Download or read book Coup de Grace written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1957 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coup de Grace Mr Bayles s prophesy fulfilled in Luther Junior his last stroke to compleat the Reformation Ivalidating sic the title of ecclesiastical estates proving they ought to be secularised and recover d to the just proprietors etc By John Henley written by Pierre Bayle and published by . This book was released on 1745 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coup de Grace written by J. S. Borthwick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Ph.D. Sarah Deane is hired to teach at a New England girls' boarding school, and lands in the epicenter of reviled French professor Grace Carpentier's reign of terror that inspires expressions of hate across campus. When a body is found wearing Carpentier's trademark cape, but is identified as another teacher, Sarah and her husband, Alex, search for the killer. Martin's Press.
Download or read book Coup de Grace written by Ray Johnstone and published by Ray Johnstone. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book One in The Triumph of Evil Trilogy. Living in France during the Nazi Occupation is tough, dark and dangerous. In order to escape the forced labour scheme that sends French kids to work in German factories, Philippe joins the French resistance, but his best friend Yves - who has a scar on his face that makes him look as if he's always smiling - joins the Milice or French Gestapo. The boyhood friends are now on opposite sides in one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. While hiding in the forest with the underground movement, Philippe goes swimming with some young patriots. One of them is circumcised - he must be a Jew. Then the band of French partisans gets orders to attack the crack Das Reich Division. But things go badly wrong. The Nazis are an efficient fighting machine - the French as rag-tag secret army. Philippe is badly wounded and found by a German patrol. An officer arrives who speaks perfect French. And his mouth is twisted into a permanent smile... In war there are no winners, and in 'Coup de Grace', good does not triumph over evil - the price for treachery is seldom exacted - and brutality is meted out equally on both sides of the struggle for Liberation.
Download or read book Coup de Gr ce written by Sofia Ajram and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A harrowing exploration of the expanding labyrinth of despair and the self." Paul Tremblay. A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station, perfect for readers of Mark Z. Danielewski and Susanna Clarke. Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after a lifetime of depression and pain. But, stepping off the subway, he finds himself in an endless, looping station. Determined to find a way out again, he starts to explore the rooms and corridors ahead of him. But no matter how many claustrophobic hallways or vast cathedral-esque rooms he passes through, the exit is nowhere in sight. The more he explores his strange new prison, the more he becomes convinced that he hasn’t been trapped there accidentally, and amongst the shadows and concrete, he comes to realise that he almost certainly is not alone. A terrifying psychological nightmare from a powerful new voice in horror.
Download or read book Ambrose Bierce s Civilians and Soldiers in Context written by Donald T. Blume and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald T. Blume rejects the view that In the Midst of Life, the second volume of Bierce's collected works, is his most important literary work. Instead, he posits that Bierce's original 1892 collection is his most definitive and authoritative opus.
Download or read book Coup De Grace in Three Acts written by Ray Johnstone and published by Ray Johnstone. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 in The Triumph of Evil Trilogy. Living in France during the Nazi Occupation is tough, dark and dangerous. In order to escape the forced labour scheme that sends French kids to work in German factories, Philippe joins the French resistance, but his best friend Yves - who has a scar on his face that makes him look as if he's always smiling - joins the Milice or French Gestapo. The boyhood friends are now on opposite sides in one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. While hiding in the forest with the underground movement, Philippe goes swimming with some young patriots. One of them is circumcised - he must be a Jew. Then the band of French partisans gets orders to attack the crack Das Reich Division. But things go badly wrong. The Nazis are an efficient fighting machine - the French as rag-tag secret army. Philippe is badly wounded and found by a German patrol. An officer arrives who speaks perfect French. And his mouth is twisted into a permanent smile... In war there are no winners, and in 'Coup de Grace In Three Acts', good does not triumph over evil - the price for treachery is seldom exacted - and brutality is meted out equally on both sides of the struggle for Liberation. This three act version of my novel 'Coup de Grace', is a neo-noir film script presented in a non-movie industry format that makes it easy for everyday readers to enjoy. It is based on my novel of the same name but many changes have been made - especially the denoument - which is very different from that in the book.
Download or read book Dictionary of Phrase and Fable written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar written by Josyane Savigneau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most respected writers in the French language and best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Yourcenar received countless literary honors and became the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise. An uncompromising and intimate portrait. 50 halftones.
