A Splendid Conspiracy

Author : Albert Cossery
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811217795
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Splendid Conspiracy written by Albert Cossery and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three friends in a small Egyptian city celebrate idleness, elegance, and joie de vivre. Summoned home to Egypt after a long European debauch (disguised as “study”), our hero Teymour—in the opening line of A Splendid Conspiracy—is feeling “as unlucky as a flea on a bald man’s head.” Poor Teymour sits forlorn in a provincial café, a far cry from his beloved Paris. Two old friends, however, rescue him. They applaud his phony diploma as perfect in “a world where everything is false” and they draw him into their hedonistic rounds as gentlemen of leisure. Life, they explain, “while essentially pointless is extremely interesting.” The small city may seem tedious, but there are women to seduce, powerful men to tease, and also strange events: rich notables are disappearing. Eyeing the machinations of our three pleasure seekers and nervous about the missing rich men, the authorities soon see—in complex schemes to bed young girls—signs of political conspiracies. The three young men, although mistaken for terrorists, enjoy freedom, wit, and romance. After all, though “not every man is capable of appreciating what is around him,” the conspirators in pleasure certainly do.

Author : Albert Cossery
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811221261
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Splendid Conspiracy written by Albert Cossery and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three friends in a small Egyptian city celebrate idleness, elegance, and joie de vivre. Summoned home to Egypt after a long European debauch (disguised as “study”), our hero Teymour—in the opening line of A Splendid Conspiracy—is feeling “as unlucky as a flea on a bald man’s head.” Poor Teymour sits forlorn in a provincial café, a far cry from his beloved Paris. Two old friends, however, rescue him. They applaud his phony diploma as perfect in “a world where everything is false” and they draw him into their hedonistic rounds as gentlemen of leisure. Life, they explain, “while essentially pointless is extremely interesting.” The small city may seem tedious, but there are women to seduce, powerful men to tease, and also strange events: rich notables are disappearing. Eyeing the machinations of our three pleasure seekers and nervous about the missing rich men, the authorities soon see—in complex schemes to bed young girls—signs of political conspiracies. The three young men, although mistaken for terrorists, enjoy freedom, wit, and romance. After all, though “not every man is capable of appreciating what is around him,” the conspirators in pleasure certainly do.

Author : Albert Cossery
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811217957
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colors of Infamy written by Albert Cossery and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gentleman pickpocket, elegant to the bone, plies the best cafes of Cairo. Ossama is a thief: "not a minister, banker or real estate developer - a modest thief". His country may be a disaster but he is a hedonist, convinced that "nothing on this Earth is tragic for an intelligent man". In one fat victims wallet, he discovers a highly compromising letter, revealing bribery, corrupt ministers, and lethally shoddy building practices. He decides he must act...

Author : Sherry Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425281418
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Conspiracy in Belgravia written by Sherry Thomas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The game is afoot as Charlotte Holmes returns in USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas’s Victorian-set Lady Sherlock series. Being shunned by Society gives Charlotte Holmes the time and freedom to put her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use. As “Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective,” aided by the capable Mrs. Watson, she’s had great success helping with all manner of inquiries, but she’s not prepared for the new client who arrives at her Upper Baker Street office. Lady Ingram, wife of Charlotte’s dear friend and benefactor, wants Sherlock Holmes to find her first love, who failed to show up at their annual rendezvous. Matters of loyalty and discretion aside, the case becomes even more personal for Charlotte as the missing man is none other than Myron Finch, her illegitimate half brother. In the meanwhile, Charlotte wrestles with a surprising proposal of marriage, a mysterious stranger woos her sister Livia, and an unidentified body surfaces where least expected. Charlotte’s investigative prowess is challenged as never before: Can she find her brother in time—or will he, too, end up as a nameless corpse somewhere in the belly of London?

Author : Albert Cossery
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811218740
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laziness in the Fertile Valley written by Albert Cossery and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of a family of proud layabouts who avoid work and sleep all day by the Egyptian writer often referred to as "the Voltaire of the Nile" Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery’s biting social satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle — slackers one and all. One brother has been sleeping for almost seven years, waking only to use the bathroom and eat a meal. Another savagely defends the household from women. Serag, the youngest, is the only member of the family interested in getting a job. But even he — try as he might — has a hard time resisting the call of laziness.

Author : Linda Melvern
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789602157
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conspiracy to Murder written by Linda Melvern and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conspiracy to Murder is a gripping account of the Rwandan genocide, one of the most appalling events of the twentieth century. Linda Melvern's damning indictment of almost all the key figures and institutions involved amounts to a catalogue of failures that only serves to sharpen the horror of a tragedy that could have been avoided.

Author : Rosalyn Eves
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 110193610X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Crow Conspiracy (Blood Rose Rebellion, Book 2) written by Rosalyn Eves and published by Ember. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready for more magic in the dark, dazzling, action-packed sequel to Blood Rose Rebellion. Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden was once just the magically barren girl from an elite Luminate family. Now she has broken the Binding--and the praetheria, the creatures held captive by the spell, are wreaking havoc across Europe. Lower-class citizens have access to magic for the first time, while other Luminates have lost theirs forever. Austria and Hungary are at odds once more. Anna thought the praetheria were on her side, grateful to be free from the Binding. She thought her cousin Matyas's blood sacrifice would bring peace, equality, and justice. She thought she'd help shape a new society that would let her love a Romani boy, Gabor. But with the monarchy breathing down her neck and the praetheria intimidating her at every turn, it seems the conspiracies have only just begun. As threat of war sweeps the region, Anna quickly discovers she can't solve everything on her own. Now there's only one other person who might be able to save the country before war breaks out. The one person Anna was sure she'd never see again. A bandit. A fellow outlaw. A man known as the King of Crows. Matyas.

Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. W. Gortner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312658494
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tudor Conspiracy written by C. W. Gortner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mary Tudor's unpopular betrothal to the Catholic prince of Spain sparks rumors that her half-sister, Princess Elizabeth, is plotting to depose her, Brendan Prescott is thrust into a deadly cat-and-mouse game in London's treacherous underworld.

Author : Michael Butter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509540830
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Conspiracy Theories written by Michael Butter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conspiracy theories seem to be proliferating today. Long relegated to a niche existence, conspiracy theories are now pervasive, and older conspiracy theories have been joined by a constant stream of new ones – that the USA carried out the 9/11 attacks itself, that the Ukrainian crisis was orchestrated by NATO, that we are being secretly controlled by a New World Order that keep us docile via chemtrails and vaccinations. Not to mention the moon landing that never happened. But what are conspiracy theories and why do people believe them? Have they always existed or are they something new, a feature of our modern world? In this book Michael Butter provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the nature and development of conspiracy theories. Contrary to popular belief, he shows that conspiracy theories are less popular and influential today than they were in the past. Up to the 1950s, the Western world regarded conspiracy theories as a legitimate form of knowledge and it was therefore normal to believe in them. It was only after the Second World War that this knowledge was delegitimized, causing conspiracy theories to be banished from public discourse and relegated to subcultures. The recent renaissance of conspiracy theories is linked to internet which gives them wider exposure and contributes to the fragmentation of the public sphere. Conspiracy theories are still stigmatized today in many sections of mainstream culture but are being accepted once again as legitimate knowledge in others. It is the clash between these domains and their different conceptions of truth that is fuelling the current debate over conspiracy theories.