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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Ruth【電子書籍】[ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ]

＜p＞Ruth - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Ruth is a novel by an English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in three volumes in 1853. The plot - Ruth is a young orphan girl working in a respectable sweatshop for the overworked Mrs Mason. She is selected to go to a ball to repair torn dresses. At the ball she meets the aristocratic Henry Bellingham, a rake figure who is instantly attracted to her. They meet again by chance and form a secret friendship; on an outing together they are spotted by Mrs Mason who, fearing for her shop's reputation, dismisses Ruth. Alone in the world, Ruth is whisked away by Bellingham to London where it is implied she becomes a fallen woman. They go on holiday to Wales together and there on a country walk Ruth meets the disabled and kind Mr Benson. Bellingham falls sick with fever and the hotel calls for his mother who arrives and is disgusted by her son's having lived in sin with Ruth. Bellingham is persuaded by his mother to abandon Ruth in Wales, leaving her some money. A distraught Ruth attempts suicide but is spotted by Mr Benson who helps comfort her. When he learns of her past and that she is alone he brings her back to his home town, where he is a Dissenting minister, to stay with him and his formidable but kind sister Faith. When they learn that Ruth is pregnant they decide to lie to the town and claim that she is a widow called Mrs Denbigh, to protect her from a society which would otherwise shun her. Ruth has her baby, whom she names Leonard. She is transformed into a Madonna type figure, calm and innocent once more. The rich local businessman Mr Bradshaw admires Ruth and employs her as a governess for his children, including his eldest daughter Jemima who is in awe of the beautiful Ruth. Ruth goes away with the Bradshaws to a seaside house while one of Mr Bradshaw's children is convalescing from a long illness. Mr Bradshaw brings Mr Donne, a man whom he is sponsoring to become their local MP, to the seaside to impress him. Ruth recognises Mr Donne as actually being Mr Bellingham and the two have a confrontation on the beach. Bellingham offers to marry Ruth as he claims he still loves her and for the sake of their child, Ruth rejects him saying she will not let Leonard come in contact with a man like him.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Hero: David Bowie【電子書籍】[ Lesley-Ann Jones ]

＜p＞"No s? hacia d?nde me dirijo, pero prometo que no ser? aburrido." David Bowie Mundialmente aclamado como el artista m?s innovador de su generaci?n, David Bowie destac? como m?sico y compositor, pero tambi?n mostr? su talento como pintor, actor y productor. La autora de esta singular biograf?a disfrut? de la amistad del genial artista londinense hasta su fallecimiento en 2016. Lesley-Ann Jones lo conoci? desde su infancia, en la peque?a localidad de Bromley, al sur de Londres. Ya entonces era un joven desesperado por expresar su talento, frustrado por un entorno que lo ahogaba y determinado a conseguir el reconocimiento y la fortuna que sin duda merec?a. A trav?s de entrevistas con amigos ?ntimos y con colaboradores que trataron a David Bowie a lo largo de su carrera, y que nunca antes hab?an contado sus experiencias personales, la autora revela el origen de su extraordinaria creatividad. Con el trasfondo de la evoluci?n del pop y del rock en los ?ltimos cincuenta a?os, Lesley-Ann Jones ha creado una biograf?a ?nica que refleja al mismo tiempo la vida p?blica y privada de un artista que marc? una ?poca. "Estaba escuchando su ?lbum (Blackstar) antes de que muriera... Pens? que deb?a ponerme en contacto con ?l, pues llevaba un tiempo sin verle. Pero se muri? casi de inmediato. Me constern?." Mick Jagger "La amistad de David fue la luz de mi vida. Nunca he conocido a nadie tan brillante como ?l. Era lo mejor que hay." Iggy Pop "?nico y provocador. Un verdadero genio... Verlo en directo me hizo emprender un viaje que espero que nunca acabe. Era tan chic y apuesto y elegante. Tan adelantado a su tiempo." Madonna＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Dorian Hunter 26 Die Masken des Dr. Faustus【電子書籍】[ Ernst Vlcek ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Die Masken des Dr. Faustus＜/strong＞＜br /＞ von Ernst Vlcek＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Toledo, 1531.＜/em＞＜br /＞ ≫Haltet den Dieb!≪, schrien aufgeregte Stimmen. ≫Er hat die heilige Madonna beraubt.≪ - ≫Was f?r ein Sakrileg! Ein Fluch wird ?ber uns kommen.≪＜br /＞ Ein Blitz zuckte vom Himmel herab und schlug in die Kirche ein. Die Holzbalken fingen Feuer. Georg Rudolf Speyer stand wie erstarrt da. Eine Gestalt lief, von der Kirche kommend, ?ber den Platz. Die Meute der Gl?ubigen folgte ihr. Das musste der Dieb sein. Es war ein Mann in einem Umhang und mit einer Kapuze. Er rannte, als sei der Teufel hinter ihm her, und er presste etwas fest an den K?rper, das golden gl?nzte. - Es war ein Drudenfu?!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Rosa Maries Baby【電子書籍】[ Robert G Barrett ]

