![]() He escapes and falls through a skylight into the home of Felicity, a blind cat who heard the murderer and his victims shortly before their death. ![]() Francis accidentally alerts Joker to his presence, and is chased by the cult members. That night, Francis finds a religious meeting taking place in the upper floor of his house, in which a cat named Joker preaches about a cat known as Claudandus who sacrificed himself and ascended to Heaven. Francis begins having disturbing nightmares which contain clues to the murders. Another tomcat, "Deep Purple", is the next victim while visiting the body, Francis notices Deep Purple's sexually-aroused state, suggesting a murderous femme fatale. Bluebeard, a deformed local cat, is convinced that humans ("can openers" in cat slang) are responsible for this death and other recent murders of cats. Francis soon finds the corpse of another local cat, Sascha. There are eight books in the Felidae series: Felidae, Felidae II (also known as Felidae on the Road or, in the original German version, Francis), Cave Canem, Das Duell, Salve Roma!, Schandtat, Felipolis and Göttergleich, of which only Felidae, Felidae II, and Felidae V: Salve Roma! have been translated into English.įrancis the cat and his owner Gustav move into a poorly-maintained apartment with bad smells and rotting parquet flooring. The main character is a cat named Francis who investigates the murders of several cats in a big city in Germany. Felidae is a 1989 crime fiction novel by the German-Turkish writer Akif Pirinçci. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Or perhaps it’s a series of outdoorsmen and women telling near-death stories that will both shock and educate you as you head afield. Perhaps it’s a lauded gourmand recapping his life with bird dogs and expensive bottles of wine. And those books about hunting are often entertaining, educational, and important.īut it turns out there are plenty of books that tell hunting stories without entirely branding them as such. It’s easy to search the web and find a whole swath of hunting books sitting atop the charts. Hunters know that stories abound the world over - and most spin plenty of their own tall tales. And luckily for us bibliophiles, there are now hunting books, apps like Audible, and a Kindle to tell it. ![]() The hunting story follows human language back to the very beginning. ![]() ![]() Designer clothes, latest fads, trendy restaurants, etc. New York City culture in the 80s was all about getting ahead, nowhere more so than on Wall Street. If it wasn’t for Ellis’ vanities, it would be great. ![]() Those combined forces put me in the right frame of mind to finally get to this one.Īnd dammit, it’s really good. I also read an interview by Mary Herron, the director of the movie adaptation of the novel (a movie I love) where she talked about how much she appreciated the book and what she took out of it. However, I’ve read a lot lately about New York City in the 80s and what Wall Street was like in that time. Glamorama was trash and the rest of his works have never done much for me. ![]() Vomiting brand names, writing with a mix of flatness and kinetic energy, satirizing culture to the point where there’s no line. Welp, I guess the fourth time is a charm.īrett Easton Ellis’ thing is never going to be my thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Featuring the Fourth Doctor as played by Tom Baker, City of Death is a novel by James Goss based on the 1979 Doctor Who story written by Douglas Adams under the pen-name David Agnew. But then, the Doctor's holidays tend to turn out a bit like this. Aided by British private detective Duggan, whose speciality is thumping people, the Doctor and Romana must thwart the machinations of the suave, mysterious Count Scarlioni u all twelve of him u if the human race has any chance of survival. Soon the Time Lords are embroiled in an audacious alien scheme which encompasses home-made time machines, the theft of the Mona Lisa, the resurrection of the much-feared Jagaroth race, and the beginning (and quite possibly the end) of all life on Earth. But the TARDIS takes them to 1979, a table-wine year, a year whose vintage is soured by cracks u not in their wine glasses but in the very fabric of time itself. Especially if you visit during one of the vintage years. "The Doctor takes Romana for a holiday in Paris u a city which, like a fine wine, has a bouquet all its own. ![]() ![]() ![]() Typical for Brandon was his depicting of contemporary Jewish, religious life, something Pissarro, also born a Jew, neglected. Still he never uses juxta-posed brushstrokes. His brushstroke is more loose, not rendering small details. The influence of light is mostly clair-obscure wise. But in many of his paintings Brandon uses a lot of browns, blacks and greys. In these works he also depicted every day life. In several Italian pictures (1856-63ca) his palet is more bright, he renders the influence of light and even sometimes uses blueish shadows, this is before Monet did so in 1869 (R22,CR133). This makes Brandon more a side-figure within the ‘impressionist’ art-movement.īrandon depicted many works on Saint-Brigit of Sweden (1303-73), which betrays a neo-classical influence. For the rest there doesn’t seem to be close contacts with other Impressionists. He was the teacher of Rouart, was befriended with Degas, de Nittis and probably had some contacts with Legros, Morisot and Félix Bracquemond. Impressionism, the partakers of the expositions: Édouard Brandon (1831-1897)ĭepicting Saint-Brigit, contemporary Italians, Jewish believers and moreīrandon only exhibited at the 1st ‘impressionist’ exposition. ![]() +/-Expos Impressionnistes et Symbolistes.-/-chronology meeting and painting together.-/-Expositions: number of works exhibited. