The Judge
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Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. But they are young. All life still lies ahead. Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. And then...
| Author | Antonia White |
| ISBN | 0860680495 |
4.5 stars
This is an autobiographical novel about life in a Catholic Girls school, quite closely based on White’s own life. Like the protagonist of the novel, Nanda, White was a Catholic convert at the age of nine and was sent to a school very like the one in the book. Nanda wants to be a good Catholic...
| Author | F. Tennyson Jesse |
| ISBN | 0860680843 |
4.5 stars
This is a powerful and moving representation in novel form of a true crime in the 1920s. Published in 1934 by F Tennyson Jesse (great niece of the poet Tennyson) it is well written and the characterisation is strong. I must say at this point that there are inevitably spoilers ahead, although...
| Author | Molly Keane |
| ISBN | 1844083233 |
Jessica and Jane have been living together for six months and are devoted friends - or are they? Jessica loves her friend with the cruelty of total possessiveness; Jane is rich, silly, and drinks rather too many brandy-and-sodas.
Watching from the sidelines, their friend Sylvester regrets...
| Author | William Morris |
| ISBN | 1419187414 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0312619863 |
As a young man, William Butler Yeats was deeply affected by the idea of romantic love, or, as he called it, "the old high way of love." Characteristically, much of his early poetry that which was written prior to 1910, is poetry that belongs to courtship.
When Yeats was twenty-three years old,...
| Author | Daphne du Maurier |
| ISBN | 0140034005 |
Daphne du Maurier and Cornwall belong together as surely as Hardy and Dorset, or Dickens and Christmas.
Miss du Maurier has made Cornwall her home for most of her life and has shown her love and knowledge of all things Cornish in some of her greatest successes, Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek, Jamaica...
| Author | Carlos Fuentes |
| ISBN | 0330315641 |
It is 1992 and the sky over Makesicko City is black with oily, carboniferous rain. Here there are 28 million people and 128 million rats. Gangs of homeless youths speaking Spanglish - or Anglatl - roam the chaotic, violent streets... Observing all this, commenting and reflecting, is Christopher, still...
A lovely autobiographical novel by an apparently neglected modernist writer. I am no expert on modernism, but his reminded me in parts of Virginia Woolf, particularly in three ways: the impressionistic early scenes in which Sinclair describes memories of being very young; the swift passing of time...
| Author | Jacques Le Goff |
| ISBN | 8842041971 |
Era la prima volta che leggevo un saggio ed effettivamente è risultato un po' pesante, tanto che ci ho messo tre o quattro mesi per finirlo. Detto questo, il libro è un insieme di dieci trattati sulle principali categorie di persone del medioevo e credo che illustri bene la situazione delle persone...
| Author | Elizabeth von Arnim |
First published in 1920, the story is written in first person as a journal. Our narrator is a tired English woman who, after WWI, escapes ambiguous personal troubles in London and seeks refuge at her chalet among the Swiss Alps. As she starts to gain strength, two English women, also of ambiguous personal...
| Author | Frances Milton Trollope |
| ISBN | 0140435611 |
When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed was...
The Swoop!, or How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great Invasion
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 1434604888 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Aaron Elkins |
| ISBN | 0449148998 |
It is the kind of news that would normally send champagne corks flying at the Seattle Art Museum. A famous French art collector wants to give the museum an original Rembrandt! So why isn't Chris Norgren, curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art, smiling? Perhaps because the gift seems too good to be true....
| Author | Ed McBain |
| ISBN | 0752844105 |
I'm not quite sure what the idea was with this book. Some kind of gimmick, I guess. It bills itself as "a novel in two parts," one written by Evan Hunter and the other by Ed McBain. Of course, these are the same guy, and there is even a picture of "them" on the back dressed differently. Maybe in 2001 when this...
Se ti abbraccio non aver paura. Il viaggio di Franco e Andrea
| Author | Fulvio Ervas |
| ISBN | 8871686144 |
Il verdetto di un medico ha ribaltato il mondo.
La malattia di Andrea è un uragano, sette tifoni.
L'autismo l'ha fatto prigioniero e Franco è diventato un cavaliere che combatte per suo figlio.
Un cavaliere che non si arrende e continua a sognare.
Per anni hanno viaggiato inseguendo...
| Author | Erri De Luca |
| ISBN | 8807811952 |
Essere al mondo, per quello che ho potuto capire, è quando ti è affidata una persona e tu ne sei responsabile e allo stesso tempo tu sei affidato a quella persona ed essa è responsabile per te. Sette anni non furono pochi. Anche se fossero stati la metà o la metà ancora, non sarebbe stato poco. Non...
| Author | Mariapia Veladiano |
| ISBN | 8806205986 |
Rebecca è nata irreparabilmente brutta. Sua madre l'ha rifiutata dopo il parto, suo padre è un inetto. A prendersi cura di lei, la zia Erminia, il cui affetto però nasconde qualcosa di terribile, e la tata Maddalena, affettuosa e piangente. Ma Rebecca ha mani bellissime e talento per il piano. Grazie...
| Author | Paula Fox |
| ISBN | 0393319636 |
"Chekhovian…Every line of Fox's story, every gesture of her characters, is alive and surprising."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
On the eve of their trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, sit in a New York City hotel room, drinking scotch-and-sodas...
