Claïe, jeune femme divorcée, se retrouve seule avec elle-même. Un soir, tenaillée de douleurs, elle les perçoit comme des « bulles d’âmes », ce qui l’amène à rejoindre un groupe, via les réseaux sociaux, discutant du magnétisme et de la géobiologie. Elle retrouve alors ses pairs et s’y épanouit, puis commence à tisser des liens avec un certain D’Mon, médium. Ils se trouvent des points communs inouïs jusqu’au jour où les messages de D’Mon deviennent comme une torture télépathique pour l’hér...

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Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-opening dossier of Scott Morrison's documented lies with Keane's insightful take on why deceivers dominate in the new era of politics. This book is the first in The Crikey Read series by Crikey and Hardie Grant Books.All politicians lie. They twist the truth, exaggerate and spin. But blatant lying has now...

Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889–1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous – as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his immense talent twice won him pardons. But, as this deeply researched book shows, these stories were shaped by the white folklorists who 'discovered' Lead Belly and, along with reporters, recording executives, and radio and film producers, introduced him to...

A digital-only prequel novella from Romily Bernard, author of the Find Me trilogy.Griff wasn't always the knight in shining armor Wick Tate thinks he is. He had a whole life before he met her, and even though it's grittier than Wick could have imagined, it also made him into the guy she loves.This prequel novella grants readers access to Griff's story from his point-of-view—and it includes some scenes from Find Me, which Jay Asher called "a thriller that keeps picking up sp...

How He Lied to Her Husband is a short, one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, first performed in 1904. This comedic work serves as a satirical counterpart to Shaw's earlier play "Candida" and showcases Shaw's sharp wit and keen observation of human relationships and societal norms. Set in London, the play revolves around a love triangle involving a young poet, Henry Apjohn, who is enamored with Aurora Bompas, a beautiful, married woman. The intrigue begins when Aurora discovers that Henry ha...

George Bernard Shaw was a prolific Irish playwright who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925. Shaw’s famous plays include Man and Superman and Pygmalion which was adapted into the classic musical My Fair Lady. This edition of How He Lied to Her Husband includes a table of contents.

The three-character play is set in the drawing room of a flat located on Cromwell Road in London. Shaw describes Henry Apjohn as a very beautiful youth, moving as in a dream, walking as on air, while Aurora Bompas has an air of being a young and beautiful woman but as a matter of hard fact, she is, dress and pretensions apart, a very ordinary South Kensington female of about 37, hopelessly inferior in physical and spiritual distinction to the beautiful youth. The third character is Aurora'...

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

“How He Lied to Her Husband” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.How He Lied to Her Husband is a one-act comedy play by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote it, at the request of actor Arnold Daly, over a period of four days while he was vacationing in Scotland in 1904. In its preface he described it as "a sample of what can be done with even the most hackneyed stag...

In Bernard Shaw's thought-provoking play, "How He Lied to Her Husband," the narrative delves into themes of deception, manipulation, and gender dynamics within the confines of Edwardian society. Shaw's characteristic wit and incisive dialogue create a lively interplay between characters, making this work not only entertaining but also a scathing critique of social conventions. The play unfolds through a series of clever exchanges that reveal the fragility of truth and the ease with which i...

How He Lied to Her Husband is a one-act comedy play by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote it, at the request of actor Arnold Daly, over a period of four days while he was vacationing in Scotland in 1904. In its preface he described it as "a sample of what can be done with even the most hackneyed stage framework by filling it in with an observed touch of actual humanity instead of with doctrinaire romanticism." The play has often been interpreted as a kind of satirical commentary on Shaw's own ...