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The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord ErrollThis is the fascinating life of femme fatale Alice de Janz , a book that may well have solved the mystery of Lord Erroll's killing (San Francisco Chronicle) the story at the center of James Fox's White Mischief. A glamorous American multimillionairess, Alice de Janz scandalized 1920s Paris when she left her aristocratic French husband for an English lover whom she later tried to kill in a failed murder suicide. Abandoning Paris for the moneyed British
This is the fascinating life of femme fatale Alice de Janz , a book that may well have solved the mystery of Lord Erroll's killing (San Francisco Chronicle)--the story at the center of James Fox's White Mischief.
A glamorous American multimillionairess, Alice de Janz scandalized 1920s Paris when she left her aristocratic French husband for an English lover--whom she later tried to kill in a failed murder-suicide. Abandoning Paris for the moneyed British colonial society known as Kenya's Happy Valley, she became the lover of womanizer Joss Hay, Lord Erroll. In 1941, Erroll was shot in his car on an isolated road. The crime remained unsolved. Paul Spicer, whose mother was a confidante of Alice's, uses personal letters and research to piece together what really happened that fateful evening. He brings to life an era of unimaginable wealth and indulgence, where jealousy and hidden passions brewed. At the heart of The Temptress is Alice, whose seductive charms no man could resist, and whose unfulfilled quest for love ended in her own suicide at age forty-two.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 08/16/2011
ISBN: 9780312584184
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.57w x 0.71d
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★★★★★ 5
Buy it!!!
Format: Paperback
Wonderful book. Great presentation you should absolutely buy and read this work!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2026
★★★★★ 5
A timeless guide to spiritual perfection
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A classic book on spiritual perfection and how to achieve it. The metaphors may be set in the past, but there is enough commonality with the present that this generation can still understand what this great Saint is communicating. He only makes one mistake: Spiritual perfection is not a possibility only for monks; lay people can achieve it as well. This is a book that all can profit from, whether one is just beginning to climb or is near the top.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2025
★★★★★ 5
An Eritrean Oriental Orthodox Tewahedo Nun's Comments
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For 28 years I served (with a lowercase "s" ) alongside my Eastern Orthodox husband/Archpriest, who reposed in 2018. Now as a Tewahedo Hermitess, with access to the world rather than strict enclosure inside the monastery, little father John Climacus' book serves as a helpful reference guide to me to determine how Eastern (communion) coenobitic monks during post-Chalcedonian Schizm tried to refine and perfect the more ancient Syriac strivings of stages of spiritual perfection started first by the "Sons and Daughters of the Covenant" transformed into a "narrow path to salvation" inside tonsured communities. While we do not use little father John's book as a key "focal point" in our Oriental Churches, it is important to preserve this copy - true to its original content - like all watershed moments in Orthodox Church History, and investigate if there are living parallels of little Father John's system used by Oriental monasteries, written by their respective Hegumens, within the same relevant time period. I am guessing there are probably so, because what Christ truly teaches and inspires, He never usually leaves to one person alone. "Where 2 or 3 are gathered together in My Name, there Am I in the midst of them" is the Peace of the Apostolic covenant of Christ, among the Churches founded by His 12 Apostles - a Peace and a symmetry that still can be found despite the heartbreaking misinformation, bias, and (in some spots of the world) bitter kernels of monastically - engendered hatred towards reunification of Eastern and Oriental communities into one, whole, functional and understood Church. He who has ears, let him hear (and examine)!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2025
★★★★★ 5
The Essential Work Other Than the Bible for Orthodox Christians
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I just finished reading The Ladder for the fourth time. I read it every Great Lent before our Sunday of St. John Climacus. It is stern and austere being written for monks, but glorious in the lessons it provides for those of us not monastics. It is a roadmap to a Christian life, challenging and aspirational, inspiring and humbling. I learn something new with each reading, and my faith deepens. But been non-Christian readers can profit from this, as it is a great meditation on a life well loved, and an excellent depiction of the essence of a dedicated Christian life.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Great spiritual guide
It’s a fairly confusing book if you don’t know a lot about the Orthodox Church. But for anyone with enough patience to want to learn how to grow spiritually this is perfect.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2025
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