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The Kill - Émile Zola
It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women. The Kill (La Curée) is the second volume in Zola s great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris - the capital of modernity - as the centre of Zola s narrative world. Conceived as a representation of the uncontrollable appetites unleashed by the Second Empire (1852-70) and the transformation of the city by Baron Haussmann, the novel combines into a single, powerful vision the twin themes of lust for money and lust for pleasure. The all-pervading promiscuity of the new Paris is reflected in the dissolute and frenetic lives of an unscrupulous property speculator, Saccard, his neurotic wife Renée, and her dandified lover, Saccard s son Maxime. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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The Assommoir - Émile Zola
in this life, even if you don t ask for much you still end up with bugger all! In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pittance washing other people s dirty clothes in the local washhouse, and dreams of having her own laundry. But in order to start her business she must incur debt, and her feckless husband cannot resist the lure of the Assommoir, the local bar that supplies all the working men with cheap spirits and absinthe. As her money troubles grow, so Gervaise s life begins to spiral out of control, and she is trapped in a vicious web of want and neglect.The Assommoir is a pivotal novel in Zola s Rougon-Macquart series. In it he lays bare the terrible poverty of the Parisian underclass, living in overcrowded tenements, addicted to drink, a world of squalor, and casual violence. It contains some of Zola s most powerful and graphic writing, unforgettable portrayals of individuals and their environment, and the fine line between self-respect and ruin.
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The Beast Within - Émile Zola
His haunting, impressionistic study of a man s slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola s The Beast Within (La Bete Humaine) is translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Whitehouse in Penguin Classics.Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his young wife s past. The only way he can rest is by forcing her to help him murder the man involved, but there is a witness - Jacques Lantier, a fellow railway employee. Jacques, meanwhile, must contend with his own terrible impulses, for every time he sees a woman he feels the overwhelming desire to kill. In the company of Roubaud s wife, Severine, he finds peace briefly, yet his feelings for her soon bring disasterous consequences. A key work in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Beast Within is one of Zola s most dark and violent works - a tense thriller of political corruption and a graphic exploration of the criminal mind.Roger Whitehouse s vivid translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing Zola s depiction of the railways, politics and the legal system and the influence of the studies of criminology and the Jack the Ripper murders on his novel. This edition also includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading and notes.Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), The Beast Within (1890), Nana (1880), and The Drinking Den (1877).If you enjoyed The Beast Within, you might like Zola s The Drinking Den, also available in Penguin Classics.
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The Belly of Paris - Émile Zola
Respectable people... What bastards! Unjustly deported to Devil s Island following Louis-Napoleon s coup-d état in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marché des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann s grand programme of urban reconstruction to make way for Les Halles, the spectacular new food markets. Disgusted by a bourgeois society whose devotion to food is inseparable from its devotion to the Government, Florent attempts an insurrection. Les Halles, apocalyptic and destructive, play an active role in Zola s picture of a world in which food and the injustice of society are inextricably linked.The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third volume in Zola s famous cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart. It introduces the painter Claude Lantier and in its satirical representation of the bourgeoisie and capitalism complements Zola s other great novels of social conflict and urban poverty. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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The Disappearance of Emile Zola - Michael Rosen
Pronounced guilty of libel and sentenced to a year in prison, novelist Émile Zola went on the run. Zola⠙s crime had been to defend a wrongly convicted man, in what became known as the Dreyfus Affair. Fleeing the French state with just hours to spare he ended up living in the suburbs of south London unable to speak a word of English. Michael Rosen brings to life the sleepy world of late Victorian suburbia, Zola⠙s turbulent politics and his tangled private life. Desperate to write a novel, he was also trying to balance the extremely delicate matter of the two women in his life ⠓ one the mother of his children, the other his wife. The Disappearance of Émile Zola is the incredible true story of a writer⠙s personal bravery in the face of the greatest political scandal of the age.
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Emil and the Detectives - Erich Kästner
Password Emil! If Mrs Tischbein had known the amazing adventures her son Emil would have in Berlin, she d never have let him go.Emil is excited to be taking the train on his own for the first time. He doesn t like the look of his fellow passenger, the man in the bowler hat. Emil will just have to keep his wits about him and his money in his pocket. But Emil falls asleep and when he wakes up the man in the bowler hat is gone - and so is the money! Emil is determined to get it back. He teams upwith a gang of young detectives and so begins a hair-raising chase across Berlin to catch the dirty rotten thief...
