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Thomas De Quincey

A legal and readily available painkiller in the nineteenth century, laudanum was a source of both pleasure and pain for author Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). After achieving overnight success with u003ciu003eConfessions of an English Opium Eater,u003c/iu003e an impassioned account of his struggles with addiction, the author wrote the hypnotic prose poems of u003ciu003eSuspiria ...

Brontë, Anne

Gilbert Markham is fascinated by Helen Graham, the beautiful and enigmatic woman who has recently moved into Wildfell Hall. He is swift to befriend her, but when local gossip calls Helen's character and behaviour into question, Gilbert begins to repent of his congeniality. It is only when Helen presents Gilbert with her diary and instructs him to read it that the shocking truth...

Dickens, Charles

Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment and begins a new life in England with his devoted daughter Lucie. There, the gifted but dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton and the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find their lives increasingly intertwined with those of the Manettes. Yet...

Arnim, Elizabeth Von

Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters - the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the cantankerous Mrs Fisher and the haughty Lady Caroline Dester - respond to an advertisement in The Times offering a medieval castle to rent in Italy that April. As their joint holiday begins, tensions flare up between them, but they soon bond over their past mis...

Brontë, Anne

The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her family and so sets out to prove herself by seeking employment as a governess. Soon, however, her idealistic notions regarding the education and care of her wards are dashed as she battles to control the wild Bloomfield children in her first situation, and is then held in low regard by...

Jean Rhys

Aperitifs in smoky Montparnasse cafes, cheap hotel rooms, and Marya Zelli, trying to make of her life something substantial to withstand the unreality which surrounds her. Alone, stranded in Paris after her Polish husband is jailed, Marya is befriended by an English couple who take her home with them. Slowly they overwhelm her with their passions as Marya drifts into an affair ...

Jean Rhys

u003cpu003eJulia Martin is in Paris and at the end of her rope. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now, after being dropped by her latest lover, Mr. Mackenzie, Julia is running out of luck and chances. A visit to London to see her ailing mother might offer an opportunity to start over--but it also brings her face to face with her distrustful sister, Norah, who can't ...

Jean Rhys

Un recorrido por la atormentada vida sentimental de la autora a través de las cuatro novelas que la dieron a conocer al público. Bien mirado, la vida de Jean Rhys fue un catálogo del desamor y ese dolor, esa espera angustiosa del amado y la desolación que sigue al abandono son el tema principal de las cuatro novelas cortas que componen este volumen. Las protagonistasde cada una...

Jean Rhys

«Una de las novelas más geniales del siglo XX.»The TimesAntoinette Cosway busca crear un mundo propio, a medias entre los modales distinguidos de su familia británica y las misteriosas vidas de los isleños jamaicanos. Un joven inglés se casa con ella, pero después del matrimonio empiezan a circular inquietantes rumores sobre el comportamiento de su esposa. A principios de 1940,...

Jean Rhys

Tras largos años de silencio y olvido después de haber publicado, en el período que va de 1927 a 1939, cinco libros escritos «con una sensibilidad demasiado adelantada a su época», Jean Rhys reapareció en 1966 en la escena literaria inglesa con "Ancho mar de los Sargazos", que muchos críticos consideran su obra maestra. Espléndido ejercicio de «literatura en la literatura» pero...

Jean Rhys