Download or read book Little Demon in the City of Light written by Steven Levingston and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delicious true crime account of a murder most gallic—think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon—whose lurid combination of sex, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a nation and then the world. In 1889, the gruesome murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress launched the trial of the century. When Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé entered 3, rue Tronson du Coudray, expecting a delightful assignation with the comely Gabrielle Bompard, he was instead murdered by Gabrielle and her lover, Michel Eyraud. An international manhunt chased the infamous couple from Paris to America’s West Coast, culminating in a sensational trial that investigated the power of hypnosis to possess, control, and even kill. As the inquiry into the guilt or innocence of the woman the French tabloids dubbed the “Little Demon” intensified, the most respected minds in France vehemently debated: Was Gabrielle Bompard the pawn of her mesmerizing lover or simply a coldly calculating murderess capable of killing a man in cold blood?

Download or read book The Little Demon written by Fyodor Sologub and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and murder. Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding member of society. As he pursues the idea of marrying to gain promotion, he descends into paranoia, sexual perversion, arson, torture and murder. Sologub's anti-hero is one of the great comic monsters of twentieth-century fiction, subsequently lending his name to the brand of sado-masochism known as Peredonovism. The Little Demon (1907) made an immediate star of its author who, refuting suggestions that the work was autobiographical, stated 'No, my dear contemporaries ... it is about you'. This grotesque mirror of a spiritually bankrupt society is arguably the finest Russian novel to have come out of the Symbolist movement. Fyodor Sologub was born in St Petersburg in 1863. His first two novels Bad Dreams (1896) and The Little Demon (1907) were drawn from his own experiences as schoolmaster in a remote provincial town. For many years Sologub could not find a publisher for The Little Demon but when in 1907 the novel was at last published - to immediate and resounding success - he was able to leave his restricting career and devote himself to literature. In 1921 his wife committed suicide and Sologub died a few years later in 1927. Ronald Wilks studied Russian language and literature at Trinity College,Cambridge, after training as a Naval interpreter, and later Russian literature at London University. He has translated many works from Russian for Penguin Classics, including books by Gorky, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy and Chekhov.

Download or read book The Little Demon written by Fyodor Sologub and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lotus Eaters Drunk and Sober Chapter 40 A Little Demon from a Gourd Part 2 written by Mizutaki and published by KADOKAWA. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miyoi works at Geidontei, a izakaya pub in a remote part of the fantasy land, Gensokyo. As a postergirl, she is worried that there is a rumor that some of their customers have disappeared, and that ghoul had kidnapped them. Reimu, a priestess of Hakurei Shrine, sets out to investigate the case--what is behind all this?

Download or read book Satan s Dirty Little Secret written by Steve Foss and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Strategies of the Enemy REVEALED Satan has always used the same schemes to bind, oppress, confound, and deceive mankind. What he is doing today is nothing new. The traps he sets for us are the same ones he set two thousand years ago. Satan’s Dirty Little Secret exposes the two demons behind all of Satan’s attacks. This prophetic revelation given in a vision to Pastor Steve Foss exposes how the enemy operates and shows you... How Satan uses the same two spirits he released on Eve in the garden as gateways to every other form of demonic assault How to successfully defeat these weapons and live free from the bondage of the enemy’s attacks The power of the Holy Spirit and God’s Word can transform you into the image of God. Live in the confidence of God’s love and power. You can triumph over Satan and accomplish everything God has planned for your life!

Download or read book Sins of the Demon written by Diana Rowland and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana homicide detective Kara Gillian is doing her best to cope with everything that's happened to her over the past year, all while s continuing to hone her skills as a demon summoner. But lately she's beginning to wonder if there's a little too much demon in her world. She has a demon for a roommate, the demonic lord Rhyzkahl is still interested in her for reasons she can't fathom, and now someone in the demon realm is trying to summon her. And there's no way that can end well. Meanwhile, people who've hurt Kara in the past are dropping dead. Kara is desperate to find the reasons for the deaths to clear her own name, but when she realizes there's an arcane pattern to the deaths, she knows that both the human and the demon worlds may be at risk unless she finds out who's behind it all. She's in a race against the clock and in a battle for her life that just may take her to hell and back.Sins of the Demon is the exciting fourth installment of the Kara Gillian series.

