Download or read book Terror in Venice written by Paul Rosner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living alone in Paris at the end of a love affair, Julie Rubempre receives a strange phone call one evening from a woman claiming that a Mr. Faranacci had heard of her work at the American Express and was in immediate need of a new secretary. However, when she appears for an interview the next day, she is told no one from that office has any knowledge of the call which has summoned her. Angered, she is about to leave when Faranacci, himself, agrees to give her a chance. It is not long before Julie succumbs to the appeal of her lavishly wealthy, sensually attractive new boss. And it is not long before he asks her to marry him. As if in a dream, Julie finds herself blissfully in love and entering his splendid Venetian palazzo. But no sooner has she passed through the magnificent marble entrance hall when she discovers the first clue to the consuming horror she is about to experience. It is an urgent cablegram from her former lover and close friend: DO NOT MARRY DANILO FARANACCI. HE WILL PLOT YOUR DEATH AS HE PLOTTED YOUR MARRIAGE. LETTER WILL FOLLOW. ERIC

Download or read book Brunetti s Venice written by Toni Sepeda and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An armchair traveler’s companion to Donna Leon’s Brunetti mysteries: “a splendid present for mystery-fiction fans [or] travel-lit buffs” (Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal). Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon’s international bestselling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice’s churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos. In Brunetti’s Venice, tourists and armchair travelers follow in the footsteps of Brunetti as he traverses the city he knows and loves. With his acute eye, fascination with history, ear for language, passion for food, and familiarity with the dark realities of crime and corruption, Brunetti is the perfect companion for any walk across La Serenissima. Over a dozen walks, encompassing all six regions of Venice as well as the lagoon, lead readers down calli, over canali, and through campi. Important locations from the best-selling novels are highlighted and major themes and characters are explored, all accompanied by poignant excerpts from the novels. This is a must-have companion book for any lover of Donna Leon’s wonderful mysteries.

Download or read book The Beauty and the Terror written by Catherine Fletcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace--Renaissance Italy The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle of Lepanto, embraces what we know as the Renaissance, one of the most dynamic and creatively explosive epochs in world history. Here is the period that gave rise to so many great artists and figures, and which by its connection to its classical heritage enabled a redefinition, even reinvention, of human potential. It was a moment both of violent struggle and great achievement, of Michelangelo and da Vinci as well as the Borgias and Machiavelli. At the hub of this cultural and intellectual ferment was Italy. The Beauty and the Terror offers a vibrant history of Renaissance Italy and its crucial role in the emergence of the Western world. Drawing on a rich range of sources--letters, interrogation records, maps, artworks, and inventories--Catherine Fletcher explores both the explosion of artistic expression and years of bloody conflict between Spain and France, between Catholic and Protestant, between Christian and Muslim; in doing so, she presents a new way of witnessing the birth of the West.

Download or read book A Sudden Terror written by Anthony F. D'Elia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1468, on the final night of Carnival in Rome, Pope Paul II sat enthroned above the boisterous crowd, when a scuffle caught his eye. His guards had intercepted a mysterious stranger trying urgently to convey a warningÑconspirators were lying in wait to slay the pontiff. Twenty humanist intellectuals were quickly arrested, tortured on the rack, and imprisoned in separate cells in the damp dungeon of Castel Sant'Angelo. Anthony D'Elia offers a compelling, surprising story that reveals a Renaissance world that witnessed the rebirth of interest in the classics, a thriving homoerotic culture, the clash of Christian and pagan values, the contest between republicanism and a papal monarchy, and tensions separating Christian Europeans and Muslim Turks. Using newly discovered sources, he shows why the pope targeted the humanists, who were seen as dangerously pagan in their Epicurean morals and their Platonic beliefs about the soul and insurrectionist in their support of a more democratic Church. Their fascination with Sultan Mehmed II connected them to the Ottoman Turks, enemies of Christendom, and the love of the classical world tied them to recent rebellious attempts to replace papal rule with a republic harking back to the glorious days of Roman antiquity. From the cosmetic-wearing, parrot-loving pontiff to the Turkish sultan, savage in war but obsessed with Italian culture, D'Elia brings to life a Renaissance world full of pageantry, mayhem, and conspiracy and offers a fresh interpretation of humanism as a dynamic communal movement.

Download or read book The Haunted Hotel written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?

Download or read book Death in Venice written by Thomas Mann and published by urzeni yayınevi. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most famous literary works of the 20th century, the novella “Death in Venice” embodies themes that preoccupied Thomas Mann (1875–1955) in much of his work; the duality of art and life, the presence of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, the connection between love and suffering, and the conflict between the artist and his inner self. Mann’s handling of these concerns in this story of a middle-aged German writer, torn by his passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, resulted in a work of great psychological intensity and tragic power.

Download or read book The Haunted Hotel written by William Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting - or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice - or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting - or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?

Download or read book Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror written by Piya Pal-Lapinski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection explores the divergence or convergence of freedom and terror in a range of Byron's works. Challenging the binary opposition of historicism and critical theory, it combines topical debates in a manner that is sensitive both to the circumstances of their emergence and to their relevance for the twenty-first century.

