Author: David T. Horsley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1418489514
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Award-winning Amarillo Globe-News columnist David Horsley is back with another collection of his personal essays from the newspaper. This time David's readers have selected over 100 of his best columns on topics ranging from the humorous to the serious to the sublime. Here are light-hearted favorites such as Chaw McCuddy's review of violinist Itzhak Perlman, David's encounter with a feral cat named Osama and the women who defended it, The Colonoscopy Chronicles, the true story of a black bra and how it inflamed readers' imaginations, and fantasies such as the Magnetron an imaginary device for disabling loud car stereos. Serious subjects close to David's heart proved popular with readers as well, such as his reflections on the death of his father and the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia. Included are essays about parenting, computers, handguns, and a requiem for Gus the dog. Topics of global significance are treated as well: 9/11, war, terrorism, and homelessness. David writes honestly about religion and politics in this volume, examining the proper role of critical thinking in religion and exploring the implications of public prayer. This book will have you laughing one minute and crying the next, which might be why Texas Panhandle readers voted him Amarillo's most popular newspaper columnist.
The Infernal Tower
Author: Bob Aldworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankers
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankers
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The Infernal Machine, and Other Plays
Author: Jean Cocteau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200226
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Four full-length plays by one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200226
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Four full-length plays by one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced.
Listen to the Wind
Author: David T. Horsley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1418489514
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Award-winning Amarillo Globe-News columnist David Horsley is back with another collection of his personal essays from the newspaper. This time David's readers have selected over 100 of his best columns on topics ranging from the humorous to the serious to the sublime. Here are light-hearted favorites such as Chaw McCuddy's review of violinist Itzhak Perlman, David's encounter with a feral cat named Osama and the women who defended it, The Colonoscopy Chronicles, the true story of a black bra and how it inflamed readers' imaginations, and fantasies such as the Magnetron an imaginary device for disabling loud car stereos. Serious subjects close to David's heart proved popular with readers as well, such as his reflections on the death of his father and the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia. Included are essays about parenting, computers, handguns, and a requiem for Gus the dog. Topics of global significance are treated as well: 9/11, war, terrorism, and homelessness. David writes honestly about religion and politics in this volume, examining the proper role of critical thinking in religion and exploring the implications of public prayer. This book will have you laughing one minute and crying the next, which might be why Texas Panhandle readers voted him Amarillo's most popular newspaper columnist.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1418489514
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Award-winning Amarillo Globe-News columnist David Horsley is back with another collection of his personal essays from the newspaper. This time David's readers have selected over 100 of his best columns on topics ranging from the humorous to the serious to the sublime. Here are light-hearted favorites such as Chaw McCuddy's review of violinist Itzhak Perlman, David's encounter with a feral cat named Osama and the women who defended it, The Colonoscopy Chronicles, the true story of a black bra and how it inflamed readers' imaginations, and fantasies such as the Magnetron an imaginary device for disabling loud car stereos. Serious subjects close to David's heart proved popular with readers as well, such as his reflections on the death of his father and the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia. Included are essays about parenting, computers, handguns, and a requiem for Gus the dog. Topics of global significance are treated as well: 9/11, war, terrorism, and homelessness. David writes honestly about religion and politics in this volume, examining the proper role of critical thinking in religion and exploring the implications of public prayer. This book will have you laughing one minute and crying the next, which might be why Texas Panhandle readers voted him Amarillo's most popular newspaper columnist.
The Bloody Tower
Author: John Rhode
Publisher: St. Swithin Press
ISBN: 192771639X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Bloody Tower by John Rhode, also published as The Tower of Evil “Any murder planned my Mr. Rhode is bound to be ingenious.”—The Observer The old man dragged his dilapidated chair to the window. With difficulty, he slowly extended a gnarled, shaking hand and pointed toward a distant, formless bulk outlined against the sunset. “The tower still stands,” he said in a high-pitched, quivering voice, which seemed to conceal a note of triumph. Strange words from a man who has just been told that his eldest son lies dead, killed by the inescapable explosion of his own shotgun. To be sure, the body had been found near the tower, but what could be the significance of this ungainly structure that the old man should mention it so mysteriously? Could the key exist within the old letter bearing biblical citations alongside a cipher of odd, hand-drawn shapes? Subsequent developments draw Jimmy Waghorn and Inspector Hanslet far from the actual crime scene in their search for the murderer. When they finally bring their theory to that intrepid scientist-detective, Dr. Priestley, he offers a strangely enigmatic suggestion which throws new light on the case and sets them on the track of an amazing discovery. “There are times when I think he is the finest detective story writer of them all.”—The Manchester Evening Star “He must hold the record for the invention of ingenious ways of taking life.”—The Sunday Times “It is the soundness of his method that keeps him in the front rank of detective story artists.”—The London News
Publisher: St. Swithin Press
