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"A brilliant, bittersweet upstairs-downstairs comedy."--Guardian
Author : Julia Strachey
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Brides
ISBN : 9781903155271
"A brilliant, bittersweet upstairs-downstairs comedy."--Guardian
Author : Julia Frances Strachey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2009
Category : England
ISBN : 9781906462079
"A brilliant, bittersweet upstairs-downstairs comedy."--Guardian
Author : Poul Anderson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504024338
Transported to a medieval realm of magic and myth, a World War II resistance fighter undertakes a perilous quest in this classic fantasy adventure. Holger Carlsen is a rational man of science. A Danish engineer working with the Resistance to defeat the Nazis, he is wounded during an engagement with the enemy and awakens in an unfamiliar parallel universe where the forces of Law are locked in eternal combat with the forces of Chaos. Against a medieval backdrop, brave knights must take up arms against magical creatures of myth and faerie, battling dragons, trolls, werewolves, and giants. Though Holger has no recollection of this world, he discovers he is already well-known throughout the lands, a hero revered as a Champion of Law. He finds weaponry and armor awaiting him—precisely fitted to his form—and a shield with three hearts and three lions emblazoned upon it. As he journeys through a realm filled with wonders in search of the key to his past, Holger will call upon the scientific knowledge of his home dimension, the destinies of both worlds hanging in the balance. Before Thomas Covenant, Roger Zelazny’s Amber, and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the great Poul Anderson introduced readers to the Middle World and the legendary hero Ogier the Dane. Inventive and exciting, Three Hearts and Three Lions is a foray into fantasy that employs touches of science fiction from an award-winning master of the speculative.
Author : Julia Strachey
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Humoristisk roman om et bryllup på landet, og roman om en mands forelskelse i sin vens hustru
Author : Julia Quinn
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062424165
A New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Gregory Bridgerton, in the final installment of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. GREGORY’S STORY Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. And that is exactly what happened. Except ... She wasn’t the one. In fact, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. But her best friend, the ever-practical Lady Lucinda Abernathy, wants to save Hermione from a disastrous alliance, so she offers to help Gregory win her over. But in the process, Lucy falls in love. With Gregory! Except ... Lucy is engaged. And her uncle is not inclined to let her back out of the betrothal, even once Gregory comes to his senses and realizes that it is Lucy, with her sharp wit and sunny smile, who makes his heart sing. And now, on the way to the wedding, Gregory must risk everything to ensure that when it comes time to kiss the bride, he is the only man standing at the altar …
Author : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher : Briggs
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 1901
Category : England
ISBN :
The author describes this book as 'a picture of a nice simple, sweet prosaic soul who arrives at a good fortune almost comic because it is in a way so incongruous. Its heroine is a sort of Cinderella with big feet instead of little ones.'.
Author : Noel Streatfeild
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 9781906462086
"First published in 1945 by Collins"--Copyright page.
Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307371212
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The #1 bestselling author of Saturday and Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears and romantic fantasy in his unforgettable, emotionally engaging novel. The year is 1962. Florence, the daughter of a successful businessman and an aloof Oxford academic, is a talented violinist. She dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, the earnest young history student she met by chance and who unexpectedly wooed her and won her heart. Edward grew up in the country on the outskirts of Oxford where his father, the headmaster of the local school, struggled to keep the household together and his mother, brain-damaged from an accident, drifted in a world of her own. Edward’s native intelligence, coupled with a longing to experience the excitement and intellectual fervour of the city, had taken him to University College in London. Falling in love with the accomplished, shy and sensitive Florence—and having his affections returned with equal intensity—has utterly changed his life. Their marriage, they believe, will bring them happiness, the confidence and the freedom to fulfill their true destinies. The glowing promise of the future, however, cannot totally mask their worries about the wedding night. Edward, who has had little experience with women, frets about his sexual prowess. Florence’s anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by conflicting emotions and a fear of the moment she will surrender herself. From the precise and intimate depiction of two young lovers eager to rise above the hurts and confusion of the past, to the touching story of how their unexpressed misunderstandings and fears shape the rest of their lives, On Chesil Beach is an extraordinary novel that brilliantly, movingly shows us how the entire course of a life can be changed—by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
Author : Agnes Jekyll
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Cookbooks
ISBN : 9781906462031
Witty and historically insightful essays on English cooking--first published in the Times in the early 1920s.
Author : Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Accident victims
ISBN :
Novel describes the problems of a family in which husband and wife are oppressed and frustrated by the roles that they are expected to play. Evangeline Knapp is the ideal housekeeper, while her husband, Lester is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed; Lester is confined to home in a wheelchair and his wife must work to support the family. The changes that take place between husband and wife and between parents and children are handled in a contemporary manner.