Showing results by narrator "Constantine" in All Categories

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil.

Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows the career of Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists on a demonic quest for societal breakdown. They are consumed by their desires and ideals, and have surrendered themselves fully to the darkness of their "demons". This possession leads them to engulf a quiet provincial town and subject it to a storm of violence.

Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naïve? Is he an idealist or, as many in General Epanchin's society feel, an "idiot"? Certainly his return to St. Petersburg after years in a Swiss clinic has a dramatic effect on the beautiful Aglaia, youngest of the Epanchin daughters, and on the charismatic but willful Nastasya Filippovna. As he paints a vivid picture of Russian society, Dostoyevsky shows how principles conflict with emotions - with tragic results.

A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty-stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him, is faced with an opportunity to solve his financial problems with one simple but horrifying act: the murder of a pawnbroker. She is, he feels, just a parasite on society. But does the end justify the means? Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov makes his decision and then has to live with it.

Susannah Constantine, our loved style guru and one half of the outrageously popular television programme What Not to Wear, spent her youth entangled in glitz and glamour. Susannah's very first memoir is filled to the brim with scandalous stories, jaw-dropping royal relationships and star-studded encounters from pop stars to the fashion greats. But beneath it all is a woman who is still getting to know herself, even after falling in love at first sight, presenting one of the most monumental television programmes ever and having Princess Margaret as a second mother figure.

During a hot Melbourne summer, Jovan's cleaning work at a bayside hospital is disrupted by acts of graffiti and violence. For Jovan, the mysterious words that must be cleaned away dislodge memories of the past.... Intensely human, yet majestic in its moral vision, Black Rock White City is an essential story of Australia's suburbs now, of displacement, immediate threat and the unexpected responses of two refugees as they try to reclaim their dreams.

The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination and the world's headlines to an extraordinary degree. Not all of them lived to tell the tale, of course, but those who emerged triumphant from jungle, desert, or polar wasteland were hailed as if returning from beyond the grave. Journalists vied for their stories and publishers rushed their firsthand accounts of exciting and dangerous journeys into print for a wide and voracious readership.

Christmas morning, 1969. All 11-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for her mother to be on one of her 'good' days - and, secretly, for a velvet riding hat. So when she finds an assortment of wet towels and dirty plates in her stocking, she's just relieved Father Christmas remembered to stop at The Lodge this year. But later that day Esme's mother disappears in the heavy snow. Even more mysteriously, only the Earl of Culcairn seems to know where she might have gone.

En bonus exclusif, un entretien avec l'auteur. La dernière expédition de Mike Horn, Pole2Pole, consistait en une traversée du pôle Nord au pôle Sud, sans véhicule motorisé, en ski, en kayak et à bord de son voilier brise-glace. Cette aventure, achevée le 30 décembre 2019, est la plus extrême qu'il ait accomplie.

Le 7 février 2017, à 22 h 50, Mike Horn, seul et sans assistance, achève sa traversée de l'Antarctique. 5 100 km en 57 jours dans des conditions extrêmes qui l'ont poussé au bout de sa résistance. Un incroyable combat contre les éléments qui fait de cet aventurier le plus grand explorateur des temps modernes.

A partir d'une quarantaine d'interviews exclusives et de multiples rencontres avec sa famille, ses proches, ses collaborateurs comme ses concurrents, Walter Isaacson a reconstitué d'une façon magistrale la vie, l'œuvre et la vision du monde d'un des plus grands innovateurs de notre XXIe siècle qui a su allier le plus haut degré de technicité avec le raffinement esthétique.

Il a suffi de quelques jours au charismatique Révérend Charles Jacobs pour ensorceler les habitants de Harlow dans le Maine. Et plus que tout autre, le petit Jamie. Car l'homme et l'enfant ont une passion commune : l'électricité. Trente ans plus tard, Jamie, guitariste de rock rongé par l'alcool et la drogue, est devenu une épave. Jusqu'à ce qu'il croise à nouveau le chemin de Jacobs et découvre que le mot "revival" a plus d'un sens... Et qu'il y a bien des façons de renaître !

Un recueil de nouvelles auscultant les paradoxes de l'Amérique et abordant des thèmes tels que les souffrances individuelles et collectives, la vieillesse et la mort, la culpabilité, etc. Un homme qui revit sans cesse sa vie (et ses erreurs), un journaliste qui provoque la mort de ceux dont il prépare la nécrologie, une voiture qui dévore les badauds... 20 nouvelles précédées chacune d'une introduction du maître sur les coulisses de leur écriture.

Wake up feeling refreshed and renewed by adopting positive changes that will guarantee great sleep quality—even if you’ve been struggling to fall asleep for years! Do you lie in bed with your eyes wide open for what seems like an eternity? When you wake up, do you feel exhausted, despite the fact you got your seven to nine hours of ZZZs?

Humans are fighting a war against alien invaders that spans thousands of millennia. Many generations have been preparing for such an epic conquest, though there are times when the stories of old have been lost, forgotten, or ignored. Those that come into the power to defend the planet, whether they have the prior knowledge of their role or not, all have one thing in common: The ability to infiltrate the enemy’s ranks and crush them from the inside. With powers that they may or may not know that they have, humans will have to fight for their right not to be a luxury food item....

Deux histoires de "Little Lou" : Little Lou raconte l'histoire d'un petit garçon qui a la musique dans la peau. Il descend tous les soirs au petit bar, le "Bird Nest", prendre des leçons de piano auprès du vieux Slim. À la mort de celui-ci, Lou hérite de son piano. Le "Bird Nest" est transformé en boîte de nuit. Un soir, des gangsters font irruption dans le bar, mais Lou est là...

Après "Sacrés Français !", son impertinent best-seller, Ted Stanger récidive. À l'issue de dix années passées en France, notre Yankee parisien est retourné chez lui, dans l'Ohio, et nous livre ses impressions sur une Amérique qu'il ne reconnaît plus. Abordant des thèmes graves ou légers illustrés par de nombreuses anecdotes, il brosse sur le ton ironique et distancié qui le caractérise, le portrait de l'Amérique profonde.

Ted Stanger frappe encore ! "Le plus français des Américains" jette cette fois son regard moqueur sur le monde des fonctionnaires et... des administrés. Ressortissant d'un pays où même la carte d'identité n'existe pas, il brosse le tableau à la fois drôle, ironique et impertinent de notre système administratif et de ses cinq millions d'agents.

Jonathan Bradley, cost-killer, est chargé de dégraisser une petite usine de robinetterie victime de la mondialisation. L'affaire est simple, mais il tombe sur un tas d'os : le code du travail, l'Urssaf, la CGT, la grève et ses piquets, le délégué syndical qui dit toujours non, les salariés peu conciliants.

Twelve little oddities - an assortment of the bizarre, unexpected, charming, unsettling, and downright peculiar. Into darkness or light, there are many ways to escape.