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Emil and the Detectives - Erich Kästner
Password Emil! Emil is excited to be taking the train on his own for the first time. He doesn t like the look of his fellow passenger, the man in the bowler hat. Emil will just have to keep his wits about him and his money in his pocket. But Emil falls asleep and when he wakes up the man in the bowler hat is gone - and so is the money! Emil is determined to get it back. He teams up with a gang of young detectives and so begins a hair-raising chase across Berlin to catch the dirty rotten thief...BACKSTORY: Learn all about the book s brave author and find out just how good a sleuth you would be.
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Žalujem...! - Émile Zola
Jedna z najväčších afér konca 19. storočia – Dreyfusova aféra – mala silnú odozvu v dobovej tlači. Najznámejšou osobnosťou, ktorá sa k afére vyjadrila, bol významný francúzsky spisovateľ Émile Zola vo svojom známom pamflete pod názvom J accuse...!, teda „Žalujem...!“. Tento brilantný žurnalistický text nebol doteraz na Slovensku preložený ani publikovaný. Okrem spomínaného pamfletu od Émila Zolu v knihe nasledujú texty významných osobností súdobého spoločenského, politického a umeleckého života vo Francúzsku, aby sme dnešným čitateľom poskytli komplexný obraz reflexie tejto aféry vo vtedajšej francúzskej spoločnosti.
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Emil And The Detectives - Erich Kästner
If Mrs Tischbein had known the amazing adventures her son Emil would have in Berlin, she d never have let him go. Unfortunately, when his seven pounds goes missing on the train, Emil is determined to get it back - and when he teams up with the detectives he meets in Berlin, it s just the start of a marvellous money-retrieving adventure . . .A classic and influential story, Emil and the Detectives remains an enthralling read.From November 16th 2013, an exciting new adaptation of Emil and the Detectives will be playing at the National Theatre in London.
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The Bright Side of Life - Émile Zola
Neither spoke another word, they were gripped by a shared, unthinking madness as they plunged headlong together into vertiginous rapture. Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville on the wild Normandy coast. Her presence enlivens the household and Pauline is the only one who can ease Chanteau s gout-ridden agony. Her love of life contrasts with the insularity and pessimism that infects the family, especially Lazare, for whom she develops a devoted passion. Gradually Madame Chanteau starts to take advantage of Pauline s generous nature, and jealousy and resentment threaten to blight all their lives. The arrival of a pretty family friend, Louise, brings tensions to a head.The twelfth novel in the Rougon Macquart series, The Bright Side of Life is remarkable for its depiction of intense emotions and physical and mental suffering. The precarious location of Bonneville and the changing moods of the sea mirror the turbulent relations of the characters, and as the story unfolds its title comes to seem ever more ironic.
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The Kill List - Nadine Matheson
* Longlisted for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year *â ˜Gritty, compelling storytellingâ ™ Daily Mailâ ˜Dark, tense, action-packed, and so, so clever â ¦ I couldnâ ™t stop until the very last page. Outstandingâ ™ Andrea Mara, number one Sunday Times bestselling author of No One Saw a Thingâ ˜Another absolute cracker. Gruesome and gritty Liz Nugent, Sunday Times bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamondâ ˜This is a series that just keeps on giving with thrills, danger, shocks and eeriness with a great cast of characters â ¦ Nadine is truly a Queen of thrillersâ ™ Reader review ââââââ ˜Another exciting, tense, character driven and unpredictable thriller. This is such a good series I simply devoured itâ ™ Reader review âââââ* * * *He will come for them, one by oneâ ¦Five shocking murdersTwenty-five years ago, DCI Harry Rhimes arrested Andrew Streeter for the brutal murders of five young people. Streeterâ ™s â ˜kill listâ ™ of victims was found in his home, and he was convicted of all five crimes.A legacy under threatNow, Streeterâ ™s convictions are being overturned, as new evidence implies the original investigation was corrupt. No one is more shocked that DI Henley. Because this case is personal; Rhimes was her old boss, and heâ ™s no longer alive to defend himself. But when the killings start up again, Henley must face the truth: Rhimes got it wrong twenty-five years ago.A hunt for a killerHenley and her team reopen the original murder cases, but they must put their personal feelings to one side. Because the real killer is still out there, and heâ ™s working his way through a new kill list â ¦* * *Praise for The Kill Listâ ˜A chilling and gripping serial killer thriller â ¦ I raced through itâ ™ Anna Mazzola, author of The Clockwork Girlâ ˜The most invigoratingly grisly new crime writer on the blockâ ™ The Telegraphâ ˜A brilliant crime thriller. High paced and will have your heart racing throughout. An absolutely brilliant author tooâ ™ Reader review ââââââ ˜I was so excited to read this book â ¦ and boy was I not disappointed â ¦ Twisty, beautifully plotted and accomplished. Bring on Henley book 4â ™ Reader review âââââ
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The House of Ulloa - Emilia Pardo Bazán, Paul O