＜p＞Robert G. Barrett's latest Les Norton adventure is action, humour, and intrigue with a diabolical twist, proving once again why Barrett is called the king of Australian popular fiction. If it wasn't for a letter lost in the system for decades landing on his lap, Les would never have known he wasn't the only Norton to gain notoriety thanks to Kings Cross. there was another - even worse than him: devil - worshipping artist and occultist Rosa-Marie Norton, the Witch of Kings Cross. Rosa was so bad the police arrested her for lewd behaviour and obscenity, and the customs department burnt her paintings - paintings now worth thousands of dollars. Yet according to the lost letter, a bundle of her paintings had been secreted at an old church in Victoria. By sheer coincidence, Les is asked to help with a hit in Melbourne on a shonky art dealer named 'Latte' Lindsey. After the hit, Les decides to take a trip down the Great Ocean Road, call in to the Church of the Blessed Madonna, and see if he can finds 'mum's' painting. Along with plenty of trouble, Les finds sexy Sonia and staunch Stepha. He also finds there's a lot of deja vu getting around in Victoria. And when it comes to violence south of the border, there are no Mexican stand-offs.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Borgias Two Novels in One Volume【電子書籍】[ Jean Plaidy ]

＜p＞＜strong＞For the first time in one volume, Jean Plaidy’s duet of Borgia novels brings to life the infamous, reckless, and passionate family in an unforgettable historical saga.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Madonna of the Seven Hills:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fifteenth-century Rome: the Borgia family is on the rise. Lucrezia’s father is named Pope Alexander VI, and he places his daughter and her brothers Cesare, Giovanni, and Goffredo in the jeweled splendorーand scandalーof his court. From the Pope’s affairs with adolescent girls, to Cesare’s dangerous jealousy of anyone who inspires Lucrezia’s affections, to the ominous birth of a child conceived in secret, no Borgia can elude infamy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Light on Lucrezia:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Some said she was an elegant seductress. Others swore she was an incestuous murderess. She was the most dangerous and sought after woman in all of Rome. Lucrezia Borgia’s young life has been colored by violence and betrayal. Now, married for the second time at just eighteen she hopes for happiness with her handsome husband Alfonso. But faced with brutal murder, she's soon torn between her love for her husband and her devotion to her brother Cesare… And in the days when the Borgias ruled Italy, no one was safe from the long arm of their power. Not even Lucrezia.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Priest's Madonna【電子書籍】[ Amy Hassinger ]

＜p＞“A provocative page-turner, full of ＜em＞Da Vinci Code＜/em＞-esque intrigue.”ー＜em＞Marie Claire＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞From the author of ＜em＞Nina: Adolescence＜/em＞, comes a factually based, lyrically enthralling novel about the forbidden love between a woman and a holy manーand the terrible secret that poses an even greater threat to their faith.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1896, a priest in southern France suddenly gained immense wealth. This much is historically trueーbut no one knows where the money came from. At his death, the priest’s secret was buried with him. But there was a young womanーhis housekeeper and lover, Marie D?narnaudーwho may have known the truth.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Marie D?narnaud was only a girl when the charismatic priest B?renger first captivated her. As a woman, she became his housekeeper and struggled with guilt over their illicit relationship. But as their affection deepened, B?renger grew secretive, and Marie had to learn why. What she discovers is a shocking secret that she becomes responsible for concealing.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Impressively researched and deftly written . . . a suspenseful story of love and religion.”ーCurtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of ＜em＞Prep＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Vivid and affecting.”ー＜em＞Booklist＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Lost Madonna【電子書籍】[ Kelly Jones ]

＜p＞Thirty years after leaving Florence with a broken heart, Suzanne Cunningham is back, determined to solve the mystery of what happened to a priceless painting from her past-and to the man who forever changed the course of her life.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Pretty Birds A Novel【電子書籍】[ Scott Simon ]

