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  • Consequences

    Serier serie World Classics
    "Consequences" (1919) follows the life of Alexandra Clare, an upper class Catholic girl from London, after she turns down her only suitor. Alex is a misfit and having failed to meet her family's expectations, she joins a convent. Partly autobiographical, Delafield writes this story in a deeply ironic tone, turning Alex's plight into a condemnation of the suffocating expectations Victorian society ... Læs mere

    75,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Tension

    Serier serie World Classics
    A Miss Pauline Marchrose applies for the position of "Lady Superintendent" at the Commercial and Technical College for South West England, where Sir Julian Rossiter is the college director. He is greatly impressed by her and soon this admiration turns to adoration. But his wife, Lady Edna Rossiter, discovers that Marchrose was the very same woman who jilted her cousin Clarence after he was ... Læs mere

    75,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

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  • The Ambassadors (Dream Classics)

    Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, the formidable Mrs. Newsome sends her 'ambassador' Strether from Massachusetts to Paris to extricate him. Strether's mission, however, is gradually undermined as he falls under the spell of the city and finds Chad refined rather than corrupted by its influence and that of his charming companion, the comtesse ... Læs mere

    16,32 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Swan Song

    Serier serie A Gervase Fen Mystery
    As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse – discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first post-war production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger its happiness is soon soured by the discovery that the unpleasant Edwin Shorthouse will be singing a leading role. Nearly ... Læs mere

    62,82 kr.

  • The Metamorphosis

    af Franz Kafka ...
    “As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself in his bed transformed into a monstrous vermin” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own ... Læs mere

    4,57 kr.

  • Forty Books

    af Henry James ...
    This file includes: The Ambassadors, The American, The Aspern Papers, The Author of Beltraffio, The Awkward Age, The Beast in the Jungle, The Bostonians volume 1, The Bostonians volume 2, Confidence, The Coxon Fund, Daisy Miller, Embarrassments, Eugene Pickering, The Europeans, The Finer Grain, Georgina's Reasons, Glasses, The Golden Bowl, In the Cage, An International Episode, Italian Hours, The ... Læs mere

    7,38 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • An Unsocial Socialist

    An Unsocial Socialist begins in an unruly girl's school, comically portraying their tricks and pranks. The narrative then moves to a seemingly ill-bred laborer, who is in fact a wealthy gentleman in disguise. He wishes, in part, to avoid his overly-affectionate wife, but also to preach socialism, of which he is a staunch convert. The story is then largely subsumed in a discussion of socialism and ... Læs mere

    49,13 kr.

  • The Chain of Destiny (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    af Bram Stoker ...
    A young man inherits a peculiar family trait: a series of psychic visions that bind his life to the past. As spectral signs and ominous coincidences unravel, he discovers that a deadly reckoning foretold in his ancestors' lives is now closing in on his own. A chilling epistolary tale of psychological tension.From the mind of Bram Stoker, the undisputed master of gothic horror and creator of the ... Læs mere

    58,75 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Skull and the Nightingale

    af Michael Irwin ...
    Set in England in the early 1760s, this is a chilling and deliciously dark tale of manipulation, sex, and seduction.When Richard Fenwick, a young man without family or means, returns to London from the Grand Tour, his wealthy godfather, James Gilbert, has an unexpected proposition. Gilbert has led a fastidious life in Worcestershire, but now in his advancing years, he feels the urge to experience, ... Læs mere

    102,82 kr.

  • The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave

    af Henry James ...
    Serier serie Macmillan Collector's Library
    Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. This edition of Henry James’s classic ghost stories features an afterword by bestselling author Kate Mosse OBE.A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country ... Læs mere

    32,50 kr.

  • The Death of the Lion

    af Henry James ...
    The Death of the Lion is an 1894 short story by Henry James.This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all.The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journalist, sets out to interview a minor author, and in his own quest for glory, turns the author into the celebrity of the day.The sudden and untimely death of the author, with his latest work unfinished, ... Læs mere

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  • Smee & Other Stories

    af AM Burrage ...
    Serier Bog 9 - Supernatural Classics By AM Burrage
    Alfred McLelland Burrage was born in 1889. His father and uncle were both writers, primarily of boys fiction, and by age 16 AM Burrage had joined them and quickly became a master of the market publishing his stories regularly across a number of publications. By the start of the Great War Burrage was well established but in 1916 he was conscripted to fight on the Western Front, his experiences ... Læs mere

    93,49 kr.