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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Elaine Violette
Alaina has given up hope that Martin Blackstone will return her love. She prepares to re-enter London's social scene. Plans change when Phillip Harrington, her deceased father's previous business partner, appears and threatens her with blackmail. He reveals damaging evidence that could destroy her beloved brother's life unless she agrees to a ruse that will help him close a lucrative deal her father's death left unfinished. Sacrificing her respectability, she leaves London with Harrington on a voyage to America posing as his fianc . When Martin discovers that the woman he's left behind has been blackmailed and in imminent danger, he will move heaven and earth to find her. Despite his heroism, obstacles appear insurmountable for Alaina to trust Martin's love.
When Emily Grace Hughes, a poetess with an aversion to marriage, proposes a convenient pretense of courtship to Lord Marcus Deming during the London Season, Marcus sees it as a perfect solution to his matchmaking aunt's interference. While the ruse ends in emotional turmoil and misconceptions, a more devious pretense brews at the Hughes' estate, threatening all that Emily holds dear. Will Marcus' unspoken love for Emily drive him to uncover the truth behind both pretenses or will the more malicious deceiver become the victor?
When a minister's daughter rebels against her father's uncharacteristic demand that she accepts a marriage proposal from a stuffy, egotistical theology student, he uses deception and manipulation to gain her obedience. Meanwhile, a hired carpenter, the man she loves, finds an old diary in the ruins of a wall he's razed and discovers a shocking family scandal. If he keeps its secrets, he'll lose her to another; if he reveals the contents, it could destroy her and disgrace her family. As two men vie for her affection and her father pressures her with his demands, strange occurrences at the parsonage keep the family on edge. Truths must come to light, but will they destroy this young woman's belief, shatter her dreams, or bring lasting love?
Despite a promise to her sons to end her dangerous abolitionist activities, a widow refuses to turn away a desperate runaway in need of shelter. When sadistic slave catchers arrive in town and terrorize her family, she must face the deadly consequences of her broken promise. What follows is both a heart-breaking and heart-warming story of a family in need of healing from grief, terror, and destructive secrets.
Lady Amelia Pierce has a forbidden dream: riding in equestrian competitions. When she loses a family ring in the stable, her brother finds her foraging for it in the hay with Lucas Grey, a duke's bastard son. Amelia's outraged father sends her to London to salvage her reputation and find a suitable match. Despite his ignoble birth and rakish reputation, Lucas is much admired for his management of Winston Equestrian Stables. He and Amelia are fascinated by each other. But the missing emerald ring and a viscount's greed lead to disaster and imprisonment for Lucas. Will scandal and secrets keep him from Amelia forever?
The Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet--a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author's mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desire, set between the dining halls of Cornell University and the raucous parties of midcentury New York CityWill Self is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English language, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by The Guardian. In this brilliantly conceived new novel Self turns his forensic eye and technicolor imagination to the troubled life of his mother, Elaine. Standing by the mailbox outside 1100 Hemlock Street in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her husband and child inside her house and wonders: is this . . . it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that put her first marriage to an Ivy League academic and former Communist Party member in peril. Based on the intimate diaries Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm: a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Will Self working in an exciting new dimension, utilizing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
The Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet--a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author's mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desireWill Self is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English language, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by The Guardian. In this brilliantly conceived new novel Self turns his forensic eye and technicolor imagination to the troubled life of his mother, Elaine. Standing by the mailbox outside 1100 Hemlock Street in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her husband and child inside her house and wonders: is this . . . it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that places her marriage to an Ivy League academic and former Communist Party member in peril. Based on the intimate diaries Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm: a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Will Self working in an exciting new dimension, employing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
At 23 Elaine has achieved much more than a woman of her age in 1939 might have expected - or predicted. She is single minded, ambitious and highly intelligent and can handle the heavy responsibility that has fallen on her as war threatens. It seems that anything is possible. She is wooed by a neighbour, one of 'nature's gentleman', modest, unselfish, but limited. Frank desperately wants to marry her. Then she meets Robert Leonard, owner of the largest department store in Brighton, the most eligible man in the town and falls deeply in love with a man who seems to correspond to all her instincts and ambitions. The story takes Elaine and her family through the war and into the fifties and as she watches her bright daughter grow up she is determined that she shall not fall into the trap that ensnared Elaine. This is Part One of The Brighton Trilogy.
... Comment la blanche laine tait-elle en possession de ce bel cu de Lancelot, elle qui ne savait m me pas le nom du chevalier? Il le lui avait laiss en allant jouter pour le grand diamant dans les tournois qu'Arthur avait organis s sous ce nom, parce qu'un diamant en tait le prix...
'Elaine is not just a serious work of art, but an unexpected act of filial generosity' GuardianStanding by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders...is this it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that ends her marriage and upends her life.Based on the intimate diaries Will Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm of a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Self working in an exciting new dimension, utilizing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
'Elaine is not just a serious work of art, but an unexpected act of filial generosity' GuardianStanding by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders...is this it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that ends her marriage and upends her life.Based on the intimate diaries Will Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm of a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Self working in an exciting new dimension, utilizing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
Eine finstere Ruine, eine tragische Legende, und ein Mann, der behauptet, ein Windbruder zu sein. Die 18-j hrige Marla ist weder so sch n wie ihre ltere Schwester, noch so klug und witzig wie die j ngere. Sie findet sich ziemlich unscheinbar. Das ndert sich, als sie im Wald den geheimnisvollen Arvid kennenlernt. Er gibt ihr das Gef hl, etwas ganz Besonderes zu sein. Sie allerdings h lt ihn f r einen Sonderling. Dennoch f hlt sie sich auf unerkl rliche Weise von ihm angezogen. Zudem ist ihre Neugier, von der sie reichlich besitzt, geweckt. Als sie ihn dr ngt, von sich zu erz hlen, r ckt er nach und nach mit seiner Geschichte heraus. Es dauert nicht lange und sie erkennt darin die Legende, die sich um den Klageh gel rankt - einer finsteren Ruine mitten im Wald. Dort soll sich vor vielen Jahren eine schreckliche Trag die ereignet haben. Fasziniert taucht Marla in das Leben der jungen Elaine ein. Bald kann sie an nichts anderes mehr denken. Als Arvid eines Tages von dem au ergew hnlichen Geschenk erz hlt, das er Elaine gemacht hat, besteht Marla darauf, es zu sehen. Von nun an nimmt das Schicksal seinen Lauf und sie hat M he zu unterscheiden, was real ist und was nicht.