The house at Ben's Hollow in the lonely countryside of western Ireland has a bad reputation among the locals. Two artists are keen to hear the legend - but little do they imagine how the house and its story will haunt their lives and loves in dark and unexpected ways...This collection was first published in 1894. As well as the title novella, the book also includes three further supernatural tales by the same author.

Zwielicht 22. Das Horrormagazin, das die Szene begeistert.

Your future as a writer is in your hands. Whether you are a newcomer or an accomplished professional, a novelist, story writer, or a writer of nonfiction, you will find this book a wealth of immediately useful guidance not available anywhere else. As Sol Stein, renowned editor, author, and instructor, explains, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of useable solutions-- how to fix writing that is flawed, how to improve writing that is good, how to create interesting writing in the f...

‘All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why’Rick Stein's childhood in 1950s rural Oxfordshire and North Cornwall was idyllic. His parents were charming and gregarious, their five children much-loved and given freedom typical of the time. As he grew older, the holidays were filled with loud and lively parties in his parents' Cornish barn. But ever-present was the unpredicatible mood of his bipolar father, with Rick frequently ...

Determined to make a new life, German widow Helga Heinrich and her four children sail into the seaport of Indianola.There, Helga manages Stein House, where the boarders move through the lives of the family, revealing the rich texture of this seafaring town, the injustices of slavery, and the challenges of the Civil War and Reconstruction.A woman of strong passion, Helga loves with abandon and refuses to bend, as her family is swept into the ravages of yellow fever, the agon...

The breadth of shared intellectual debts and interests in the work of Edith Stein and Max Scheler demand that they be placed in conversation.This volume brings together philosophers and theologians to explore the convergences and divergences in Stein and Scheler's respective work. Both thinkers were early practitioners of the phenomenological method, drew from and reflected on theological resources in their philosophical explorations, and maintained a lifelong inte...

Cuando un bebé llega al mundo, su pequeño cerebro posee millones de células denominadas neuronas, pero la mayor parte de ellas se encuentra aislada, en soledad, desconectada del resto de sus compañeras. Y para hacer todas las cosas maravillosas que podemos hacer los seres humanos, las células cerebrales deben conectarse entre sí y formar redes; de hecho, una neurona puede enlazarse con 10.000 células cerebrales más. Esas conexiones se denominan sinapsis y las que se efectúen en los primero...

Home is more than a place. It's a feeling.Rick Stein has spent his life travelling the world in search of cooking perfection - from France and Italy to Australia and the far east - and inspiring millions of food lovers with the results. In Rick Stein At Home, he takes us into the rhythms and rituals of his home cooking. In his first book to celebrate his all-time favourite home-cooked meals, Rick shares over 100 very special recipes, including many from hi...

Un dialogo nel tempo tra due grandi figure della spiritualità. Una carmelitana di oggi scrive a una grande figura del monachesimo carmelitano del passato recente, alla ricerca di una radice comune e della comprensione del "mistero del male e dell'iniquità nei nostri giorni". Come dice monsignor Corti nell'Introduzione, si tratta di pagine nate da una lunga frequentazione, quasi fraterna, da leggere con calma e nel silenzio orante: «Chi prende in mano queste pagine indirizzate a Edith Stein...

A steamy, opposites-attract romance with undeniable chemistry between a grumpy retired footballer and his fabulous and very sunshine-y ghostwriter.When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding gets badgered into selling his memoirs, he knows he’s never going to be able to write them. He hates revealing a single thing about himself, is allergic to most emotions, and can’t imagine doing a good job of putting pen to paper.And so in walks curvy, cheery, cute as heck ...

This initial volume of the Collected Works of Edith Stein offers, for the first time in English, the unabridged biography of Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), depicting her life as a child and young adult. Her text ends abruptly because the Nazi SS arrested, then deported, her to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942. Translater Josephine Koeppel, OCD. This ebook contains a fully linked Index, Map, and List of Places.Edith Stein is one of the most significant German-J...

The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it.“Splendid.” —People“The perfect book for anyone who knows that compassion isn’t only for humans, and that the relationship between two souls who are meant for each o...