Download or read book Magic Hissed The Little Demons written by Kathryn Rossati and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has their demons. From time to time, they'll sneak up on us or run about underfoot. They'll keep tripping us until we summon the one thing they can't stand: magic. That igniting surge of self-belief that sends them crawling back into the shadows. An imaginative and accessible collection of poetry, Magic! Hissed The Little Demons explores depression, self-confidence, friendship, and determination, blending the fantastical with the contemporary, and a hint or two of sass.

Download or read book The Demon s Lexicon written by Sarah Rees Brennan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Nick and his brother, Alan, are always ready to run. Their father is dead, and their mother is crazy—she screams if Nick gets near her. She’s no help in protecting any of them from the deadly magicians who use demons to work their magic. The magicians want a charm that Nick’s mother stole—and they want it badly enough to kill. Alan is Nick’s partner in demon slaying and the only person he trusts in the world. So things get very scary and very complicated when Nick begins to suspect that everything Alan has told him about their father, their mother, their past, and what they are doing is a complete lie. . . .

Download or read book The Human s Demon Dragon written by MGKimmy06 and published by Infinite Joy. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Olivia was shy and a good girl who listened to her parents and followed the rules to the letter. One day, she received horrible news about her only best friend, who died in a terrible car fire with her date. Confused and alone, she adventures out to where her friend died to pay respect and quietly mourn her friend's death. When she arrived there, she was in shock, surrounded by ash. Out of the blue, she is startled by a deer’s cry, she follows them, and to her horror, she finds the deer burning and a little boy eating it. That was when she realized he was the one responsible for her friend's death. However, seeing him hurt, she couldn't leave him there. So she helped him. Suddenly, a beam of light hovered over them, and the next thing she knew, she was in a spaceship. Not allowed to go back home, and the little demon boy who has a crush on her turned out to be a prince. Now she watches him grow up and become a fine man.

Download or read book The Republic of Wine written by Mo Yan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Wine—a corrupt and hallucinatory world filled with superstitions, gargantuan appetites, and surrealistic events. When rumors reach the authorities that strange and excessive gourmandise is being practiced in the city of Liquorland (so named for the staggering amount of alcohol produced and consumed there), veteran special investigator Ding Gou'er is dispatched from the capital to discover the truth. His mission begins at the Mount Lou Coal Mine, where he encounters the prime suspect—Deputy Head Diamond Jin, legendary for his capacity to hold his liquor. During the ensuing drinking duel at a banquet served in Ding's honor, the investigator loses all sense of reality, and can no longer tell whether the roast suckling served is of the animal or human variety. When he finally wakes up from his stupor, he has still found no answers to his rapidly mounting questions. Worse yet, he soon finds that his trusty gun is missing. Interspersed throughout the narrative—and Ding's faltering investigation—are letters sent to Mo Yan by one Li Yidou, a doctoral candidate in Liquor Studies and an aspiring writer. Each letter contains a story that Li would like the renowned author's help in getting published. However, Li's tales, each more fantastic and malevolent than the last, soon begin alarmingly to resemble the story of Ding's continuing travails in Liquorland. Peopled by extraordinary characters—a dwarf, a scaly demon, a troupe of plump, delectable boys raised in captivity, a cookery teacher who primes her students with monstrous recipes—Mo Yan's revolutionary tour de force reaffirms his reputation as a writer of world standing. Wild, bawdy, politically explosive, and subversive, The Republic of Wine is both mesmerizing and exhilarating, proving that no repressive regime can stifle true creative imagination.

Download or read book Petersburg written by Andrei Bely and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding the novel, as well as a foreword by Olga Matich, acclaimed scholar of Russian literature. Set in 1905 in St. Petersburg, a city in the throes of sociopolitical conflict, the novel follows university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov, who has gotten entangled with a revolutionary terrorist organization with plans to assassinate a government official–Nikolai's own father, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. With a sprawling cast of characters, set against a nightmarish city, it is all at once a historical, political, philosophical, and darkly comedic novel.