A rich and unforgettable tragic-comic novel of sexual intrigue and political scheming, The House of Ulloa is one of the greatest works of nineteenth-century Spanish literature.The House of Ulloa follows pure and pious Father Julián Alvarez, who is sent to a remote country estate to put the affairs of the marquis, an irresponsible libertine, in order. When he discovers moral decadence, cruelty and corruption at his new home, Julián s well-meaning but ineffectual attempts to prevent the fall of the House of Ulloa end in tragedy. Combining gothic elements with humour and social satire, The House of Ulloa is the finest achievement of Emilia Pardo Bazán, a prolific writer, feminist, traveller and intellectual, and one of the most dynamic figures of her time.Brilliantly balancing biting satire and gothic undertones, and evoking a rich sense of place, this is a wonderful novel that deserves to be ranked with the other great books of the period. The Countess Emilia Pardo Bazán was born in 1851 and married at sixteen. After separating from her husband, she embarked on an affair with novelist Benito Pérez Galdós. The House of Ulloa (1886) is generally considered as her masterpiece among her many literary works. Professor Paul O Prey is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Roehampton, London. Lucia Graves has translated works by Robert Graves, Anaïs Nin, Katherine Mansfield and Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and is the author of a memoir, A Woman Unknown, and a novel, The Memory House. An absolutely first-rate novelist [...] Bazán s genius lies in the way she mixes comedy, farce, realism and heightened-pitch hysteria with a dash of gothic [...] People may travel by donkey in this book, but it could have been written yesterday - Nick Lezard, Guardian Pardo Bazán s mastery of social types and of the political currents that swirled around the liberal revolution are unsurpassed in Spanish literature ... O Prey and Graves ... avoid awkward literalisms while nonetheless remaining true to the spirit of the original New Criterion
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Therese Raquin - Émile Zola
Thérèse Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola s dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere `human beasts who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period-piece. Many readers were scandalized by an approach to character-drawing which seemed to undermine not only the moral values of a deeply conservative society, but also the whole code of psychological description on which the realist novel was based.Together with the important `Preface to the Second Edition in which Zola defended himself against charges of immorality, Thérèse Raquin stands as a key early manifesto of the French Naturalist movement, of which Zola was the founding father. Even today, this novel has lost none of its power to shock.This new translation is based on the second edition of 1868. The Introduction situates the novel in the context of Naturalism, medicine, and the scientific ideas of Zola s day. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Germinal - Émile Zola
Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Émile Zola s Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty of a mining community in northern FranceÉtienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breakin job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all. The thirteenth novel in Zola s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity s capacity for compassion and hope.Translated with an introduction by Roger Pearson in Penguin Classics If you enjoyed Germinal, you might like Zola s Thérèse Raquin, also available in Penguin Classics.
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La Debacle - Émile Zola
My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world. Émile ZolaThe penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Débâcle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola s lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention to historical detail.La Débâcle seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control, and includes some of the most powerful descriptions Zola ever wrote. Zola skilfully integrates his narrative of events and the fictional lives of his characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in the history of France. Often compared to War and Peace, La Débâcle has been described as a seminal work for all modern depictions of war.
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Nana - Émile Zola
Příběh kurtizány Nany, která nemá žádný pěvecký ani herecký talent, a přesto díky své kráse získá věhlas jako divadelní herečka. Střídají se u ní bohatí milenci, které Nana trápí svými rozmary a zbyvuje je peněz i důstojnosti. Syrový příběh plný naturalistických scén je devátým románem z cyklu Rougon-Macquartové a volně navazuje na román Zabiják. Zolovi se zde podařilo velmi barvitě vykreslit prostředí nevěstinců, kabaretů. ale především společnosti, kde morálka nemá místo, ale zato je plné pokrytectví, nestoudnosti a hrubosti, i když navenek krytými leskem a přepychem. Zola se i v této próze představuje jako mistr literárního naturalismu.
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Germinal - Émile Zola
Zola s masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola s death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted Germinal! Germinal! .The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually leads his fellow-miners in a strike protesting against pay-cuts - a strike which becomes a losing battle against starvation, repression, and sabotage. Yet despite all the violence and disillusion which rock the mining community to its foundations, Lantier retains his belief in the ultimate germination of a new society, leading to a better world. Germinal is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, but it is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigour and power in this new translation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Nana - Émile Zola
She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin. Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her spell-especially Count Muffat, Chamberlain to the Empress. Nana herself meets a terrible fate, consumed by her own dissipation and extravagance, just as the disastrous war with Prussia is declared.Nana is the ninth instalment in the twenty volume Rougon-Macquart series. The novel opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan élite, was la Ville Lumière, the glittering setting-and object-of Zola s scathing denunciation of society s hypocrisy and moral corruption. Nana comes to symbolize the Second Empire regime itself in all its excesses; but in the final chapters, the narrator seems to suggest that the coming disaster is not so much a result of the corruption of the Empire, as of rampant female sexuality.