Download or read book The Haunted Hotel written by Stephan M. Arleaux and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- the tale of a crime. The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice ---. Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?With a title like The Haunted Hotel you might be forgiven if you expected this book to be a ghost story. The books does have some dark and nasty scenes,-yes-there is a ghost as well, but The Haunted Hotel is a gothic mystery as well as a ghost story. The story is set in 1960 and the heroine is a lady named Agnes Lockwood, whose fianc�; Herbert Westwick (Lord Montbarry) jilted her for the rather sinister Countess Narona. He died shortly afterwards, under suspicious circumstances, while the couple were on an extended stay in Venice, accompanied by the Countess" equally sinister brother (Baron Rivar). A further mystery surrounds the disappearance of Lord Montbarry's courier (Mr Ferrari).While in Venice Lord Montbarry stayed-and died-in an old, decaying palace. Later in the book the palace is refurbished as a hotel. Lord Montbarry's brother Henry has money invested in the project so, when his nephew gets married, and honeymoons in Europe, it seems only natural that the newlyweds should spend a little time at the new hotel. The rest of the family agree to meet the happy couple in Venice and...

Download or read book The King of Terror written by William J. Moylan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is only aimed at identifying who the two kings of the four lined prophecy, the king of terror, by Nostradamus, really are. It takes further the investigation of these two kings than others have done. It looks to the ancient antiquity, the Roman Empire era to the present day combining secular, biblical and ancient historians to form a base as proof for the reader leaving no doubt as to their identity and the uncertain future that is just ahead. This is a book of its time and that time is now as these kings kingdoms, now forming, slowly but surely are manoeuvring into position for the last giant war of wars before the return of Jesus Christ. It is a book, that as events in the world start to unravel around the middle east, will come to be in great demand. It will come into its own. Presently the general public is completely unaware of the future that is coming for them. Led by political world leadership that cannot see the truth because of their own hypocrisy and greed for power. Their human nature will be led into a nuclear holocaust by a cunning dark and deceitful person, the king of terror. Identifying just as importantly where their kingdoms are today. Looking at the events and characters during the month of July 1999 filtering out anyone or thing that may be identified as the king of terror. Through using proven sources from secular, biblical history, with ancient reliable historians such as Titus Josephus, the book sets out methodically to prove the two blocks of nations that make up these kings kingdoms today. The European Super State that is now forming and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) group of nations. The prior kingdom is the king of terrors kingdom and the latter SCO being the kingdom of the Mongols he brings back to life. Obviously the kingdom of the Mongols is long gone, as Mongolia is but a tiny nation, but the descendents of this middle age Mongol empire all exist together in the SCO grouping of nations. The European Union Super State that is forming is led by a nation whos history of warfare goes back from two world wars to the sacking of the Jerusalem temple in 70 A.D. and further back to the times of Abraham. This is Germany. This can be proven through secular historians and of course biblical too. Which combine in the book. Also in this prophecy is the last line, that war would reign before and after July 1999. Which is an important part of the prophecy. These reasons are given in the book as a spiritual war that has existed between God and satanic forces for possibly millions of years. These evil forces objected to Gods plan for mankind and have since the rebellion of Lucifer been at war with God. This war is now in its final stage in our age though now a physical one too. It is Satans physical opposite of Jesus Christ that will rule the coming European Super State. The reason for this objection against Gods plan for man by Lucifer is outlined in the book. How the world has been led by a great Religious deception ever since. Lucifers plan to make man destroy itself through nuclear war. This war is at a pivotal stage with the war in Syria today. Which will bring about an alliance of nations that has never before existed. That of Sunni Muslim nations and the European Super State together against Shia Iran and its Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) allies. This Sunni and European alliance will win this war against Iran and then through nuclear holocaust destroy the United States, United Kingdom and Israel. This will bring a greater war with the SCO nations. The SCO will sweep through Europe then into the middle east, where the European antichrist will have set up his base. The two groups then try to confront Jesus Christ at his second coming and lose. Throughout the book it goes out of its way to give back up analysis to the events just explained. To some who read this book, it will not be to their spiritual or religious beliefs. To others will be a great deed for

Download or read book Death in Venice written by Thomas Mann and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann (translated by Kenneth Burke). Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book The Haunted Hotel written by Wilkie Collins and published by Rose-Belford Publishing Company. This book was released on 1878 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Venice written by Federico De Luca and published by StormFront Entertainment. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the people that brought you Dorian Gray comes a new tale of horror. Venice like a place out of the history, in the middle between dream and reality. A story of blood, mystery and revenge. A magic atmosphere in a dark twilight.

Download or read book The Terror Contract written by Jerry Ahern and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Masquerade in Venice written by Velda Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1880, Sara Randall flees to her grandmother's ancestral home in Venice where events lead the police to suspect her of murder.

Download or read book The Haunted Hotel written by Wilkie Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?

Download or read book Welcome to Terrorland written by Daniel Hopsicker and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the associations of Mohamed Atta and other terrorist pilots in Venice, Florida, as they prepared for the 9/11 attacks, this work discloses the FBI's massive post-attack cover-up to conceal their knowledge of the terrorists' activities. Unreported stories including the assassination attempt on President George W. Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001, and the rampant drug trafficking of the flight school financier are fully discussed, with attention to the stunning evidence of the CIA's knowledge that hundreds of Arab flight students were pouring into southwest Florida. This examination of the conspiracy behind the 9/11 investigation and the CIA complicity in the illegal activities that allowed the known terrorists to continue offers truth behind the "official" story of the attacks.