＜p＞The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In ＜strong＞Pretty Birds＜/strong＞, Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic character?a young woman in the besieged city of Sarajevo in the early 1990s.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the spring of 1992, Irena Zaric is a star on her Sarajevo high school basketball team, a tough, funny teenager who has taught her parrot, Pretty Bird, to do a decent imitation of a ball hitting a hoop. Irena wears her hair short like k. d. lang’s, and she loves Madonna, Michael Jordan, and Johnny Depp. But while Irena rocks out and shoots baskets with her friends, her beloved city has become a battleground. When the violence and terror of “ethnic cleansing” against Muslims begins, Irena and her family, brutalized by Serb soldiers, flee for safety across the river that divides the city.＜/p＞ ＜p＞If once Irena knew of war only from movies and history books, now she knows its reality. She steals from the dead to buy food. She scuttles under windows in her own home to dodge bullets. She risks her life to communicate with an old Serb school friend and teammate. Even Pretty Bird has started to mimic the sizzle of mortar fire.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In a city starved for work, a former assistant principal offers Irena a vague job, “duties as assigned,” which she accepts. She begins by sweeping floors, but soon, under the tutelage of a cast of rogues and heroes, she learns to be a sniper, biding her time, never returning to the same perch, and searching her targets for the “mist” that marks a successful shot. Ultimately, Irena’s new vocation will lead to complex and cataclysmic consequences for herself and those she loves.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As a journalist, Scott Simon covered the siege of Sarajevo. Here, in a novel as suspenseful as a John le Carr? thriller, he re-creates the atmosphere of that place and time and the pain and dark humor of its people. Pretty Birds is a bold departure, and the auspicious beginning of yet another brilliant career for its author.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Intimate Strangers Comic Profiles and Indiscretions of the Very Famous【電子書籍】[ Bill Zehme ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Schwarzenegger intimidates.＜br /＞ Sharon Stone strips.＜br /＞ Leno and Letterman duel.＜br /＞ In twenty years of raw and raucous celebrity profiles＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Irreverently bold journalist Bill Zehme has long been celebrated for his ability to get under the skins of our most elusive icons, from the evasive Warren Beatty to the ever-unpredictable Madonna to the much misunderstood Barry Manilow. Now his most provocative work is collected for the first time, with over twenty-five landmark profiles, including Frank Sinatra, Tom Hanks, Jerry Seinfeld, Liberace, Howard Stern, Eddie Murphy, and Woody Allen.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Zehme witnesses Hugh Hefner withstanding the single blow that never entered into an adolescent boy’s dreams--losing his fantasy woman. He gets a nude massage with Sharon Stone, and an earful about men, sex, and the shotgun she keeps under her bed. Included, too, is Zehme’s exclusive firsthand coverage of David Letterman and Jay Leno, before and throughout their late-night feud. Here is entertainment history through the eyes of a man the Chicago Tribune called “one of the most successful and prolific magazine writers in the country.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hilarious, endearing, and wickedly insightful, ＜strong＞Intimate Strangers＜/strong＞ captures the business of celebrity for what it is: a big, lusty, star-crossed love affair between our icons and ourselves.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Madonna of the Seven Hills A Novel of the Borgias【電子書籍】[ Jean Plaidy ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The most beautiful woman in Rome, Lucrezia Borgia, was born into a familyーand a destinyーshe could not hope to escape . . .＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fifteenth-century Rome: The Borgia family is on the rise. Lucrezia’s father, Pope Alexander VI, places his illegitimate daughter and her only brothers, Cesare, Giovanni, and Goffredo, in the jeweled splendorーand scandalーof his court. From the Pope’s affairs with adolescent girls to Cesare’s dangerous jealousy of anyone who inspires Lucrezia’s affections to the ominous birth of a child conceived in secret, no Borgia can elude infamy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Young Lucrezia gradually accepts her fate as she comes to terms with the delicate nature of her relationships with her father and brothers. The unbreakable bond she shares with them both exhilarates and terrifies her as her innocence begins to fade. Soon she will understand that her family’s love pales next to their quest for power and that she herself is the greatest tool in their political arsenal.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From the inimitable pen of Jean Plaidy, this family’s epic legend is replete＜br /＞ with passion, intrigue, and murderーand it’s only the beginning.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Keys of Hell【電子書籍】[ Jack Higgins ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The third thrilling novel featuring British expatriate Paul Chavasse from ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author Jack Higgins.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Paul Chavasse is about as tough as they come. For years, he has made a dangerous living running men and intelligence across the Adriatic Sea from Italy to the communist country of Albania. But his ideals are about to be testedーmore than he ever thought possible.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Albanian government, seeking to crush a religious resurgence within its borders, wants to find and destroy the Madonna of Scutariーa legendary statue of ebony and gold that has protected the faithful for a thousand years. Before government forces capture them, priests hide the carving deep in the marshes along the coast.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now, Paul Chavasse must outrun an entire army in a race to save the priceless relicーand the lives of thousands of believers...＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Are You My Guru? How Medicine, Meditation & Madonna Saved My Life【電子書籍】[ Wendy Shanker ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Read Wendy Shanker's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞From the author of ＜em＞The Fat Girl's Guide to Life＜/em＞ーan insightful and humorous memoir of one woman's quest to navigate the world of alternative healing.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞At age 33, Wendy Shanker was on the verge of Have It All-itis: a Midwestern girl living in Manhattan, writing for television, mingling with celebrities, and publishing her first book. Plus, she had a fierce haircut. Life was good. Then suddenly, it wasn't.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease, Wendy knew she was in for it- at the very least a cocktail of chemo and steroids (certain to challenge her body image), a bustling career put on hold, and a major hurdle to her dating life. When she ran out of medical options, Wendy found herself exploring everything from acupuncture, colonics, and energy healing to detox retreats, tarot card readers, and an intuitive therapist who wanted her to talk to her liver. Surely there must be a guru somewhere who can fix everything-right?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Watch a Video＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Love in Infant Monkeys Stories【電子書籍】[ Lydia Millet ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Animals and celebrities share unusual relationships in these hilarious satirical stories by an award-winning contemporary writer.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasantsーall have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Thomas Edison, and David Hasselhoff. Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of our fascination with famous people and pop culture in a wildly inventive collection of stories that “evoke the spectrum of human feeling and also its limits” (＜em＞Publishers Weekly＜/em＞, Starred Review).＜/p＞ ＜p＞While in so much fiction animals exist as symbols of good and evil or as author stand-ins, they represent nothing but themselves in Millet's ruthlessly lucid prose. Implacable in their actions, the animals in Millet’s spiraling fictional riffs and flounces show up their humans as bloated with foolishness yet curiously vulnerable, as in a tour-de-force, Kabbalah-infused interior monologue by Madonna after she shoots a pheasant on her Scottish estate. Millet treads newly imaginative territory with these charismatic tales.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“These incredibly crafted stories, with their rare intelligence, humor, and empathy, describe the furious collision of nature and science, man and animal, everyday citizen and celebrity, fact and fiction. Lydia Millet’s writing sparkles with urgent brilliance.” ーJoe Meno＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Christopher Walken A to Z The Man, the Movies, the Legend【電子書籍】[ Robert Schnakenberg ]

