Short Treatise On The Joys Of Morphinism
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Short Treatise On The Joys Of Morphinism
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Author : Hans Fallada
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
Short Treatise On The Joys Of Morphinism written by Hans Fallada and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
'...I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as morphine. Why didn't it ever occur to me before: coffee is my friend!' Drawing on Hans Fallada's own history of addiction, these two stories and are written with a remarkable, tough, spartan clarity. As a man desperately, haplessly tries to get enough morphine to make it through the day and a drunk embezzler struggles to get himself arrested, they are at one second crushing, the next darkly comic. This book includes A Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism and Three Years of Life.
More Lives Than One A Biography Of Hans Fallada
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Author : Jenny Williams
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-02-02
More Lives Than One A Biography Of Hans Fallada written by Jenny Williams and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hans Fallada was a drug addict, womanizer, alcoholic, jailbird and thief. Yet he was also one of the most extraordinary storytellers of the twentieth century, whose novels, including Alone in Berlin, portrayed ordinary people in terrible times with a powerful humanity. This acclaimed biography, newly revised and completely updated, tells the remarkable story of Hans Fallada, whose real name was Rudolf Ditzen. Jenny Williams chronicles his turbulent life as a writer, husband and father, shadowed by mental torment and long periods in psychiatric care. She shows how Ditzen's decision to remain in Nazi Germany in 1939 led to his self-destruction, but also made him a unique witness to his country's turmoil. More Lives Than One unpicks the contradictory, flawed and fascinating life of a writer who saw the worst of humanity, yet maintained his belief in the decency of the 'little man'.
Tales From The Underworld
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Author : Hans Fallada
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-02-06
Tales From The Underworld written by Hans Fallada and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Fiction categories.
Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes. Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces larger than themselves: addiction, love, money.
Red Rose White Rose
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Author : Eileen Chang
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
Red Rose White Rose written by Eileen Chang and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn't that just how the average man describe a chaste widow's devotion to her husband's memory - as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had two such women - at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is "moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long she'll be a grain of sticky rice that's gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart. In Eileen Chang's eloquent and evocative novella, Zhenbao is a devoted son, a diligent worker, and guarded in love. But when he meets a friend's spoilt, spirited, desirable wife, he cannot resist her charms, or keep their relationship under his control. As he succumbs to passions and resentments, Red Rose, White Rose is both sensual and restrained.
The Last Demon
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Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
The Last Demon written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
'I, a demon, bear witness that there are no more demons left.Why demons, when man himself is a demon?Why persuade to evil someone who is already convinced?I am the last of the persuaders.' Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1978, is best-remembered for his humane and moving short stories, which drew comparison with those of Maupassant and Chekhov. The three collected here, about a girl who pretends to be a man in order to study the Torah, a frustrated demon, and a writer trying to understand the confusion of a holocaust survivor, illuminate the great themes of human suffering with supernal grace. This book includes The Last Demon, Yentl the Yeshiva Boy and The Cafeteria.
Through The Wall
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Author : Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
Through The Wall written by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
'There once lived a woman who was so fat, she couldn't fit in a taxi, and when going into the subway she took up the whole width of the escalator' Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has been acclaimed as one of Russia's greatest living writers. These five dreamlike and blackly comic stories, two of which are here in English for the first time, tell of lost children, midnight forests, strange transformations, cruel curses, grief and resilience, in the darkest of modern fairy tales. This book contains Through the Wall and Anna and Maria.
Terra Incognita
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Author : Vladimir Nabokov
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
Terra Incognita written by Vladimir Nabokov and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
'The woods were gradually thinning. I was tormented by strange hallucinations.I gazed at the weird tree trunks, around some of which were coiled thick, flesh-coloured snakes; suddenly I thought I saw, between the trunks, as though through my fingers, the mirror of a half-open wardrobe...' These three stories of menace, magic and melancholy display Vladimir Nabokov's astonishing range and inventiveness. Whether describing an escape across a surreal tropical landscape, a fateful meeting or an unexpected - and threatening - return, each tale shows his dazzling sleight of hand, intellectual playfulness and fantastical imagination. This book includes Terra Incognita, Spring in Fialta and The Doorbell.
Chess
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Author : Stefan Zweig
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
Chess written by Stefan Zweig and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.
Babylon Revisited
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Author : F Scott Fitzgerald
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
Babylon Revisited written by F Scott Fitzgerald and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
'But it hadn't been given for nothing. It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an offering to destiny that he might not remember the things most worth remembering, the things that he would now always remember' F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams and tarnished hopes. In these three tales of a fragile recovery, a cut-glass bowl and a life lost, Fitzgerald portrays, in exquisite prose and with deep human sympathy, the idealism of youth and the ravages of success. This book includes Babylon Revisited, The Cut-Glass Bowl and The Lost Decade.
The Lady In The Looking Glass
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Author : Virginia Woolf
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
The Lady In The Looking Glass written by Virginia Woolf and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.' 'If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize her open with the first tool that came to hand - the imagination.' Virginia Woolf's writing tested the boundaries of modern fiction, exploring the depths of human consciousness and creating a new language of sensation and thought. Sometimes impressionistic, sometimes experimental, sometimes brutally cruel, sometimes surprisingly warm and funny, these five stories describe love lost, friendships formed and lives questioned. This book includes The Lady in the Looking Glass, A Society, The Mark on the Wall, Solid Objects and Lappin and Lapinova.