Download or read book Conrad Nostromo written by Ian Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-04-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Watt addresses Conrad's great novel by providing an accessible introduction analysing the background, history and politics.

Download or read book Essays on Conrad written by Ian Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark collection of Ian Watt's essays on Joseph Conrad.

Download or read book Conrad written by Daniel R. Schwarz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-06-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Treatment written by Sarah Moorhead and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. ‘A wonderful novel. Big ideas wrapped in a plot that moves like a freight train’ Stuart Turton 'Compelling and complex, but still emotionally charged and devastating' Helen Fields 'A Clockwork Orange for the modern cohort. A terrifying near future imagined perfectly' Imran Mahmood The future of law enforcement has arrived, courtesy of private health contractor Janus Justice. Their ground-breaking ‘Offender Treatment Programme’ has been hailed as the most effective way of tackling crime yet. As offenders move through the four-tiered system, their needs are dealt with, each tier more drastic in its methods: Tier One: Low-risk crimes. Physical therapy encouraged Tier Two: Trauma and addiction. Emotional and psychological reasons for offending are examined Tier Three: Aversion therapy & moral punishment Tier Four: Siberia, where all hope is lost But Grace Gunnarsson, one of Janus’ most highly regarded rehabilitation psychiatrists, has uncovered a terrible flaw in the system, one that is allowing people to get away with murder... ‘A high-octane, spine-shivering thriller, in which neuropsychology, crime, ethics and justice are melded in a mind-stretching concoction’ Philippa East Praise for The Treatment 'My favourite kind of thriller: intriguing, intelligent and with a complex moral question at its core' Simon Lelic 'Tense and thought-provoking, The Treatment has a bold narrative that's startlingly relevant' Sarah Ward 'In The Treatment, Sarah Moorhead takes a stunningly original and frighteningly plausible premise of a twisted criminal justice system, and creates a page-turning thriller with characters readers will love and hate. Brilliantly done!' Guy Morpuss ‘Thoughtful and chilling, The Treatment offers a terrifying glimpse into a wholly believable dystopian future of crime and the justice system' Brian McGilloway 'A great plot, very nasty villains but more importantly tackles moral and societal issues you rarely see in crime fiction' Trevor Wood 'Intelligent futuristic thriller writing at its very best. The central idea is mind-blowing and the characters beautifully realised' Victoria Dowd 'Intense and unsettling, this Orwellian tale had me gripped to the very last page' Marion Todd

Download or read book Nailed Complete Series written by Lucia Jordan and published by Vasko Pty Ltd. This book was released on with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nailed An Escort Romance Complete Series written by Lucia Jordan and published by Wild Hearts Romance. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Conrad sees in Emma is potential—an underlying strength coupled with the desire to surrender to his command. And Emma finds Conrad impossible to resist… Emma has always had her eyes on Conrad Blunt. The enigmatic and out-of-reach steamy older brother of her best friend and Emma finds herself playing a role she never would have imagined in her wildest dreams. Visiting Denver, and recently broken up with his ex, Conrad asks his secretary to organize an escort to accompany him to a charity ball…but, unbeknownst to him, his over-protective sister Violet is dead-set against the idea. There’s no way she’ll let her brother date an escort…so she sets him up with her friend instead but Conrad doesn’t recognize the gorgeous and transformed woman from the girl he once knew. But Emma has sworn to Violet that she won’t touch Conrad—that the escort role is just that—a role. But now she’s in way over her head. The question is, will she be able to find her way out…and does she even want to?

Download or read book From Song to Book written by Sylvia Huot and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poetics. In this generously illustrated volume, Huot examines manuscript texts both from the performance-oriented lyric tradition of chanson courtoise, or courtly love lyric, and from the self-consciously literary tradition of Old French narrative poetry. She demonstrates that the evolution of the lyrical romance and dit, narrative poems which incorporate thematic and rhetorical elements of the lyric, was responsible for a progressive redefinition of lyric poetry as a written medium and the emergence of an explicitly written literary tradition uniting lyric and narrative poetics. Huot first investigates the nature of the vernacular book in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, analyzing organization, page layout, rubrication, and illumination in a series of manuscripts. She then describes the relationship between poetics and manuscript format in specific texts, including works by widely read medieval authors such as Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, and Guillaume de Machaut, as well as by lesser-known writers including Nicole de Margival and Watriquet de Couvin. Huot focuses on the writers' characteristic modifications of lyric poetics; their use of writing and performance as theme; their treatment of the poet as singer or writer; and of the lady as implied reader or listener; and the ways in which these features of the text were elaborated by scribes and illuminators. Her readings reveal how medieval poets and book-makers conceived their common project, and how they distinguished their respective roles.

Download or read book Stained River written by David Faxon and published by David Faxon. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elaborate scheme to take over his company leads Terrence Connery on a fool's mission to Brazil. There he is stranded in the most remote part of the Amazon when his plane crashes. Against incalculable odds, he fights not only to survive in a treacherous environment, but to payback the injustices done to him. His thrilling journey results in extraordinary changes.