＜p＞The Complete Guide To All Things Walken＜/p＞ ＜p＞He’s been a dancer, a baker, a lion tamer, an award-winning actor, and a Hollywood legend. But Christopher Walken has never been the subject of a comprehensive biographical referenceーuntil now.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Here at last is a complete A-to-Z guide to this one-of-a-kind performer, featuring entries on everything from the Actors Studio (the legendary theatrical workshop where Walken spent eleven years as a janitor) to Zombie Movies (one of Walken’s favorite film genres). Along the way, readers will discover:＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Acting secrets and behind-the-scenes trivia from each of Walken’s 100+ filmsーeverything＜br /＞ from Annie Hall to Hairspray and beyond.＜br /＞ ? Recipes and kitchen tips from “Chef Walken”ーincluding a look at his short-lived TV show,＜br /＞ Cooking with Chris.＜br /＞ ? Walken’s music videos for Madonna, Duran Duran, and Fatboy Slim.＜br /＞ ? The secrets of maintaining his extraordinary hair.＜br /＞ ? Observations and reminiscences from Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton,＜br /＞ Woody Allen, Dennis Hopper, and countless others.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Plus more bizarre B movies and Saturday Night Live appearances than you can shake a cowbell at! Complete with fascinating trivia and dozens of photographs, Christopher Walken A to Z offers the definitive look at a pop culture phenomenon.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Road Stories, Journalism, and Essays【電子書籍】[ Vasily Grossman ]

＜p＞＜em＞The Road＜/em＞ rings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of ＜em＞Life and Fate,＜/em＞ providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman’s first success, “In the Town of Berdichev,” a piercing reckoning with the cost of war, to such haunting later works as “Mama,” based on the life of a girl who was adopted at the height of the Great Terror by the head of the NKVD and packed off to an orphanage after her father’s downfall. The girl grows up struggling with the discovery that the parents she cherishes in memory are part of a collective nightmare that everyone else wishes to forget. ＜em＞The Road＜/em＞ also includes the complete text of Grossman’s harrowing report from Treblinka, one of the first anatomies of the workings of a death camp; “The Sistine Madonna,” a reflection on art and atrocity; as well as two heartbreaking letters that Grossman wrote to his mother after her death at the hands of the Nazis and carried with him for the rest of his life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Meticulously edited and presented by Robert Chandler, ＜em＞The Road＜/em＞ allows us to see one of the great figures of twentieth-century literature discovering his calling both as a writer and as a man.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Madonna on the Moon【電子書籍】[ Rolf Bauerdick ]

＜p＞An award-winning journalist transforms his lifelong fascination with the world of the Gypsies into fiction with this exuberant, deeply enchanting debut novelーboth whimsical and suspensefulーwinner of the European Book Prize, and translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide.＜/p＞ ＜p＞November 1957: As Communism spreads across Eastern Europe, strange events are beginning to upend daily life in Baia Luna, a tiny village nestled at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. As the Soviets race to reach the moon and Sputnik soars overhead, fifteen-year-old Pavel Botev attends the small village school with the other children. Their sole teacher, the mysterious and once beautiful Angela Barbulescu, was sent by the Ministry of Education, and while it is suspected that she has lived a highly cultured life, much of her past remains hidden. But one day, after asking Pavel to help hang a photo of the new party secretary, she whispers a startling directive in his ear: “Send this man straight to hell! Exterminate him!” By the next morning, she has disappeared.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With little more to go on than the gossip and rumors swirling through his grandfather Ilja’s tavern, Pavel finds curiosity overcoming his fear when suddenly the village’s sacred Madonna statue is stolen and the priest Johannes Baptiste is found brutally murdered in the rectory. Aided by the Gypsy girl Buba and her eccentric uncle, Dimitru Gabor, Pavel’s search for answers leads him far from the innocent concerns of childhood and into the frontiers of a new world, changing his life forever.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Certitude A Profusely Illustrated Guide to Blockheads and Bullheads, Past and Present【電子書籍】[ Adam Begley ]

＜p＞Sometimes all we have is the courage of our convictions. But not all convictions are created equal. In fact, some are downright delusional. And once a foolish notion sinks its teeth into the famous or the powerful, look out?the impact can have profound consequences for the rest of us. So it’s nothing short of gratifying when our most bullheaded and self-righteous leading lights insist on getting their way only to be proven egregiously embarrassingly wrong. From politicians to pontiffs, movie stars to moguls, and artists to inventors, ＜em＞Certitude＜/em＞ presents short biographical sketches of notoriously stubborn individuals who were certain they were right?with laughable, disturbing, and often disastrous results.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Earning a place among the greatest historical and contemporary bullheads are:＜br /＞ ?Girolamo Savonarola, the Dominican friar who failed to place his own vanities on the bonfire.＜br /＞ ?Carry A. Nation, the saloon smasher who didn’t have a temperate bone in her teetotaling body.＜br /＞ ?Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes series, who lacked the deductive reasoning he bestowed on his own creation.＜br /＞ ?Joseph Stalin, the hard-line Soviet leader who had a soft spot after all.＜br /＞ ?Madonna, the queen of pop, who isn’t just a material girl: She’s embraced Kabbalah and the doctrine of reincarnation?in other words, she’ll be back!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Informative, irreverent, and brilliantly illustrated by the caricaturist Edward Sorel, ＜em＞Certitude＜/em＞ is a book for our time.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Love Will Tear Us Apart A Novel【電子書籍】[ Sarah Rainone ]

