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The Nightmare

haveebook — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:22:44 +0000

The Nightmare

Book Details

Title:

The Nightmare

Author:

Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton

Published:

1954

Publisher:

Michael Joseph Ltd.

Tags:

fiction, horror, short stories, World War II

Description:

A collection of stories on WWII. Though fiction, they are based upon real reports from the war which gives them extreme realism. And every story is in fact a nightmare. All focus is on the horror of the war and how it affected both the victims and the Nazis inflicting the horrors upon them. Really great work examining the psychology of the Nazi regime, first rate stories all the way through.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

164

Author Bio for Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton:

Forester wrote many novels. He is best known for the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. He began the series with Hornblower fairly high in rank in the first novel, published in 1937. The last completed novel was published in 1962. With demand for more stories, Forester filled in Hornblower’s life story, in effect. Hornblower’s fictional feats were based on real events, but Forester wrote the body of the works carefully to avoid entanglements with real world history, so that Hornblower is always off on another mission when a great naval victory occurs during the Napoleonic Wars.

Forester’s other novels include The African Queen (1935) and The General (1936); Peninsular War novels in Death to the French (published in the United States as Rifleman Dodd) and The Gun (filmed as The Pride and the Passion in 1957); and seafaring stories that did not involve Hornblower, such as Brown on Resolution (1929), The Captain from Connecticut (1941), The Ship (1943), and Hunting the Bismarck (1959), which was used as the basis of the screenplay for the film Sink the Bismarck! (1960). Several of his works were filmed, including The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston. Forester is also credited as story writer for several movies not based on his published fiction, including Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942).

He wrote several volumes of short stories set during the Second World War. Those in The Nightmare (1954) were based on events in Nazi Germany, ending at the Nuremberg Trials. Stories in The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969) followed the career of the destroyer USS Boon, while many of those in Gold from Crete (1971) followed the destroyer HMS Apache. The last of the stories in Gold from Crete was “If Hitler had invaded England”, which offers an imagined sequence of events starting with Hitler’s attempt to implement Operation Sea Lion, and culminating in the early military defeat of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941. His non-fiction seafaring works include The Age of Fighting Sail (1956), an account of the sea battles between Great Britain and the United States in the War of 1812.

In addition to his novels of seafaring life, Forester published two crime novels (Payment Deferred (1926) and Plain Murder (1930)) and two children’s books. Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1942) was created as a series of stories told to his younger son George to encourage him to finish his meals. George had mild food allergies that kept him feeling unwell, and he needed encouragement to eat. The Barbary Pirates (1953) is a children’s history of early 19th-century pirates.–Wikipedia.

The End of the Story

haveebook — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:18:44 +0000

The End of the Story

eBook Details

Title:

The End of the Story

Author:

Smith, Clark Ashton

Published:

1930

Publisher:

Weird Tales

Tags:

fiction, horror, short story

Language:

English

Format:

PDF

Pages:

Author Bio for Smith, Clark Ashton:

Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Sterling, Nora May French, and remembered as “The Last of the Great Romantics” and “The Bard of Auburn”.Smith was one of “the big three of Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft”, where some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. It has been said of him that “nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse.” He was a member of the Lovecraft circle, and Smith’s literary friendship with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft’s death in 1937. His work is marked chiefly by an extraordinarily wide and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor.Of his writing style, Smith stated that: “My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation.”–Wikipedia.

Anne Boleyn

haveebook — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:13:47 +0000

Anne Boleyn

eBook Details

Title:

Anne Boleyn

Author:

Moresby, Elizabeth Louisa

Published:

1932

Publisher:

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.

Tags:

fiction, historical

Description:

A great retelling of the life of Anne Boleyn, giving the woman full credit for her successes as well as full blame for mistakes, letting her be a fully realized human character.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

299

Author Bio for Moresby, Elizabeth Louisa:

Elizabeth Louisa Moresby (1862-1931) was a Canadian novelist. She was born in England. Her father was admiral in the navy who helped explore the Australasian archipelago. During the first part of her life she lived and travelled in the Orient in such places as India, China, Burma, and Japan. She eventually settled in Victoria, B.C. where she became known as a proponent of Oriental customs and philosophy. Her experiences in Asia influenced her writing when she began to write books at the age of 60. Women authors of her time were known to write under pen-names and she produced about 30 books under such names as Lily Adams Beck, E. Barrington and Louis Moresby. (Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature)

The Sword of Islam

haveebook — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:09:06 +0000

The Sword of Islam

Book Details

Title:

The Sword of Islam

Author:

Sabatini, Rafael

Published:

1939

Publisher:

McClelland & Stewart Limited

Tags:

fiction, historical

Description:

A long line of blockading galleys rides at anchor, barring the sea approaches to Genoa the Superb, Genoa of the sixteenth century. That is the squadron of the magnificent Lord Andrea Doria, the Lion of the Seas, who has come to free Genoa from the oppression of a foreign tyrant. In command of the squadron is Prospero Adorno, a soldier and a poet, a man of dreams and a man of action, who is to face the insolent and deadly Dragut-Reis, the Moslem terror of the inland seas.Furious sea battles, love and hatred, treachery and loyalty, battles of wit and of pistols, Genoa scourged by a plague and sunk into debauchery, all the splendor and insidious fascination of a romantic age which has passed forever are brought to life in a story that will stand with ‘Captain Blood’ and ‘The Sea Hawk’ as one of Sabatini’s great novels of the sea.—Dustcover.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

244

Author Bio for Sabatini, Rafael:

Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian/English writer of novels of romance and adventure.He is best known for his worldwide best-sellers:The Sea Hawk (1915), a tale of an Elizabethan Englishman among the pirates of the Barbary Coast

Scaramouche (1921), a tale of the French Revolution in which a fugitive hides out in a commedia dell’arte troupe and later becomes a fencing master (Sabatini wrote a sequel ten years later: Scaramouche the Kingmaker (1931))Captain Blood (a.k.a. The Odyssey of Captain Blood) (1922), in which the title character is admiral of a fleet of pirate ships. (Sabatini wrote two additional Captain Blood books comprising short stories, but they are not sequels: The Chronicles of Captain Blood (a.k.a. Captain Blood Returns) (1931), and The Fortunes of Captain Blood (1936))[2]

Bellarion the Fortunate (1926), about a cunning young man who finds himself immersed in the politics of fifteenth-century ItalyIn all, Sabatini produced 31 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play.–Wikipedia.

Seed of Adam

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Seed of Adam

eBook Details

Title:

Seed of Adam

Author:

Williams, Charles

Published:

1963

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Tags:

drama, fiction,religion

Description:

A Nativity play.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

Author Bio for Williams, Charles:

Charles Walter Stansby Williams (September 20, 1886-May 15, 1945) was an English writer, lecturer and literary advisor at the Oxford University Press. He was also an active member of the Inklings, an informal literary society formed by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.During his lifetime he wrote 30 volumes of poetry, plays, literary criticism, fiction, biographies, reviews and theological arguments. It is safe to say that the fullest expression of his mature views is to be found in criticism in The English Poetic Mind (1932), Reason and Beauty in the Poetic Mind (1933), and The Figure of Beatrice (1943): in poetry and drama in Taliessin through Logres (1938), The Region of the Summer Stars (1944) and Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury (the Canterbury Festival play for 1936): and in theology in He Came Down from Heaven (1938) and The Descent of the Dove (1939). Among his biographical works the most notable are Bacon (1933), James I (1934), Rochester (1935) and Queen Elizabeth (1936); and among his novels War in Heaven (1930), The Place of the Lion (1931), Many Dimensions (1931), Descent into Hell (1937) and All Hallows’ Eve (1945).

Williams was an unswerving and devoted member of the Church of England, with a refreshing tolerance of the scepticism of others, and a firm belief in the necessity of a “doubting Thomas” in any apostolic body. More and more in his writings he devoted himself to the propagation and elaboration of two main doctrines – romantic love, and the co-inherence of all human creatures. These themes formed the substance of all his later volumes and found their fullest expression in the novels (which he described as “psychological thrillers”), in his Arthurian poems, and in many books of literary and theological exegesis. His early verse was written in traditional form, but this he later abandoned in favour of a stressed prosody built upon a framework of loosely organized internal rhymes.

Charles Williams worked nearly all his life for the Oxford University Press, also lecturing extensively on English literature for evening institutes and latterly for Oxford University. Much of his critical writing grew out of this activity. His seven novels appeared from 1930 onwards; unlike much fantasy fiction, they deal not with imaginary magical worlds but with the irruption of supernatural elements into everyday life. He passed away in Oxford in 1945 at the age of 58.-G. W. S. Hopkins, Dictionary of National Biography, 1941-50.

Saint Joan of Arc

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Saint Joan of Arc

eBook Details

Title:

Saint Joan of Arc

Author:

Sackville-West, Vita (Victoria Mary)

Published:

1936

Publisher:

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.

Tags:

biography, France, history, non-fiction, religion, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Joan of Arc

Description:

Saint Joan of Arc is a biography of Joan of Arc by Victoria Sackville-West first published in New York and London in 1936. It includes: appendices which collate the events of Joan’s life, a chronological table, a bibliography of related pre-1936 works, and is fully indexed and footnoted.