Download or read book COFFIN PART 3 written by TRAM DOAN and published by TRAM DOAN. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps because Tham Trach's resentment was too great, Dong That in the end did not give Tham Trach a tail. The crazy night of the demon world has passed, but the demon market is still extremely bustling as before. Dong That and Tham Trach had almost just entered the demon market when So Thanh's bodyguards quickly ran over........ Customers who need a refund, or are not satisfied with the service, please give feedback to the application's customer team or send feedback to: [email protected] Partners and authors who need to cooperate, or need a refund or payment, please send a letter to: [email protected] Please give TRAM DOAN your bank account number - or method of receiving money, and send the content to Email, we will return it to you. 请向TRAM DOAN提供您的银行帐号-或收款方式，并将内容发送到电子邮件，我们会将其退还给您。 Пожалуйста, сообщите TRAM DOAN номер своего банковского счета или способ получения денег и отправьте контент на электронную почту, мы вернем его вам. โปรดแจ้งหมายเลขบัญชีธนาคารของคุณกับ TRAM DOAN - หรือวิธีการรับเงิน และส่งเนื้อหาไปที่อีเมล เราจะคืนให้คุณ.

Download or read book Found Life written by Linor Goralik and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose, is on full display in this collection of poems, stories, comics, a play, and an interview, here translated for the first time. In Found Life, speech, condensed to the extreme, captures a vivid picture of fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world. Goralik's works evoke an unconventional palette of moods and atmospheres—slight doubt, subtle sadness, vague unease—through accumulation of unexpected details and command over colloquial language. While calling up a range of voices, her works are marked by a distinct voice, simultaneously slightly naïve and deeply ironic. She is a keen observer of the female condition, recounting gendered tribulations with awareness and amusement. From spiritual rabbits and biblical zoos to poems about loss and comics about poetry, Goralik's colorful language and pervasive dark comedy capture the heights of ridiculousness and the depths of grief.

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Download or read book The Ace Bodyguard written by Xiu MuKeDiao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-24 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wang Xiao, the King of Mercenaries who once shook the world. This time, he had returned to the city to become the CEO's bodyguard. In order to conquer this CEO, Wang Xiao had done everything he could ... For the sake of his brothers, he would not hesitate to cut off all his ribs; for the sake of a woman, he would not hesitate to lose all his integrity ... Monster bodyguard, rampaging through the city!

Download or read book This Girl Is A Bit Weird written by Xin Yue and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Having a Mom proud of being a mistress is not something I can chooseOrdinary looks were not something he could choose.A bunch of guys like it, and I can't control itI really don't understand why my mistress' Mom insisted on sending me to this expensive "Wind and Cloud High School".I heard that today, there's going to be a celebrity transferred to our class, Class 3, for two years. "I heard that she's not only an illegitimate daughter, but also a very beautiful 'vixen'.I heard..."I've heard them say, don't they know it's often wrong?"

Download or read book Eternally Blood Emperor written by Bu Zui and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, only by being hurt to the point of heartache can he has the courage and determination to return. Sometimes extraordinary power brings people not glory and respect, but fear and jealousy of others. Ye Ya's outstanding powerful ability caused the jealousy of his leader. He was secretly killed by him. With great shock and grief, he vowed secretly that if he could relive his life, he would never let those with ulterior motives hurt him. He died but was born again. Unfortunately, in this life, he only had low-level martial arts and could only obey the orders and arrangements of others. He was assigned to be a low-ranking patriarch, what he could do was accepting. But with the memory of the previous life, how can he be willing to be an ordinary person? He wants to resist in trouble, and cultivate the martial arts so that to be the strongest. Those who have bullied him and framed him will pay a painful price! ☆About the Author☆ Bu Zui, an excellent online novelist, has rich imagination and creativity. His novels have rich twists and turns, fascinating, smooth writing, and humorous language.