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| Author | : Carl-Johan Vallgren |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2011-10-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1448113741 |
St Petersburg, 1899. Obsessive gambler Rubashov has played every game in town. Now on New Year's Eve, he finds himself on the brink of ruin, and decides to make a bid for the ultimate rush, the biggest gamble ever, to challenge the Devil to a game of poker. Rubashov loses. His punishment is not to go straight to Hell (Hell is full and has been for years), instead he is condemned to immortality. And so begins a monumental trip through Europe, as Rubashov encounters some of the twentieth century's most notorious characters.
| Author | : Karl Siegfried Guthke |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1571139745 |
A groundbreaking study examining major literary treatments of the idea of earthly immortality, throwing into relief fascinating instances of human self-awareness over the past three hundred years.
| Author | : Europa |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 678 |
| Release | : 2009-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781857435146 |
A comprehensive guide to the people and organizations involved in the world of popular music.
| Author | : Carl-Johan Vallgren |
| Publisher | : Arrow |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780099498247 |
"St Petersburg, 1899. Obsessive gambler Rubashov has played every game in town. Now on New Year's Eve, he finds himself on the brink of ruin, and decides to make a bid for the ultimate rush, the biggest gamble ever, to challenge the Devil to a poker game. The Devil accepts the invitation and unsurprisingly Rubashov loses. However, the price is not straight to hell as he expected (hell is full and has been for years), the punishment is immortality. Rubashov has great difficulty coming to terms with his ever-lasting life; he now sees no end to what is already a miserable existence. Unsuccessful suicide attempts lead him to take up Russian roulette, but before long the money is piling up and he has amassed a small fortune, enabling him to embark on a very different way of life... In this bizarre trip through Europe, Rubashov encounters some of the twentieth century's most notorious characters. Vallgren s bizarre picaresque tale is destined to stand alongside The Master and Margarita as a genre classic, and for fans of The Horrific Suffering of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot..., Rubashov s adventures will be sheer delight."
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| Total Pages | : 1952 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Bibliography |
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| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : English imprints |
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| Author | : Carl-Johan Vallgren |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 175 |
| Release | : 2015-12-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1605989134 |
Nella and her brother Robert live a difficult life with their mother and father in a small town on the west coast of Sweden. Robert is bullied at school, and Nella has to resort to debt and petty crime to pay off his tormentors. When she turns to her friend Tommy for help, her suspicions are aroused by the mysterious comings and goings of his brothers at their dilapidated boat house. But when she uncovers the reason behind their enigmatic behavior, her life is opened to the realities of a mindboggling secret. The Merman is a dark and haunting novel about sibling love and betrayal—and about what happens when the mundane collides with the strange and beautiful.
| Author | : Carl-Johan Vallgren |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2007-03-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0060842148 |
Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot is the picaresque fable of the love that grows between the mute, telepathic human monstrosity Hercules and the beautiful Henriette—a love that will entwine their fates forever. Author Carl-Johan Vallgren creates an unforgettable cast of grotesqueries in a magical and atmospheric tour of nineteenth-century Europe—from the bordello, where Hercules is born, to the squalor of the asylum, where he finds only pain, to the sinister grandeur of the Jesuit monasteries in which he finds both shelter and peril, to the phantasmagoria of the freak show with which he travels. A moving, uplifting, at times dark and macabre tale of social oppression, official corruption, religious persecution, and unwavering devotion, it is a story that enchants and surprises . . . and leaves one wide-eyed with wonder, like a small child at his first carnival.
| Author | : Arthur Koestler |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 592 |
| Release | : 2017-02-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0141394544 |
Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how, in particular, the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. He also provides vivid and judicious pen-portraits of a string of great scientists and makes clear the role that political bias and unconscious prejudice played in their creativity.
| Author | : Encyclopaedia Judaica |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 870 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Jews |
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