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"Doris Lessing can take any genre she chooses - in this case, the horror story - and brilliantly reinvent it.
The Fifth Child is dramatic and memorable, playing as it does upon a most ancient fear".
Guardian
David and Harriett Lovatt are an ambitious couple in the seventies in England: their ambition is not a professional but a personal one. They want to have a big happy family, even if this is against the trend of the times. They buy a big house that they can't afford and plan to have at least six children, possibly eight. They have one, the second follows shortly after, soon they have four. People enjoy staying at their place and family and friends gather in the big house during the holidays. Until the day Harriet is pregnant with...
Beautifully written with a fantastic cast of women . . . worth
taking a duvet day for . . . you won't want to put this down.
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid...
According to The Gifts of Change, the most ordinary of daily events can lead to a better understanding of oneself and inspire a new life perspective - the "gift" that comes with the change. The book asks three questions: Do you keep the promises you make to yourself? Do you have memories that nourish you and feed your soul? Do you really know yourself, what you`re capable of doing, all the people you are capable of being? In sharing her own answers as well as those of people she has interviewed, Nancy Christie offers readers...
Jay McInerney's new novel seems from the outside to be composed of the most disheartening elements: The Good Life is about a group of privileged New Yorkers who are led to reassess their lives?and become in many ways better people?in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The plot premise seems so pat and topical that the reader is likely to take fright. But there is mercifully no need. It is a tribute to McInerney's many talents that he can wrest from his schematic structure a novel that is both tender and entertaining.As often in McInerney's...
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic, The Grapes of Wrath, remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human, yet majestic in its scale...
Every weekend durning one long, hot summer Jay Gatsby has a party in his huge house on Long Island. He is a man without a past, and has a lot of money that seems to have come from nowhere. But Gatsby is on Long Island for a reason. He is following a dream of love. Will his dream come true?
W świecie zbytku i nadmiaru dóbr żyje zamężna, wytworna kobieta, zdobywająca męskie serca swoją charyzmą i głosem pełnym... pieniędzy.
Martha Bone nie miała dzieci - miała meble. Nie miała męża - miała swój sklep "Antykwariat Marthy Bone", na bardzo modnych przedmieściach Londynu. Jej siostry mężatki mieszały się w co chciały, jednak to nie nie robiło jej różnicy. Mimo że Marta kochała siostrzenicę i siostrzeńca, dzieci nie miały racji bytu w jej świecie. Ich brudne paluchy i ubłocone buty nie szły w parze z jej kremową sofą i zielonkawo morskim dywanikiem. Kiedy ojczym Marty umarł małe nieporozumienie uruchomiło łańcuch zdarzeń. Po pierwsze pozwoliła kotu...
The Handmaid`s Tale is set in the futuristic Republic of Gilead. Sometime in the future, conservative Christians take control of the United States and establish a dictatorship. Most women in Gilead are infertile after repeated exposure to pesticides, nuclear waste, or leakages from chemical weapons. The few fertile women are taken to camps and trained to be handmaidens, birth-mothers for the upper-class. Infertile lower-class women are sent either to clean up toxic waste or to become "Marthas" house servants. No women in the...
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