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Inspired by an enthusiastic reader's curiosity, written with flair and based on a lifetime's study, What Matters in Austen will appeal to all those who love and enjoy Jane Austen's work. Though not a book about Jane Austen's life, it uses biographical detail and telling passages from her letters to explain episodes in her novels readers will find out, for example, what novels she read or how much money she had to live on or what she saw at the theatre. What Matters in Austen explores the rituals and conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and sheer daring as a novelist. So the reader will discover when people had their meals and what shops they went to, how they addressed each other, who was allowed to write letters to whom, who owned coaches or pianos, how vicars got good livings and how wealth was inherited. In twenty-one short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by Jane Austen's novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most to the workings of the fiction. Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call each other, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? And which important Austen characters never speak? In What Matters in Austen, John Mullan shows that you can best appreciate Jane Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction - by asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals their devilish cleverness. ![]() ![]() ![]() That, in a quiet and bookish way, is some kind of small act of hope. It's a letter that comes more than a century too late, but it's finally been delivered. She's found the human inside Kafka's words imploring and beseeching and begging, in his own quiet way, for help and delivered him to us, in flesh and blood. ![]() In her new translation of Kafka's masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa's grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment.īernofsky has performed an act of magic with her translation. ![]() This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle millions of readers. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. About the Book "This fine version, with David Cronenberg's inspired introduction and the new translator's beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most disturbing though the most comforting of all so far others will follow, but don't hesitate: this is the transforming text for you."-Richard Howardīook Synopsis Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. ![]() ![]() The band produced eight albums and a string of singles, including " Public Image", " Death Disco", and " Rise", before they went on hiatus in 1993, reforming in 2009. Īfter the Sex Pistols disbanded in 1978, Lydon founded his own band, Public Image Ltd, which was far more experimental in nature and described in a 2005 review by NME as "arguably the first post-rock group". ![]() Because of their controversial lyrics and disrepute at the time, they are regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music. ![]() The band scandalised much of the media, and Lydon was seen as a figurehead of the burgeoning punk movement. With the Sex Pistols, he penned singles including " Anarchy in the U.K.", " God Save the Queen" and " Holidays in the Sun", the content of which precipitated what one commentator described as the "last and greatest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium" in Britain. Lydon's outspoken personality, rebellious image and fashion style led Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren to invite Lydon to join the group as its singer. He is also the lead singer of post-punk band Public Image Ltd (PiL), which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again since 2009. ![]() He was the lead singer of the punk band the Sex Pistols, which was active from 1975 to 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. ![]() John Joseph Lydon ( / ˈ l aɪ d ən/ born 31 January 1956), also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a British singer-songwriter. ![]() ![]() ![]() He spent 30 years in Chile, almost as a Chilean citizen. He had been in the civil war that you described so well in Spain in Our Hearts, the Battle of Teruel and all that. He was much older than me but still very attractive. He had been one of the passengers of the Winnipeg. I was living in exile in Venezuela, and I met a guy who was charming. Isabel Allende: I think the moment when I heard the story for the first time was 40 years ago. ![]() From what you’ve told me, I’m wondering whether that moment was when your stepfather told you about greeting people from the Winnipeg? ![]() The following excerpts are from this conversation.Īdam Hochschild: Sometimes, when I read a book that moves me, I try to imagine the moment when it began, the moment when there was a pebble tossed in the pond and the ripples went outward. In the last event that the Center for Latin American Studies hosted publicly prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Isabel Allende spoke with Adam Hochschild about her book and the legacy of the Spanish Civil War in Latin America and around the world. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them desires. Isabel Allende’s latest book, A Long Petal of the Sea (Ballantine Books, 2020), follows a pregnant young widow whose life becomes intertwined with an army doctor who is her deceased love’s brother. In the late 1930s, Spain’s civil war compelled thousands of refugees to flee their homes in search of a safer life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Claire is Hell’s Librarian in charge of the Unwritten Wing where all unfinished and abandoned stories go to be preserved, but sometimes a character can escape and want to live, or even look for its author, and it’s Claire’s job to make sure that doesn’t happen. Then the story made itself into one of its characters and went walking.” Felt it had a purpose beyond words on a page. Most of the time, the two parts were united in the books filling the Unwritten Wing’s stacks, but now and then a book woke up. Its words-the twisting, changing text on the page-and its story. “There were two parts to any unwritten book. Along for the ride are a blue-haired muse, a couple of demons (one with amnesia), and a walking, talking character straight out of the pages of his own book. Mixing some beautiful prose with a sprinkle of banter, The Library of the Unwritten sees the fierce and formidable librarian from Hell on a mission to retrieve a book, whilst being pursued by Angels. ![]() |