Author: Jan Boardman
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
You would like to go to France and see something of the Tour de France. But how? How can you get the most out of your visit? What can you experience? How different is watching live to watching on TV? Is it worth the cost? All questions I attempt to answer from my 9 years following the Tour de France around France. And of course, there is France itself! France is stunning. Everyone should visit the Tour at least once. This book will provide information on logistics, planning, opportunities, and what to expect, where, and when. I provide tips for every type of opportunity that is possible on the different stage profiles so you can decide what suits your hopes for your visit best. I give practical information and example days on each variation. It’s also a good read! I have experienced so much that every one of the 149 days I have spent at the tour has something worth talking about, but have had to limit the example days to just 31. If you are not sure what to do for your holiday, go to the Tour de France! You will not regret it.
Been there, done that, got the Gilet
Author: Jan Boardman
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
You would like to go to France and see something of the Tour de France. But how? How can you get the most out of your visit? What can you experience? How different is watching live to watching on TV? Is it worth the cost? All questions I attempt to answer from my 9 years following the Tour de France around France. And of course, there is France itself! France is stunning. Everyone should visit the Tour at least once. This book will provide information on logistics, planning, opportunities, and what to expect, where, and when. I provide tips for every type of opportunity that is possible on the different stage profiles so you can decide what suits your hopes for your visit best. I give practical information and example days on each variation. It’s also a good read! I have experienced so much that every one of the 149 days I have spent at the tour has something worth talking about, but have had to limit the example days to just 31. If you are not sure what to do for your holiday, go to the Tour de France! You will not regret it.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
You would like to go to France and see something of the Tour de France. But how? How can you get the most out of your visit? What can you experience? How different is watching live to watching on TV? Is it worth the cost? All questions I attempt to answer from my 9 years following the Tour de France around France. And of course, there is France itself! France is stunning. Everyone should visit the Tour at least once. This book will provide information on logistics, planning, opportunities, and what to expect, where, and when. I provide tips for every type of opportunity that is possible on the different stage profiles so you can decide what suits your hopes for your visit best. I give practical information and example days on each variation. It’s also a good read! I have experienced so much that every one of the 149 days I have spent at the tour has something worth talking about, but have had to limit the example days to just 31. If you are not sure what to do for your holiday, go to the Tour de France! You will not regret it.
Santa Baby
Author: Ali Cronin
Publisher: Hot Key Books
ISBN: 1471403378
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Snowy days and steamy nights ... A saucy Christmas novella to heat up your winter nights! It's Christmas, and also the end of Annie's first few weeks as a chalet girl up in the Swiss mountains. Her boyfriend back home has gone off travelling, and Annie's not exactly feeling full of festive spirit. She really isn't in the mood for the stag party of posh-boys who've just arrived... And sure enough, it isn't long before one of the party - alpha male George - is coming on a little too strong, and making it clear he'd relish getting Annie under the mistletoe, and into his bed. She's almost tempted. George is funny, in a loud, arrogant kind of way, and he's certainly attractive. But Annie is more interested in someone else... the shy, quiet one of the group, who doesn't quite seem to fit in with the rest of the public school boys. Pity he's got a girlfriend - according to George, that is. But the days roll on, and despite the freezing temperatures on the slopes, it's hotting up in the chalet, and Annie is close to boiling point. The question is, does a certain person feel the same way... SANTA BABY is part of Hot Key Books' exclusive new novella list, and one of a series of five available this Christmas. Unlock your naughty side!
Publisher: Hot Key Books
ISBN: 1471403378
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Snowy days and steamy nights ... A saucy Christmas novella to heat up your winter nights! It's Christmas, and also the end of Annie's first few weeks as a chalet girl up in the Swiss mountains. Her boyfriend back home has gone off travelling, and Annie's not exactly feeling full of festive spirit. She really isn't in the mood for the stag party of posh-boys who've just arrived... And sure enough, it isn't long before one of the party - alpha male George - is coming on a little too strong, and making it clear he'd relish getting Annie under the mistletoe, and into his bed. She's almost tempted. George is funny, in a loud, arrogant kind of way, and he's certainly attractive. But Annie is more interested in someone else... the shy, quiet one of the group, who doesn't quite seem to fit in with the rest of the public school boys. Pity he's got a girlfriend - according to George, that is. But the days roll on, and despite the freezing temperatures on the slopes, it's hotting up in the chalet, and Annie is close to boiling point. The question is, does a certain person feel the same way... SANTA BABY is part of Hot Key Books' exclusive new novella list, and one of a series of five available this Christmas. Unlock your naughty side!