＜p＞A bittersweet, darkly comic novel from a lyrical new voice, ＜em＞Love Will Tear Us Apart＜/em＞ tells the story of six childhood friends reunited at a wedding where secrets are revealed, hearts are broken, and new meaning is given to the phrase “You can’t go home again.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞High school sweethearts Lea and Dan are getting married?and no one’s surprised. After all, they’re both perfect?so perfect that their “friends” can’t help but be reminded how screwed up they are in comparison. As an awkward night wears on, and getting wasted is the only way to make it through, a killer soundtrack?from Madonna to Nirvana, the Geto Boys to the Grateful Dead?takes us back to the first cracks in their friendships, their shaky transitions into adulthood, and the few moments of love and connection that have defined them through the years.＜/p＞ ＜p＞By turns a Nick Hornby?esque ode to the way music shapes our memories and an elegy to lost youth in the manner of Bret Easton Ellis, ＜em＞Love Will Tear Us Apart＜/em＞ doesn’t aim to capture some supposed “voice of a new generation” but rather tells the story of a generation more comfortable with letting music speak on its behalf.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Collected Stories of Henry James Volume 1; Introduction by John Bayley【電子書籍】[ Henry James ]

＜p＞Encompassing a period of almost fifty years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creation in modern times. For sheer richness, variety and intensity, they have no equal in fiction, enabling us to trace the evolution of a great writer in the finest detail. This collection reprints all the major stories together with many unfamiliar but equally intriguing pieces that illuminate their more celebrated companions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Volume 1 covers the period from 1866 to 1891, the years in which James was evolving and perfecting his art as a storyteller. It includes such well-known masterpieces as “Daisy Miller,” ‘The Aspern Papers,” “The Siege of London,” and “The Lesson of the Master,” and many other tales in which James established his favorite characters and situations: the American girl in Europe, the solitary observer, the social climber, the literary lion.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Contents of Volume 1＜/p＞ ＜p＞A Landscape-Painter＜br /＞ A Light Man＜br /＞ A Passionate Pilgrim＜br /＞ The Madonna of the Future＜br /＞ Madame de Mauves＜br /＞ Benvolio＜br /＞ Daisy Miller: A Study＜br /＞ An International Episode＜br /＞ The Pension Beaurepas＜br /＞ The Point of View＜br /＞ The Siege of London＜br /＞ Lady Barberina＜br /＞ The Author of "Beltraffio"＜br /＞ Louisa Pallant＜br /＞ The Aspern Papers＜br /＞ The Liar＜br /＞ The Lesson of the Master＜br /＞ The Patagonia＜br /＞ The Pupil＜br /＞ The Marriages＜br /＞ The Chaperon＜br /＞ Sir Edmund Orme＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Conversations with John Schlesinger【電子書籍】[ Ian Buruma ]

＜p＞“I like the surprise of the curtain going up, revealing what’s behind it.”＜br /＞ ?John Schlesinger＜/p＞ ＜p＞The British director John Schlesinger was one of the cinema’s most dynamic and influential artists. Now, in ＜em＞Conversations with John Schlesinger＜/em＞, acclaimed writer Ian Buruma, Schlesinger’s nephew, reveals the director’s private world in a series of in-depth interviews conducted in the later years of the director’s life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Here they discuss the impact of Schlesinger’s personal life on his art. As his films so readily demonstrate, Schlesinger is a wonderful storyteller, and he serves up fascinating and provocative recollections of growing up in a Jewish family during World War II, his sexual coming-of-age as a gay man in conformist 1950s England, his emergence as an artist in the “Swinging 60s,” and the roller-coaster ride of his career as one of the most prominent Hollywood directors of his time.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Schlesinger also discusses his artistic philosophy and approach to filmmaking, recounting stories from the sets of his masterpieces, including ＜em＞Midnight Cowboy＜/em＞; ＜em＞Sunday, Bloody Sunday＜/em＞; ＜em＞Marathon Man＜/em＞; and ＜em＞The Day of the Locust＜/em＞. He shares what it was like to direct such stars as Dustin Hoffman, John Voight, Sean Penn, Madonna, and Julie Christie (whom Schlesinger is credited with discovering) and offers his thoughts on the fickle nature of fame and success in Hollywood.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Packed with wit and keen insight into the artistic mind, ＜em＞Conversations with John Schlesinger＜/em＞ is not just the candid story of a dynamic and eventful life but the true measure of an extraordinary person.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】That's What She Said Women Reveal What Men Really Need to Know【電子書籍】[ T. J. Jefferson ]

