Tell it to a Stranger

Tell it to a Stranger PDF Author: Elizabeth Berridge
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781903155042
Category : Nineteen forties
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
A collection of short stories by Elizabeth Berridge.

Dimanche and Other Stories

Dimanche and Other Stories PDF Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307739317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.

The New Magdalen

The New Magdalen PDF Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description

The Montana Stories

The Montana Stories PDF Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155158
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Contains all the short stories written during the last year of Katherine Mansfield's life at Montana, with a new and lengthy publisher's note.

Emmeline

Emmeline PDF Author: Judith Rossner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476774846
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar—a haunting tale of forbidden love set against the backdrop of the American industrial revolution. This is the story of Emmeline Mosher, who, before her fourteenth birthday, was sent from her home on a farm in Maine to support her family by working in a cotton mill in Massachusetts. So begins the sixth novel by the author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar. But nothing Judith Rossner has written can prepare the reader for this haunting love story of a young girl thrust into one of America’s early industrial towns, then drawn into a love affair for which she is far from ready. In Emmeline, Rossner brings us the intensity, grasp of character, and storytelling ability that have distinguished her novels of modern women.

Someone at a Distance

Someone at a Distance PDF Author: Dorothy Whipple
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781906462000
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
J. B. Priestly describes Dorothy Whipple as a "Jane Austen of the Twentieth Century."

The Closed Doors and Other Stories

The Closed Doors and Other Stories PDF Author: Dorothy Whipple
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155646
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
Dorothy Whipple's key theme is `Live and Let Live'. And what she describes throughout her short stories are people, and particularly parents, who defy this maxim. For this reason her work is timeless, like all great writing. It is irrelevant that Dorothy Whipple's novels were set in an era when middle-class women expected to have a maid; when fish knives were used for eating fish; when children did what they were told. The moral universe she creates has not changed: there are bullies in every part of society; people try their best but often fail; they would like to be unselfish but sometimes are greedy. Like George Eliot, like Mrs Gaskell, like EM Forster, Dorothy Whipple describes men and women in their social milieu, which in her case is the inter-war period, and shows them being all- too human. But her books are not nostalgia reads either, any more than reading George Eliot or Forster is a nostalgia read, nor are they old-fashioned or simplistic. Her prose, it is true, is pure, uncluttered, straightforward, pared down to the bone and never labours the point; her subtlety is the reason why so many people - generally those who have not read her - overlook her excellence.

The Priory

The Priory PDF Author: Dorothy Whipple
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 532

Book Description

Expiation

Expiation PDF Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910263235
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description

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