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In At The Kill - Gerald Seymour
Liverpool: a suburban crime family grips a whole city with fear.And their ambition reaches further still.Galicia: an entire community waits on the windswept edge of Europe for the delivery of four tonnes of cocaine, brought across the ocean in an almost unbelievable craft.London: Jonas Merrick, grey and quiet, alone in a small office, seems an unlikely character to be tasked with bringing down an international drug network.But while Jonas s colleagues regard him as scratchy, fastidious, old, he is also ruthless, cunning and brutally pragmatic. And he has a man on the inside: a would-be money-launderer on that wild Spanish coast. A man who has been undercover for so long, he has almost forgotten who he really is.And he is due to come home. Has to. For he will be given no mercy if he is caught.But Jonas needs him to stay.The superb Jonas Merrick is fast becoming one of the great figures of British spy fiction. In At The Kill may be his most compelling story yet.
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Emile Zola - Robert Lethbridge
A new perspective on one of the world⠙s greatest writers, Émile Zola.
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Money - Émile Zola
The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things. Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he schemes and manipulates his way to power. Financial undertakings in the Middle East lead to the establishment of a powerful new bank and speculation on the stock market; Saccard meanwhile conducts his love life as energetically as he does his business, and his empire is seemingly unstoppable. Saccard, last encountered in The Kill (La Curée) in Zola s Rougon-Macquart series, is a complex figure whose story intricately intertwines the worlds of politics, finance, and the press. The repercussions of his dealings on all levels of society resonate disturbingly with the financial scandals of more recent times. This is the first new translation for more than a hundred years, and the first unabridged translation in English. The edition includes a wide-ranging introduction and useful historical notes.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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The Kill Room - Jeffery Deaver
But first, they must enter The Kill Room. Edge-of-your seat suspense from the ultimate thriller writer. The tenth instalment of the bestselling Lincoln Rhyme series. Now a NBC TV series.
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Dossier 113 (Aka The Blackmailers) - Emile Gaboriau
Introducing M. Lecoq ⠓ widely believed to be the inspiration for Sherlock HolmesMonsieur Lecoq of the French Sûreté is called to investigate a bank robbery in one of the world s first detective novels, widely credited as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. The book begins with a bank robbery with Fauvel s bank losing 350000 francs. Only two people in the bank had a key and the combination to the safe and they were Fauvel himself and his chief cashier, Prosper Bertomy. The case looks black against the cashier ⠓ the only one to know about the money being put into the safe from the strong room. As things look blacker and blacker for prosper amidst double-dealing, blackmail, and murder Monsieur Lecoq of the French Sûreté steps in to prove the young man s innocence in the face of incriminating evidence and unravel the truth behind a seemingly impossible crime.
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Germinal - Émile Zola
Étienne Lantier, a previously unemployed young man, is hired to work in a mine in the north of France. Highly regarded and listened to, he dreams of changing the workers’ miserable conditions. When the Mining Company decides to lower their salaries, Étienne convinces his companions to go on strike. But will they manage to resist and make the Company change its mind? Dossiers:Les mines de charbon du nord de la FranceLes Rougon-MacquartGerminal au cinéma
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Nana - Émile Zola
Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Théâtre des Variétés. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes and Marquises fall at her feet, great ladies try to emulate her appearance, lovers even kill themselves for her. Nana s hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Nana provoked outrage on its publication in 1880, with its heroine damned as the most crude and bestial sort of whore , yes the language of the novel makes Nana almost a mythical figure: a destructive force preying on a corrupt society.
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Therese Raquin - Émile Zola
Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out⠦ the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the crime itself goes unsuspected⠦ oh yes, there s many a murderer basking in the sun...When Thérèse Raquin is forced to marry the sickly Camille, she sees a bare life stretching out before her, leading every evening to the same cold bed and every morning to the same empty day. Escape comes in the form of her husband⠙s friend, Laurent, and Thérèse throws herself headlong into an affair. There seems only one obstacle to their happiness; Camille. They plot to be rid of him. But in destroying Camille they kill the very desire that connects them⠦First published in 1867, Thérèse Raquin has lost none of its power to enthral. Adam Thorpe⠙s unflinching translation brings Zola⠙s dark and shocking masterwork to life.A NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE⠘Adam Thorpe s version deserves to become the standard English text⠙ Daily Telegraph
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The Kill Switch - James Rollins, Grant Blackwood
The mission seems simple enough: extract a pharmaceutical magnate from Russian soil, a volatile man who holds the secret to a deadly bio-weapon. But nothing is as it appears to be. A conspiracy of world-shattering scope unravels as Tucker and Kane struggle to keep one move ahead of their deadly enemies.From the frozen steppes of Russia to the sun-blasted mountains of South Africa and Namibia, a biological threat millions of years in the making strikes out at the heart of America. All that stands in the way of a global apocalypse is one man and his dog. But can even Tucker and Kane thwart an ecological menace from the ancient past to save the world s future?
