検索キーワード： 著者 "Della O’Sullivan" すべてのカテゴリー

Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940) was born in New York, son of an Irish-American family, and moved to London as a child. As a young man, he quickly established a reputation as a master of horror and decadent macabre stories. He was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and other leaders of the aesthetic movement. "When I was Dead" is the macabre story of a man who gradually realises he has died unexpectedly...and resists vigorously this awful turn of events.

Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940), born in New York to an Irish-American family, moved as a child to London. As a young man he soon became well recognised at the master of decadent and macabre fiction. "A Study in Murder" is the story of a man committing the perfect murder, told from the perspective of the warped murderer.

Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940), born in New York to an Irish American family, moved as a child to London. As a young man, he soon became well recognised as the master of decadent and macabre fiction. This collection presents five of O'Sullivan's creepiest tales: 'Will', 'The Business of Madame Jahn', 'A Study in Murder', 'My Enemy and Myself' and 'When I Was Dead'.

Alistair, a wealthy eccentric, tests one of his strangest beliefs - he fancies that he can summon a ghostly apparition through sheer concentration. Soon, however, Alistair discovers the dangers of paranormal dalliance when he's trapped in an ethereal nightmare from which he can't escape.

Night Terrors features two classic tales of terror. "When I Was Dead" is the story of an eccentric young man and his unwise attempts to conjure a ghostly apparition, and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of a man who cheats death only to discover that there are far worse fates than the hereafter.

Joseph Starling has returned from war and is trying his best to resettle into civilian life. In the midst of his struggles, antiwar protests spring up around him, and in this violence he is once again forced to face his internal conflicts. When Joseph discovers that his best friend has been murdered, he is offered a chance for revenge, and that revenge comes in the form of high explosives. He doesn't feel guilty, though, he only dialed a number. Right?

Seventeenth-century French writer René Descartes, one of the fathers of philosophy, imagined the mind and body as two separate entities that combine to form a human being. This concept came to be called "mind-body dualism." Ryle set about ridiculing Descartes's idea of, as he put it, a "ghost in the machine" stating that it was "entirely false, and false not in detail but in principle...not merely an assemblage of particular mistakes. It is one big mistake and a mistake of a special kind."

In Philosophical Investigations, the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a radical approach to problems in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. In fact, he sets out a radically new conception of philosophy itself. Published in 1953, two years after Wittgenstein's death, many still consider it one of the finest works of 20th century philosophy.

Pauline first became ill when she was 15. What seemed to be a urinary infection became joint pain, then life-threatening appendicitis. After a routine operation, Pauline lost all the strength in her legs. Shortly afterwards, convulsions started. But Pauline's tests are normal: her symptoms seem to have no physical cause whatsoever. This may be an extreme case, but Pauline is not alone. As many as a third of people visiting their GPs have symptoms that are medically unexplained.

Frankie James thought that his troubles were behind him. He's busy running his Soho Club, and his brother's finally out of jail. But he's stopped in his tracks when a postcard arrives from Mallorca. The card is signed off with a kiss, and it reminds him of his mother. The mother who's been missing for eight years, presumed dead....

More than two centuries after its initial publication in 1781, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason remains perhaps the most influential text in modern philosophy. Kant himself claimed his work as a revolutionary document and insisted that it changed the discipline of philosophy as thoroughly as Copernicus had changed astronomy 300 years earlier, when he said the Earth revolved around the sun and not the other way round.

The modern day youth sports environment has taken the enjoyment out of athletics for our children. Currently, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports by the age of 13, which has given rise to a generation of overweight, unhealthy young adults. There is a solution. John O'Sullivan shares the secrets of the coaches and parents who have not only raised elite athletes, but have done so by creating an environment that promotes positive core values and teaches life lessons instead of focusing on wins and losses.

Rats and mice, and beetles and creaky doors, and loose slates, and broken panes, and stiff drawer handles, that stay out when you pull them and then fall down in the middle of the night...Rats is bogeys, I tell you, and bogeys is rats, and don't you get to think anything else! Ghosts, vampires, werewolves and even rats, all make an appearance in this collection of frighteningly good classic stories from Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling and more!

Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades - and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature.

Classic spine-tingling tales to thrill you.

Frankie James is a young man with a lot on his shoulders. His mother disappeared when he was 16, his father's in jail for armed robbery and he owes rent on his Soho snooker club to one of London's toughest gangsters. Things, you'd think, can only get better. Actually, they're about to get a whole lot worse.

From the best-selling author of Our Little Secret comes a new psychological thriller. Close your eyes...and count to ten. One missing object. Two missing people. Twenty-four years of missing memory. Five days to find them all...

Prepare to be spooked! Here are tales of vampires, werewolves, and things that go bump in the night!

The world is at a turning point. The benefits of globalization - through the freer flow of money, people, ideas, and trade - have been many. But rather than a world that is flat, what has emerged is one of jagged peaks and rough, deep valleys characterized by wealth inequality, indebtedness, political recession, and imbalances across the world's economies. These peaks and valleys are undergoing what Michael O'Sullivan calls "the levelling" - a major transition in world economics, finance, and power. What's next is a levelling-out of wealth....

The Fall of the House of Wilde for the first time places Oscar Wilde as a member of one of the most dazzling Anglo-Irish families of Victorian times and in the broader social, political and religious context. A remarkable and perceptive account, this is a major repositioning of our first modern celebrity, a man whose own fall from grace in a trial as public as his father's marked the end of fin de siècle decadence.