Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York.Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, straight off the boat from Italy. But, as his niece Catherine begins to fall for one of them, it's clea...

'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The TimesSummoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, Memoirs of a Geisha uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as a servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha hou...

An Embroidery Book is a comprehensive and richly detailed guide to the art of embroidery, originally published in the early 20th century. This classic volume offers both beginners and experienced needleworkers a wealth of practical instruction, inspiration, and historical context. The book covers a wide array of embroidery techniques, including satin stitch, chain stitch, cross-stitch, and more, with clear explanations and step-by-step guidance. It features numerous illustrations and diagr...

As soon as Maddie enters the church where Priest Lander awaits, her faith is challenged. The handsome priest is too much for a young nun, and worse, she's due to accompany him alone through the woods to a far away cave to consecrate the icon of Saint Gerard.Maddie's world is a secretive one, but she barely suspects the deeper secrets concealed by the muscle bound Priest. He's more than just an ordinary priest. Lander has plans to introduce her to the old gods, Nature, and the shado...

Steve Mason is pulled out of retirement to track down a genius millionaire killer bent on assassinating the President of the United States. With little time and few clues, he traces Raymond Armstrong's last known steps and finds more than he bargained for.Using his skills crafted in the heart of South American drug country, Steve searches in a race against time. Yet, his search is not as clandestine as he would like it to be. There is a mole in the highest levels of the agency. Thi...

Winner of the 2016 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Direction of a Play: Ivo van HoveSet in the 1950s on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at home with his wife, Beatrice, and orphan niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when Beatrice's cousins, undocumented immigrants from Italy, arr...

**Chapter 1: The Forgotten Letter**In the small, sleepy town of Willowbrook, nestled between rolling hills and dense forests, life moved at a leisurely pace. The townsfolk knew each other by name, and secrets were as rare as a snowflake in summer. But all of that was about to change.One crisp autumn morning, Emma Carter, a young woman in her late twenties, stumbled upon an old, dusty letter tucked inside a book she had borrowed from the town's library. The letter was addres...

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, making it easier to access individual books and essays. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.Table of ContentsThe Art of Controversy...

Abraham Lincoln's Life StoryFrom a one-room log cabin in the Kentucky woods to the highest office in a nation tearing itself apart, Abraham Lincoln's life remains one of America's most powerful stories of self-made character, moral courage, and tragic greatness.Born February 12, 1809, to poor frontier parents, Lincoln received almost no formal schooling. He taught himself by firelight, split rails, clerked in a store, served briefly in the Black Hawk War, a...

The definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture—and how their rivalry shaped the essential features of our culture down to the present day.Plato came from a wealthy, connected Athenian family and lived a comfortable upper-class lifestyle until he met an odd little ma...

When pastor Jordan Rau accepted a position with a European missions agency, his decision was based on money, not on an opportunity to serve God. However, shortly after his family's arrival in Germany, Jordan's priorities dramatically change - his young son, Chase, has been murdered. Abandoning his faith in God, Jordan becomes obsessed with finding Chase's killers and delivering justice. He sets out on a course of action that will destroy not only the murderers, but his own family as well -...

A rediscovered classic satire of literary celebrity, now an acclaimed film starring Willem Dafoe and Greta LeeOne ordinary evening, Eduard Saxberger arrives home to find the fulfilment of a long-forgotten wish in his sitting room: a visitor has come to tell him that the youth of Vienna has discovered his poetic genius. Saxberger has written nothing for thirty years, yet he now realises that he is more than merely an Unremarkable Civil Servant, after all - he is a V...