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1000 tulosta hakusanalla K. Waliszewski
The squirrelly little professor Stanley Kosiewski occupies an unstable place in the world located between two realities: an imagined one in which he socializes and converses with some of the most famous characters of world literature and the academic world of dysfunctional Winston University. The latter is defined by his relationship with four colleagues. Together with K, they comprise the Fellowship of the Fire, a literary clique of philosophically minded, antiquated intellectuals with antiquated opinions on everything from soup to nuts. When faced with the prospect of retirement from academia, the odd little professor, affectionately known as the gerbil by students and colleagues alike, begins to reflect on the purpose and meaning of his life and his career. Waiting to be discovered in the vague space between these realities is something of an answer to his perplexing questions about his relevance.
The squirrelly little professor Stanley Kosiewski occupies an unstable place in the world located between two realities: an imagined one in which he socializes and converses with some of the most famous characters of world literature and the academic world of dysfunctional Winston University. The latter is defined by his relationship with four colleagues. Together with K, they comprise the Fellowship of the Fire, a literary clique of philosophically minded, antiquated intellectuals with antiquated opinions on everything from soup to nuts. When faced with the prospect of retirement from academia, the odd little professor, affectionately known as the gerbil by students and colleagues alike, begins to reflect on the purpose and meaning of his life and his career. Waiting to be discovered in the vague space between these realities is something of an answer to his perplexing questions about his relevance.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 - September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" from her novel The Door (1930), although the novel does not use the exact phrase. Rinehart is also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing, with the publication of The Circular Staircase (1908). (wikipedia.org)Mary Roberts graduated from the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses in 1896. That same year she married physician Stanley M. Rinehart. She and her husband started a family, and she took up writing in 1903 as a result of difficulties created by financial losses. Her first story appeared in Munsey's Magazine in 1903. The Circular Staircase (1908), her first book and first mystery, was an immediate success, and the following year The Man in Lower Ten, which had been serialized earlier, reinforced her popular success. Thereafter she wrote steadily, averaging about a book a year. A long series of comic tales about the redoubtable "Tish" (Letitia Carberry) appeared as serials in the Saturday Evening Post over a number of years and as a series of novels beginning with The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911).Rinehart served as a war correspondent during World War I and later described her experiences in several books, notably Kings, Queens and Pawns (1915). She produced as well a number of romances and nine plays. Most of the plays were written in collaboration with Avery Hopwood; her greatest successes were Seven Days, produced in New York in 1909, and The Bat, derived from The Circular Staircase and produced in 1920. She remained best known, however, as a writer of mysteries, and the growing popularity of that genre after World War II led to frequent republication of her works. Her most memorable tales combined murder, love, ingenuity, and humour in a style that was distinctly her own. Her autobiography, My Story, appeared in 1931 and was revised in 1948. At Rinehart's death her books had sold more than 10 million copies. (britannica.com)
K
Bibliotech Press
2022
sidottu
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 - September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" from her novel The Door (1930), although the novel does not use the exact phrase. Rinehart is also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing, with the publication of The Circular Staircase (1908). (wikipedia.org)Mary Roberts graduated from the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses in 1896. That same year she married physician Stanley M. Rinehart. She and her husband started a family, and she took up writing in 1903 as a result of difficulties created by financial losses. Her first story appeared in Munsey's Magazine in 1903. The Circular Staircase (1908), her first book and first mystery, was an immediate success, and the following year The Man in Lower Ten, which had been serialized earlier, reinforced her popular success. Thereafter she wrote steadily, averaging about a book a year. A long series of comic tales about the redoubtable "Tish" (Letitia Carberry) appeared as serials in the Saturday Evening Post over a number of years and as a series of novels beginning with The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911).Rinehart served as a war correspondent during World War I and later described her experiences in several books, notably Kings, Queens and Pawns (1915). She produced as well a number of romances and nine plays. Most of the plays were written in collaboration with Avery Hopwood; her greatest successes were Seven Days, produced in New York in 1909, and The Bat, derived from The Circular Staircase and produced in 1920. She remained best known, however, as a writer of mysteries, and the growing popularity of that genre after World War II led to frequent republication of her works. Her most memorable tales combined murder, love, ingenuity, and humour in a style that was distinctly her own. Her autobiography, My Story, appeared in 1931 and was revised in 1948. At Rinehart's death her books had sold more than 10 million copies. (britannica.com)
Enjoy the compilation of my poetry about life and everything that comes with it.
