In a range of work including novels of literary suspense that test both their protagonists’ souls and their readers’ nerves to the breaking point, Graham Greene explored a territory located somewhere on the border between despair and faith, treachery and love.
This is a story of two soldiers, one in the present and one in the past. The present day soldier, Major Sam Call, is at the end of his once promising career, and Sergeant Jonathan Simon, who was a Sergeant in administration during WWII. Sam was a career minded soldier of honor and integrity, but by openly fighting the system he ended his career. His last assignment is preparing the soon to close Fort Sheridan for turnover to civilian authorities. In doing so he finds a diary and some financial data, and then discovers an unlikely plot involving German POWs and American Officers. Once again Sam is forced to act, and he enlists his best friend to help unravel the mystery.
Working for Vogue, Amy spends her days dressing waif models in London's latest apparel while fending off insults from the Gucci-garbed staff. Hardly the glamorous job she hoped it would be. But that won't stop her from fantasizing about the jet-set life she knows she's destined for--or the prince who's bound to redeem her from a less than glowing record in romance.
However, beneath her dreamy exterior, Amy has a sure streak of common sense. So when the impossible happens--and her path crosses that of London's hottest film star--she swoons with longing, expecting nothing in return. But Orlando Rock has other ideas. For Amy is just the kind of girl he's after--smart and witty, with a penchant for quoting from the classics, different from the daft supermodels and vain leading ladies he's dated before. Or is she? For with fame, fortune, and true love just around the corner, Amy's head is spinning, her jet-fueled imagination poised for takeoff. Is her love for Orlando stronger than her lust for the limelight--or is she merely fated to be the paparazzi's latest prey . . .?
Hip and hilarious, this enchanting, sizzlingly sexy tale of a winsome twenty-something caught between romance and reality will have you rooting her on through each outrageous mishap and daring plunge toward love.
Scobie is a highly principled officer in a war-torn West African state. When he is passed over for promotion he is forced to borrow money to send his despairing wife away on a holiday.
In her absence he falls hopelessly in love with Helen, a young widow, and his life is transformed by the experience. With a duty to repay his debts and an inability to distinguish between love, pity, and responsibilty to others and to God, Scobie moves inexorably to his final damnation.
The terrifying description of a man's awe of the Church and the ability to portray human motive and to convey such a depth of suffering make The Heart of the Matter one of Graham Greene's most enduring, tragic novels.
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt “Papa Doc” and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence man—these are the “comedians” of Greene’s title. Hiding behind their actors’ masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. They are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the world’s most popular and influential fictional detective—the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmes’s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to exercise that unique combination of detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.
Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes starts with Holmes’s first appearance, A Study in Scarlet, a chilling murder novel complete with bloodstained walls and cryptic clues, followed by the baffling The Sign of Four, which introduces Holmes’s cocaine problem and Watson’s future wife. The story collections The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes feature such renowned tales as “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “The Red-Headed League,” and “The Musgrave Ritual.”
Tired of writing stories about Holmes, his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, killed him
"First published in 1970, Warren's edition remains the most comprehensive selection of Melville's poetry ever presented. It brings together the best of the Civil War poems from Battle-Pieces (1866), the portraits of sailors from John Marr (1888), and the autumnal lyrics from Timoleon (1891), as well as poems uncollected during Melville's lifetime. Central to the selection are several self-contained passages from Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (1876), a book-length work that Warren calls "an important document of our modernity ... in fact, a precursor to The Waste Land, with the same central image, the same flickering contrasts of the past and the present, the same charade of belief and unbelief."" Warren introduces his selection with a valuable interpretive essay, and also provides copious textual and critical notes.
From battle-pieces and aspects of the war --
The portent --
Misgivings --
The conflict of convictions --
The march into Virginia --
Ball's bluff --
Dupont's round fight --
The stone fleet --
Donelson --
The Temeraire --
A utilitarian view of the monitor's fight --
Shiloh --
Malvern Hill --
Battle of Stone River, Tennessee --
The house-top --
The armies of the wilderness --
On the photograph of a corps commander --
The swamp angel --
The college colonel --
"The coming storm" --
"Formerly a slave" --
On the slain collegians --
America --
The fortitude of the north --
Inscription --
An uninscribed monument --
A requiem --
On a natural monument --
Commemorative of a naval victory --
The scout toward Aldie --
Lee in the capitol --
A meditation --
Supplement --
From Clarel --
I: Jerusalem --
I: The hostel --
II: Of the crusaders --
XVII: Nathan --
II: The wilderness --
IV: Of Mortmain --
XXII: Concerning Hebrews --
XXVII: Vine and Clarel --
XXII: The inscription --
XXXIV: Mortmain reappears --
XXXVI: Sodom --
XXXIX: Obsequies --
III: Mar saba --
V: The high desert --
IV: Bethlehem --
XX: Derwent and Ungar --
XXX: The valley of decision --
XXXI: Dirge --
XXXII: Passion week --
XXXIII: Easter --
XXXIV: Via crucis --
XXV: Epilogue --
From John Marr and other stories with some sea-pieces --
John Marr --
Bridegroom Dick --
Tom Deadlight --
Jack Roy --
The Haglets --
The man-of-war hawk --
Old counsel --
The tuft of Kelp --
The maldive shark --
To Ned --
Crossing the tropics --ISBN: 1567922694Author: Herman MelvillePublisher: David R. Godine PublisherRating: 3.83Read NowDownload Book
