If It Die is a record of Gide's childhood & early manhood, up until his engagement to his cousin. Written twenty years afterwards, it is a deliberately uninhibited & revealing exercise as well as a masterpiece of French prose, thus fulfilling the two criteria Gide set himself
- to satisfy the demands of truth without neglecting the claims of art. It was said that in Gide 'les extr-mes touchent', a predisposition that was to characterize all his work, & these antitheses are clearly acknowledged & used in his narrative in order to add extra layers of resonance & meaning. At the same time If It Die is a delightful & memorable account by itself of childhood, of friendships & travels, & of sexual awakening.
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If love is a Game what are the rules? Bestselling author Cherie Carter-Scott here provides the 10 rules of love to help us to create the happy, healthy & genuine relationships that we all desire. The 10 rules: You must love yourself first Negotiation will be required Relationships provide opportunities to grow Your relationship will be challenged by change You must nurture the relationship if it is to thrive Creating love is a process Renewal is the key to longevity Communication is essential Partnering is a choice You will also forget all this the moment you fall in love Based on 25 years of conducting healthy relationships workshops on creating, If Love is a Game, These Are the Rules features breakthrough advice, illustrated by heart-warming true stories destined to capture the hearts of women & men around the world. ...

If love is a Game what are the rules? Bestselling author Cherie Carter-Scott here provides the 10 rules of love to help us to create the happy, healthy & genuine relationships that we all desire. The 10 rules: You must love yourself first Negotiation will be required Relationships provide opportunities to grow Your relationship will be challenged by change You must nurture the relationship if it is to thrive Creating love is a process Renewal is the key to longevity Communication is essential Partnering is a choice You will also forget all this the moment you fall in love Based on 25 years of conducting healthy relationships workshops on creating, If Love is a Game, These Are the Rules features breakthrough advice, illustrated by heart-warming true stories destined to capture the hearts of women & men around the world. ...

In the summer of 1911 David Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, hired a young schoolteacher called Frances Stevenson to tutor his daughter in the summer holidays. He was forty-eight, & married with four children. She was twenty-two & had recently graduated with a degree in classics. She was highly intelligent as well as very attractive, & Lloyd George soon began to employ her as his secretary. At the beginning of 1913 they became lovers, on terms spelt out by Lloyd George with ruthless clarity: he would not leave his wife for her, nor would he risk his career. She was to become his private secretary, run his office & share his life as fully as his family & the need to avoid a scandal would allow. Their secret relationship was to last for thirty years until his wife ...

In the summer of 1911 David Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, hired a young schoolteacher called Frances Stevenson to tutor his daughter in the summer holidays. He was forty-eight, & married with four children. She was twenty-two & had recently graduated with a degree in classics. She was highly intelligent as well as very attractive, & Lloyd George soon began to employ her as his secretary. At the beginning of 1913 they became lovers, on terms spelt out by Lloyd George with ruthless clarity: he would not leave his wife for her, nor would he risk his career. She was to become his private secretary, run his office & share his life as fully as his family & the need to avoid a scandal would allow. Their secret relationship was to last for thirty years until his wife ...

Sadie's life is calm & complete. She is a mother, a good friend, & the robust survivor of a marriage she deliberately left behind. She has come to believe that she has everything she wants, or deserves.

But now her father is dying: the vital, elusive man who spent his life creating perfumes for other women is slipping away from her. When she realises that she can never make her peace with him, Sadie begins to look back over her childhood. In pursuing his separate life, Sadie's father ignored her, subjecting her to succession of 'aunties', leaving her loveless & alone.

As Sadie confronts the truth about her father, her relationship with her son Jack appears to be breaking down & she is intent on saving it. Then the arrival of one of those fleeting women from her father's past starts a train of events that even Sadie cannot control...



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Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story & a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story & the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of same book
- IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT by Italo Calvino
- are constantly & comically frustrated. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS of our day

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