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The Sirens - Emilia Hart
Lucy is running from what she s done - and what someone did to her. There s only one person who might understand: her sister Jess. But when Lucy arrives at her sister s desolate cliff-top house, Jess is gone.Lucy is now alone, in a strange town steeped in rumour. Stories of men disappearing without a trace.A foundling discovered in a sea-swept cave. And women s voices murmuring on the waves...As Lucy searches for her sister, those voices get ever louder. They tell of two sisters, two centuries ago, bound and transported across the world.A world where men always get their way. A world that is at once distant, and achingly familiar. Are these voices luring Lucy closer to her sister? Or will the secrets of the past pull them both under?
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The Sirens - Emilia Hart
Lucy is running from what she’s done – and what someone did to her.There’s only one person who might understand: her sister Jess. But when Lucy arrives at her sister’s desolate cliff-top house, Jess is gone. Lucy is now alone, in a strange town steeped in rumour.Stories of men disappearing without a trace. A foundling discovered in a sea-swept cave. And women’s voices murmuring on the waves… As Lucy searches for her sister, those voices get ever louder.They tell of two sisters, two centuries ago, bound and transported across the world. A world where men always get their way. A world that is at once distant, and achingly familiar.Are these voices luring Lucy closer to her sister? Or will the secrets of the past pull them both under?
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The Kill - Jane Casey
Jane Casey s police procedurals go from strength to strength Sunday Times If you have not read Jane Casey, start immediately Marian Keyes The most dangerously addictive series in crime fiction Erin Kelly______________Their job is to fight crime. Now they are the victims. . . A killer is terrorising London and this time the police are the targets.Urgently re-assigned to investigate a series of attacks on fellow officers, Maeve Kerrigan and her boss Josh Derwent have little idea what motivates the killer s fury against the force.And they know it will only be a matter of time before the killer strikes again.
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Under the Radar - Emilia Misheva
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of autism? Often, it s a boy who struggles with friendships, but who loves trains and is great at maths. While this may reflect the experiences of some autistic people, in recent years research and first-hand accounts have shown that many others don t conform to this image. The historical perception of autism as a male condition as well as simplistic stereotypes have led to an under-identification of autism in some girls and women - and, indeed, in all people, regardless of gender, who do not fit this mould.This straightforward, one-stop guide introduces you to the differing presentations of autism that are common in girls, but also explores why referring to male and female autism is too reductive. Describing why some autistic girls needs are identified late or not at all, looking at friendships and relationships, education, mental health and puberty, this concise, easy-to-understand and informative book draws on both lived experience and research to offer a popular science overview of this important topic.
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Forma na chleba SPECIALITIES 4,5 l, černá, keramika, Emile Henry
Az Emile Henry kerámia kenyérsütő forma 4,5 literes térfogatú, hagyományos kenyerek sütésére tervezték. A glazúrázott kerámia anyag egyenletes hőeloszlást biztosít, míg a fedő ideális páratartalmat tart fenn a sütés során. A forma -20 °C-tól 270 °C-ig használható, és különböző típusú kenyerek elkészítésére alkalmas.
- Kiváló hőeloszlású, glazúrázott kerámia anyag
- Fedővel ellátott kialakítás ideális páratartalomhoz
- Sokoldalú, különböző tészták sütésére alkalmas
- Könnyen tisztítható, tartós felület
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Emile; or On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In his pioneering treatise on education the great French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) presents concepts that had a significant influence on the development of pedagogy in the eighteenth century, and yet many of his ideas still sound radical today. Written in reaction to the stultifying system of rote learning and memorization prevalent throughout Europe at the time, Emile is a utopian vision of child-centered education, full of the sentiments of Romanticism, a movement that Rousseau inspired. Imagining a typical boy named Emile, Rousseau creates an ideal model of one-on-one tutelage from infancy to manhood with himself as the child s mentor. As in so many of his other famous works, here, too, Rousseau asserts his main thesis that human beings are by nature good; it is only the distorting influences of civilization that have corrupted them.
