ten sections. The drills cover all major tenses, irregular, modal, and phrasal verbs, as well as everyday and idiomatic expressions. Drills can also be used individually or in the classroom, orally, and as written assignments. To facilitate use, the verbs appear in alphabetic order in each section. This drill book has been tested on the author’s students with good results.
Griuns
Author: Nigel Patten
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1952269180
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Author Nigel Patten, winner of two Reader’s Favorite Awards, presents his latest historical novel GRIUNS: The genesis of a small Swiss alpine village – A folk tale. “Having lived in “Gryon, the village featured in my story, for so long,” said the author, “I felt it was time to show it my gratitude. I have always tried to imagine who were the first people to spend a whole winter there, rather than simply bringing the sheep and goats up for the summer season.” Patten lives in the alpine ski village, 1,500 meters above the Rhone Valley, southwest of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. His story follows the adventures of a young couple, a serf girl and a freed man, who flee to the Swiss mountain in the wintertime, surviving with the help of a monk and a gamekeeper. Patten envisioned life there in the ninth century, because “there is no written material covering the early history of this region. All the questions I put to the medieval experts received the same reply: We don't know!”
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1952269180
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Author Nigel Patten, winner of two Reader’s Favorite Awards, presents his latest historical novel GRIUNS: The genesis of a small Swiss alpine village – A folk tale. “Having lived in “Gryon, the village featured in my story, for so long,” said the author, “I felt it was time to show it my gratitude. I have always tried to imagine who were the first people to spend a whole winter there, rather than simply bringing the sheep and goats up for the summer season.” Patten lives in the alpine ski village, 1,500 meters above the Rhone Valley, southwest of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. His story follows the adventures of a young couple, a serf girl and a freed man, who flee to the Swiss mountain in the wintertime, surviving with the help of a monk and a gamekeeper. Patten envisioned life there in the ninth century, because “there is no written material covering the early history of this region. All the questions I put to the medieval experts received the same reply: We don't know!”
The Hounds of Samaria
Author: Nigel Howard Patten
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1618971603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A man fighting the Germans behind enemy lines in WWII has dreams of an ancient Greek priestess and the destruction of her temple.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1618971603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A man fighting the Germans behind enemy lines in WWII has dreams of an ancient Greek priestess and the destruction of her temple.
Dictionnaire français-anglais et anglais-français contenant tous les mots généralement adoptés dans les deux langues
Author: J. Tibbins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Hounds of Samaria
Author: Nigel Patten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Shortly after World War I erupts, George Ghikas starts having recurring dreams about an unknown dancing girl. Because of his Greek origins, the British army sends him behind enemy lines on occupied Crete to organize partisan groups in the White Mountains. In the course of this mission, George has hallucinations of the same dancing girl of his earlier dreams. Progressively, he is enmeshed in a 3,600-year-old world, where he appears to have been the victim of a sacrificial ceremony in a Minoan temple near the monastery he uses as his base camp. The girl haunting his dreams and hallucinations was.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Shortly after World War I erupts, George Ghikas starts having recurring dreams about an unknown dancing girl. Because of his Greek origins, the British army sends him behind enemy lines on occupied Crete to organize partisan groups in the White Mountains. In the course of this mission, George has hallucinations of the same dancing girl of his earlier dreams. Progressively, he is enmeshed in a 3,600-year-old world, where he appears to have been the victim of a sacrificial ceremony in a Minoan temple near the monastery he uses as his base camp. The girl haunting his dreams and hallucinations was.
Miniature French Dictionary in Two Parts, French & English-English & French
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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