Lawrence Scott: 30 books

Book cover of Eight Pieces of Empire

Eight Pieces of Empire

A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse

by Lawrence Scott Sheets
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it. Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. Lawrence...
Book cover of Leaving by Plane Swimming back Underwater
by Lawrence Scott
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015

This daring new collection of short stories from an awardwinning writer explores a Caribbean world of yearnings and memory, of escape and return underpinned by the disturbing tensions wrought by religion, race, sexuality and crime. Sensuous and evocative, Scott's prose has a glorious lightness of touch and tone that exhilarates and illuminates.
Book cover of Witchbroom
by Lawrence Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017

Witchbroom is a visionary history of a Caribbean Spanish/French Creole family and an island over four centuries to 20th-century independence. With an innovative tone and content, its carnival tales of crime and passion are told by the narrator Lavren, who is both male and female. First published in...
Book cover of Aelred's Sin
by Lawrence Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014

Robert de la Borde comes to England in the 1980`s from the Caribbean after hearing that his brother, Jean Marc, has died. In Bristol, his brother`s journals prompt Robert to visit Ashton Park Monastery, which Jean Marc entered in the 1960`s as Brother Aelred.There, with the help of his brother`s monastic...
Book cover of Light Falling on Bamboo
by Lawrence Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012

Trinidad, 1848. Michel Jean Cazabon returns home from France to his beloved mother's deathbed. Despite the Emancipation Act, his childhood home is in the grip of colonial power, its people riven by the legacy of slavery. Michel Jean finds himself caught between the powerful and the dispossessed. As...
Book cover of Night Calypso
by Lawrence Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 1938 is a tumultuous year on the small Trinidadian island of El Caracol, which houses a leper colony and a convent. In the sultry heat of the dry season a young orphan, Theo, is sent to live with the island’s doctor, Vincent Metivier....
Book cover of 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2
by Mark Twain, Mary Shelley, William Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2019

This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de:...
Book cover of Mystery Tribune / Issue Nº3
by Mystery Tribune, Scott Adlerberg, Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017

Fall 2017 edition of Mystery Tribune Magazine is a must-have! The issue features short fiction from iconic voices such as Lawrence Block to literary favorites including Angel Luis Colón. A curated collection of the photography from European and American artists, along with essays, book reviews...
Book cover of Unfettered III

Unfettered III

New Tales By Masters of Fantasy

by Shawn Speakman, Naomi Novik, Brandon Sanderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019

From the editor of the award-winning anthology Unfettered comes the newest installment in the science fiction and fantasy series, Unfettered III. Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to...
Book cover of The Greatest British Classics Ever Written

The Greatest British Classics Ever Written

Diary of a Nobody, Sons and Lovers, Wuthering Heights, Alice in Wonderland, Heart of Darkness, Ulysses, Arms and the Man, The War of the Worlds, Howards End, Jude the Obscure, Hamlet…

by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018

This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) The History of...
Book cover of Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)

Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)

Das Herz der Finsternis, Moby-Dick, Sturmhöhe, Sherlock Holmes, Stolz und Vorurteil, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Alice im Wunderland, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit, Adam Bede, Robinson Crusoe, Walden...

by Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë
Language: German
Release Date: April 4, 2016

Dieses eBook: "Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe...
Book cover of Bildungsromans Anthology: A Selection Of Classic Coming-Of-Age Stories (Golden Deer Classics)
by Henry Fielding, Voltaire, Golden Deer Classics
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017

A Bildungsroman (German expression meaning: "novel of formation, education, culture"), novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change...
Book cover of Große Klassiker der englischen Literatur: 40+ Titel in einem Band

Große Klassiker der englischen Literatur: 40+ Titel in einem Band

Sturmhöhe, Sherlock Holmes, Stolz und Vorurteil, Das Herz der Finsternis, Moby-Dick, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Alice im Wunderland, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit, Adam Bede, Robinson Crusoe, Walden...

by Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2016

Dieses eBook: "Große Klassiker der englischen Literatur: 40+ Titel in einem Band" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe...
Book cover of World's Greatest Classics in One Volume

World's Greatest Classics in One Volume

Les Misérables, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, Ulysses, Huck Finn, Walden, War and Peace, Art of War, Siddhartha, Faust, Don Quixote, Arabian Nights, Bushido…

by Herman Hesse, Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)...
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