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Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486799148
Acclaimed by The New York Times as "one of the best suspense novels ever written," this novel recounts an English couple's doubts about their boarder, whom they suspect of being a serial killer.
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788728350652
The beautiful and ambitious Ivy got exactly what she wanted when she married Jervis Lexton for his money. At least, she thought she had. In fact, she got a whole lot less than she bargained for when he and his father gamble away much of their fortune. As Ivy's frustration grows, Jervis dies from a mysterious illness that investigators think may have been a poisoning. Amid accusations and fear, suspicion builds that Ivy may have been behind it. This is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's 'Miss Marple' books and the crime novels of Raymond Chandler. Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was an English novelist and the sister of author Hilaire Belloc. Her first published work was the 1898 biography 'HRH The Prince of Wales: An Account of His Career'. She went on to produce more than 40 novels - mainly mysteries and sometimes based on true crime. Her writing was popular for many decades and had a following among authors, including Ernest Hemingway, who admired her understanding of female psychology.
Author : Elyssa Warkentin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527525764
Novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, and journalist Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was one of the most prolific and bestselling writers of her day. Unlike her contemporary and sometime-rival Agatha Christie, she is now largely unknown and almost entirely out of print. This collection of short stories brings Lowndes’s most popular, distinctive, and culturally and artistically significant works of short fiction to modern audiences for the first time. These stories are selected from various periods in Lowndes’s writing life, varied publication venues, and different genres. Each demonstrates her subtlety and skill as a story-teller, as well as her pervasive thematic interest in gender issues, the trials of marriage, and the nature of criminality.
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798588401975
CLAIRE DE WISSANT, wife of Jacques de Wissant, Mayor of Falaise, stood in the morningsunlight, graceful with a proud, instinctive grace of poise and gesture, on a wind-blownpath close to the edge of the cliff.At some little distance to her left rose the sloping, mansard roofs of the Pavillon deWissant, the charming country house to which her husband had brought her, a seventeenyear old bride, ten long years ago.She was now gazing eagerly out to sea, shielding her grey, heavy-lidded eyes with herright hand. From her left hand hung a steel chain, to which was attached a small key.A hot haze lay heavily over the great sweep of deep blue waters. It blotted out the lowgrey line on the horizon which, on the majority of each year's days, reminds the citizens ofFalaise how near England is to France.Jacques de Wissant had rejoiced in the entente cordiale, if only because it brought such astream of tourists to the old seaport town of which he was now Mayor. But his beautifulwife thought of the English as gallant foes rather than as friends. Was she not greatgranddaughter to that admiral who at Trafalgar, when both his legs were shattered bychain-shot, bade his men place him in a barrel of bran that he might go on commanding, inthe hour of defeat, to the end?And yet as Claire stood there, her eyes sweeping the sea for an as yet invisible craft, herheart seemed to beat rhythmically to the last verse of a noble English poem which thegoverness of her twin daughters had made them recite to her that very morning. How did itrun? Aloud she murmured: "Yet this inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore-"and then she stopped, her quivering lips refusing to form the two concluding lines.To Claire de Wissant, that moving cry from a man's soul was not dulled by familiarity, orhackneyed by common usage, and just now it found an intolerably faithful echo in her sad, rebellious heart, intensifying the anguish born of a secret and very bitter renunciation.With an abrupt, restless movement she turned and walked on till her way along the pathwas barred by a curious obstacle. This was a small red-brick tower, built within a few feetof the edge of the cliff. It was an ugly blot on the beautiful stretch of down, all the uglier thatthe bricks and tiles had not yet had time to lose their hardness of line and colour in the saltwi
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547047605
The Heart of Penelope is the absorbing story of a young girl Penelope who falls in love with a man but doesn't marry him. Penelope goes through a series of life-altering events after that. But fate brings them together again, and they share an intimate relationship. When everybody starts foreseeing that she will marry him at last, another character enters the story. Whether Penelope will marry her old lover or not unfolds later in the story. The stories of diverse characters in this book are woven skillfully into a novel of unique power and interest. The characters are drawn deftly and seem to be inspired by real life. It presents a subtle and strong analysis of character. Throughout the story, the reader cannot imagine how it will end.
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : B. W. DODGE AND COMPANY
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Barbara Rebell As Barbara Rebell, still Barbara Rebell, though she had been a wife, a most unhappy wife, for six years, stepped from the small dark vestibule into the dimly-lighted hall of Chancton Priory, her foot slipped on the floor; and she would have fallen had not a man's hand, small but curiously bony and fleshless, grasped her right arm, while, at the same moment, a deep voice from out the darkness exclaimed, "A good omen! So stumbled the Conqueror!" The accent in which the odd words were uttered would have told a tale as to the speaker's hard-bitten nationality to most English-speaking folk: not so to the woman to whom they were addressed. Yet they smote on her ear as though laden with welcome, for they recalled the voice of a certain Andrew Johnstone, the Scotch Governor of the West Indian island of Santa Maria, whose brotherly kindness and unobtrusive sympathy had been more comfortable to her, in a moment of great humiliation and distress, than his English wife's more openly expressed concern and more eagerly offered friendship. And then, as the stranger advanced, hesitatingly, into the hall, she found herself confronted by an odd, indeed an amazing figure, which yet also brought a quick sense of being at last in a dear familiar place offering both welcome and shelter. For she was at once aware that this must be the notable Jane Turke, Madame Sampiero's housekeeper, one to whom Barbara's own mother had often referred when telling her little daughter of the delights of Chancton Priory—of the Sussex country house to which, when dying, the thoughts of Richard Rebell's wife seemed ever turning with sick longing and regret.