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The Kill Order - James Dashner
Surviving the apocalypse was hard enough, but when Mark s communityis attacked by an unknown enemy spreading a deadly virus, he sdetermined to find out who s responsible before the Flare infectsthem all ...
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The Kill Factor - Ben Oliver
In a world where social media is everything and followers equalmoney, Emerson is facing a prison sentence for arson. Then,she s offered a way out: a brand new gameshow for young felons thatcombines social media and reality TV. But the truth about theshow is even more brutal than the games themselves ...
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The Kill Order - James Dashner
Surviving the apocalypse was hard enough, but when Mark s communityis attacked by an unknown enemy spreading a deadly virus, he sdetermined to find out who s responsible before the Flare infectsthem all .
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Kill List - Frederick Forsyth
THE KILL LISTThe names of those men and women who would threaten the world s security - held above top secret at the highest level of the US government. THE PREACHERAt the top of it, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill Western targets.As the bodies begin to pile up in America, Great Britain and across Europe, the message goes out: discover this man s identity, locate him and take him out. THE TRACKEREx-US marine, now one of America s most effective terrorist hunters, with an impossible job. Aided only by a brilliant teenaged hacker, he must throw out the bait and see whether his deadly target can be drawn from his lair...
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The Jigsaw Man - Nadine Matheson
Pre-order THE KILL LIST in paperback now!â ˜Dark, tense, action-packed, and so, so clever â ¦ I couldnâ ™t stop until the very last page. Outstandingâ ™ Andrea Mara, number one Sunday Times bestselling author of No One Saw a Thingâ ˜Another absolute cracker. Gruesome and gritty Liz Nugent, Sunday Times bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamondâ ˜This is a series that just keeps on giving with thrills, danger, shocks and eeriness with a great cast of characters â ¦ Nadine is truly a Queen of thrillersâ ™ Reader review ââââââ ˜Another exciting, tense, character driven and unpredictable thriller. This is such a good series I simply devoured itâ ™ Reader review âââââ* * *There s a serial killer on the loose.When bodies start washing up along the banks of the River Thames, DI Henley fears it is the work of Peter Olivier, the notorious Jigsaw Killer. But it canâ ™t be him; Olivier is already behind bars, and Henley was the one who put him there.The race is on before more bodies are found.Sheâ ™d hoped sheâ ™d never have to see his face again, but Henley knows Olivier might be the best chance they have at stopping the copycat killer. But when Olivier learns of the new murders, helping Henley is the last thing on his mind â ¦Will it take a killer to catch the killer?Now all bets are off, and the race is on to catch the killer before the body count rises. But who will get there first â “ Henley, or the Jigsaw Killer?* * *Praise for Nadine Matheson So tense and dark. It has a real Silence of the Lambs vibe, and Peter Olivier is my new Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me Mathesonâ ™s voice is exciting, urgentâ ¦ and, now more than ever, vitalâ ™ A.J. Finn, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window â ˜Buckle up, readers! From the first scene, Nadine Matheson takes us on a heart-pounding roller coaster rideâ ™ Tami Hoag, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Boyâ ˜If you like your crime on the gruesome side, this will certainly satisfyâ ™ Heatâ ˜With a wit that complements her dark subject matter, Matheson writes superbly â ¦ A book to make you think, feel â “ and jump out of your chairâ ™ Daily Mirror
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The Marsh House - Somerville Zoe Somerville
The haunting second novel from the author of The Night of the Flood. Two women, separated by decades, are drawn together by one, mysterious house on the North Norfolk coast. Part ghost story, part thriller, I loved it. Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City DECEMBER, 1962 Desperate for a happy Christmas after a disastrous year, Malorie rents a remote house on the Norfolk coast for herself and her daughter Franny. Yet when a furious blizzard traps the pair indoors, the strained silence between them feels louder than ever. Escaping to the attic, Malorie finds the discarded diaries of Rosemary, who lived at the Marsh House through the Thirties. As she reads, she finds herself inexorably drawn into Rosemary s lonely existence until past and present begin to blur entirely... Praise for The Marsh House: Zo Somerville is a born storyteller and this page-turner delivers plenty of creepy thrills. The Times A satisfyingly dark, gothic tale where the past is never far behind you. Rhiannon Ward, author of The Quickening Beautifully written, atmospheric as hell, and elegantly constructed, the story of The Marsh House will draw you into its grip and never let go till the final word. Jane Johnson, author of The Sea Gate Deliciously eerie and unsettling, The Marsh House had me bewitched from page one. I loved its layers of history and secrets. A haunting gem of a book. Susan Allott, author of The Silence A fabulous read, deft and precise, with a satisfying mystery at its centre, based upon a beautifully compassionate reading of the tradition of English folk magic. Amanda Mason, author of The Hiding Place Immersed in the landscape of the North Norfolk coast, this is a clever, suspenseful novel that kept me intrigued. Part ghost story, part thriller, I loved it. Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City