Judge Not
Author: André Gide
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252028441
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Andre Gide's lifelong fascination with the conventions of society led naturally to a strong interest in France's judicial system. At the age of sixty Gide published Judge Not, a collection of writings detailing his own experiences with the law as well as his thoughts on truth, justice, and judgment.Gide's obsession with crime and punishment was not just a morbid hobby; rather, it struck at the heart of his themes as a writer. In the literary tradition of Dostoyevsky and Conrad, Gide frequently used criminals as central characters to explore human nature and the individual's place in society.In the first essay in Judge Not, "A Memoir of the Assize Court," Gide writes about his experience as a juror in several trials, including that of an arsonist (Gide actively sought jury duty, so great was his interest in legal matters). In "The Redureau Case" and "The Confined Woman of Poitiers" Gide analyzes two famous crimes of his day, an inexplicable slaughter by Marcel Redureau, a docile fifteen-year-old vineyard laborer who violently murdered his employer's family, and the respected Monnier family's confinement of their daughter, Blanche. Both cases fascinated Gide--elements of each would appear in his later fiction--and he looks closely at the facts of each as they came out in court. In addition, in "News Items" Gide analyzes the way newspapers present crime narratives, drawing from the hundreds of press clippings he collected throughout his life.Andr Gide (1869-1951) wrote The Counterfeiters; several brief works of fiction including Strait Is the Gate and The Immoralist; a number of plays; and several works of literary criticism. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1947 and in 1950 was made an honorary corresponding member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Benjamin Ivry has translated from the French Vanished Splendors: The Memoirs of Balthus, Raoul Dufy's My Doctor, Wine, and Jules Verne's Magellania, among other books. He is the author of the poetry collection Paradise for the Portuguese Queen as well as the biographies Francis Poulenc, Arthur Rimbaud, and Maurice Ravel: A Life.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252028441
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Andre Gide's lifelong fascination with the conventions of society led naturally to a strong interest in France's judicial system. At the age of sixty Gide published Judge Not, a collection of writings detailing his own experiences with the law as well as his thoughts on truth, justice, and judgment.Gide's obsession with crime and punishment was not just a morbid hobby; rather, it struck at the heart of his themes as a writer. In the literary tradition of Dostoyevsky and Conrad, Gide frequently used criminals as central characters to explore human nature and the individual's place in society.In the first essay in Judge Not, "A Memoir of the Assize Court," Gide writes about his experience as a juror in several trials, including that of an arsonist (Gide actively sought jury duty, so great was his interest in legal matters). In "The Redureau Case" and "The Confined Woman of Poitiers" Gide analyzes two famous crimes of his day, an inexplicable slaughter by Marcel Redureau, a docile fifteen-year-old vineyard laborer who violently murdered his employer's family, and the respected Monnier family's confinement of their daughter, Blanche. Both cases fascinated Gide--elements of each would appear in his later fiction--and he looks closely at the facts of each as they came out in court. In addition, in "News Items" Gide analyzes the way newspapers present crime narratives, drawing from the hundreds of press clippings he collected throughout his life.Andr Gide (1869-1951) wrote The Counterfeiters; several brief works of fiction including Strait Is the Gate and The Immoralist; a number of plays; and several works of literary criticism. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1947 and in 1950 was made an honorary corresponding member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Benjamin Ivry has translated from the French Vanished Splendors: The Memoirs of Balthus, Raoul Dufy's My Doctor, Wine, and Jules Verne's Magellania, among other books. He is the author of the poetry collection Paradise for the Portuguese Queen as well as the biographies Francis Poulenc, Arthur Rimbaud, and Maurice Ravel: A Life.