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547309086
Good Old Anna is an examination of a German villager in a small English town who first works as a nurse for young Rose, before becoming her maid. The novel considers the psychological effects of the first World War between Britain and Germany. Excerpt: "AND now," asked Miss Forsyth thoughtfully, "and now, my dear Mary, what, may I ask, are you going to do about your good old Anna?" "Do about Anna?" repeated the other. "I don't quite understand what you mean." In her heart, Mrs. Otway thought she understood very well what her old friend, Miss Forsyth, meant by the question. For it was Wednesday, the 5th of August, 1914. England had just declared war on Germany, and Anna was Mrs. Otway's faithful, highly valued German servant."
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026894575
Ivy is a beautiful but ambitious young woman who married an idler, Jervis Lexton for his family money. However, through the fault of Jervis and his gambling father, the Lextons have become quite poor and the young Ivy became quite frustrated with her impoverished husband. Before he has a chance to bounce back on his feet Jervis dies from a mysterious illness and there is a suspicion that he has been poisoned.
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039001347
Author : Elyssa Warkentin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443882064
Out of the London fog, a mysterious stranger arrives on the Buntings’ doorstep seeking lodgings and a kindly ear – but a horrifying secret lurks behind his gentlemanly façade. Can Mrs Bunting uncover the true nature of his strange obsessions and avert looming disaster for her family? Marie Belloc Lowndes’s psychological thriller The Lodger (1913) was the first novelization of the infamous and still-unsolved “Jack the Ripper” murders of 1888. The novel transformed a sordid story of the London streets into a taut domestic tale of conflicted motivations, uncertain loyalty, and slow-burning terror. Lowndes, a contemporary – and rival – of Agatha Christie, adopted and subverted the detective fiction genre in order to explore women’s roles within the family and within larger society in ways that still resonate strongly today. This scholarly edition revives a pivotal text by an undervalued late-Victorian and early twentieth-century author, and adds to our understanding of that transformational literary period. This edition brings together, for the first time, Lowndes’ 1913 novel and the 1911 short story upon which it was based, providing new transcriptions of the texts alongside facsimiles of Henry Raleigh’s original illustrations. A critical introduction offers historical, thematic, and biographical context drawn from new archival research, as well as an exhaustive bibliography of Lowndes’s published work.
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 3063 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547754213
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of Marie Belloc Lowndes" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels: The Lodger The Chink in the Armour The End of Her Honeymoon Love and Hatred What Timmy Did What Really Happened The Story of Ivy From Out the Vast Deep Good Old Anna The Red Cross Barge The Heart of Penelope Barbara Rebell Jane Oglander The Uttermost Farthing Short Stories: Studies in Wives Althea's Opportunity Mr. Jarvice's Wife A Very Modern Instance According to Meredith Shameful Behaviour? The Decree Made Absolute Studies in Love and Terror Price of Admiralty The Child St. Catherine's eve The Woman from Purgatory Why they Married Biography: His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547385981
Ellen and Robert Bunting from London have fallen on hard times, finding themselves on the verge of bankruptcy. But one night, a mysterious stranger, who introduces himself as Mr. Sleuth, takes the lodge with them for a rent they so desperately need to survive. The Buntings ignore the lodger's mysterious experiments and late night walks, relaxing into their good fortune. However, at the same time Mr. Sleuth arrives, a serial killer, who calls himself "The Avenger," starts terrorizing the city of London, leaving behind several dead bodies of young blonde women.
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 3373 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027243488
This carefully edited Marie Belloc Lowndes collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Novels: The Lodger The Chink in the Armour The End of Her Honeymoon Love and Hatred What Timmy Did What Really Happened The Story of Ivy From Out the Vast Deep Good Old Anna The Red Cross Barge The Heart of Penelope Barbara Rebell Jane Oglander The Uttermost Farthing Short Stories: Studies in Wives Althea's Opportunity Mr. Jarvice's Wife A Very Modern Instance According to Meredith Shameful Behaviour? The Decree Made Absolute Studies in Love and Terror Price of Admiralty The Child St. Catherine's eve The Woman from Purgatory Why they Married Biography: His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547067221
"The Chink in the Armour" by Marie Belloc Lowndes is an early 20th century novel that was later turned into a silent film. Intrigue, mystery, and adventure are key parts to this story that has gripped readers for the past century. Though almost lost to time, literary preservation efforts have allowed its conservation for future readers.
Author : Dr Christopher Pittard
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478829
Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.