＜p＞The book was called ＜em＞Everything Men Understand About Women.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Upon opening it, the reader found 100 blank pages. Get it?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Very funny. But it gave T. J. Jefferson an idea. If men know nothing about the fairer sex, then why not go straight to the source? After all, if your toilet is backed up, you don't call your dentist, you call a plumber. So he asked strangers (and even some celebrities, such as Madonna, Shakira, Demi Moore, and Cameron Diaz) to fill the blank pages of his book.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞That's What She Said,＜/em＞ Jefferson shares 100-plus tips he's gathered from women of all ages and backgrounds in a collection of entries in their own words that are offbeat, funny, sometimes mean, often poignant?but always honest. For men, it's ＜em＞not＜/em＞ a book on how to get a woman to go home with you but on how to keep her attention once you have it. And for women, think of it as an entertaining look at what other ladies are going through. You may find vindication ("amen, sister") or put it down, relieved that you aren' t "as crazy as her" or that your man isn't a complete cad.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Organized by topics, including love, sex, beauty, lying, and listening, this is the ultimate look into the mind of today's modern woman.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Ruby Ring A Novel【電子書籍】[ Diane Haeger ]

＜p＞From critically acclaimed historical novelist Diane Haeger comes ＜em＞The Ruby Ring＜/em＞, an unforgettable story of love, loss, and immortal genius . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rome, 1520. The Eternal City is in mourning. Raphael Sanzio, beloved painter and national hero, has died suddenly at the height of his fame. His body lies in state at the splendid marble Pantheon. At the nearby convent of Sant’Apollonia, a young woman comes to the Mother Superior, seeking refuge. She is Margherita Luti, a baker’s daughter from a humble neighborhood on the Tiber, now an outcast from Roman society, persecuted by powerful enemies within the Vatican. Margherita was Raphael’s beloved and appeared as the Madonna in many of his paintings. Theirs was a love for the ages. But now that Raphael is gone, the convent is her only hope of finding an honest and peaceful life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Mother Superior agrees to admit Margherita to their order. But first, she must give up the ruby ring she wears on her left hand, the ring she had worn in Raphael’s scandalous nude “engagement portrait.” The ring has a storied past, and it must be returned to the Church or Margherita will be cast out into the streets. Behind the quiet walls of the convent, Margherita makes her decision . . . and remembers her life with Raphaelーand the love and tormentーembodied in that one precious jewel.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞The Ruby Ring＜/em＞, Diane Haeger brings to life a love affair so passionate that it remains undimmed by time. Set in the sumptuous world of the Italian Renaissance, it’s the story of the clergymen, artists, rakes, and noblemen who made Raphael and Margherita’s world the most dynamic and decadent era in European history.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Follies of God Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog【電子書籍】[ James Grissom ]