ISBN: 192771639X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Bloody Tower by John Rhode, also published as The Tower of Evil “Any murder planned my Mr. Rhode is bound to be ingenious.”—The Observer The old man dragged his dilapidated chair to the window. With difficulty, he slowly extended a gnarled, shaking hand and pointed toward a distant, formless bulk outlined against the sunset. “The tower still stands,” he said in a high-pitched, quivering voice, which seemed to conceal a note of triumph. Strange words from a man who has just been told that his eldest son lies dead, killed by the inescapable explosion of his own shotgun. To be sure, the body had been found near the tower, but what could be the significance of this ungainly structure that the old man should mention it so mysteriously? Could the key exist within the old letter bearing biblical citations alongside a cipher of odd, hand-drawn shapes? Subsequent developments draw Jimmy Waghorn and Inspector Hanslet far from the actual crime scene in their search for the murderer. When they finally bring their theory to that intrepid scientist-detective, Dr. Priestley, he offers a strangely enigmatic suggestion which throws new light on the case and sets them on the track of an amazing discovery. “There are times when I think he is the finest detective story writer of them all.”—The Manchester Evening Star “He must hold the record for the invention of ingenious ways of taking life.”—The Sunday Times “It is the soundness of his method that keeps him in the front rank of detective story artists.”—The London News
The Infernal Machine: & Other Plays
Author: Jean Cocteau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811221636
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Four full-length plays by one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced. Among the great figures who pioneered the modern movement in world literature, none showed himself more versatile than France's Jean Cocteau. Poet, novelist, critic, artist, actor, film-maker, Cocteau was also one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced, with over a dozen plays which are frequently revived, not only in France, but in translation in many other countries. For this collection, fine translations of four full-length plays, one short play, and the “Speaker's Text" for the Cocteau-Stravinsky opera Oedipus Rex have been selected. The longer plays (The Infernal Machine, Orpheus, Bacchus, Knights of the Round Table) are re-creations of classic myth and legend—poetic and highly original interpretations of certain timeless themes which have inspired great drama through the ages. The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party is, by contrast, merely a "curtain-raiser," but remarkable as un jeu d'esprit, revealing the wit and psychological penetration for which Cocteau is famous.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811221636
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Four full-length plays by one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced. Among the great figures who pioneered the modern movement in world literature, none showed himself more versatile than France's Jean Cocteau. Poet, novelist, critic, artist, actor, film-maker, Cocteau was also one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced, with over a dozen plays which are frequently revived, not only in France, but in translation in many other countries. For this collection, fine translations of four full-length plays, one short play, and the “Speaker's Text" for the Cocteau-Stravinsky opera Oedipus Rex have been selected. The longer plays (The Infernal Machine, Orpheus, Bacchus, Knights of the Round Table) are re-creations of classic myth and legend—poetic and highly original interpretations of certain timeless themes which have inspired great drama through the ages. The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party is, by contrast, merely a "curtain-raiser," but remarkable as un jeu d'esprit, revealing the wit and psychological penetration for which Cocteau is famous.
A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance. 1903
Author: Karl Mantzius
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Mr Two-Bomb: An apocalyptic tale from one of man’s greatest atrocities
Author: William Coles
Publisher: Legend Press
ISBN: 1789550866
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Compellingly vivid, the most sustained description of apocalypse since Robert Harris’s Pompeii. The Financial TimesOne man miraculously survives the Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima. Two days later he catches the last train home. Home to Nagasaki. He arrives just 90 minutes before the world's second atomic bomb explodes into his life.As he battles through the scene of apocalyptic destruction, surrounded by unthinkable suffering, he is plagued by one constant question: is he lucky, or unlucky? This is his answer: he's the luckiest man alive.
Publisher: Legend Press
ISBN: 1789550866
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Compellingly vivid, the most sustained description of apocalypse since Robert Harris’s Pompeii. The Financial TimesOne man miraculously survives the Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima. Two days later he catches the last train home. Home to Nagasaki. He arrives just 90 minutes before the world's second atomic bomb explodes into his life.As he battles through the scene of apocalyptic destruction, surrounded by unthinkable suffering, he is plagued by one constant question: is he lucky, or unlucky? This is his answer: he's the luckiest man alive.
The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel
Author: Greg Keyes
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345516974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Based on the award-winning The Elder Scrolls, The Infernal City is the first of two exhilarating novels following events that continue the story from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, named 2006 Game of the Year. Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil. It is Umbriel, a floating city that casts a terrifying shadow—for wherever it falls, people die and rise again. And it is in Umbriel’s shadow that a great adventure begins, and a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary prince with a secret. A spy on the trail of a vast conspiracy. A mage obsessed with his desire for revenge. And Annaig, a young girl in whose hands the fate of Tamriel may rest . . . .
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345516974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Based on the award-winning The Elder Scrolls, The Infernal City is the first of two exhilarating novels following events that continue the story from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, named 2006 Game of the Year. Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil. It is Umbriel, a floating city that casts a terrifying shadow—for wherever it falls, people die and rise again. And it is in Umbriel’s shadow that a great adventure begins, and a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary prince with a secret. A spy on the trail of a vast conspiracy. A mage obsessed with his desire for revenge. And Annaig, a young girl in whose hands the fate of Tamriel may rest . . . .