Download or read book Germany s Western Front 1915 written by Mark Humphries and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-volume series in seven parts is the first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War. Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second World War, Der Weltkrieg is the untold story of Germany’s experience on the Western front, in the words of its official historians, making it vital to the study of the war and official memory in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Although exciting new sources have recently been uncovered in former Soviet archives, this work remains the basis of future scholarship. It is essential reading for any scholar, graduate student, or enthusiast of the Great War. This volume, the first of the series to appear in print, focuses on 1915, the first year of trench warfare. For the first time in the history of warfare, poison gas was used against French and Canadian troops at Ypres. Meanwhile, conflict raged in the German High Command over the political and military direction of the war. The year 1915 also set the stage for the bloodbath at Verdun and sealed the fate of the German Supreme Commander, Erich von Falkenhayn. This is the official version of that story. Foreword by Hew Strachan Co-published with the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies

Download or read book Now written by Charles Marriott and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hedgehogs and Foxes written by A. Zaleznik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling look at charismatic leaders and their leadership styles, Abraham Zaleznik asserts that leaders are either 'hedgehogs,' who view leadership as a single-minded track driven by unwavering rules, or 'foxes,' who assess and re-evaluate their goals and strategies based on ever-changing factors in business, politics, and culture.

Download or read book Declaration of Guilt written by Marc Gee and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the winter of 1946 just after the Second World War, the naked body of a Polish waitress is discovered frozen under the ice in the River Wista, Krakow. In the same year across Europe a young Jewish woman is murdered in the docklands of the East End of London. Unknown to the Polish and British police both murders are mysteriously connected.Fast forward thirty one years to 1977. James Jacob is sentenced to ten years for armed robbery. On his first night inside the infamous Brainforth Prison he shares a cell with an eccentric prisoner. Unknowingly to Jacob, the inmate hides a dark secret and is embroiled in the grizzly murders of the past. Little does Jacob realise that his life was about to change forever.When a tour guide who worked at Auschwitz is found under the ice-floe of the River Wista, Detective Adamski from the Krakow Police Department is thrust into the spotlight of the world’s media. ‘The Shepherd,’ as the press has christened the serial killer, then strikes again putting the detective under incessant pressure to bring him to justice. But The Shepherd is clever, devious, and has covered his tracks impeccably.Inside Brainforth Prison Jacob becomes haunted by his past. As the story unfolds he battles against his own demons and finds himself being lambasted by the establishment and villains alike. Then out of the blue he inadvertently uncovers a trail of murder, deceit, betrayal and fascism, spanning back to 1946. Uncovering the identity of the killer puts Jacob’s life on the line. Then, when things couldn’t get any worse…. ‘The Shepherd’ decides to pay him a chilling visit.

Download or read book Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts written by Katherine Isobel Baxter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad's fiction is characterized by an enduring recourse to the performing arts for metaphor, allegory, symbol, and subject matter; however, this aspect of Conrad's non-dramatic works has only recently begun to come into its own among literary critics. In response to this seminal moment, Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts offers an exciting, interdisciplinary forum for one of the most interesting and nascent areas of Conrad studies. Adopting a variety of theoretical approaches, the contributors examine major and neglected works within the context of the performing arts: cultural performance in Conrad's Malay fiction; Conrad's use and parody of popular traditions such as melodrama, Grand-Guignol, and commedia dell'arte; Conrad's engagement with the visual culture of early cinema; Conrad's interest in the motifs of shadowgraphy (shadow plays); Conrad's relationship to Shakespeare; and the enduring influence of opera on his work. Taken together, the essays provide, through solid scholarship and richly provocative speculation, new insight into Conrad's oeuvre, and invite future dialogue in the burgeoning field of Conrad and the performing arts.

Download or read book A Concordance to Conrad s Victory written by James W. Parins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1979, The Concordance to Conrad’s Victory is intended to provide access to certain information on the text of the novel in a manner convenient to Conrad scholars. To this end the authors have included an alphabetical list of word frequencies and a type/token ratio table as well as a list of word frequencies in rank order. In the concordance itself, each specific word in the text is listed in alphabetical order along with an identifier number and a context for the word. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad’s works.

Download or read book Conrad s Short Fiction written by Lawrence Graver and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

Download or read book Convincing Conrad written by Casey Drake and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad Stokes knows he's in trouble when he uncovers an embezzlement scheme and watches as his boss's office is ransacked... by glowing-eyed shadows. Now his boss is dead, and Conrad is understandably freaked out and doesn't want to go home alone. Enter Ryder, the gorgeous security specialist sent by his sister. Ryder Weller didn't know what to expect when he answered Connie's call to escort her twin brother home from a seedy bar across town. A trashed apartment, the scent of dangerous wolves, and the overwhelming need to protect the human in his care at all costs wasn't it. He sure wasn't dreaming of forever... or finding a true mate. But it might all be within his grasp-after he breaks the news that "werewolves are real, and hey, I'm one of them," that is.

Download or read book The Crusader States written by Malcolm Barber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An enriching account of the expansion of the political and cultural frontiers of the Latin West in the central Middle Ages.”—History Today When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God’s favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God’s plan: to re-establish Christian control of Syria and Palestine. This book is devoted to the resulting settlements, the crusader states, that developed around the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and survived until Richard the Lionheart’s departure in 1192. Focusing on Jerusalem, Antioch, Tripoli, and Edessa, Malcolm Barber vividly reconstructs the crusaders’ arduous process of establishing and protecting their settlements, and the simultaneous struggle of vanquished inhabitants to adapt to life alongside their conquerors. Rich with colorful accounts of major military campaigns, the book goes much deeper, exploring in detail the culture of the crusader states—the complex indigenous inheritance, the architecture, the political, legal, and economic institutions, the ecclesiastical framework through which the crusaders perceived the world, the origins of the Knights Templar and the Hospitallers, and more. With the zest of a scholar pursuing a life-long interest, Barber presents a complete narrative and cultural history of the crusader states while setting a new standard for the term “total history.” A Choice Outstanding Academic Title in the Western Europe Category “Barber is a highly distinguished scholar, whose touch is continually deft, and he navigates the basis of the main narrative histories with care . . . a delight to read.”—Literary Review