Showing posts with label Arthur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arthur. Show all posts
Friday, 29 March 2013
Arthur (The Pendragon Cycle #3) by Stephen R. Lawhead
Thursday, 17 January 2013
King Arthur – Frank Thompson
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table – and the chivalry, romance, heroism, and betrayal at the heart of the legendary tale – have gripped the imagination of the world for centuries. In King Arthur, young Arthur is given a seemingly impossible mission: to defeat a bloodthirsty Saxon conqueror and his army, a dozen times the size of Arthur’s own. Haunted by Merlin and tormented by the fact that his small band of knights has only a slim chance at survival, Arthur is determined to fulfill his duty to the Roman Empire, his family, and Great Britain. In the midst of their mission, when Arthur and Lancelot, his greatest knight, rescue the exquisite Guinevere from captivity, the enchanting tale of the royal lovers begins. Unabridged. Read by John Lee.
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of four
A couple of years after introducing the world to the detective on Baker Street in A Study in Scarlet, Doyle followed up with The Sign of Four. In it Holmes and Watson are solicited by a woman named Mary Morstan, whose father died under unusual circumstances years ago and who for the past several years has been receiving an anonymous gift in the mail every year - a rare and beautiful pearl. As the pair investigate both the death of Miss Morstan's father as well as the origins of the pearls, they discover that the pearls are part of a much larger treasure, a treasure that was discovered and hidden years ago by four men. Among those four men were Miss Morstan's father and the father of the man sending the pearls. Once again Sherlock Holmes uses his remarkable powers of observation and deduction to solve the mystery surrounding the four men and the treasure.
Saturday, 24 November 2012
The Lost World – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in Venezuela where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. Interestingly, for a seminal work of dinosaur-related fiction, the novel also describes a war between Native Americans and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures. Unabridged.
Monday, 7 November 2011
Barnes, Julian - Arthur and George
A novel by Julian Barnes
Awards
The Man Booker Prize (nominee)
The Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year (nominee)
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards (nominee)
Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late 19th century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Catholic Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George a Birmingham solicitor, is happy in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. With a mixture of intense research and vivid imagination, Julian Barnes brings into sharp focus not just this long-forgotten case but the inner workings of the two men and the wider psychology of the age. Arthur & George is a novel in which the events of a hundred years ago constantly set off contemporary echoes. It is a novel about low crime and high spirituality; guilt and innocence; identity, nationality and race; and thwarted passion. Arthur & George explores what we think, what we believe, and what we know.
Amazon.com Review
A real tour de force from masterful author Julian Barnes is Arthur & George, which was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Late-Victorian Britain is brought to vivid life in the true story of the intersection of two lives: one an internationally famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the other, an obscure country lawyer, George Edalji, son of a Parsi Midlands vicar and a Scottish mother. They start out very differently. Arthur pursues a career in medicine before he discovers that he is really a writer; George, on his way to becoming a lawyer--near-sighted, timid and friendless--is victimized by locals because he is easy to scapegoat--a half-Indian in lily-white Great Wyrley.
The victimization of George takes the form of nasty letters, the theft of a school key, and finally, the accusation that he has mutilated animals.
Meanwhile, Arthur is becoming more and more famous for creating Sherlock Holmes, whom he tries to kill off once and is forced to resurrect because of his fans' outcry. He marries, fathers two children and then, when his wife is invalided by consumption, falls madly in love for the first time with Jean Leckie.
The novel's style is smoothly revelatory. We slowly come to realize that George is half-Indian, that Arthur is the famous Doyle, that the woman he loves, chastely, is not his wife and, sadly, that George will not prevail over the forces ranged against him.
When George, desperate to resume his law career after imprisonment, sends Arthur the sad chronicle of his history, Arthur sees immediately that he could not be guilty and sets out to clear his name. This case of George's lifts Arthur from the slough of despond into which he has sunk after his wife, Touie, dies. He is guilt-ridden, constantly wondering if he was attentive enough, if she could possibly have known about Jean. Realizing the immense injustice George has suffered, he is shaken out of lethargy and, in Holmesian fashion, sets out to solve the case.
Julian Barnes is a gifted writer of enormous accomplishment. This novel is thoroughly engrossing, filled with Barnes's trademark themes of identity and love, longing and loss, and ultimately, an examination of man's inhumanity to man. --Valerie Ryan
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review.