Format

PDF

Pages

400

Vita Sackville-West:

(1892-1962), Writer and gardener; wife of Sir Harold Nicolson

Victoria Mary (‘Vita’) Sackville-West

Sitter associated with 28 portraits
Vita Sackville-West was born at Knole, Kent. Like her husband Harold Nicolson, Sackville-West was a prolific author and her publications include Knole and the Sackvilles (1922) about her birthplace and ancestry, the long poem The Land (1926), and the novel, All Passion Spent (1931). Her disappointment at being unable, as a woman, to inherit the Knole estate found positive expression in her subsequent collaboration with Nicolson on the garden of their home at Sissinghurst Castle. Her affair with Violet Trefusis, and her later relationship with Virginia Woolf, which inspired Woolf to write historical-fantasy novel Orlando (1928), provided the backdrop for her marriage to Nicolson.

1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four

haveebook — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:11:12 +0000

1984 [Nineteen Eighty-Four]

eBook Details

Title:

1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four

Author:

Blair, Eric Arthur

Published:

1949

Publisher:

S. J. Reginald Saunders & Co. Ltd.

Tags:

fiction, dystopia, science fiction, film/TV adaptation

Description:

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or Ingsoc in the government’s invented language, Newspeak) under the control of a privileged elite of the Inner Party, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as “thoughtcrime”.–Wikipedia.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

377

Blair, Eric Arthur:

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language, and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”.

Orwell’s work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian—descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices—has entered the language together with many of his neologisms, including, but not limited to, cold war, Big Brother, Thought Police, Room 101, memory hole, doublethink, and thoughtcrime.

Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Death Comes for the Archbishop

eBook Details

Title:

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Author:

Cather, Willa

Published:

1927

Publisher:

William Heinemann Ltd

Tags:

fiction, religion, Navajo Indians

Description:

Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather about the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in the New Mexico Territory. The story is based on two historical figures, Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf and rather than any one singular plot, is the stylized re-telling of their lives serving as Roman Catholic clergy in New Mexico.

The novel has been listed in Life Magazine’s list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924-1944; Time’s 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005; Modern Library’s list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; and Western Writers of America 7th-best “Western Novel” of the 20th century.—Wikipedia

Format:

PDF

Pages:

168

Cather, Willa:

Willa Cather (7 December, 1873—24 April, 1947) born Wilella Sibert Cather was a novelist noted for her portrayals of the settlers and frontier life on the American plains. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her novel One of Ours. Cather followed that up with Death Comes for the Archbishop in 1928, included on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century as well as Time’s one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

At age 9 Cather moved with her family from Virginia to frontier Nebraska, where from age 10 she lived in the village of Red Cloud. There she grew up among the immigrants from Europe—Swedes, Bohemians, Russians, and Germans—who were breaking the land on the Great Plains.

At the University of Nebraska, she showed a marked talent for journalism and story writing, and on graduating in 1895 she obtained a position in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on a family magazine. Later she worked as copy editor and music and drama editor of the Pittsburgh Leader. She turned to teaching in 1901 and in 1903 published her first book of verses, April Twilights. In 1905, after the publication of her first collection of short stories, The Troll Garden, she was appointed managing editor of McClure’s magazine, the New York muckraking monthly. After building up its declining circulation, she left in 1912 to devote herself wholly to writing novels.

Cather’s first novel, Alexander’s Bridge (1912), was a factitious story of cosmopolitan life. Under the influence of Sarah Orne Jewett’s regionalism, however, she turned to her familiar Nebraska material. With O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918), which has frequently been adjudged her finest achievement, she found her characteristic themes—the spirit and courage of the frontier she had known in her youth. One of Ours (1922) and A Lost Lady (1923) mourned the passing of the pioneer spirit. In her earlier Song of the Lark (1915), as well as in the tales assembled in Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920), including the much-anthologized “Paul’s Case,” and Lucy Gayheart (1935), Cather reflected the other side of her experience—the struggle of a talent to emerge from the constricting life of the prairies and the stifling effects of small-town life.

A mature statement of both themes can be found in Obscure Destinies (1932). With success and middle age, however, Cather experienced a strong disillusionment, which was reflected in The Professor’s House (1925) and her essays Not Under Forty (1936). Her solution was to write of the pioneer spirit of another age, that of the French Catholic missionaries in the Southwest in Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) and of the French Canadians at Quebec in Shadows on the Rock (1931). For the setting of her last novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), she used the Virginia of her ancestors and her childhood.Cather died on April 24, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 73 in her home at 570 Park Avenue in Manhattan.