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Author : Edward Frederic Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : England
ISBN : OCLC:1033637787
Author : Edward Frederic Benson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015017436802
For some years after his death in 1940, E.F. Benson was a forgotten man of English letters, remembered only by a few for his supernatural fiction. But over the last decade this has all changed, as successful TV adaptations of his comic masterpieces, the "Mapp and Lucia" stories, have transformed his reputation. Here are 26 of Benson's delightful short stories, most of which have never been published in book form.
Author : Madeleine Wickham
Publisher : Random House
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446423905
Liz and Jonathan are in trouble. They can't sell their old house.Here they are, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn't wanted to move anyway. Then it seems Marcus Witherstone will solve all their problems. He knows the perfect tenants from London who will rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers. Everything is going to be OK. Or is it? As Marcus starts to become involved with Liz, while her teenage daughter develops a passion for the lodgers, it seems that some deceptions are too close to home... Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella: "I almost cried with laughter" Daily Mail "Hilarious . . . you'll laugh and gasp on every page" Jenny Colgan "Properly mood-altering . . . funny, fast and farcical. I loved it" Jojo Moyes "A superb tale. Five stars!" Heat
Author : E. F. Benson,Jack Adrian
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0192824163
A collection from a satirist who chronicled British society over the first half of this century. Many of the stories are about the antics of social climbers as they try to one-upmanship other social climbers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:49015003032811
Author : Mrs. Cuthbert Orlebar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600052916
Author : E.F. Benson
Publisher : Self-Publish
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
I lingered at the window of the garden-room from which Miss Mapp so often and so ominously looked forth. To the left was the front of her house, straight ahead the steep cobbled way, with a glimpse of the High Street at the end, to the right the crooked chimney and the church.
Author : Andrew Kingsley Weatherhead
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture, Domestic, in literature
ISBN : 0838638643
Examines the role played by the large house in works by Woolfe, Waugh, Murdoch and others
Author : Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838909676
A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
Author : Bill Nye
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664580900
Get ready to laugh out loud with 'A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories', a collection of hilarious short stories from the witty and talented Bill Nye. Although he died young, his legacy lives on through these tales that will have you in stitches. Twenty-eight titles in total are included in this book, including 'My Matrimonial Bureau', 'Grains of Truth', and 'A Rubber Esophagus'.
Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338097668
This is a collection of eight short mystery stories by Edgar Wallace. The story includes: Fighting Snub Reilly - Jimmy's Brother - The Christmas Cup - The Man In The Golf Hut - A Romance In Brown - The Perfect Gentleman - Kid-Glove Harry - Nig-Nog.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191636165
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here - `Sir Edmund Orme', `Owen Wingrave', and `The Friends of the Friends' - `The Turn of the Screw' is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave, or victims of the governess's `infernal imagination', which torments but also entrals her? `The Turn of the Screw' is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply, `the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read'? The texts are those of the New York Edition, with a new Introduction and Notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Ian Carter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719059666
The 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. He argues that while high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, British popular culture did not ignore it. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction, and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres.
Author : Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847395474
Topping her bestselling success with Alvirah and Willy, in The Lottery Winner,America's Queen of Suspense introduces a new sleuthing couple , Henry and Sunday, an ex-president and his young congresswoman bride. Henry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly -- a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. His new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team of sleuths -- and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occurring among their friends in political high society. When Henry's former secretary of state is indicted for the murder of his mistress, Henry and Sunday suspect he is taking the fall for a crime of passion he did not commit. With cases ranging from a crime on the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry back to the White House as he races against time to unravel the plot, there is never a dull moment for the ex-president and his bride -- or the reader. With her wit and gift for characterization, the creator of the popular Alvirah and Willy stories brings us another marvelously endearing sleuthing duo, destined to return again and again
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627935999
In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman. The Headless Horseman, is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball, and "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head," though the story implies that the Horseman was really Brom in disguise.