The Glass Virgin

Author : Catherine Cookson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743274302

Get Book

The Glass Virgin by Catherine Cookson Pdf

From bestselling author Catherine Cookson comes a compelling riches-to-rags story featuring secrets, scandal, and emotional drama set in Victorian England. Annabella Lagrange had the kind of childhood that most can only dream about. The only child of an aristocratic couple, raised on their magnificent estate in the English countryside, she was loved by her parents and coddled by servants who acquiesced to her every whim. She was allowed to do anything she wanted, except, of course, to stray too far from her wing of the house. But her seclusion didn't concern her too much, because when she grew up, she planned to marry her handsome cousin Stephen and live happily ever after. However, on the morning of her tenth birthday, Annabella ventured farther than she'd ever gone before. Overcome with curiosity, she opened a forbidden door that led into her father's private quarters, and what she found there showed her with shocking clarity that her father was not the man she thought he was. And though she couldn't know it at the time, the events of that day set in motion the uncovering of a secret that had been kept for many years. So begins the remarkable story of Annabella Lagrange, a sensitive, beautiful young woman who was raised as a lady. But when she turns eighteen, she learns the surprising circumstances of her birth, and her entire world quietly crashes around her. Suddenly she's forced from the genteel surroundings of her youth into the rough, lower-class society of Victorian England, where only her quick wit and determination can save her from starvation. Catherine Cookson was one of the world's most beloved writers, and in The Glass Virgin her powers are at their height. Rarely has a heroine been portrayed more sensitively or a situation more compellingly. Filled with passion and drama, The Glass Virgin is a rare treat for lovers of romantic fiction.

Author : Catherine Cookson
Publisher : Bantam Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1981-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553139371

Get Book

The Glass Virgin by Catherine Cookson Pdf

Author : Gordon Dahlquist
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307755575

Get Book

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Volume One by Gordon Dahlquist Pdf

Here begins an extraordinary alliance—and a brutal and tender, shocking, and electrifying adventure to end all adventures. It starts with a simple note. Roger Bascombe regretfully wishes to inform Celeste Temple that their engagement is forthwith terminated. Determined to find out why, Miss Temple takes the first step in a journey that will propel her into a dizzyingly seductive, utterly shocking world beyond her imagining—and set her on a collision course with a killer and a spy—in a bodice-ripping, action-packed roller-coaster ride of suspense, betrayal, and richly fevered dreams.

Author : Catherine Cookson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:650394710

Get Book

The Glass Virgin (video). by Catherine Cookson Pdf

Author : Julie Anne Taddeo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351953177

Get Book

Catherine Cookson Country by Julie Anne Taddeo Pdf

Britain's most widely read author of the late twentieth century, Catherine Cookson published more than 100 books, including The Fifteen Streets, The Black Velvet Gown, and Katie Mulhollond. Set in England's industrial northeast, her novels depict the social, economic, and emotional hardships of that area. In the first essay collection devoted to Cookson, the contributors examine what Cookson's memoirs and historical fiction mean to readers, including how her fans contribute to her position in the cultural imaginary; constructions of gender, class, and English and Irish identity in her work; the importance of place in her novels; Cookson's place in the heritage industry; and television adaptations of Cookson's works. Cookson's work tackled topics that were still taboo in the early post-World War II era, such as domestic abuse, rape, and incest. This collection places Cookson in historical context and shows how skillful she was at pushing generic boundaries.

