Bøger af Peter France

In the midst of a heated battle during the vietnam war, peter jackson falls into A strange new adventure, where time is just another dimension...After dangling precariously from the end of a rope, Peter Jackson, on tour in Vietnam, falls through the air during a failed extraction, legs flailing madly. In the thick of battle at the time, his next, and not so unpleasant recollection is that of falling not to the dark jungle many feet below, but on top of a beautiful young Vietnamese woman on a museum floor. Noc had been endeavouring to clean the glass case in which the Uc Dai Loi had been housed for some time, as there was evidence of mould growing, which would not do for the many visitors to the museum to see such a thing. Even though it was one-sided, Noc had developed a relationship with the handsome but unattainable soldier and chatted to him each day from the outside of the glass case.Little did she anticipate what would happen next...

The tiny, arid Greek island of Patmos is one of the most sacred places in the Christian world, and a place of bewitching power, where people come for a brief summer visit and end up returning, year after year, for the rest of their lives. In A Place of Healing for the Soul, BBC commentator Peter France -- who arrived on the island a hardened skeptic -- tells how he came to change his life perspective. Learning from the island's gregarious inhabitants and its religious eccentrics-hermits, ascetics, monks, and nuns -- he discovered the pleasure and security of living simply and doing without, in a timeless realm where history, myth, and spirituality are endlessly alive.

In this collection, Jon Stallworthy and Peter France introduce Blok's poetry into English, retaining as much as possible his distinctive form and tone. His early poetry is inspired by mystical experience, and the Beautiful Lady in his work is less a conceit than a powerful enabler.

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is best known to Anglophone readers as the author of A Hero of Our Time, whereas among Russian readers his poetry is equally cherished. Lermontov was of Scottish descent, and this bilingual volume celebrates his bicentenary with new translations by 14 translator-poets, mostly Scottish.

This is a 1992 study of writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mainly in France, but also in Britain and Russia. Its focus is on the establishing and questioning of rational, 'civilized' norms of 'politeness', which in the ancien regime meant not just polite manners, but a certain ideal of society and culture.

Peter France sets the Confessions in the context of Rousseau's life and society, discussing the different aims he set himself, and examining in detail the form and structure of the work.