Download or read book Mad Richard written by Lesley Krueger and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting story of talent and the price it exacts, set in a richly imagined Victorian England Called the most promising artist of his generation, handsome, modest, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed shoulders with the great luminaries of the Victorian Age. He grew up along the Medway with Charles Dickens and studied at the Royal Academy Schools under the brilliant and eccentric J.M.W. Turner. Based on Dadd’s tragic true story, Mad Richard follows the young artist as he develops his craft, contemplates the nature of art and fame — as he watches Dickens navigate those tricky waters — and ultimately finds himself imprisoned in Bedlam for murder, committed as criminally insane. In 1853, Charlotte Brontë — about to publish her third novel, suffering from unrequited love, and herself wrestling with questions about art and artists, class, obsession and romance — visits Richard at Bedlam and finds an unexpected kinship in his feverish mind and his haunting work. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Masterfully slipping through time and memory, Mad Richard maps the artistic temperaments of Charlotte and Richard, weaving their divergent lives together with their shared fears and follies, dreams, and crushing illusions.
Download or read book Mad Druggist written by Frank Hozeska and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-08-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, there was a very kind, loving, generous, and caring man who did good works. Unfortunately, the ungodly hypocrites in authority did not like his radical ways of counseling and made it very difficult for him to hold on to his livelihood. All he wanted in this unprecedented, unheard of, crazy cruel spiritual journey is for someone to give him a break! The tumultuous pharmacy career finally catches up with Louie, and no one is willing to give him another chance or a break. Louie ends up a washed-up pharmacist, and he’s ready to give up his fight, until something crazy happens in the final round.
Download or read book Crazy River written by Richard Grant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Dispatches From Pluto and Deepest South of All comes a rollicking travelogue from East Africa. NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make the first descent of an unexplored river in Tanzania, he gets waylaid in Zanzibar by thieves, whores, and a charismatic former golf pro before crossing the Indian Ocean in a rickety cargo boat. And then the real adventure begins. Known to local tribes as “the river of bad spirits,” the Malagarasi River is a daunting adversary even with a heavily armed Tanzanian crew as travel companions. Dodging bullets, hippos, and crocodiles, Grant finally emerges in war-torn Burundi, where he befriends some ethnic street gangsters and trails a notorious man-eating crocodile known as Gustave. He concludes his journey by interviewing the dictatorial president of Rwanda and visiting the true source of the Nile. Gripping, illuminating, sometimes harrowing, often hilarious, Crazy River is a brilliantly rendered account of a modern-day exploration of Africa, and the unraveling of Grant’s peeled, battered mind as he tries to take it all in.
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Download or read book THE MAN FROM HIGH MOUNTAIN written by Kay David and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cole Reynolds is an outsider. He's lived in High Mountain all his life but never felt he belonged. That's okay, though. He's a man who likes his space—and in West Texas there's plenty of it. But everything changed the day he met Taylor Matthews. He was guiding Taylor and her husband through a remote part of the desert when someone shot at them. Cole and Taylor were wounded and her husband was killed. Now Taylor's back—determined to find out what really happened. And like it or not, Cole knows he has to keep her safe….
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Download or read book Cabin of Memories and Other Short Stories written by Misan Akuya and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabin Of Memories and other short stories, is a collection of short stories that explore the human condition with dark humor, pathos, and in a satirical way at times. Each story stands alone and explores different lives and worlds of people. But they are all connected through their particular experiences and how they decide to face these circumstances.
Download or read book The Penitent TCG Edition written by David Mamet and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The finest American author of his generation.” —Sunday Mail “Viewed as an indictment of journalism or the law—take your pick—The Penitent is timely and exciting and, in the best of ways, awfully depressing.” —NBC New York “David Mamet is an American theater icon for good reason. He writes plays with nuance and depth that require the audience to really listen and think. About subjects that will stick to your ribs and keep your mind and your guts churning long after you leave the theater. The Penitent is no exception.” —Front Row Center In David Mamet’s searing new drama, Charles, a psychiatrist, is thrown into a firestorm of controversy when he refuses to testify on behalf of a gay client accused of killing ten people. He claims his refusal is a principled defense of the Hippocratic oath, enshrining the confidentiality of the doctor-client relationship. The client’s defense claims it is bigotry. As Charles is subjected to a Job-like barrage of misfortune, The Penitent asks the question: What is the cost of standing up for what you believe? David Mamet is a playwright, essayist and screenwriter who directs for both the stage and film. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross. His other plays include American Buffalo, The Anarchist, Race, Speed-the-Plow, Oleanna and China Doll, among many others.
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Download or read book The Protector written by Kathleen M. Kelley and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most enigmatic and most reviled kings in English history, the man who will become Richard III emerges from the pages of The Protector as a loyal brother, a fearless soldier, and an able administrator of the north of England. Neither saint nor villain, he is thrust unwillingly into power by the untimely death of his elder brother, King Edward IV, who leaves the crown to his son, a twelve-year-old boy. On his deathbed, the dying king names Richard protector of the new king
Download or read book Dead Sea written by Peter Tonkin and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious ecological experiment plunges Richard and Robin Mariner in deadly waters . . . Heritage Mariner and Greenbaum International have financed an ecological experiment to prove how swiftly rubbish can foul the oceans by dropping and tracking a plastic bottle into a Tokyo river. Filled with lottery tickets for extra publicity – one of which could be worth $55 million – Robin Mariner and Nic Greenbaum’s only child, Libby, will race each other across the Pacific to see who can reach the bottle first, but when it is discovered that it contains the winning ticket the experiment suddenly becomes part of a much deadlier game . . .
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