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Wild Cats of the World - Luke Hunter
Wild Cats of the World provides detailed accounts for all 38 species of wild cat accompanied by magnificent artwork and stunning photography.From the rabbit-sized Black-footed Cat of southern Africa to bear-killing Amur tigers of the Russian Far East, the 38 members of the Cat Family include some of the worldâ ™s most fascinating and magnificent species on earth. Supremely adapted for the kill, all cats are obligate carnivores; they survive only by preying upon other animals, and they have become one of evolutionâ ™s most successful predatory lineages of mammals.Wild Cats of the World explores the spectacular Cat Family in unprecedented depth. Drawing on thousands of scientific papers and direct observations in the field, each species is profiled at length, covering all aspects of felid behaviour and ecology.The book is profusely illustrated with colour plates, black-and-white sketches showing important aspects of cat life and accurate images of every speciesâ ™ skull. Over 400 spectacular photographs are included, many of them showing extremely rare and little-known cats published here for the first time. Each profile includes an up-to-date range map and explains the most current science on how cats are classified and related to each other, including some very recent, surprising discoveries.Despite their great evolutionary success, the challenges facing felids in the modern world are profound. Only one, the ubiquitous domestic cat, does not require dedicated conservation action to ensure survival for the next century. The book also explores the current conservation issues facing wild cats, the increasingly perilous status of many species and how they can be saved.
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (1784701483)
Kniha - autor Timothy Snyder, 462 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Timothy Snyder, 462 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the East, many on the fertile black earth that the Nazis believed would feed the German people.It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think.Timothy...
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Kingdom of the Feared - Kerri Maniscalco
Two curses. One prophecy. And a love more powerful than fate... All hail the king and queen of Hell.#1 New York Times bestselling author Kerri Maniscalco delivers sizzling romance, sexy secrets, and unexpected twists in this unforgettable conclusion to the Kingdom of the Wicked series.Emilia is reeling from a shocking discovery about her sister, Vittoria. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. She doesn t just desire his body; she wants his heart and soul-but that s something the enigmatic demon can t promise her.When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, damning evidence somehow points to Vittoria as the murderer. Now, Emilia will do anything to get to the bottom of these accusations against the sister she thought she knew.Together, Emilia and Wrath play a sin-fuelled game of deception to solve the murder and stop the unrest that s brewing between witches, demons, shape-shifters, and the most treacherous foes of all: the Feared. Emilia was warned that when it came to the Wicked, nothing was as it seemed. But have the true villains been much closer all along?
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The Beast in the Red Forest - Sam Eastland
A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Inspector Pekkala s charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead. On Stalin s orders, Pekkala s assistant Kirov travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of clues to a wilderness where partisans wage a brutal campaign against the Nazi invaders. Unknown to Kirov, he is being led into a trap - a new enemy has emerged from the fog of war, more deadly than any Kirov or Pekkala have ever faced before. Pursuing the legend of a half-human creature, said to roam the landscape of this war within a war, each step brings Kirov closer to the truth about Pekkala s disappearance. Meanwhile, Pekkala s nemesis is closing in for the kill
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The Chaos Agent - Mark Greaney
Artificial intelligence leads to shockingly real devastation in this new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Gray Man series.A car accident in Japan. A drowning in Seoul. A home invasion in Boston. Someone is killing the world s leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence. Is it a tech company trying to eliminate the competition or something even more sinister? After all, AI may be the deadliest battlefield gamechanger since the creation of gunpowder. Meanwhile, the quest for a quiet life has led the Gray Man to Central America, where he and his lover Zoya Zakharova have assumed new identities. Eventually, they re tracked down and offered a job by an old acquaintance of Zoya s: to extract a Russian scientist who is on the kill list. They reject it, but just being seen with him is enough to put assassins on their trail. Now, they re back on the run, but no matter which way they turn, whoever s tracking them is always one step ahead. Since flight s no longer possible, fight is the only option left, and no one fights dirtier than the Gray Man.
