UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · CHILDREN · FICTION
John Grant
Also known as: Paul Barnett, Eve Devereux
Children's author, best know for his Littlenose series, which he read on the BBC's Jackanory in 55 programmes from 1968 to 1986.
Perhaps the single most catastrophic event in Brian's life in Hatchet is when the pilot dies of a heart attack.
— from Guts
Most acclaimed
Robin Hood
1973
Geronimo Stilton, cet intellectuel sensible et raffiné qui dirige "L'écho des rongeurs", se propose ici de raconter à ses admirateurs les grands classiques de la littérature pour la jeunesse qui ont bercé son enfance et qui l'ont fait voyager dans des contrées aussi fabuleuses qu'exotiques. Chaque opus de la série fait donc revivre un chef-d'oeuvre littéraire, dont les protagonistes se voient conférer les traits de rongeurs humanisés. Sous ce titre: les aventures épiques de Robin des bois, ce légendaire brigand au coeur d'or qui se fait un honneur de réparer les injustices commises par le prince Jean Sans Terre et le shérif de Nottingham en l'absence du bon roi Richard Coeur de Lion. Révolté de constater que le perfide duo s'enrichit au profit d'un peuple accablé d'impôts et réduit à une existence miséreuse, Robin se réfugie dans la forêt de Sherwood en compagnie de Petit Jean et de frère Tuck, avec l'aide desquels il met sur pied une armée de hors-la-loi qui se fait l'ardente défenderesse des opprimés, détroussant les riches pour redistribuer leurs richesses aux pauvres et aux orphelins. Et ce, en recourant à de savants déguisements et stratagèmes qui attisent la frustration de leurs victimes une fois dévoilés ... Geronimo Stilton raconte les grands classiques de la littérature de jeunesse.
The world
The Mumonkan, or "Gateless Barrier," is the most widely used collection of koans in Zen practice. For centuries, monks, nuns, and lay people have struggled with these koans as a means of attaining enlightenment. As director of the Montreal Zen Center for the past fifteen years, Albert Low has helped others work through these koans. In this book he provides contemporary and lively commentaries which serve to make the Mumonkan available to all readers and relevant to their everyday lives. He draws upon his own thirty years of practice, half of which has been spent as a teacher, to show how the Mumonkan can be a gateway to spiritual life. His commentaries are filled with anecdotes and new insights into the human condition. The book is structured in the traditional style, with translations of each koan followed by the author's comments. The translations are drawn from the author's own interpretation and from his work with Roshi Philip Kapleau. Excerpts from the Diamond Sutra and a translation of the Prajnaparamita Hridaya ("Heart of Perfect Wisdom" sutra) are included, as well as the author's story of his own path toward awakening.
Guts
Perhaps the most infamous story by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club–which was adapted into the cult classic by David Fincher, starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt–Guts is an hilarious and grotesque look at those things we hide under the bed, and about the things that we lose in the pool. Debuting in 2003, when Chuck began reading it aloud to audiences, and later published in Playboy, Guts is one of Chuck’s most popular short stories that has caused nearly 70 fainting events to date, due to one of the opening lines of the story as well as outright disgust. The story was later collected in Palahniuk’s novel of short stories Haunted–as the headlining act–which includes stories of the same, and worse, nature. And all in all, you can’t go wrong with a story about breaking the eggs, cracking the nuts, and jamming the carrot.