＜p＞An extraordinary book; one that almost magically makes clear how Tennessee Williams wrote; how he came to his visions of Amanda Wingfield, his Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, Alma Winemiller, Lady Torrance, and the other characters of his plays that transformed the American theater of the mid-twentieth century; a book that does, from the inside, the almost impossibleーrevealing the heart and soul of artistic inspiration and the unwitting collaboration between playwright and actress, playwright and director.＜/p＞ ＜p＞At a moment in the life of Tennessee Williams when he felt he had been relegated to a “lower artery of the theatrical heart,” when critics were proclaiming that his work had been overrated, he summoned to New Orleans a hopeful twenty-year-old writer, James Grissom, who had written an unsolicited letter to the great playwright asking for advice. After a long, intense conversation, Williams sent Grissom on a journey on the playwright’s behalf to find out if he, Tennessee Williams, or his work, had mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him, those who had led him to what he called the blank page, “the pale judgment.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Among the more than seventy giants of American theater and film Grissom sought out, chief among them the women who came to Williams out of the fog: Lillian Gish, tiny and alabaster white, with enormous, lovely, empty eyes (“When I first imagined a woman at the center of my fantasia, I . . . saw the pure and buoyant face of Lillian Gish. . . . [She] was the escort who brought me to Blanche”) . . . Maureen Stapleton, his Serafina of ＜em＞The Rose Tattoo,＜/em＞ a shy, fat little girl from Troy, New York, who grew up with abandoned women and sad hopes and whose job it was to cheer everyone up, goad them into going to the movies, urge them to bake a cake and have a party. (“Tennessee and I truly loved each other,” said Stapleton, “we were bound by our love of the theater and movies and movie stars and comedy. And we were bound to each other particularly by our mothers: the way they raised us; the things they could never say . . . The dreaming nature, most of all”) . . . Jessica Tandy (“The moment I read [＜em＞Portrait of a Madonna＜/em＞],” said Tandy, “my life began. I was, for the first time . . . unafraid to be ruthless in order to get something I wanted”) . . . Kim Stanley . . . Bette Davis . . . Katharine Hepburn . . . Jo Van Fleet . . . Rosemary Harris . . . Eva Le Gallienne (“She was a stone against which I could rub my talent and feel that it became sharper”) . . . Julie Harris . . . Geraldine Page (“A titanic talent”) . . . And the men who mattered and helped with his creations, including Elia Kazan, Jos? Quintero, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞James Grissom’s ＜em＞Follies of God＜/em＞ is a revelation, a book that moves and inspires and uncannily catches that illusive “dreaming nature.”＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Women Know Everything! 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks【電子書籍】[ Karen Weekes ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Wit and wisdom from A to Zーa super-sized collection of inspirational quotes from bad*ss women in history and today, including Oprah Winfrey, Marilyn Monroe, and Toni Morrison.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞With more than 3,000 quotations on everything from fashion and feminism to men, marriage, friendship, history, technology, sports, and more, this massive compilation proves once and for all that women know everything! Each page offers wisdom, wit, and inspiration from a host of legendary womenーfrom Jane Austen and Colette to Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Toni Morrison, Liz Phair, Ellen DeGeneres, and Naomi Klein. Here’s what they have to say about:＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Success＜/strong＞＜br /＞ “I still have my feet on the ground. I just wear better shoes.”＜br /＞ ＜em＞ーOprah Winfrey＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Men and Women＜/strong＞＜br /＞ “Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backward and in high heels.”＜br /＞ ＜em＞ーFaith Whittlesey＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Being Single＜/strong＞＜br /＞ “I’ve never been married, but I tell people I’m divorced so they won’t think something’s wrong with me.”＜br /＞ ＜em＞ーElayne Boosler＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Individuality＜/strong＞＜br /＞ “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”＜br /＞ ＜em＞ーJudy Garland＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Family＜/strong＞＜br /＞ “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.”＜br /＞ ＜em＞ーMaya Angelou＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Quotations＜/strong＞＜br /＞ “I always have a quotation for everythingーit saves original thinking.”＜br /＞ ＜em＞ーDorothy L. Sayers＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞With contributions from writers, artists, celebrities, politicians, scientists, and legendary figures all over the world, ＜em＞Women Know Everything!＜/em＞ offers addictive readingーand a superb referenceーfor women of all ages.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Sex Is No Emergency Adventures in a Post Punk Wonderland【電子書籍】[ Dorothy Max Prior ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Further adventures in psychedelic rock, ball room dancing, performance art, and parenting in 1980s Britain.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Further adventures in a post punk wonderland from the author of the acclaimed ＜em＞69 Exhibition Road＜/em＞. In this new volume, focusing on the 1980s, Dorothy Max Prior recalls her days as a ball room dancing tutor in South Kensington, drumming and touring with infamous experimental pansexual psychedelic rock group Psychic TV, exploring London and New York City's queer clubbing undergrounds, the tangled worlds of the UK’s indie music scene at the height of its influence, performance art, and parenting. Wise, wry, and endlessly charming, this is a sparkling account of bold, adventurous creativity featuring cameos by Madonna, Bjork, Derek Jarman, and a host of others.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Blue Madonna【電子書籍】[ James R. Benn ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Billy Boyle, World War II US Army detective and ex-Boston cop, faces his toughest investigation yet: infiltrating enemy lines in France as the Allies invade Normandy.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞May 1944: Captain Billy Boyle is convicted on spurious charges of black market dealings stripped of his officer’s rank, reduced to private, and sentenced to three months’ hard labor. But Billy is given an opportunity: if he takes on the incredibly dangerous mission of investigating a set of murders at the Allies’ safe house in the French town of Chaumont, he can avoid his punishment. Parachuted in as part of a three-man team the night before the Normandy invasion, he has very little time to find the killer’s identity and lead a group escape back to England, with a whole army of foes nipping at his heels.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Desperately Seeking Madonna In Search of the Meaning of the World's Most Famous Woman【電子書籍】[ Adam Sexton ]

＜p＞＜strong＞An original collection of writings almost as diverse as the Material Girl herself, attempting to uncover as many interpretations of Madonna’s appeal as is possible＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞With voices as diverse as Russell Baker, Sandra Bernhard, Art Buchwald, Al Hirschfeld, Camille Paglia, and Andrew Greeley, ＜em＞Desperately Seeking Madonna＜/em＞ sheds new light on one of the world’s most famousーand infamousーwomen. Essays, cartoons, horoscope, tabloid journalism, academic essays, comic book art, a David Letterman top-ten list, and every year’s ＜em＞Rolling Stone＜/em＞ polls collected here tell the complete story behind the story of Madonna’s illustrious career.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“A fascinating compendium of Madonnathink.”ー＜em＞Vogue＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Madonna of the Mountains A Novel【電子書籍】[ Elise Valmorbida ]

