The Stranger's Woes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stranger's Woes write by Max Frei. This book was released on 2012-06-26. The Stranger's Woes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The international-bestselling Russian fantasy author continues the adventures of Sir Max, the lazy gumshoe of the enchanted city of Echo. The tales of Sir Max, who was a daydreaming loser before he discovered the parallel world of Echo, have become an international literary sensation. In the second novel of the Labyrinths of Echoes series, Max is still a hardened smoker, glutton, and all-around loafer. But once again, he finds himself travelling to an alternate universe where he must root out illegal magic as an agent of the Secret Investigative Force. This time, Sir Max is called upon to handle a peculiar political dispute, investigate strange happenings in the cemetery, and when Echo’s police captain is poisoned, he must lead a team of magicians in pursuit of magical outlaws. “Echo is a world of all sorts of plots, a sort of Krypton with tobacco and the counter-universe’s equivalent of vodka.” —Kirkus Reviews
The Stranger's Woes
The Stranger's Woes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stranger's Woes write by Max Frei. This book was released on 2011-06-09. The Stranger's Woes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Max Frei, the cigarette-puffing gumshoe in an alternate, magical universe, is back in his namesake creator's sophomore entry in the Labryinths of Echo series.Echo is a sprawling city-state in which Frei the character finds it very easy to get himself in trouble. Frei the creator (The Stranger, 2009) is a Russian born long ago enough to remember the good old days of the Cold War, and there are international intrigues and intrapalace coups enough to assure that there's trouble to be had. With sidekick Sir Juffin Hully, Frei the character, a lazybones layabout by inclination, finds the start of it in a coming-out party of sorts hosted by one General Boboota Box, late a victim of food poisoning engineered by who knows who and therefore an intimate of the local outhouses--indeed, unlike the rest of the homes of Echo, which "had at least three or four bathing tubs," the General's abode has "a dozen toilets of various heights gurgling a discordant welcome to the visitor." And who did this dastardly deed? Well, Echo is a world of all sorts of plots, a sort of Krypton with tobacco and the counter-universe's equivalent of vodka. If you have the sense that a shaggy-dog story is in the offing, you'd be right--and what a dog, and what a tail wagging it. Frei the creator takes obvious goofy pleasure in constructing and populating a place in which rival magicians duke it out, good and evil are not always easily identifiable and are sometimes rolled up in the same person, and where a contraption called a "baboom" is enough to put the fear in your garden-variety brigand. It's all a great romp, and never mind that the logic of the place seems a tad off and various threads of plot get lost amid the fun. As Juffin says, brightly, "this affair smells strongly of Forbidden Magic." Just so--and a pleasure for those who like their fantasy with a measure of slapstick. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) write by Kwame Anthony Appiah. This book was released on 2010-03-01. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy—as well as the author's own experience of life on three continents—Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers.
The Stranger's Magic
The Stranger's Magic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stranger's Magic write by Max Frei. This book was released on 2012-07-19. The Stranger's Magic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The acclaimed Russian author’s international-bestselling fantasy series continues in this “unpredictable, mysterious” novel that’s “full of surprises” (Publishers Weekly). In The Stranger’s Magic, Sir Max once again travels to the enchanted parallel world of Echo, where magic is commonplace and he fits right in. As an investigator of illegal magic with the Secret Investigative Force, Max has made more than a few enemies. Now one “pretty boy” Nennurex Kiexla has set out for revenge against Max in the most insidious of ways—by infiltrating his dreams. Plunging back into the highly original realm first portrayed in The Stranger (Fandomania.com’s #1 Book of 2009) and continued in The Stranger’s Woes, Frei’s new novel blends fantasy, horror, philosophy, and comedy in this tale that will have readers “entranced” (Publishers Weekly). “Fans of Jasper Fforde and Susanna Clark will happily jump into Frei’s world.” —USA Today “If Harry Potter smoked cigarettes and took a certain matter-of-fact pleasure in administering tough justice, he might like Max Frei.” —Kirkus Reviews on The Stranger
The Stranger's Shadow
The Stranger's Shadow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stranger's Shadow write by Max Frei. This book was released on 2014-05-21. The Stranger's Shadow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Follows the adventures of a vice-driven loafer who becomes a celebrity in a magical parallel universe for his membership in an enchanted secret agent organization and his talent for solving extravagant and imaginative cases.
