Accompanied by his wife, their cat, and an actor friend, our autobiographical narrator Ferdinand leaves Paris for Baden-Baden (a World War II hideaway for wealthy Germans), is then sent to a bombed-out Berlin, and finally leaves for Denmark in search of the gold he had stashed there prior to the war[...]
It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed, and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways. The group of 1,400 terrified officials, their wives, mistresses, flunkies, and Nazi [...]
Often comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat in tow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark after finding himself on the losing side of World War II. The train rides that encompass the novel are filled with madness and m[...]
One of the last major untranslated works by France's most controversial author, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during World War I. Picking up where Guignol's Band (1944; English translation 1954) left off, C line's autobiographical narrator recounts his disastrous partn[...]
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The Complete Guide to Vegan Food Substitutions is your indispensable reference guide to safely and successfully "veganizing" any recipe imaginable. This book makes vegan cooking less intimidating and more accessible, for both new and veteran vegans alike, and lets readers eat all of their favorite f[...]
Veganism is one of the hottest health trends. But what do you do when half the people at your dinner table rebel against plant-based eating in favor of burgers, stew, and meat-based fare? You turn to Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites which provides you with 200 recipes that even a die-hard co[...]
101 healthy, original and, above all, portable vegan recipes. The best thing since sliced bread! Filled with healthy, natural, plant-based ingredients, vegan sandwiches are your one-stop shop to total breakfast, lunch, or dinner satisfaction. Inside Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day, you'll find 101 ama[...]
Do whole grain flours intimidate you? Does amaranth flour sound intriguing but perhaps a little froufrou too? Do you love the vegan flax and millet muffins at your local coffee shop, but feel way too scared to attempt them on your own? Fears begone! You are now in the safe (albeit floury) hands of C[...]
Finger foods are fun eats that span all cuisines. Sometimes called "tapas" or "small plates," these recipes are perfect for entertaining, or for light meals and snacks. Make a few, and you'll have a stunning meat-free and dairy-free buffet that will have your friends and co-workers begging for the r[...]
Expert vegan author team Celine Steen and Joni Marie Newman are back to provide vegans with an extremely informative and resourceful guide that will increase readers' confidence in the kitchen and help them create fantastic vegan meals. "The Complete Guide to Even More Vegan Food Substitutions" focu[...]
Working out of her jewel box of an apartment at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, Celine has made a career of tracking down missing persons, and she has a better record at it than the FBI.[...]
YOUNG WYNTER MOOREHAWKE RETURNS TO COURT WITH HER DYING FATHER. BUT HER OLD HOME IS CLOAKED IN FEAR. Once benevolent King Jonathon is now a violent despot, terrorising his people while his son Alberon plots a coup from exile. Then darkness spreads as the King appoints Alberon's half-brother Razi as [...]
When Celine's first novel, "Journey to the End of the Night" was first published in 1932 it created an instant scandal, being extravagantly praised by its supporters and savagely attacked by its horrified opponents. Four years later came the sequel, "Death on Credit". Both were a new kind of novel, [...]
Told in the first person, the novel is based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA - where he worked for a while at the Ford factory in Detroit - and later as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris. Celine's disgust with hum[...]
A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth centurey, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during World War I. Picking up where its predecessor Guignol's Band left off, Celine's semi-autobiographical narrator recounts his disastrous partnership wit[...]
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) is best known for his early novels "Journey to the End of the Night" (1932)--which Charles Bukowski described as the greatest novel of the past 2,000 years--and "Death on the Installment Plan" (1936), but this delirious, fanatical "biography" predates them both. Th[...]
Longtemps restees dans l'ombre de la bibliophilie des grands lignages aristocratiques de la cour de Bourgogne, les bibliotheques des fonctionnaires au service des ducs de Bourgogne (ca 1420-1520) font pour la premiere fois l'objet d'une etude novatrice qui, a la croisee entre histoire, histoire de l[...]
Unlock the more straightforward side of Journey to the End of the Night with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, which centres around a man who relentlessly chases joy from Africa to[...]
BDSM fantasy comix. Celine is a horny young woman who's looking for a real man... and finds one, a Master who turns her into a full time slave. He binds her, torments her, and uses her... and she discovers that she loves it. He sends her to a special "beauty salon" for a kinky makeover. Then he rent[...]
Der erbarmungsloseste Roman des 20. Jahrhunderts Mit ?Reise ans Ende der Nacht? begann ein neues Kapitel in der Geschichte des Romans: Ein wilder Aufschrei gegen die Verkommenheit einer Welt, die alle ihre Rechnungen auf Kosten der Armen begleicht, einer Welt, in der Hass und Niedertracht regiere[...]
The art of optical illusion has been an integral part of painting since antiquity when it was used as a yardstick by which to judge an artist's level of mastery. In the centuries that followed - and continuing through contemporary times - artists from van Eyck to Gerhard Richter have delighted in "t[...]