A Separate Peace
Title | A Separate Peace PDF eBook |
Author | John Knowles |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-05-24 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789394752993 |
PBS's The Great American Read named it one of America's best-loved novels. A Separate Peace has been a bestseller in the United States for nearly thirty years, and it is ageless in its depiction of youth during a time when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. A Separate Peace is a horrific and brilliant fable about the dark side of adolescence set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II. Gene is an introverted, lonely intellectual. Phineas is a reckless athlete who is attractive and taunts others. Like the war itself, what happens between the two friends one summer robs these guys and their world of their innocence.
Peace Breaks Out
Title | Peace Breaks Out PDF eBook |
Author | John Knowles |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1982-10 |
Genre | Boys |
ISBN | 9780808517481 |
In the uneasy peace after World War II, the senior year at Devan School for Boys in New Hampshire changes from a time of fiendships into a stunning drama of tragic betrayal.
A Separate Peace
Title | A Separate Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Bloom |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Criticism |
ISBN | 1438114788 |
Discusses the characters, plot and writing of A separate peace by John Knowles. Includes critical essays on the novel and a brief biography of the author.
The Savage Instinct
Title | The Savage Instinct PDF eBook |
Author | Marjorie DeLuca |
Publisher | Inkshares |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2021-03-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1947848682 |
"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.
John Knowles's A Separate Peace
Title | John Knowles's A Separate Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Bloom |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Pages | 133 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | Preparatory school students in literature |
ISBN | 1438126522 |
A collection of essays analyzing Knowles's classic work, including a chronology of his works and life.
Black Dogs
Title | Black Dogs PDF eBook |
Author | Ian McEwan |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2010-07-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307367002 |
Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of Bernard and June Tremaine’s marriage, as witnessed by their son-in-law, Jeremy, who seeks to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences that seem irreconcilable. In writing June’s memoirs, Jeremy is led back to a moment, that was, for June, as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy’s own time. Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civilization’s darkest moods—its black dogs—with the tensions that both create love and destroy it.
A Separate Peace
Title | A Separate Peace PDF eBook |
Author | John Knowles |
Publisher | Dramatic Publishing |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Boys |
ISBN | 9780871299192 |
John Knowles' beloved classic has been a bestseller for more than 30 years and is one of the most moving and accurate novels about the trials and confusions of adolescence ever written. Set at an elite boarding school for boys during World War II, A Separate Peace is the story of friendship and treachery, and how a tragic accident involving two young men forever tarnishes their innocence.