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Little Novels
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2022-05-30
Little Novels written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by Lindhardt og Ringhof this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-30 with Fiction categories.
"Little Novels" isn’t quite a "Little Women" spin-off, as the title might suggest. While you won’t be treated to Timothée Chalamet, you will be treated to fourteen short stories – or little novels (ah now the title makes sense). Wilkie Collins loved writing thrillers about characters proposing marriage who get caught up in dramatic circumstances and must solve a mystery. The thrilling mystery-solving element is the foundations of modern detective novels. While these little novels are true to Collins’s style, they are unique and captivating stand-alone stories. There’s even some supernatural and some social commentary thrown in there. A haunted priest, a sea captain falling in love in Polynesia, a princess falling in love with a secretary, the unsolved murder of a sleepwalker’s husband – these short stories will immerse you in a Victorian world of intrigue, romance, and male suitors who you might imagine looking like Timothée Chalamet. London-born Wilke Collins (1824-1889) became known in Victorian England for his novels and plays, sometimes writing together with Charles Dickens. His most famous works, "The Woman in White" (1859) and "The Moonstone" (1868), are examples of the first modern detective novels.
Little
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-10-23
Little written by Edward Carey and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-23 with Fiction categories.
"An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself." —Gregory Maguire, New York Times-bestselling author of Wicked The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud. In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and . . . at the wax museum, heads are what they do. In the tradition of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Edward Carey's Little is a darkly endearing cavalcade of a novel—a story of art, class, determination, and how we hold on to what we love.
Little Novels 1887 Novels
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-02-08
Little Novels 1887 Novels written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-08 with Fiction categories.
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer, best known for The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to the family of painter William Collins in London, he grew up in Italy and France, learning French and Italian.'Miss Morris and the Stranger' ('How I Married Him')Originally published as 'How I Married Him' in The Spirit of the Times, 24 December 1881 and Belgravia, January 1882.Nancy Morris, a shopkeeper's daughter from Sandwich, becomes a governess with the help of a benefactor, Sir Gervase Damian. One day she helps a stranger whose advances she gently rebuffs, only to meet him again when she takes a new position in the North. Sir Gervase leaves Nancy £70,000 which she renounces in favour of the only other heir, his nephew. He turns out to be the stranger, Sextus Sax, who refuses the fortune until Nancy, in a Leap Year, proposes that he should accept both her and the money.'Mr Cosway and the Landlady' ('Your Money or Your Life')Originally published as 'Your Money or Your Life' in the Belgravia Annual, Christmas 1881; the People's Library, 17 December 1881; and in The Seaside Library (vol. 57, No 1164), 1881. Collins acknowledged that the first part of the story where the landlady forces her young creditor into marriage was taken from Lockhart's The Life of Sir Walter Scott (1825).When Edwin Cosway hears that the wife he was tricked into marrying has died, he falls in love with Adela Restall. Her father objects and their elopement is foiled by the malicious Miss Benshaw who turns out to be Edwin's wife with her name changed to inherit the family fortune. She is drowned and her will leaves half a million pounds to Adela provided that she does not marry Edwin, a condition that Adela happily ignores.'Mr Medhurst and the Princess' ('Royal Love')Originally published as 'Royal Love' in Longman's Magazine, Christmas 1884.Ernest Medhurst is unwittingly caught up in a minor political intrigue while second secretary to a small German Court. The Princess falls in love with him and to avoid the possibility of scandal affecting her forthcoming marriage her father ensures that Medhurst is duped into leaving the country. This ultimately works to Medhurst's advantage as he then marries Jeanne, the daughter of his old singing master.'Mr Lismore and the Widow' ('She Loves and Lies')Originally published as 'She Loves and Lies' in The Spirit of the Times, 22 December 1883; and in Tales from Many Sources, vol 4, 1885. Collins presented the manuscript of the story to A. P. Watt in January 1884. Ernest Lismore is in financial difficulties. In return for a token marriage, he is offered help by the elderly Mrs Callender whom years before he saved from a fire. Lismore eventually agrees and they live abroad as mother and son until he meets an attractive girl in an art gallery. Forced to decide between the girl and his wife, he chooses the older woman only to find they are one and the same person. The artifice was to ensure that Lismore loves her rather than her money....
Little Black Book Of Stories
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Author : A. S. Byatt
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Little Black Book Of Stories written by A. S. Byatt and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Fiction categories.
An unforgettable collection of fairy tales for grownups—from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. • “A delight.... provoking and alarming, richly yet tautly rendered.... [She] has the sheer narrative skill to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and make your pulse race.” —The New York Times Book Review Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for adults. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form. Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw–or thought they saw–something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the Little Black Book of Stories is Byatt at the height of her craft.
Little Novels
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-16
Little Novels written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with Fiction categories.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The last has been called the first modern English detective novel.
Little Ironies
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Author : Catherine Lim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Little Ironies written by Catherine Lim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Singaporean fiction (English) categories.
Little
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Author : Emily C. Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Little written by Emily C. Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Experimental fiction, American categories.
Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Women's Studies. "I can't remember the last time I read something so familiar and unsettling like meeting someone you love after they come back from a long journey wearing differently-colored eyes. Like if H.P. Lovecraft had had a hand in writing The Book of Common Prayer. It's playful, and frightening, and truer, somehow, than the original." Mallory Ortberg, Texts from Jane Eyre "A virtuosic display of wit, humor, and surreal beauty. Like the erasures of Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes and Yedda Morrison's Darkness, Emily Anderson's partially masticated reimaginings of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series gets inside the logic of its source text. With uncanny insight, Little reveals what had always been simmering just beneath these novels' familiar surfaces. (Mostly doughnuts and motherbutter). Jesse Miller, reviews editor, Full Stop "Apple cheeked readers who curled up with Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books as children and cheered the little family and their epic industriousness, please be forewarned. Anderson's devilish re-writing exhumes and animates a series of haunting and sometimes disturbingly funny sub- narratives. Delving deep into the American psyche, Little will leave you wondering how you missed the 'Certificate to Missouri' clutched in your complicit little hand. What else have you squandered? Who else have you 'loved?'" Yedda Morrison, Darkness, Crop, and Girl Scout Nation "Come for the Michael Landon Flip Book; stay for the richly rewoven story that excavates hidden moments in Little House on the Prairie and pays playful homage to fan favorites like prairie bitch Nellie Oleson. Little is a new classic, skillfully foraging Laura Ingalls Wilder's much-loved series to create an (ir)reverent rereading that pioneers the new frontier of Little House on the Prairie in the 21st- century." Alison Fraser, Animalia"
Little Novels
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
Little Novels written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with categories.
The Little Stranger
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Author : Sarah Waters
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-04-30
The Little Stranger written by Sarah Waters and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-30 with Fiction categories.
Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson. "The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. Its owners—mother, son, and daughter—are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become intimately entwined with his.
A Small Fiction
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Author : James Miller
language : en
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-18
A Small Fiction written by James Miller and has been published by Unbound Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
At night, the trees whispered. Told ghost stories, their leaves trembling. Remembered the fallen. Joked. Dry laughter rustled the dark. What happens when a writer wants to tell a hundred stories but doesn’t have the time to write a hundred books? They write the seeds of those stories and cast them to the wind... A Small Fiction presents a collection of illustrated micro-fiction, all told in 140 characters or fewer. From the humorous to the bleak, the dystopian to the dog-filled, there’s a story for every occasion, and an occasion for every story.