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The King of Fools (Paperback)
Frederic Dard; Translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie
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From the moment he first gazes at Marjory across the roulette table
in the Cote d'Azur Jean-Marie is entranced, and when their feverish
holiday romance comes to an end he decides to take the biggest
gamble of his life - to follow the beautiful Englishwoman back to
rainy Edinburgh. But no sooner has Jean-Marie arrived than his luck
runs out. He is drawn into an impenetrable mystery and soon, with
blood on his hands, trapped in the grey-granite labyrinth of the
city, he is running out of time to save his sanity and his life.
The King of Fools is a fiendish tale of passion, betrayal and
murder.
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Bird in a Cage (Paperback)
Frederic Dard; Translated by David Bellos
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It felt like the slipknot on a rope round my chest was being
tightened without pity Trouble is the last thing Albert needs.
Travelling back to his childhood home on Christmas Eve to mourn his
mother's death, he finds the loneliness and nostalgia of his
Parisian quartier unbearable... Until, that evening, he encounters
a beautiful, seemingly innocent woman at a brasserie, and his
spirits are lifted. Still, something about the woman disturbs him.
Where is the father of her child? And what are those two red stains
on her sleeve? When she invites him back to her apartment, Albert
thinks he's in luck. But a monstrous scene awaits them, and he
finds himself lured into the darkness against his better judgment.
Unravelling like a paranoid nightmare, Bird in a Cage melds
existentialist drama with thrilling noir to tell the story of a man
trapped in a prison of his own making.
Winner of the 1957 Grand prix de la litterature policiere It was
fate that led her to step out in front of the car. A quiet mountain
road. A crushed violin. And a beautiful woman lying motionless in
the ditch. Carrying her back to his lodging on a beach near
Barcelona, Daniel discovers that the woman is still alive but that
she remembers nothing - not even her own name. And soon he has
fallen for her mysterious allure. She is a blank canvas, a perfect
muse, and his alone. But when Daniel travels to France in search of
her past, he slips into a tangled vortex of lies, depravity and
murder. The Executioner Weeps is a macabre thriller about the
dangerous pitfalls of love. 'The French master of noir' Observer
'Unsettling... worthy of Agatha Christie at her devious best...
classic French noir' Guardian 'Hugely atmospheric' The Times
'Spellbinding' Wall Street Journal 'Disturbing from the outset with
strong echoes of Simenon' Sunday Times Frederic Dard (1921-2000)
was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the
twentieth century. Enormously prolific, he wrote more than three
hundred thrillers, suspense stories, plays and screenplays, under a
variety of noms de plume, throughout his long and illustrious
career, which also saw him win the 1957 Grand prix de la
litterature policiere for The Executioner Weeps. Dard's Bird in a
Cage, The Wicked Go to Hell, Crush, The Gravediggers' Bread and The
King of Fools are also available or forthcoming from Pushkin
Vertigo.
This indispensable guide to American papermaking, lists papermakers
in America from 1690 to 1817.
Definitive book by foremost authority. Over 320 illus. Enlarged (1947) edition.
Blaise should never have hung around in that charmless little provincial town. The job offer that attracted him the first place had failed to materialize. He should have got on the first train back to Paris, but Fate decided otherwise.
A chance encounter with a beautiful blonde in the town post-office and Blaise is hooked - he realizes he'll do anything to stay by her side, and soon finds himself working for her husband, a funeral director. But the tension in this strange love triangle begins to mount, and eventually results in a highly unorthodox burial...
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Manhattan - an Ode (Paperback)
Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke; Elbert 1856-1915 Hubbard, Dard 1883-1966 Hunter
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Dieses Buch enthalt drei Geschichten von Sefahrten: die Leiden der
Familie Picard nach dem Schiffsungluck der Medusa beschrieben; eine
Erzahlung der Gefangenschaft M. de Brissons; und eine Beschreibung
der Reise von Madame Godin entlang des Amazonas im Jahr 1770.
Dieses Buch wurde 1827 veroffentlicht und liegt hier in englischer
Sprache vor.
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1914-12 Avril 1916 3 Fernand Darde Perrin, 1918 World War,
1914-1918
Title: Exploration of Lake Superior. The voyages of Radisson and
Groseilliers.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
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with emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain.
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British Library Campbell, Henry Colin.; Chouart des Groseilliers.,
M dard; Radisson; 1896. 17-35 p.; 8 . 10408.dd.20.(5.)
Comprising the sufferings of the Picard familiy after the shipwreck
of the Medusa in 1816, a narrative of the captivity of M. de
Brisson in 1785, and a description of the voyage of Madame Godin
along the river of the Amazons in 1770. Originally published in
1827.
Two accounts of terrible shipwreck and the struggle for survival
The wreck of the Medusa is one of the most famous and infamous
shipwrecks from the great age of sailing ships. The Medusa was a
French frigate which struck the Bank of Arguin, off the coast of
Senegal in 1816 shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The
vessel had to be abandoned and this was undertaken with such
complete incompetence by the officers and crew that it resulted in
the loss of over 150 lives in such appalling circumstances that it
scandalised the general public of Europe and became an incurable
embarrassment for the French government of the day. The event was
even immortalised by a great artist of the period, and Gericault's
'Raft of the Medusa' endures to ensure it still remains widely
known in all its horror two centuries later. The outrage of the
Medusa gained particular notoriety because several of the survivors
wrote harrowing accounts of their experiences of the events that
took place. Two of these first hand narratives are included in this
Leonaur edition making it a fascinating book for all those with an
interest in sailing ships, voyages of times past and the perils of
the sea.
Two accounts of terrible shipwreck and the struggle for survival
The wreck of the Medusa is one of the most famous and infamous
shipwrecks from the great age of sailing ships. The Medusa was a
French frigate which struck the Bank of Arguin, off the coast of
Senegal in 1816 shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The
vessel had to be abandoned and this was undertaken with such
complete incompetence by the officers and crew that it resulted in
the loss of over 150 lives in such appalling circumstances that it
scandalised the general public of Europe and became an incurable
embarrassment for the French government of the day. The event was
even immortalised by a great artist of the period, and Gericault's
'Raft of the Medusa' endures to ensure it still remains widely
known in all its horror two centuries later. The outrage of the
Medusa gained particular notoriety because several of the survivors
wrote harrowing accounts of their experiences of the events that
took place. Two of these first hand narratives are included in this
Leonaur edition making it a fascinating book for all those with an
interest in sailing ships, voyages of times past and the perils of
the sea.
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