Author : Catherine Cookson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 0750551216

Get Book

The Fifteen Streets by Catherine Cookson Pdf

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject poverty, confined to the hardships of the Fifteen Streets. Labouring on the city's docks and trying to keep his loved ones safe from the drunken wrath of his father and brother, this is the only way of life he knows. Then John O'Brien meets his sister's teacher. Mary Llewellyn is beautiful and elegant, wealthy and privileged. She wants to help the less fortunate through education, in the hope it will enable them to escape their desolate lives. From a casual conversation over tea grows a rare love, but fate steps in when John is accused of fathering the child of a local girl and Mary's parents forbid her to see John. The couple begin to think that gulf between them cannot be bridged...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1780360185

Get Book

The Glass Virgin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Catherine Cookson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 9780552156707

Get Book

The Round Tower by Catherine Cookson Pdf

Vanessa Ratcliffe is just sixteen, daughter of one of the town's richest men. And in spite of her social standing and convent education, Vanessa's provocative manner often draws envious eyes in her direction. Angus Cotton is a rough diamond, living in filthy Ryder's Row, but as engineer at Affleck and Tate he's worth his weight in gold. Angus has ambitious plans for his future, plans that had never included Vanessa - until now... The Round Tower is a beautifully imagined story of power, love, honour and greed and an award-winning novel from one of Britain's most popular novelists.

Author : Thomas F. Monteleone
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765340283

Get Book

Eyes of the Virgin by Thomas F. Monteleone Pdf

Accused of the murders of her husband and sister, Kate Hudson is drawn into an international battle to control a piece of stained glass that conveys messages from God through the image of the Virgin Mary.

Author : Emily St. John Mandel
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443455749

Get Book

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE A Time Magazine Must Read Book of 2020 A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year #1 national bestseller New York Times bestseller From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.” Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

Author : Catherine Cookson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Abandoned children
ISBN : 9780552136839

Get Book

The Rag Nymph by Catherine Cookson Pdf

When Millie Forester's mother abandons her one late June afternoon in 1854, the girl bursts unexpectedly into Aggie Winkowski's life. Aggie, known locally as 'Raggie Aggie' for her long-established business of trading rags and old clothes, knows the dangers waiting for such a strikingly pretty girl left alone in this rough and vice-ridden quarter, and sees no other option but to take her in. But what begins as a compassionate solution soon leads to the development of a new, deepening relationship that is to mould Millie's destiny, and give new meaning to the lift of Aggie Winkowski . . . The Rag Nymph is a gripping historical novel, embracing the good and evil of the Victorian era.

Author : Marjorie Becker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 052091435X

Get Book

Setting the Virgin on Fire by Marjorie Becker Pdf

In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lázaro Cárdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern. This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoacán. There, peasants were passionately engaged in a Catholic culture focusing on the Virgin Mary. The Cardenistas, inspired by revolutionary ideas of equality and modernity, were oblivious to the peasants' spirituality and determined to transform them. A series of dramatic conflicts forced Cárdenas to develop a government that embodied some of the peasants' complex culture. Becker brilliantly combines concerns with culture and power and a deep historical empathy to bring to life the men and women of her story. She shows how Mexico's government today owes much of its subtlety to the peasants of Michoacán.

Author : CATHERINE. COOKSON
Publisher : Corgi
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0552175293

Get Book

The Wingless Bird by CATHERINE. COOKSON Pdf

Even the approach to Christmas fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of the sweet and tobacconist shops owned by her feckless father. There are dark secrets in Arthur Conway's past, and these come tragically to light when Agnes's younger sister falls pregnant by one of the notorious Felton brothers. And Agnes herself has a secret, which she knows she must keep from her father: her relationship with Charles Farrier, son of a local landowner, who outrages his own wealthy, pious family by proposing marriage. However Charles is not the only man who could shape Agnes's furture, as his brother Reginald makes no secret of his admiration for her. But she could not have foreseen how significant a part he is to play in her destiny... The Wingless Bird is an absorbing story of love and the harsh realities of Britain's class system.

Author : Laura Joffe Numeroff
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780063229631

Get Book

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff Pdf

If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. He'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache, and then he'll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim.... The consequences of giving a cookie to this energetic mouse run the young host ragged, but young readers will come away smiling at the antics that tumble like dominoes through the pages of this delightful picture book.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501143557

Get Book

The Dark Tower IV by Stephen King Pdf

While Roland the Gunslinger and his companions leap between worlds, he relates his experiences with the elusive, powerful emotion of love in a journey into his own past.