Le salaire de la peur
10 best books like Le salaire de la peur (Georges Arnaud): The Golden Ass, Lost Horizon, I, the Jury, Kull: Exile of Atlantis, The Chouans, Conan the Wanderer, The White People and Other Weird Stories, How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, Conan of the Isles, Conan of Cimmeria
| Author | Apuleius |
| ISBN | 0253200369 |
The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass....
James Hilton’s bestselling adventure novel about a military man who stumbles on the world’s greatest hope for peace deep in Tibet: Shangri-La.
Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British...
| Author | Mickey Spillane |
| ISBN | 0451165926 |
I woke up to the alarm clock at 5 am and did 100 knuckle pushups on the sidewalk outside the apartment building. In the rain. There were some fancy boys “jogging” and I glared a contemptuous good morning to them.
Inside I had my usual breakfast: three raw eggs and three fingers of Kentucky bourbon....
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0345490177 |
“Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.”
–Stephen King
“Robert E. Howard had a gritty, vibrant style–broadsword writing that cut its way to the heart, with heroes who are truly larger than life.”
–David Gemmell
In...
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN | 1406951242 |
Les Chouans (French pronunciation: [le ʃwɑ̃], The Chouans) is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie militaire section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in the French region of Brittany, the novel combines...
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0441115977 |
Contents:
9 • Introduction (Conan the Wanderer) • essay by L. Sprague de Camp
13 • Black Tears • [Conan Universe] • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
46 • Shadows in Zamboula • [Conan Universe] • (1935) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
85 • The Devil...
| Author | Arthur Machen |
| ISBN | 0143105590 |
Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is...
How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
| Author | Prabhavananda |
| ISBN | 0874810418 |
The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali is a major work on the practice of yoga and meditation. Through these ancient aphorisms you will learn how to control your mind and achieve inner peace and freedom. Although these methods were taught over 2,000 years ago, they are as alive and effective today as they have...
aaaargh...time for some conan! he's an old man (relatively speaking) in this one, king, w/a son (and possibly other children), listening to some tax dispute, hungering for the hunt, gray (the word is silver...for kings and such...honest plumbers from sheboygan have gray...i call it blonde but that's...
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0441114539 |
Contents:
9 · Introduction · L. Sprague de Camp · in
15 · The Curse of the Monolith [“Conan and the Cenotaph”] · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · ss Worlds of Fantasy #1 ’68
33 · The Bloodstained God · L. Sprague de Camp & Robert E. Howard · nv Tales of Conan, Gnome,...
