The Shrimp and the Anemone
Author : Leslie Poles Hartley
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 1965
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Eustace and Hilda
Author : L.P. Hartley
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590175352
Book Description
This three novel collection first published in 1944 explores a brother and sister’s coming of age and changing relationship in the English countryside and Venice The three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister’s lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, pleasure-loving boy: the two siblings could hardly be more different, but they are also deeply devoted. And yet as Eustace and Hilda grow up and seek to go their separate ways in a world of power and position, money and love, their relationship is marked by increasing pain. L. P. Hartley’s much-loved novel, the magnum opus of one of twentieth-century England’s best writers, is a complex and spellbinding work: a comedy of upper-class manners; a study in the subtlest nuances of feeling; a poignant reckoning with the ironies of character and fate. Above all, it is about two people who cannot live together or apart, about the ties that bind—and break.
Facial Justice
Author : L. P. Hartley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Apocalyptic literature
ISBN :
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The Travelling Grave and Other Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
Author : L. P. Hartley
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781943910786
Book Description
Though best known for his classic novel of Edwardian childhood The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley was also a master of supernatural and macabre fiction, the best of which is collected in The Travelling Grave and Other Stories. This volume demonstrates Hartley's versatility, ranging from traditional ghost stories like 'Feet Foremost' and 'The Cotillon' to the wickedly black humour of the horror masterpieces 'The Travelling Grave' and 'The Killing Bottle'. Originally published in 1948 and long out of print, this collection features twelve of Hartley's finest tales, presented in this edition with a new introduction by John Howard.
Simonetta Perkins
Author : Leslie Poles Hartley
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Fiction in English
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My Sisters' Keeper
Author : Leslie Poles Hartley
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
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The Go-between
Author : Leslie Poles Hartley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 1987
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The Bellwether Revivals
Author : Benjamin Wood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857206974
Book Description
'A stunningly good debut ... that will keep readers up all night' Steven Galloway, author of the Cellist of Sarajevo 'The novel has at its lodestone Brideshead Revisited. Donna Tartt's The Secret History is also in the DNA here ... Readers will find themselves transfixed by this richly drawn cast of characters' Independent Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a Cambridge nursing home, until the fateful day when he is lured into King's College chapel by the otherworldly sound of an organ. There he meets and falls in love with Iris Bellwether and her privileged, eccentric clique, led by her brother Eden. A troubled but charismatic music prodigy, Eden convinces his sister and their friends to participate in a series of disturbing experiments. However, as the line between genius and madness begins to blur, Oscar fears that danger could await them all ... Benjamin Wood's brilliant debut novel will delight fans of The Secret History and Never Let Me Go. Praise for The Bellwether Revivals: 'Read it. Quite a debut' Patrick Neate 'Suffused with intelligence and integrity' Guardian 'Effortlessly vivid ... Wood's confident, sometimes creepy novel draws you in ... and then, once you're inside, holds on, ever tightening the grip' Independent on Sunday 'There's more than a hint of Donna Tartt's The Secret History about this novel … highly effective' Daily Mail
The Big Book of Female Detectives
Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 2582 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525434755
Book Description
Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting P.I.s like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, and many more.
The Children's Hour
Author : Marcia Willett
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 2005-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312996505
Book Description
Willett fans will cherish this redemptive story set in seaside Devon, England, of two elderly sisters who remember their own private loves and secret losses as they attempt to comfort a young woman who has also been shockingly betrayed. Martins Press.
