Sir Winston Churchill was a soldier, journalist, writer, Nobel Prize winner and, above all, a leader. Conservative then Liberal then Conservative again, his political instincts won him a sustained career at the summit of British government, while his resolve and politics of personality made him broadly regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century.
Susan Ericksen's portraits of the characters are vivid, passionate, and at the same time tranquil which fit the style of the novel perfectly. The original files consist of 1580 mp3s, one of each lasts around half a miniute. I spent some time to make them merge into chapters, but a minor error occured which I couldn't explain: several words were lost at the end of chapter 35. The last sentence reads: I rose from the thanksgiving-took a resolve-and lay down, unscared, enlightened-eager but for the daylight. The mp3 ends at the words of "lay down". So I'd like to make an apology beforehand.
The Sheltering Sky is a 1949 novel by Paul Bowles. The story centers on Port and Kit Moresby, a married couple originally from New York who travel to the North African desert accompanied by their friend Tunner. The journey, initially an attempt by Port and Kit to resolve their marital difficulties, is quickly made fraught by the travelers' ignorance of the dangers that surround them.
Late one night, Sergeant Pete Decker discovers an abandoned toddler wearing blood-stained pyjamas and covered in bee-stings. Decker and his partner Marge Dunn resolve to find her parents, but nothing prepares them for the gruesome mystery they find themselves stirring up.