＜p＞**“A riveting adventure for the soul . . . just the kind of evocative historical fiction I love.”ーSara Gruen, author of ＜em＞At the Water’s Edge＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Water for Elephants＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞An epic, inspiring novel about one woman’s survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family throughout the Second World Warーby any means possible**＜/p＞ ＜p＞Maria Vittoria is twenty-five when her father brings home the man who will become her husband. It is 1923 in the austere Italian mountain village where her family has lived for generations, and the man she sees is tall and handsome and has survived the First World War without any noticeable scars. Taking just the linens she has sewn that make up her dowry and a statue of the Madonna that sits by her bedside, Maria leaves the only life she has ever known to begin a family. But her future will not be what she imagines.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Madonna of the Mountains＜/em＞ follows Maria over the next three decades, as she moves to the town where she and her husband become shopkeepers, through the birth of their five children, through the hardships and cruelties of the National Fascist Party Rule and the Second World War. Struggling with the cost of survival at a time when food is scarce and allegiances are questioned, Maria trusts no one and fears everyoneーher Fascist cousin, the madwoman from her childhood, her watchful neighbors, the Nazis and the Partisans who show up hungry at her door. As Maria’s children grow up and her marriage endures its own hardships, she must hold her family together with resilience, love, and faith, until she makes a fateful decision that will change the course of all their lives.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A sweeping saga about womanhood, loyalty, war, religion, family, food, motherhood, and marriage, ＜em＞The Madonna of the Mountains＜/em＞ is a poignant look at the span of one woman’s life as the rules change and her world becomes unrecognizable. In depicting the great cost of war and the ineluctable power of time on a life, Elise Valmorbida has created an unforgettable portrait of a woman navigating both the unforeseen and the inevitable.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Advance praise for ＜em＞Madonna of the Mountains＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“The moral and ethical questions raised propel the story beyond the particulars into the universal.”＜strong＞ー＜em＞Kirkus Reviews＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“It is a bewitching but entirely unsentimental portrait of one woman’s attempt to keep her family safe in turbulent times.”＜strong＞＜em＞ーThe Times＜/em＞ (UK), Book of the Month＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“A solid choice for readers who appreciate layered family sagas.”＜strong＞ー＜em＞Library Journal＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Warren Beatty A Private Man【電子書籍】[ Suzanne Finstad ]

＜p＞＜strong＞“Whatever you have read or heard about me through articles or gossip, forget it. I am nothing like that Warren Beatty. I am nothing like what you have read.” ーWarren Beatty＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Warren Beatty guarded his privacy even before he became a movie star, when he burst onto the screen in 1961 as the earnestly handsome all-American boy in ＜em＞Splendor in the Grass＜/em＞. When he started acting, Beatty kept secret the fact that actress Shirley MacLaine, already a star, was his older sister. Over time, he has cultivated a mystique, giving few interviews and instructing others not to talk about him. Until now.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through years of groundbreaking research, lauded biographer Suzanne Finstad gained unprecedented access to Beatty’s family, close friends, and film colleagues, including such luminaries in the arts and politics as Jane Fonda, Goldie Hawn, Leslie Caron, Robert Towne, Mike Nichols, and Senators John McCain, George McGovern, and Gary Hart. Weaving hundreds of these candid interviews, photographs from private albums, personal letters, diaries, and the previously unpublished papers of the late Natalie Wood and mentors such as directors Elia Kazan and George Stevens, playwrights Clifford Odets and William Inge, and agent Charles Feldman, ＜em＞Warren Beatty＜/em＞ unveils the real Beattyーa complex, sensitive visionary torn between the “fairly puritanical, football-playing boy” from Virginia and his Hollywood playboy image.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Finstad paints a rich, fascinating portrait of the secretive film legend, taking us back to the “unrealized genius” parents who molded arguably the most famous brother and sister in Hollywood history, tracing the family influences and events in Beatty’s past that directly inspired ＜em＞McCabe & Mrs. Miller＜/em＞, ＜em＞Shampoo＜/em＞, ＜em＞Heaven Can Wait＜/em＞, ＜em＞Reds＜/em＞, ＜em＞Ishtar＜/em＞, ＜em＞Dick Tracy＜/em＞, ＜em＞Bugsy＜/em＞, ＜em＞Love Affair＜/em＞, and ＜em＞Bulworth＜/em＞, and led to his political activism, culminating in a near-bid for the White House. Finstad constructs the definitive, myth-shattering account of Beatty’s evolution from Hollywood’s enfant terrible to producer of the revolutionary ＜em＞Bonnie and Clyde＜/em＞, launching him as the premier actor/director/writer/producer of his generation, the only person to twice earn Oscar nominations in all five major categories.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Here also is the truth about Beatty the lover, setting the record straight on his storied relationships with such iconic actresses and beauties as Jane Fonda, Joan Collins, Natalie Wood, Leslie Caron, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Michelle Phillips, Diane Keaton, Isabelle Adjani, and Madonna. Finstad’s astute insights illuminate Beatty’s private struggle to attain happiness, his complicated bond with his sister, Shirley, and the deeper reasons why, at fifty-four, the archetypal bachelor married actress Annette Bening.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Stunningly researched, engrossing, and exquisitely detailed, ＜em＞Warren Beatty: A Private Man＜/em＞ gives us a new understanding of the enigmatic, fiercely intelligent star who embodies the American dream.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Bali 9: The Untold Story【電子書籍】[ Madonna King ]

＜p＞When a plan goes badly wrong, nine Australians pay a heavy price＜/p＞ ＜p＞On 17 April 2005, nine young Australians were arrested in Bali on charges of drug trafficking. Known as the 'Bali 9', some members received the death penalty for their crimes; others are serving lengthy jail sentences. Journalists Cindy Wockner and Madonna King, who were present at the trials and sentencing, have used their investigative skills to piece together the whole story, from arrest to jail to the harrowing final journey. With the co-operation of several family members of the Bali 9, they explore the histories of the nine to uncover why these young people would take such a perilous risk. they also look at the controversial role of the Australian Federal Police. A compelling, clear-eyed portrait of an unforgettable chapter in Australia's history, Bali 9 features details and photographs from the trials. It also serves as a chilling warning to all parents: this could be your child.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With ring-leaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran about to face a firing squad after being denied presidential pardons, the story of the Bali 9 is current, compelling and impossible to turn away from.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。