The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil
Title The Painted Veil PDF eBook
Author William Somerset Maugham
Publisher Vintage
Pages 300
Release 1925
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to work in a cholera epidemic.

The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil
Title The Painted Veil PDF eBook
Author William Somerset Maugham
Publisher Good Press
Pages 209
Release 2023-12-13
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Garstin, a pretty upper-middle class debutante, squanders her early youth amusing herself by living a social high life, during which her domineering mother attempts to arrange a "brilliant match" for her.

The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil
Title The Painted Veil PDF eBook
Author William Somerset Maugham
Publisher DigiCat
Pages 210
Release 2022-05-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Garstin, a pretty upper-middle class debutante, squanders her early youth amusing herself by living a social high life, during which her domineering mother attempts to arrange a "brilliant match" for her.

An elegy on the death of a mad dog

An elegy on the death of a mad dog
Title An elegy on the death of a mad dog PDF eBook
Author Arthur Frackenpohl
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 20
Release 1955
Genre Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano, 4 hands
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The Savage Instinct

The Savage Instinct
Title The Savage Instinct PDF eBook
Author Marjorie DeLuca
Publisher Inkshares
Pages 283
Release 2021-03-30
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1947848682

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"DeLuca keeps readers guessing. Minette Walters fans will be pleased." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Hannah Kent's Burial Rites, this taut psychological thriller offers a delicious take on deviant and defiant Victorian women in a time when marriage itself was its own prison. England, 1873. Clara Blackstone has just been released after one year in a private asylum for the insane. Clara has two goals: to reunite with her husband, Henry, and to never—ever—return to the asylum. As she enters Durham, Clara finds her carriage surrounded by a mob gathered to witness the imprisonment of Mary Ann Cotton—England’s first female serial killer—accused of poisoning nearly twenty people, including her husbands and children. Clara soon finds the oppressive confinement of her marriage no less terrifying than the white-tiled walls of Hoxton. And as she grows increasingly suspicious of Henry’s intentions, her fascination with Cotton grows. Soon, Cotton is not just a notorious figure from the headlines, but an unlikely confidante, mentor—and perhaps accomplice—in Clara’s struggle to protect her money, her freedom, and her life.

Murder in the Age of Enlightenment

Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
Title Murder in the Age of Enlightenment PDF eBook
Author Ryonosuke Akutagawa
Publisher Pushkin Press Classics
Pages 209
Release 2024-07-02
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1805330292

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Madness, murder and obsession: a stylishly original and fantastical collection of stories from an iconic Japanese writer A collection of the 7 essential Akutagawa short stories, in a vivid and elegant translation – the perfect introduction to this master of prose “A born short-story writer. . . one never tires of reading and re-reading his best works” – Haruki Murukami From a nobleman's court, to the garden of paradise, to a lantern festival in Tokyo, these 7 shrot stories offer dazzling glimpses into moments of madness, murder and obsession. A talented yet spiteful painter is given over to depravity in pursuit of artistic brilliance. In the depth of hell, a robber spies a single spider's thread being lowered towards him. When a body is found in an isolated bamboo grove, a kaleidoscopic account of violence and desire begins to unfold. These are short stories from an unparalleled master of the form. Sublimely crafted and stylishly original, Akutagawa's writing is shot through with a fantastical sensibility. This collection, in a vivid translation by Bryan Karetnyk, brings together the most essential works from this iconic Japanese writer. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: outstanding classic storytelling from around the world, in a stylishly original series design. From newly rediscovered gems to fresh translations of the world’s greatest authors, this series includes such authors as Stefan Zweig, Hermann Hesse, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Gaito Gazdanov.

A True Novel

A True Novel
Title A True Novel PDF eBook
Author Minae Mizumura
Publisher Other Press, LLC
Pages 883
Release 2013-11-12
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1590515765

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A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class. The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.