Guy: 3190 books
BEL-AMI: THE HISTORY OF A SCOUNDREL
From one of the greatest French writers, widely regarded as the 'Father of Short Story' writing, who had influenced Tolstoy, W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Anton Chekhov and Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Bel Ami is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, with an English translation titled Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel. The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-NCO to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves...
The Decline of Men
How the American Male Is Getting Axed, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Why are so many of today's supermen super-clueless?
Why do so many men prefer the escapist digitized world of Spike TV and Grand Theft Auto to the reality of their own lives?
An entire generation of men is slacking off. The struggle to redefine what being a man means in today's world...
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant; (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. Guy De Maupassant wrote some of the most twisted and freaky short stories of his day. This is Volume 2 of 13, containing 11 of his best stories. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
by Guy de Mauspassant
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace by trying to secure a legal separation...
by Guy de Mauspassant
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace by trying to secure a legal separation...
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer whos considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's best at that. A protégé of Flaubert, Maupassant's stories are economical and efficient, with not a single word...
by Guy Gendron
Language: French
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Tout jeune militant du Parti progressiste-conservateur, Brian Mulroney rêvait de devenir un jour premier ministre du Canada. Le « p’tit gars de Baie-Comeau », comme il aimait se décrire, aura gagné son pari. Élu en 1984 puis réélu en 1988 à la tête de gouvernements majoritaires, on lui...
Seeker's Guide to Self-Freedom
Truths for Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Seeker's Guide to Self-Freedom Truths for Living by Guy Finley There's a reason why we all love stories about ancient maps, sunken ships, and buried treasure. It's because these tales reflect a deep sensing we all have: that a hidden treasure actually dwells within us -- and if we could just find the...
Geoffrey Guy's War
Memoirs of a Spitfire Pilot 1941-46
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Geoffrey's memoir opens in May 1940, when he was eighteen years old and his grammar school in Kent was being evacuated to Staffordshire, away from the danger of German invasion. The station platform was crowded with hordes of exhausted soldiers rescued from Dunkirk, and the skies alive with the aircraft...
Educating Ruby
What our children really need to learn
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
With forewords by Professor Tanya Byron and Octavius Black, Educating Ruby: What Our Children Really Need To Learn is a powerful call to action by acclaimed thought-leaders Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas. It is for everyone who cares about education in an uncertain world and explains how teachers, parents...
Powering Up Children
The Learning Power Approach to Primary Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
In ‘Powering Up Children: The Learning Power Approach to primary teaching’, Guy Claxton and Becky Carlzon harness the design principles of the Learning Power Approach (LPA) to provide a rich resource of effective teaching strategies for use in the primary school classroom. Foreword by Ron Berger....
Call of the Wild
My Escape to Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and up to his neck in debt. But he dreamed of escaping it all to live alone in one of the wildest, most remote places on earth - Alaska.
And just when he'd given up hope, the dream came true. Suddenly...
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Clair de Lune is a short story by Guy de Maupassant published in 1882, which tells the story of Father Marignan, whose deep religion has never failed to accept God's plans and the teachings of the Church, until the evening when, under the soft light of the moon, he finally meets the true Spirit of God.
by Guy de Pourtalès
Language: French
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Pourtalès Guy de – La pêche miraculeuse tome 1 : Guy de Pourtalès (1881-1941) passe son enfance et sa jeunesse à Genève et à Vevey, fait ses études à Neuchâtel puis en Allemagne où il développe sa culture musicale. Soldat volontaire durant la première guerre mondiale, il vit par la suite...