Professor Francis Kauffman has unwittingly landed himself in prison where he’s faced with an insurmountable task: execute a fellow inmate. Charged with igniting a political insurrection amongst his students at a university in Beijing, Kauffman is sent to the notorious Kun Chong Prison, where his existence grows stranger by the hour as he struggles with the weight of his imprisonment and his incurable need to write about it in a place where art is forbidden, and the inmates must act as executioners. As cultures clash in his filthy, crowded cell, it soon becomes clear that he's destined for a labor camp…or worse. In this surreal and brutally honest literary thriller, Kauffman reflects on the turbulent family history that brought him to China, where he leads a solitary, expat life of soulless insurance jobs and all-night writing binges, only to wind up fighting a battle for his life inside the walls of Kun Chong.
K is the story of a father who searches for his daughter, disappeared during the millitary dictatorship in Brazil. The first Brazillian edition sold out in a few weeks, and was shortlisted for many literary awards.
This emotionally gripping novel blends Mary Roberts Rinehart's two fortes-mystery and romance. When a mysterious stranger who calls himself 'K' enters her life, nurse-in-training Sidney can sense that he's running away from something. But before she can learn more about his tragic past, the pair find themselves falling hopelessly in love. Can their romance transcend his troubles?
K. raconte la destin e d'un couple de l'ombre amen prendre la lumi re. Ce couple, c'est celui que formaient Bobby et Ethel Kennedy. Bobby est le petit fr re du c l bre John et aura lui aussi son r le jouer dans la vie politique am ricaine. Il ne le jouera pas seul car il sera toujours fid lement paul par son pouse Ethel, malgr les temp tes m diatiques et les crises politiques qui ont marqu les ann es 1960. K. est avant tout l'histoire d'un couple uni par un amour profond qui se retrouve emport par l'Histoire.
K
Semyg
2022
pokkari
Ma co- ditrice m'a demand de faire un r sum de mon livre qui donne l'envie d' tre achet . Sur le coup j'ai eu envie de dire que dans ce livre il y avait au moins un prix Nobel, un deuxi me si j'avais tay un peu plus et un troisi me si j'en vends beaucoup mais si je le disais ainsi on ne me croirait pas donc: r sum du livre pour que tout le monde l'ach te: c'est un bon livre, achetez-le, et il n'est pas cher en plus.: ) Ce livre a t crit 90 % entre octobre 2019 et janvier 2020, juste avant la pand mie, ce qui explique les quelques mises jour. J'ai essay de le publier mais, en vain. Et j'en suis le principal responsable. Je ne connaissais pas les rouages du syst me, la peur aussi que a ne marche pas et pire encore, la peur que a marche. Il aborde peu pr s tous les sujets animant une soci t comme la politique, la d mocratie, le vote, le chef mais aussi l' conomie, la justice ou des sujets de soci t comme la famille, l' ducation, la fin de vie et enfin d'actualit comme le COVID ou la guerre en Ukraine.Au premier abord, on pourrait croire un programme politique et quelque part il en est un, mais c'est avant tout une vision.La vison d'un homme qui a eu une chance norme dans sa vie, la plus grande des richesses, celle d'avoir eu du temps. Du temps pour observer et pour comprendre autour de lui dans un environnement qui s'y pr tait bien, une ferme. La vision d'un modeste fils de paysans, peut- tre un peu r veur, mais les pieds bien sur terre. Une vision que j'estime simplement tre de bon sens, sans tre simpliste. Ce livre se pr sente comme un change entre diff rents personnages comme L'intello, L'abruti, le religieux, le scientifique, l'enfant et la Femme, tout cela sous le signe de l'humour mais sans compromission. Tout le monde en prenant un peu pour son grade dans une criture peu conventionnelle. XD
