I am, I am, I am. Seventeen brushes with death
- 292 pages
- 11 hours of reading
"An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists"--






"An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists"--
In einem kleinen Land wird der Präsident gestürzt, und sein Koch, Maler und Barbier erzählen ihre Geschichten und Geheimnisse. Während sie in der Sommerresidenz gefangen sind, enthüllen sie ihre Verbindungen zur Macht und ihre geheimen Leidenschaften. Ceridwen Dovey thematisiert die Korrumpierbarkeit des Menschen und die primitiven Instinkte hinter der zivilisierten Fassade.
A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world. The story told by Hester is often dark and terrible, but the sheer blazing brilliance of her language and the imagery that illuminates the pages make this novel an exhilarating, enlightening and joyous act of faith.
Contains stories that talk about death - quite often, about how death affects the young.
Ausgesucht schöne Bücher, sorgfältig und liebevoll ediert, zum Entdecken und Wiederlesen, zum Schenken und Sammeln. Jane Austen beschreibt in "Sanditon" das Leben und die Szenerie des gleichnamigen südenglischen Badeortes. Im Zentrum der Handlung steht die junge Charlotte Heywood, die mit den Eigenheiten und Ereignissen des kleinen Badeortes konfrontiert wird. Liebe, Krankheit und Tod sind die Themen.
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
Lymstock was a town with more that its share of shameful secrets – a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail caused only a minor stir. But all of that changed when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, committed suicide. Her final note said 'I can't go on'. Only Miss Marple questioned the coroner's verdict of suicide. Was this the work of a poison-pen? Or of a poisoner? Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 79 crime mysteries and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots. "Beyond all doubt the puzzle in 'The Moving Finger' is fit for experts."THE TIMES