Download or read book The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style written by Houghton Mifflin Company and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of English usage, grammar, and style offering guidance on almost any writing problem imaginable.
Download or read book The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases written by Charles August Maude Fennell and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Constant Journey written by Erika Ostrovsky and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creation of a neuter pronoun in her earliest work, L’Opoponax, to the confusion of genres in her most recent fiction, Virgile, non, Monique Wittig uses literary subversion and invention to accomplish what Erika Ostrovsky appropriately defines as renversement, the annihilation of existing literary canons and the creation of highly innovative constructs. Erika Ostrovsky explores those aspects of Wittig’s work that best illustrate her literary approach. Among the countless revolutionary devices that Wittig uses to achieve renversement are the feminization of masculine gender names, the reorganization of myth patterns, and the replacement of traditional punctuation with her own system of grammatical emphasis and separation. It is the unexpected quantity and quality of such literary devices that make reading Monique Wittig’s fiction a fresh and rewarding experience. Such literary devices have earned Wittig the acclaim of her critics and peers—Marguerite Duras, Mary McCarthy, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, and Claude Simon, to name a few. While analyzing the intrinsic value of each of Wittig’s fictions separately, Erika Ostrovsky traces the progressive development of Wittig’s major literary devices as they appear and reappear in her fictions. Ostrovsky maintains that the seeds of those innovations that appear in Wittig’s most recent texts can be found as far back as L’Opoponax. This evidence of progression supports Ostrovsky’s theory that clues to Wittig’s future endeavors can be found in her past.
Download or read book Garner s Modern English Usage written by Bryan Garner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 1113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than a thousand new entries and more than 2,300 word-frequency ratios, the magisterial fourth edition of this book-now renamed Garner's Modern English Usage (GMEU)-reflects usage lexicography at its finest. Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary with thoroughness, finesse, and wit. He discourages whatever is slovenly, pretentious, or pedantic. GMEU is the liveliest and most compulsively readable reference work for writers of our time. It delights while providing instruction on skillful, persuasive, and vivid writing. Garner liberates English from two extremes: both from the hidebound "purists" who mistakenly believe that split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must necessarily be accepted. The judgments here are backed up not just by a lifetime of study but also by an empirical grounding in the largest linguistic corpus ever available. In this fourth edition, Garner has made extensive use of corpus linguistics to include ratios of standard terms as compared against variants in modern print sources. No other resource provides as comprehensive, reliable, and empirical a guide to current English usage. For all concerned with writing and editing, GMEU will prove invaluable as a desk reference. Garner illustrates with actual examples, cited with chapter and verse, all the linguistic blunders that modern writers and speakers are prone to, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. No matter how knowledgeable you may already be, you're sure to learn from every single page of this book.
Download or read book Garner s Modern English Usage written by Bryan A. Garner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 1113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authority on grammar, usage, and style.
Download or read book Dictionary of Phrase and Fable written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 'museum of literary odds and ends', this classic work of 1870 elucidates the etymology of 20,000 words and phrases.
Download or read book Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Giving the Derivation Source Or Origin of Common Phrases Allusions and Words that Have a Tale to Tell To which is Added a Concise Bibliography of English Literature written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce written by Stuart C. Woodruff and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most interesting figures to emerge at the turn of the twentieth century was Ambrose Bierce, whose acerbic columns in the San Francisco Examiner spread his fame as America's most bitter cynic and misanthrope, and whose disappearance into Mexico surrounded his name with an aura of mystery. Although best known during his lifetime for his journalism and always critical of his own writing—"the magnificent intention mocked by the actual achievement"—Bierce's fiction endures, especially his short stories about the Civil War. Originally published in the 1890s and rediscovered in the 1920s, the Civil War stories are filled with unsparing descriptions of death and suffering, disillusionment and fatalism. They also show a concern for form and craftsmanship, a controlled irony, and an economy of detail that are distinctly modern. In this pioneering study of Bierce's stories, Stuart Woodruff examines the best and worst of Bierce's fiction with clarity and excellent critical sense, and he traces the causes of Bierce's success and failure as a writer, analyzing his inability to reconcile the extremes of temperament and belief that marked his life and give his stories their characteristic form. Among the pieces discussed: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "The Mocking-bird," "One of the Missing," "Chickamauga," "Ha•ta the Shepherd," "What I Saw at Shiloh," and excerpts from The Devil's Dictionary and Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.