Liberty
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Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Pages : 986
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The Foreign Quarterly Review
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Ladies' Home Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Pages : 876
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Blood Royal
Author: Eric Jager
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316224537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad. As panic seized Paris, an investigation began. In charge was the Provost of Paris, Guillaume de Tignonville, the city's chief law enforcement officer -- and one of history's first detectives. As de Tignonville began to investigate, he realized that his hunt for the truth was much more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. A rich portrait of a distant world, Blood Royal is a gripping story of conspiracy, crime and an increasingly desperate hunt for the truth. And in Guillaume de Tignonville, we have an unforgettable detective for the ages, a classic gumshoe for a cobblestoned era.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316224537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad. As panic seized Paris, an investigation began. In charge was the Provost of Paris, Guillaume de Tignonville, the city's chief law enforcement officer -- and one of history's first detectives. As de Tignonville began to investigate, he realized that his hunt for the truth was much more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. A rich portrait of a distant world, Blood Royal is a gripping story of conspiracy, crime and an increasingly desperate hunt for the truth. And in Guillaume de Tignonville, we have an unforgettable detective for the ages, a classic gumshoe for a cobblestoned era.
The Collected Works of Owen Wister
Author: Owen Wister
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1011
Book Description
Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister's most famous work remains the novel The Virginian, set in the Wild West. It describes the life of a cowboy who is a natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large land owners. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, and several others. It is also widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel. Table of Contents: The Dragon of Wantley Lin McLean The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University Lady Baltimore Padre Ignacio: or, the Song of Temptation Red Man and White Little Big Horn Medicine Specimen Jones The Serenade At Siskiyuo The General's Bluff Salvation Gap The Second Missouri Compromise La Tinaja Bonita A Pilgrim on the Gila The Jimmyjohn Boss A Kinsman of Red Cloud Sharon's Choice Napoleon Shave-Tail Twenty Minutes for Refreshments The Promised Land Hank's Woman Mother How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Non-Fiction: Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat The Pentecost of Calamity A Straight Deal; Or, The Ancient Grudge
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1011
Book Description
Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister's most famous work remains the novel The Virginian, set in the Wild West. It describes the life of a cowboy who is a natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large land owners. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, and several others. It is also widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel. Table of Contents: The Dragon of Wantley Lin McLean The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University Lady Baltimore Padre Ignacio: or, the Song of Temptation Red Man and White Little Big Horn Medicine Specimen Jones The Serenade At Siskiyuo The General's Bluff Salvation Gap The Second Missouri Compromise La Tinaja Bonita A Pilgrim on the Gila The Jimmyjohn Boss A Kinsman of Red Cloud Sharon's Choice Napoleon Shave-Tail Twenty Minutes for Refreshments The Promised Land Hank's Woman Mother How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Non-Fiction: Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat The Pentecost of Calamity A Straight Deal; Or, The Ancient Grudge
The Essential Works of Owen Wister
Author: Owen Wister
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1013
Book Description
The Essential Works of Owen Wister showcases the remarkable collection of works by the prominent American author known for his influential role in shaping the Western genre. Wister's literary style combines vivid descriptions of the American frontier with engaging dialogue and complex characters, capturing the essence of the Old West in a unique and captivating way. The selection of stories in this collection ranges from thrilling tales of cowboys and outlaws to insightful explorations of human nature and morality, making it a must-read for fans of Western literature and American history. Wister's masterful storytelling and deep understanding of the Western landscape solidify his place as a literary icon of the American frontier. With works like 'The Virginian' and 'Lin McLean,' Wister expertly delves into the complexities of life in the wild and lawless West, offering readers a glimpse into a bygone era that continues to resonate in contemporary culture. The Essential Works of Owen Wister is a timeless collection that resonates with readers of all ages, offering a rich and immersive reading experience that celebrates the spirit of the American West.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1013
Book Description
The Essential Works of Owen Wister showcases the remarkable collection of works by the prominent American author known for his influential role in shaping the Western genre. Wister's literary style combines vivid descriptions of the American frontier with engaging dialogue and complex characters, capturing the essence of the Old West in a unique and captivating way. The selection of stories in this collection ranges from thrilling tales of cowboys and outlaws to insightful explorations of human nature and morality, making it a must-read for fans of Western literature and American history. Wister's masterful storytelling and deep understanding of the Western landscape solidify his place as a literary icon of the American frontier. With works like 'The Virginian' and 'Lin McLean,' Wister expertly delves into the complexities of life in the wild and lawless West, offering readers a glimpse into a bygone era that continues to resonate in contemporary culture. The Essential Works of Owen Wister is a timeless collection that resonates with readers of all ages, offering a rich and immersive reading experience that celebrates the spirit of the American West.
OWEN WISTER Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure & Romance Stories (Including Non-Fiction Historical Works)
Author: Owen Wister
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026865707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026865707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description