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The Book of Disquiet (Portuguese: Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa) is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935). Published posthumously, The Book of Disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a "factless ...
As a result, there can be no definitive edition of The Book of Disquiet.Written on and off over a period of more than 20 years, seemingly beginning as a book by another of Pessoa's heteronyms, Vicente Guedes, and slowly evolving into the imaginary testament of Soares, it is a dishevelled album of thoughts, sensations and imagined memories that can never be fully deciphered.
Disquiet was shortlisted for many major literary awards and won the 2009 Encore Award (UK) for best second novel and the 2009 Prix Indications Passa Porta (Belgium) for best foreign literature. [2] It was a France Culture/ Télérama Rentrée Selection (France), a Los Angeles Times Favourite Book, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and No.7 on ...
“Three Hours To Change Your Life” an excerpt of the book Your Best Year Yet! by Jinny S. Ditzler This document is a 35-page excerpt, including the Welcome chapter of the book and Part 1: The Principles of Best Year Yet – three hours to change your life First published by HarperCollins in 1994 and by Warner Books in 1998
A man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the shooting deaths of his three young sons at their Ohio home last year. A Clermont County judge sentenced Chad ...
Ducks, Newburyport is a 2019 novel by British author Lucy Ellmann.The novel is written in the stream of consciousness narrative style, and consists of a single long sentence, with brief clauses that start with the phrase "the fact that" more than 19,000 times.
Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa, Italy, but grew up at his maternal grandparents' home in Vecchiano, a nearby village. [4] During his years at university, he travelled widely around Europe on the trail of the authors he had encountered in his uncle's library.
As he leads the double life, a copycat vigilante begins stalking the streets, using a distinctive .45 caliber Luger pistol. Vigilantism soon becomes a rallying cry for the city as the police search for their man before innocent people are hurt. Now, Paul is not after criminals or even justice but a man who is as dangerous as he himself has become.