Timothy Williams The Infernal Shadow
Author: iestyn Long
Publisher: iestyn long
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Timothy and the gang are back... Timothy, Rupert and George return for their second year at Great Underwood Upper. Yet with Lucifer back with a vengeance and Ursula Le Rouge more determined than ever, it promises to be Timothy’s most hellish challenge to date. A bit like Buffy the Vampire Slayer but with English accents, possessed squirrels and apocalyptic land wars from the mists of time! 'The action starts almost immediately and keeps you anxiously turning pages until the end. The battles in the dream realm are my favourite parts of the books as they take place over a wide range of famous historical battles. The author is truly in his element bringing them vividly to life. Truly an excellent and fun read.' Amazon review ‘A full-on teenage adventure. Original, humorous and highly imaginative. A rip-roaring read!’ BookViral Teenage school geek by day, Dream World warlord by night. Follow the trials and tribulations of a demon hunter in training. Crammed full of non-stop action, high-adventure, occasional wit, epic battles, angels, demons, werewolves, goblins, heroes, magic powers, dodgy haircuts, and so much more! For lovers of war, demons, and unlikely heroes! Can Timothy and his friends save their school and themselves from a demon invasion? Will the League of Demon Hunters answer the call before it is too late? Can Timothy win the Last Battle ― again? And will Timothy finally discover a way to tame his unruly hair? Find out in this all-action second instalment in the Timothy Williams saga. Hell on Earth? Not if Timothy can help it.
Publisher: iestyn long
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Timothy and the gang are back... Timothy, Rupert and George return for their second year at Great Underwood Upper. Yet with Lucifer back with a vengeance and Ursula Le Rouge more determined than ever, it promises to be Timothy’s most hellish challenge to date. A bit like Buffy the Vampire Slayer but with English accents, possessed squirrels and apocalyptic land wars from the mists of time! 'The action starts almost immediately and keeps you anxiously turning pages until the end. The battles in the dream realm are my favourite parts of the books as they take place over a wide range of famous historical battles. The author is truly in his element bringing them vividly to life. Truly an excellent and fun read.' Amazon review ‘A full-on teenage adventure. Original, humorous and highly imaginative. A rip-roaring read!’ BookViral Teenage school geek by day, Dream World warlord by night. Follow the trials and tribulations of a demon hunter in training. Crammed full of non-stop action, high-adventure, occasional wit, epic battles, angels, demons, werewolves, goblins, heroes, magic powers, dodgy haircuts, and so much more! For lovers of war, demons, and unlikely heroes! Can Timothy and his friends save their school and themselves from a demon invasion? Will the League of Demon Hunters answer the call before it is too late? Can Timothy win the Last Battle ― again? And will Timothy finally discover a way to tame his unruly hair? Find out in this all-action second instalment in the Timothy Williams saga. Hell on Earth? Not if Timothy can help it.
From Valmy To Waterloo—Extracts From The Diary Of Capt. Charles François
Author: Capitiane Charles François
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 178289005X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The cannonade of Valmy (1792) ranks as one of the most significant battles of all time for its strategic results: the defeat of the Prussian invasion heralded the beginning of the French Republic. At the field of Waterloo in 1815, no less a battle ended once and for all the ambitions of Napoleon to dominate Europe under French hegemony. Throughout this period of strife and struggle, which would change the map of Europe forever, Capitaine François fought under the banners and eagles of France, a callow youth at the time of Valmy, a grizzled veteran by the time of Waterloo. His story stretches from the plains of Northern France, through the frozen wastes of Russia, the sunburnt sands of Egypt and to the rotting prisoner hulks of Spain. François was by his own account a ruthless, fearless fighter but tempered with a passionate and phlegmatic nature; of the many memoirs of Napoleon’s troops, few are filled with such adventure and anecdote. An excellent from the ranks of Napoleon’s army. Author — Capitaine Charles François (1774 or 5-1853.) Preface — Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (1840-1913.) Translator — Robert B. Douglas Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in 1906, London, by Everett and Co. Original Page Count – 332 pages.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 178289005X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The cannonade of Valmy (1792) ranks as one of the most significant battles of all time for its strategic results: the defeat of the Prussian invasion heralded the beginning of the French Republic. At the field of Waterloo in 1815, no less a battle ended once and for all the ambitions of Napoleon to dominate Europe under French hegemony. Throughout this period of strife and struggle, which would change the map of Europe forever, Capitaine François fought under the banners and eagles of France, a callow youth at the time of Valmy, a grizzled veteran by the time of Waterloo. His story stretches from the plains of Northern France, through the frozen wastes of Russia, the sunburnt sands of Egypt and to the rotting prisoner hulks of Spain. François was by his own account a ruthless, fearless fighter but tempered with a passionate and phlegmatic nature; of the many memoirs of Napoleon’s troops, few are filled with such adventure and anecdote. An excellent from the ranks of Napoleon’s army. Author — Capitaine Charles François (1774 or 5-1853.) Preface — Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (1840-1913.) Translator — Robert B. Douglas Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in 1906, London, by Everett and Co. Original Page Count – 332 pages.