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  • Return to Rananim
    Nigel Patten
    Nigel Patten’s Return to Rananim: An autobiographical portrait of D. H. Lawrence based on his works and letters delves into the famous author’s everyday life, from his birth in 1885 in the English Midlands, to his death in 1930 in the South of France. One of his most famous works was Sons and Lovers.Patten’s book is a novel based on the factual account of Lawrence’s conversatio...
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    35,17 €

  • The Rose of Balarm
    Nigel Patten
    This intriguing transformation turns a legend into a person of history.The patron saint of Palermo, Italy (romanized as Balarm) is Santa Rosalia Sinibaldi. There’s no documented proof of her existence, so this historical tale imagines how Rosalia (Rusùlia in the book) may have lived, from her birth in 1130 to her death in 1165.The daughter of a Lombard count and a Norman noblew...
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    13,05 €

  • Byron
    Nigel Patten
    In 1823, Lord Byron rented the Casa Saluzzo at Albaro in the hills east of Genoa, Italy. The poet shared the 16th-century palazzo with his mistress, Teresa Giuccioli, her brother, and their exiled father, Count Gamba.His neighbors were Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, whose poet husband had recently drowned; Leigh Hunt, the critic and editor; and Edward Trelawney, a Co...
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    12,13 €

  • Griuns
    Nigel Patten
    « L’imagination nous emporte souvent vers des mondes qui n’ont jamais existés, mais sans elle, nous allons nulle part. » – Carl SaganSans archives pour la région du Chablais avant le XI siècle, ce conte populaire, appuyé par des déductions historiques, nous parle des premiers habitants d’un village alpin au-dessus de la vallée du Rhône à la fin du IX siècle.Nous suivons les ave...
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    9,96 €

  • Griuns
    Nigel Patten
    "Imagination will often carry us to world that nver were, but without it we go nowhere." – Karl SaganWithout archives for the Swiss Chablais region dating from the 11th century, this tale imagines, with some historical deduction, who the first permanent settlers were in an alpine village overlooking the Rhone Valley at the end of the 9th century.The novel follows the adventures...
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    9,93 €

  • An Island Entire Unto Itself
    Nigel Patten
    By the end of the 18th century, Corsica had been occupied by France for over thirty years. Islanders yearned to recover their lost independence, and the French Revolution gave them the opportunity. Their leader, Pasquale Paoli, realized that alone they could never defeat the well-organized French forces. He offered Corsica to King George III of England, on condition that the Fr...
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    17,65 €

  • An Intermediate English Drill Book for French Speakers, with Answers
    Nigel Patten
    An Intermediate English Drill Book for French Speakers offers a complete series of intermediate bilingual drills in French/English that is presented in ten sections.The drills cover all major tenses, irregular, modal, and phrasal verbs, as well as everyday and idiomatic expressions. Drills can also be used individually or in the classroom, orally, and as written assignments.To ...
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    12,13 €

  • Les Molosses de Samaria
    Nigel Patten
    Peu avant la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale, Georges rêve régulièrement d’une jeune fille, qui ressemble beaucoup à une danseuse dans un temple minoen.D’origine grecque, Georges est envoyé en Crète après l’occupation allemande pour organiser la résistance dans les Montagnes Blanches. Il commence à avoir des hallucinations de la même jeune fille. Il est attiré dans une situation imagi...
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    10,47 €

  • Une Passion Incompatible
    Nigel Patten
    Une passion incompatible raconte l’histoire dramatisée des derniers trois mois dans la vie du poète activiste, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Au printemps 1822, Percy et sa deuxième épouse, Mary Woolstonecroft, l’auteur du roman célèbre FRANKENSTEIN, accompagnés par sa demi-sœur, Claire, ont loué une villa sur la côte toscane. Ils furent rejoints par Jane et Edward Williams et plus tard...
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    10,94 €

  • An Incompatible Passion
    Nigel Patten
    An Incompatible Passion tells the dramatized history of the last three months in the life of the controversial poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. In the spring of 1822, Percy and his second wife, Mary Woolstonecroft, the author of the famous novel Frankenstein, along with her half-sister, Claire, rented a villa on the Tuscan coast. They were joined there by Jane and Edward Williams, ...
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    12,80 €

  • The Winter Should Pass
    Nigel Patten
    Issak flees his native Antwerp after committing a terrible crime. Settling in Snowdonia, he builds a home in the hills and founds a family with Rachel, a vagrant gypsy woman. But he remains haunted by his past with Julie, his one true love, and the conviction that his eldest son will in some way pay for his father’s past sins.About the Author: Author Nigel Patten loves words an...
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    10,90 €