The Orphan of the Rhine
Author : Eleanor Sleath
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Gothic literature
ISBN :
Wither
Author : Lauren DeStefano
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442409061
Book Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
The Children of the Abbey: a Tale
Author : Regina Maria Roche
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 1807
Category :
ISBN :
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Horrid Mysteries
Author : Carl Grosse
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Song of the Nibelungs
Author :
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300125986
Book Description
It portrays the existential struggles and downfall of an entire people, the Burgundians, in a military conflict with the Huns and their king."--Jacket.
Castle of Wolfenbach
Author : Eliza Parsons
Publisher : London : Folio Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Austen, Jane
ISBN :
Book Description
It is among the seven "horrid novels" recommended by the character Isabella Thorpe in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey and an important early work in the genre. It contains the standard gothic tropes of the blameless damsel in distress, the centrality of a huge, gloomy, ancient building to the plot, the discovery of scandalous family secrets, and a final confrontation between forces of good and evil. Its resolutely anti-Catholic, pro-English Protestant sentiment is also a feature of the genre. "Matilda Weimar flees her lecherous and incestuous uncle and seeks refuge in the ancient Castle of Wolfenbach. Among the castle's abandoned chambers, Matilda will discover the horrifying mystery of the missing Countess of Wolfenbach. But when her uncle tracks her down, can she escape his despicable intentions?" --www.valancourtbooks.com.
XIX Century Fiction, Volume One
Author : M. Sadleir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1195 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520349768
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Orphan of Asia
Author : Zhuoliu Wu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2008-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231137265
Book Description
Born in Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China but forced into the Japanese educational system, Hu Taiming, the protagonist of Orphan of Asia, ultimately finds himself estranged from all three cultures. Taiming eventually makes his mark in the colonial Japanese educational system and graduates from a prestigious college. However, he finds that his Japanese education and his adoption of modern ways have alienated him from his family and native village. He becomes a teacher in the Japanese colonial system but soon quits his post and finds that, having repudiated his roots, he doesn't seem to belong anywhere. Thus begins the long journey for Taiming to find his rightful place, during which he is accused of spying for both China and Japan and witnesses the effects of Japanese imperial expansion, the horrors of war, and the sense of anger and powerlessness felt by those living under colonial rule. Zhuoliu Wu's autobiographical novel is widely regarded as a classic of modern Asian literature and a groundbreaking expression of the postwar Taiwanese national consciousness.
The Mysterious Warning
Author : Eliza Parsons
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9781934555347
Book Description
The good old Count Renaud is dead, and his will makes the degenerate Rhodophil his heir, disinheriting his other son Ferdinand, who has married against his father's wishes. Rhodophil promises to share his new riches with his younger brother and his wife Claudina, but Ferdinand hears a mysterious voice from beyond the grave, warning him to flee his brother and his wife to save himself from sin and death! Ferdinand obeys the supernatural warning and sets out to find fortune and adventure. In the course of his quest he will encounter a recluse in a ruined castle with a horrible secret, find himself captured and imprisoned by the Turkish army, and encounter one of Gothic literature's most depraved female characters, the monstrous Fatima. And if he survives all these dangers, Ferdinand must return to Renaud Castle to solve the mystery of the ghostly voice and uncover the terrible truth about his wife and his brother! This edition includes the unabridged text of the four volume 1796 edition, with a new introduction and notes by Karen Morton, and reproductions of illustrations from the 1796 and 1824 editions.
A House of Tailors
Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375890556
Book Description
SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk. Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, she’s worked in her family’s dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family. When 13-year-old Dina leaves her small town in Germany to join her uncle’s family in Brooklyn, she turns her back on sewing. Never again! But looking for a job leads her right back to the sewing machine. Why did she ever leave home? Here she is, still with a needle and thread—and homesick to boot. She didn’t know she could be this homesick, but she didn’t know she could be so brave either, as she is standing up to an epidemic or a fire. She didn’t know she could grow so close to her new family or to Johann, the young man from the tailor’s shop. And she didn’t know that sewing would reveal her own wonderful talent—and her future. In Dina, the beloved writer Patricia Reilly Giff has created one of her most engaging and vital heroines. Readers will enjoy seeing 1870s Brooklyn through Dina’s eyes, and share her excitement as she discovers a new world.
