Stone S Fall

Author : Iain Pears
Publisher : Random House
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385530248

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Stone's Fall by Iain Pears Pdf

At his London home, John Stone falls out of a window to his death. A financier and arms dealer, Stone was a man so wealthy that he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents. Did he jump, was he pushed, or was it merely a tragic accident? His alluring and enigmatic widow hires a young crime reporter to investigate. The story moves backward in time—from London in 1909 to Paris in 1890 and finally to Venice in 1867—and the attempts to uncover the truth play out against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance, Europe’s first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century’s arms race. Stone’s Fall is a tale of love and frailty, as much as it is of high finance and skulduggery. The mixture, then, as now, is an often fatal combination.

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781602067042

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The Stones of Venice,Volume III the Fall by John Ruskin Pdf

"More than simply a survey of an ancient city's most significant buildings, The Stones of Venice first published in three volumes between 1851 and 1853 is an expression of a philosophy of art, nature, and morality that goes beyond art history, and has inspired such thinkers as Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Mahatma Gandhi. Volume III, which looks at Venetian buildings of the Early, Roman, and grotesque Renaissance, provides an analysis of the transitional forms of Arabian and Byzantine architecture while tracing the city s spiritual and architectural decline. Unabridged, and containing Ruskin s original drawings, this guide to the moral, spiritual, and aesthetic implications of architecture is a treasure for students and scholars alike. The preeminent art critic of his time, British writer JOHN RUSKIN (1819 1900) had a profound influence upon European painting, architecture, and aesthetics of the 19th and 20th centuries. His immense body of literary works include Modern Painters, Volume I IV (1843 1856); The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849); Unto This Last (1862); Munera Pulveris (1862 3); The Crown of Wild Olive (1866); Time and Tide (1867); and Fors Clavigera (1871-84)."

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OXFORD:600019498

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The Stones of Venice: The fall by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : Diana Gabaldon
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385689564

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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon Pdf

A collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories. Over the course of her Outlander novels, #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon has created a spellbinding, brilliantly imagined world. Now, in Seven Stones to Stand or Fall, she gathers a magnificent collection of short fiction—including two never-before-published novellas—all extending the story of Outlander in thrilling new directions. This riveting, romantic collection includes: "Besieged" (original novella), "Survival" (original novella), "Virgins," "The Space Between," "Lord John and the Plague of Zombies," "A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows" and "The Custom of the Army." Filling in mesmerizing chapters in the lives of characters readers have followed over the course of thousands of pages, Gabaldon's genius is on full display throughout this must-have collection.

Author : D. K. Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988754305

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Fall of Night by D. K. Stone Pdf

Rich Evans is desperate to say goodbye to his past in New York and embrace a future in Waterton with Lou Newman, the small-town car mechanic who is also the love of his life. Just when he is closing the door on the chaos of the big city, tragedy ensues on a large scale. He arrives in Waterton to discover the body of his ex-girlfriend has turned up in a remote area nearby. Grisly details emerge, and Rich and Lou prepare to try to prove his innocence in a small town where the term 'outsider' can be applied to anyone who wasn't born there.

Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781921961298

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The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare Pdf

In September 1943, German soldiers advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokastër, Albania. But a surprise dinner party between the Nazi Colonel in command of the German Army and local dignitary, Doctor Gurameto changes the course of events in twentieth-century Europe.

Author : John Tahourdin White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWLGPI

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A Complete Latin-English and English-Latin Dictionary by John Tahourdin White Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Alps
ISBN : MINN:31951001886764P

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The Alpine Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Dick
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382306281

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The Complete Works by Thomas Dick Pdf

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : New South Wales. Department of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2622433

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Annual Report by New South Wales. Department of Mines Pdf

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746609

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Pdf

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11521469

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Nature by Anonim Pdf

Author : George James Symons,Herbert Sowerby Wallis,Hugh Robert Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : OSU:32435031336498

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Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine by George James Symons,Herbert Sowerby Wallis,Hugh Robert Mill Pdf

Author : Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UVA:X001485752

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Nature by Sir Norman Lockyer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UFL:35051117755167

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Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year ... by Anonim Pdf