A. R. Hope Moncrieff's "Isle of Wight" is a captivating exploration of the charming landscapes and intricate lives that inhabit this iconic British island. With its lyrical prose and vivid imagery, ……続きを見る
Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance features essays questioning the extent to which education, an activity pursued in the home, classroom, and the churc……続きを見る
Raymond Radiguet wrote the highly scandalous Devil in the Flesh between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, following his own love affair with a married woman. At the time, in post WWI France, the boo……続きを見る
A harmless game of Murder in the Dark? Or an invitation to die for?
It is Christmas 1936 and guests gather at Maybridge Castle for its grand reopening. Snow settles over the Cumbrian countryside as ……続きを見る
Charles the King, our Lord and Sovereign, Full seven years hath sojourned in Spain, Conquered the land, and won the western main, Now no fortress against him doth remain, No city walls are left for ……続きを見る
In "Auntie Robbo," Ann Scott-Moncrieff crafts a poignant exploration of family dynamics, memory, and the intricate tapestries of human relationships. Set against the backdrop of a changing Scotland,……続きを見る
著者:John Moncrief
出版社: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Co.
発売日: 2013年10月21日
Alex Hubbard will be going to jail for not paying alimony and his children will be heading for a foster home, unless he can get his sons away from their mentally ill and suicidal mother by taking cu……続きを見る
Sometimes evil looks like a fuzzy teddy bear....
Still grieving the untimely death of his dad, ten-year-old Josh Leary is reluctant to accept a well-worn stuffed teddy bear from his new stepfather. ……続きを見る
True Scots should have more philosophy than to imitate unenlightened patriotisms that would interrupt a natural process defined by Herbert Spencer as change from an incoherent homogeneity to a coher……続きを見る
Before the Christmas bells ring, someone at Westbury Manor will be dead.
It is 1938 and the Westbury family gathers at their country estate for another lavish Christmas. Champagne flows, fires burn ……続きを見る
In A. R. Hope Moncrieff's "Surrey," the author intricately weaves a rich tapestry of the English countryside, exploring the essence of rural life through lyrical prose and vivid imagery. Set against……続きを見る
In "Isle of Wight," A. R. Hope Moncrieff crafts a vivid tapestry that entwines the island's rich history with a reflective narrative. The book artfully weaves elements of modernist literary techniqu……続きを見る
The Red and the Black, Stendhal’s masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events b……続きを見る
It's Christmas at London's Theatre Royale and journalist Daphne King is determined to solve an extraordinary mystery...
December 1935. Director Chester Harrison's production of A Christmas Carol has……続きを見る
"In Search of Lost Time" is a novel in seven volumes. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Pro……続きを見る
* Book : Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah) (In Search of Lost Time .4)
* Biography
* Bibliography
The Narrator describes what he had seen earlier: while waiting for the Guermantes to return s……続きを見る
* Book : The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time .3)
* Biography
* Bibliography
The Narrator's family has moved to an apartment connected with the Guermantes residence. Françoise befriends a fell……続きを見る
* Book : Within A Budding Grove
* Biography
* Bibliography
The Narrator's parents are inviting M. de Norpois, a diplomat colleague of the Narrator's father, to dinner. With Norpois's intervention, t……続きを見る
* Book : The Captive
* Biography
* Bibliography
The Narrator is living with Albertine in his family's apartment, to Françoise's distrust and his absent mother's chagrin. He marvels that he has come ……続きを見る
* Book : The Sweet Cheat Gone (The Fugitive) (In Search of Lost Time .6)
* Biography
* Bibliography
The Narrator is anguished at Albertine's departure and absence. He dispatches Saint-Loup to convin……続きを見る
* Book : Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time .1)
* Biography
* Bibliography
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical no……続きを見る
1959 brachen neun russische Studenten zu einer Ski-Expedition in den Ural auf. Wochen später fand man ihre Leichen, auf grausamste Art verstümmelt. Ihr bizarrer und bis heute ungeklärt gebliebener T……続きを見る
The first masterpiece of French literature, The Song Of Roland, was written in the Middle Ages. It is based on an historical incident in Charlemagne's retreat from Spain in 778.
This is a great Fren……続きを見る
Travel back to a time when divine beings mixed with mortals, when heroes battled sorcerers, and nature was a mysterious realm ruled by beautiful and dangerous deities.
From the legends of Hercules a……続きを見る
A descent into terror.
Legends tell of a hollow earth, a world beneath our own. A world filled with wonders... and danger. But what if the legends are true?
Delve into dark worlds in HELLHOLE, where……続きを見る
With this book, we enter the home stretch of Marcel Proust's massive seven-volume novel, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (as published by the Modern Library in the 1930s). The whole work, itself, was ……続きを見る
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: A la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popula……続きを見る
This dense, daunting and ultimately rewarding book is volume three of Proust's epic A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Here, as always, the reader again wades chest-deep into Proust's ornate language (s……続きを見る
In fin-de-siecle, 1890's London, Patience Floyd; a young Anglo-Irish beauty of good background and comfortable means; has escaped an unhappy past by marrying the flamboyant, Irish playwright and cel……続きを見る
This book is the fourth of seven volumes of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's popular translation of Proust's massive semi-autobiographical novel, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (as published by the Modern Li……続きを見る