Julian: 1621 books

Retired entrepreneur William invites his four grown-up children to visit his beautiful converted barn in the Welsh Borders to celebrate his birthday. They all join with William’s carer Solomon to toast another year, but each of them has their own business in mind... Warm, intelligent, witty...

Bringing you stories of intrigue, action, love, and adventure from near and far. Every tomorrow leads to another, and the further they go from today, the stranger they could be. We cannot predict, but, we can imagine. From that simple inspiration, Julian M. Miles has spent the last year creating...

"It’s not often that a vampire tale such as this transcends the background detritus of navel-gazing romance so prevalent in the genre, but A Place in The Dark, from author Julian M. Miles, packs a real punch and doesn’t hold back. If you’re sick of current vampire fiction and related spinoff...

A Disturbing Influence was Julian Mitchell's second novel, first published in 1962.The setting is the small, utterly English town of Cartersfield, where the very quietness of life causes trouble. The young and old are preoccupied alike with their own affairs, to the exclusion of the world....

As Far As You Can Go was Julian Mitchell's third novel, first published in 1963. Its protagonist is Harold Barlow, a young stockbroker, on his way up in the world - but easily bored, desiring adventure. He accepts a commission to travel to America; and the further west he goes, the more he discovers...

Imaginary Toys (1961) marked the literary debut of the then 26-year-old Julian Mitchell, who would eventually set aside his prizewinning career as a novelist and achieve wider renown as a dramatist, most famously with Another Country (1981). Imaginary Toys is a novel of Oxford after World War...

From numerous accounts and writings, it has been shown that true contemplatives do not seek unusual experiences, much less personal power. This is because Christian mysticism is based on grace: the indwelling of the Trinity in the souls of mankind, and a divine call to holiness. In her Revelations, Julian...

Victorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions:What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted ? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowledge the various phantom effects which return...

Julian Schutting, bekannt für seine eigenwillige Satzarchitektur und dichterische Imaginationskraft, macht sich auf den Weg: zu Fuß und in Gedanken. Er spaziert durch Wien, denkt sich als Teilnehmer des Jauntaler Drei-Berge-Laufs, und wie einen Verliebten zieht es ihn bei diesen Wanderungen auf vielerlei...

Author of the acclaimed historical novel, The Scholars Challenge, Julian Bauer now turns his unique writing abilities to two contemporary novellas, The Lawyers Relic and A Grandfathers Dilemma. The first novella asks how an agnostic lawyer would react if he found a bloody napkin wrapped as a Christmas...

Le Congrès de Moscou et la Propagande panslaviste Julian Klaczko, homme politique, poète, critique littéraire (1825–1906) Ce livre numérique présente «Le Congrès de Moscou et la Propagande panslaviste», de Julian Klaczko, édité...

Um piloto de caça, sobrevoando o Canal da Mancha, em 1941, assiste ao nascer do sol. Então, desce três mil metros e, para seu espanto, vê o sol começando a nascer outra vez. Com essa imagem impressionante, Julian Barnes puxa o fio de uma narrativa que vai revelar Jean Serjeant, uma jovem ingênua...

Terceira coletânea de contos do ganhador do Man Booker Prize, Julian Barnes, Pulso reúne histórias sobre amor e amizade, perda e saudade, ligadas por um ritmo comum: do corpo, do amor, do sexo, da doença e da morte. Do familiar ao extraordinário, de acontecimentos privados a fatos históricos,...

Julian Barnes´ kunstvoller Roman über eine unkonventionelle erste Liebe, die zur lebenslangen Herausforderung wird."Würden Sie lieber mehr lieben und dafür mehr leiden, oder weniger lieben und weniger leiden? Das ist, glaube ich, am Ende die einzig wahre Frage." Die erste Liebe hat lebenslange...