Silva Smiled
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Silva Smiled
"...imagine you are paralyzed, Lennard, and any sound you make is gibberish. The only movements of your body convulsive and purposeless. But your thinking is clear and your body feels...it feels everything but all you can do is lay there and take it all in..." "David, stop." "...and you start to go a little bit mad. If you're strong you tell yourself you don't understand what is happening but it can't go on forever..." "It isn't like that!" "...but each humiliating, pain filled day beats a chink in that resolution until you become quite insane and you know how sensitive the insane are. But this is only what goes on in the minds of the adults. How do you suppose a six year old handles it? Lennard?" "You're out of here!" "Oh, I'm very in, you son of a bitch." David Rice knows a terrible secret and he needs to tell it before he is killed. Big Business is everything. It will get you a name and a big salary with toys to match. Or it will get you killed. But if you're lucky, before you die, you will be touched by Silva. Game?
The Concert
A chilling portrait of life under Communist rule by Albania's most important writer It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up – couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-rays of the foot back and forth. The Chinese intend to punish their interfering little ally discreetly. But is the Sino-Albanian axis about to come adrift? This is Kadare’s surreal black comedy about the inner sanctums of political power and the mysterious causal chains that transform ordinary lives. ‘The Concert is a splendidly deep and serious novel that entirely transcends, as it were, its unremarkable outer garment... Kadare's achievement is to dramatise truthfully throughout. This is a book to read and re-read’ Guardian
The Marquis is Deceived
Author: Barbara Cartland
language: en
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Release Date: 2015-07-01
The Marquis of Craigmere, who is one of the most handsome and attractive men in the Beau Monde, is pursued by an exotic and beautiful married woman called Peony Lawson The Marquis finds this affaire-de-coeur amusing and enjoyable until Peony says that that she intends to tell her husband what they have been doing and ask him for a divorce. The Marquis is horrified because he was determined never to get married until he is much older and needs to have an heir. He knows, however, that Peony is serious and he will have to be exceedingly clever not to be involved in a scandal that would force him to live abroad for some years. He is at Royal Ascot and is hoping to win the Gold Cup. He is not successful, but as the race ends he sees the Duke of Hawkhurst, who was a friend of his father's. The Duke has always been in debt and a way suddenly occurs to the Marquis of saving himself from the horror of Peony's intentions. He tells the Duke that he wishes to marry his daughter, Natalie, in two days' time. The Duke thinks it strange, but he realises that a very rich son-in-law will save him when he is on the verge of bankruptcy. However, his daughter Natalie is in love with the charming son of a neighbour, who is far from being a rich man, and she is in despair at the prospect of being married to the Marquis. Her cousin, Silva, who is beautiful and intelligent, urges her to elope and promises that she will somehow keep the knowledge of it from the Duke until it is too late for him to prevent it. How Silva arranges for Lady Natalie and the man she loves to set off for Gretna Green and how to save not only her cousin, but also herself from what has been for her a life of misery at the Duke's Castle, she takes her place at the altar. And the Marquis only discovers the switch when they are on their way to Dover for their honeymoon on his yacht. Find out what happens next in this intriguing and fast moving love story by BARBARA CARTLAND.