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The Hunt - Matthew Hattersley
Trust no one. Survive at all costs. Ex-assassin Acid Vanilla finds herself trapped on a remote island, pursued by twisted trophy hunters who paid top dollar for the thrill of the kill. Unarmed and outnumbered, she must navigate a treacherous landscape of dense jungles and deadly deception to survive.With danger lurking behind every corner and trust a rare commodity, she s forced to question everything and everyone.As the body count rises, Acid realizes that the only way out is to turn the tables on her would-be executioners, or else end up the ultimate prize in a sick game.And so the hunt begins.__________________________________________Praise for the Acid Vanilla series:????? Bold, Bolshy and Brilliant!????? Â…plots and inner plots kept me glued to my Kindle.????? Grabs you in the first chapter and doesnÂ’t let go until the last page.????? Superb characters and a great plot cleverly written.????? Â…fast paced Â… keeps you rushing to turn pages.????? Â…a non-stop rolling plot that defies rational thinking.????? Great thriller with a fantastic action heroine.????? Acid Vanilla is a serial adrenalin rush. Kept me turning the pages
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The Psychopathy Project - Michele Fleming
How do you identify a psychopath? Thatâ ™s the question Dr Emilia Dalton, a young psychology academic, and her colleagues are trying to answer. When Emiliaâ ™s mentor and the head of the psychopathy lab at Burley Griffin University is murdered, all members of the lab are on high alert. When another member of the lab is murdered, it appears that staff at the lab are being targeted. Emilia is worried about her safety. She is supported by two of her colleagues, Harry Swinburne, and her best friend, Layla Simpson. Emilia and her colleagues suspect that Anders Karlsson, the new, ambitious head of the psychopathy lab, might have a compelling reason for the murders. Can the police find the murderer before anyone else is killed? And do the murders have anything to do with Emiliaâ ™s research? When the police fail to track down the murderer, Emilia takes matters into her own hands. The Psychopathy Project is an unforgettable love story, a whodunnit and a whydunnit. It is filled with twists and turns that will leave you reeling.
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The Binding Room - Nadine Matheson
Pre-order THE KILL LIST in paperback now!â ˜Dark, tense, action-packed, and so, so clever â ¦ I couldnâ ™t stop until the very last page. Outstandingâ ™ Andrea Mara, number one Sunday Times bestselling author of No One Saw a Thingâ ˜Another absolute cracker. Gruesome and gritty Liz Nugent, Sunday Times bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamondâ ˜This is a series that just keeps on giving with thrills, danger, shocks and eeriness with a great cast of characters â ¦ Nadine is truly a Queen of thrillersâ ™ Reader review ââââââ ˜Another exciting, tense, character driven and unpredictable thriller. This is such a good series I simply devoured itâ ™ Reader review âââââ* * *In this room, no one can hear you screamâ ¦The Serial Crimes Unit are called in to investigate when a local pastor is found stabbed to death. As DI Henley assesses the crime scene, she discovers a hidden door that conceals a room set up for torture â “ and bound to the bed in the middle of the room is the body of a man.When another body is found, also tied down, Henley realises there s someone out there torturing innocent people and leaving them for dead. But why?There s nothing that connects the victims. They didn t know each other. Their paths never crossed. But someone has targeted them, and it s up to Henley and the SCU to stop them before they find another binding roomâ ¦* * *Praise for Nadine Matheson â ˜Nadine Matheson writes sentences like roses, lovely and bristling with thorns â ¦ Mathesonâ ™s voice is exciting, urgentâ ¦ and, now more than ever, vitalâ ™ A.J. Finnâ ˜There is a freshness to Mathesonâ ™s writing which promises a long careerâ ™ Morning Star
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The Latte Factor - John David Mann, David Bach
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover #1 New York Times bestselling author David Bach’s three secrets to financial freedom in an engaging story that will show you that you are richer than you think. Drawing on the author’s experiences teaching millions of people around the world to live a rich life, this fast, easy listen reveals how anyone—from millennials to baby boomers—can still make his or her dreams come true.In this compelling, heartwarming parable, Bach and his bestselling coauthor John David Mann (The Go-Giver) tell the story of Zoey, a twenty-something woman living and working in New York City. Like many young professionals, Zoey is struggling to make ends meet under a growing burden of credit card and student loan debt, working crazy hours at her dream job but still not earning enough to provide a comfortable financial cushion. At her boss’s suggestion, she makes friends with Henry, the elderly barista at her favorite Brooklyn coffee shop. Henry soon reveals his “Three Secrets to Financial Freedom,” ideas Zoey dismisses at first but whose true power she ultimately comes to appreciate. Over the course of a single week, Zoey discovers that she already earns enough to secure her financial future and realize her truest dreams—all she has to do is make a few easy shifts in her everyday routine. The Latte Factor demystifies the secrets to achieving financial freedom, inspiring you to realize that it’s never too late to reach for your dreams. By following the simple, proven path that Henry shows Zoey, anyone can make small changes today that will have big impact for a lifetime, proving once again that “David Bach is the financial expert to listen to when you’re intimidated by your finances” (Tony Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Money: Master the Game).
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