Arthur is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, physician, sportsman, gentleman par excellence and the inventor of Sherlock Holmes; George is George Edalji, also a real, if less well-known person, whose path crossed not quite fatefully with the famous author's. Edalji was the son of a Parsi father (who was a Shropshire vicar), and a Scots mother. In 1903, George, a solicitor, was accused of writing obscene, threatening letters to his own family and of mutilating cattle in his farm community. He was convicted of criminal behavior in a blatant miscarriage of justice based on racial prejudice. Eventually, Sir Arthur ("Irish by ancestry, Scottish by birth") heard about George's case and began to advocate on his behalf. In this combination psychological novel, detective story and literary thriller, Barnes elegantly dissects early 20th-century English society as he spins this true-life story with subtle and restrained irony. Every line delivered by the many characters—the two principals, their school chums (Barnes sketches their early lives), their families and many incidentals—rings with import. His dramatization of George's trial, in particular, grinds with telling minutiae, and his portrait of Arthur is remarkably rich, even when tackling Doyle's spiritualist side. Shortlisted for the Booker, this novel about love, guilt, identity and honor is a triumph of storytelling, taking the form Barnes perfected in Flaubert's Parrot (1985) and stretching it yet again.
Narrator: Nigel Anthony
Audio format: mp3 234 MB
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery-Crime
Source: Audible aa conversion
Bit Rate: 32 kbps
Length: 17 HRS 15 mins
Publisher: Sound Library; Unabridged edition (January 2006)
Version: unabridged
Sunday, 6 November 2011
Arthur, Keri - (Riley Jensen #9) - Moon Sworn
Some nights never end. Some desires never die... Shape-shifting werewolf and vampire Riley Jenson is through with death---causing it, solving it, surviving it. Her soul mate, Kye Murphy, is dead at Riley's own hands. Not even the seductive embrace of her vampire lover, Quinn, can fully ease her mind, for she has begun questioning everything that makes her Riley---including her job at the Directorate. Now, the ritualistically slain bodies of ex-cons have started turning up. Reluctantly, Riley takes the case, but something even worse is waiting in the wings. A vicious enemy from her past is determined to strip Riley of everything that gives her life any meaning: her lover, her brother, and even her own identity. Can Riley survive this ultimate assault? All she knows is, she must fight one last time to find answers before everything goes dark forever.
Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 9 hour(s) and 13 min.
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Tantor Media (March 8, 2011)
Narrator: Angela Dawe
Format: MP3
Size: 130 MB
ASIN: B004RFX2TU
Arthur, Keri - (Riley Jensen #8) - Bound To Shadows
In the darkness, demons come out to play... and someone must bring their sins to light. Part vampire, part werewolf, Riley Jenson knows what can happen when vamps don't play well with others. But she's never seen anything like this: a series of brutal murders surrounding the latest hot spot for vampire-human hookups---and the victims aren't just killed, they're beheaded. Now Riley is launching into action, toying with a seductive---and highly suspicious---club owner, and finding herself in the middle of another mystery: women being killed one by one without a trace of violence. For Riley, solving multiple cases---in a world going mad with human and vampire passions---would have been tough enough. Instead, she has two jealous lovers on her hands: Kye Murphy, the amber-eyed werewolf who makes Riley's wolf blood howl---and Quinn, the cool, elegant vamp who has over a thousand years' experience at fulfilling women's desires. While she's busy juggling these two sexy beasts, Riley's detective work takes a stunningly violent turn. Finding a murderer is now a matter of life and death. Especially since the killer has long since found her...
Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 8 hour(s) and 26 min.
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Tantor Media (February 28, 2011)
Narrator: Angela Dawe
Format: MP3
Size: 114 MB
ASIN: B004QA7IFK
Arthur, Keri - (Riley Jensen #6) - The Darkest Kiss
In this sexy paranormal romance, Riley Jenson - she of vampire blood and werewolf instinct - is on the hunt for evildoers. As alluring as she is deadly, Riley sets her sights on two imposing serial killers. But when the immortal Quinn joins the hunt, all bets (and possibly Riley's clothes) are most certainly off.
Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 9 hour(s) and 27 min.
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Recorded Books (May 5, 2009)
Narrator: Susan Lyons
Format: MP3
Size: 129MB
ASIN: B0028TY1H4
Arthur, Keri - (Riley Jensen #5) - Embraced By Darkness
Thrust into a realm of seduction and violence unlike any she could have imagined, Riley has to battle to save everything she holds dear. But the ultimate hunt has only just begun.
Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 9 hour(s) and 42 min.
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Tantor Media (January 7, 2011)
Narrator: Angela Dawe
Format: MP3
Size: 129MB
ASIN: B004IYTP50
Arthur, Keri - (Riley Jensen #4) - Dangerous Game
Running Time: 9Hours and 25Mins
Audio CD
Publisher: Tantor Media; Unabridged,MP3 - Unabridged CD edition (December 24, 2010)
Narrator: Angela Dawe
Format: MP3
Size: 128MB
ISBN-10: 1452650047
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