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In 1913, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra led the nation in celebrating three hundred years of Romanov rule in Russia. Four years later, it was all over. Tsar Nicholas always considered himself to be unlucky, but he compounded his genuine misfortunes by making catastrophic calculations in defiance of at least three of the best chief ministers any sovereign has ever had – Sergei Witte, Pyotr Stolypin and Vladimir Kokovtsov. His biggest mistake of all was to mobilize the Russian army on the German border in 1914, thus provoking Germany into a declaration of war. After three years of ...

David Lambert is dissatisfied. Above all, he is dissatisfied with his wife, Rachel’s, dissatisfaction with him. He is all work and no play, and forever critical of the money she spends and of her constant disappointment with him and her life with him. Apart from his contentious relationship with his wife, David is happy. He has a job he enjoys, he has a supportive family, he has friends, he adores his two sons, and the family is living in a château on the shores of the Mediterranean. Is he expecting too much from life? To answer that question, David delves back into the lives of his ...

Everyone in the neighborhood feared the hanging judge, whose spectral form sometimes appeared in the window of the room in the large old house where he had killed himself a hundred years earlier. Stevie Francis, a small boy whose father had recently drowned at sea, knew the legend of the hanging judge and feared him more than anyone, as he frequently had to pass his house and couldn’t prevent himself from looking up at the window to see if he was there. Then, one day, he saw him, a sighting that would change his life forever. Some said that the hanging judge was cursed, some said that ...