La trilogie Gatsby

by Manfred

L'auteur se tient pour convaincu que c'est la vraisemblance et non le contraire qui fait le piment, l'ingrédient majeur du récit sensuel et érotique. Contemporain des « sixties », il s'y montre insensible, voire indifférent, ce qui ne l'empêche, en rien, de nous transporter dans un domaine inattendu où il s'en voit et s'en dit des vertes et des pas mûres... Cette comédie est une valse de jupons, de petites culottes, de corsets à baleines, de jarretelles aux bas-nylon, une ronde étourdissante d'histoires lestes et grivoises, de pucelages datés, de pratiques pour le moins archaïques ; un grand divertissement à la française, un livret d'opéra en trois actes, une foisonnante série de scènes et de tableaux salaces qui en font un remontant des plus actifs. Très certainement écrite après coup, partition judicieusement conçue pour être lue avant...

454 pages, Paperback

Published November 4, 2020

About the author

Biography of Manfred -Author of MAGIC MIRABELLE AND THE RIDDLE OF NIGHT OPIUM

ABOUT ME: Hi my name is Manfred. As those of you with a background in Romantic Poetry will have guessed, I am named after the Byronic hero of the poem with the same name. I am a Goodreads author, Romantic Poet and Apprentice Goldmaker with a passion for Fairytales, Romances and the dark and murky world of the paranormal.
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As a child I read anything I could get my hands on - fairytales, fantasy novels and ghost stories. I also loved reading comic books - anything from Casper to Spider Man and Doctor Strange. As far as I can recall the only time that I was ever really happy at school was when I was hanging out in the playground or reading the books I borrowed from the school library.

During high school this feeling of existential aloneness became even more prominent. And as soon as I finished my twelfth year, I dived into the enchanted world of the Romantic Poets like Blake, Keats and Byron and the world of High Fantasy and Faery Romance, like Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and George Macdonald's Lilith and Phantastes. Along with my love for poetry and fantasy, I was also fascinated by the Qabalah and Hermetic Alchemy.

The two interests sort of combined, and along with casting Magic Circles and Pentagrams, playing with Tarot cards and practising astral projection in my bedroom, I did heaps of writing - poetry, fairytales, Romance novels. plays and short stories. I also grabbed a guitar, bought a piano and composed heaps of songs, The songs, stories and poems were all on the same theme - the fairies, the Old Ways, Magic and lovers meeting again after several lifetimes of separation!

MY LITERARY INFLUENCES: Every writer's work is influenced by the writers he or she most admires. My three major literary influences are the Golden Dawn occultist Dion Fortune (especially Moon Magic and The Mystical Qabalah), the Romantic Poet and Radical William Blake (most noteably The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Songs of Innocence and Experience) and the Scottish Father of Fairytales George Macdonald (the Faery Romances like Phantastes and Lilith totally blew me away when I first read them). At the same time, my work is strongly influenced by the classic Fairytales which I read when I was a boy and rediscovered again when I was older - such as Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland and the Narnia books - and eventually Harry Potter.

WHAT I DO IN MY SPARE TIME:
When I am not writing and trying to make gold I like to watch films (DVDS), listen to my favourite music, classical, pop or rock, travel to exotic places like India when I can afford it, read my favourite books and take Shimba for walks (sometimes with my son) in the forest. My favourite foods are pizza, lasagne, vegetable pies and spicy Indian cuisine. I also have an addiction to drinking hot chocolate and eating very rich and yummy cheese cakes!

I am open to all friend requests and am currently offering a Free Ebook copy of my book - in exchange for a short review on Goodreads.......

For further information about me and my book, visit my Amazon Author Page -
amazon.com/author/riddleofnightopium

Thanks for reading my Bio
Manfred