The World Of Simon Raven

Author : Simon Raven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Simon Raven written by Simon Raven and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he gained fame with his classic novel series, Alms for Oblivion, which chronicled the misdeeds of English society in the 1950s and 60s, Simon Raven is also recognized as a brilliant travel writer, an unblinking reporter of the seamier side of English upper-class life, and a hilarious commentator on the sexual mores of gay London. His demise in 2001 robbed English letters of one of its most colorful characters. Expelled from Charterhouse “for the usual thing,” he was, for a time, an officer in the British Army. He gambled heavily on the horses for years, was often in debt, drank too much, and had a rich and uncommonly varied sex life. He was said to possess “the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel,” and this selection of his writing contains a magnificent array of pieces on army life, sex, school days, and travel. The quality of his writing and his fearless descriptions of the habits of the English, and indeed of all mankind, will come as a revelation.

Author : Simon Raven
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 1842321773
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brother Cain written by Simon Raven and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2008-01-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expelled from school, advised to leave university, and forced to resign from the army, Captain Jacinth Crewe has few options. He joins a sinister British Government security organisation. He trains in Rome and there is one final mission - to kill an American diplomat and his wife. The choice has to be made. And there is no turning back.

Author : Simon Raven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780856349980
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound the Retreat written by Simon Raven and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om engelske officerer iIndien lige efter 2. verdenskrig

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141907266
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In the Tell Tale Heart, a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum and the Cask of Amontillado explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate.

Author : Jonathan Janz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1787585328
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Raven written by Jonathan Janz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you’re searching the horror horizon for a dark star, your next must-read, the silhouette you see coming your way is Jonathan Janz." - Josh Malerman, New York Times best selling author of Bird Box and Malorie Fearing that mankind is heading toward nuclear extinction, a group of geneticists unleash a plot to save the world. They’ve discovered that mythological creatures such as werewolves, vampires, witches, and satyrs were once real, and that these monstrous genetic strands are still present in human DNA. These radical scientists unleash the bestial side of human beings that had been dormant for eons, and within months, most people are dead, and bloodthirsty creatures rule the earth. Despite the fact that Dez McClane has no special powers, he is determined to atone for the lives he couldn’t save and to save the woman he loves. But how long can a man survive in a world full of monsters? FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Author : Simon Raven
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755130022
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book September Castle written by Simon Raven and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic human desires merge with the occult in a complex, erotic, tale of a hunt across Europe. Ptolemaeos Tunne is determined to discover a hoard of buried treasure. His only clue is a bizarre medieval legend about a possessed Greek princess. What he doesn’t know is that his mistress has unwittingly betrayed him to some very dangerous enemies.

Author : Simon Raven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fielding Gray written by Simon Raven and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lynn Cullen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476702918
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Poe written by Lynn Cullen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife. 75,000 first printing.

Author : Eliot Pattison
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582436827
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eye of the Raven written by Eliot Pattison and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Edgar Award–winning author of Bone Rattler. “Evocative language, tight plotting, and memorable characters make this a standout” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). With the aid of the Native American Shaman Conawago, Duncan McCallum has begun to heal from the massacre of his Highland clan by the British. But his new life is shattered when he and Conawago discover a dying Virginian officer nailed to an Indian shrine tree. To their horror, the authorities arrest Conawago and schedule his hanging. As Duncan begins a desperate search for the truth, he finds himself in a maelstrom of deception and violence. The year is 1760, and while the British army wishes to dismiss the killing as another casualty of its war with France, Duncan discovers a pattern of ritualistic murders related to provincial treaty negotiations and struggles between tribal factions. Ultimately he realizes that to find justice, he must brave the sprawling colonial capital of Philadelphia. There the answers are to be found in a tangle of Quakers, Christian Indians, and a scientist obsessed with the electrical experiments of the celebrated Dr. Franklin. With the tragic resolution in sight, Duncan understands the real mysteries underlying his quest lie in the hearts of natives who, like his Highland Scots, have glimpsed the end of their world approaching. “The pleasures of Eliot Pattison’s books, and Eye of the Raven is another smashing example, are threefold: high adventure in perilous landscapes, a hero stubbornly seeking the truth, and the haunting mysteries of ancient cultures.” —Otto Penzler, editor of The Big Book of Female Detectives

Author : Simon Raven
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755130014
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roses of Picardie written by Simon Raven and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A string of long-lost and cursed rubies gives the title to this highly imaginative tale. Jacquiz Helmut and Balbo Blakeney, among other eccentric characters, pursue the jewels across four countries and eight centuries. Horror, intrigue and high comedy shape the story as it races towards an unforgettable climax.