Recently widowed, the beautiful and flirtatious Lady Susan Vernon seeks a new marriage to make her way into high society. Jane Austen’s first novella presents a delightful journey of Regency manners through the author’s timeless expression of elegance, charm and wittiness.
Paris, 1482. In the vaulted towers of Notre-Dame, dark passions haunt the tortured priest Frollo, whose hidden love for young Esmeralda corrupts a pious soul with forbidden remorse. And in the shadows of the bell towers, the broken figure of Quasimodo watches love turns to hatred as the fate of Notre-Dame is drawn into a tale of lust and vengeance.
Mona Hayes is anything but traditional. Diamonds, furs and murder: the many crimes of Mona Hayes is a historical fiction inspired by the life and crimes of little-known 1930s thief Mona Hayes who takes whatever she wants - particularly diamonds, watches and furs.
Lennie Lower, Australia's answer to James Thurber and S.J. Perelman, wrote humorous columns for Smith's Weekly and The Women's Weekly and by 1930 was seen as our greatest humorist with his novel Here's Luck. HERE'S LOWER is a selection of the whimsical Lower from his newspaper columns of the 1930s, illustrated by Patrick Cook. These short tales ......
April 1917, Book 1, captures the division and helplessness of Russia's first Revolutionary rulers, paving the way for the victory of the ruthless Bolsheviks later that year. One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form ......
In October 1857, George MacDonald wrote what he described as "a kind of fairy tale, in the hope that it will pay me better than the more evidently serious work." This was "Phantastes" - one of MacDonald's most important works; a work which so overwhelmed C. S. Lewis that a few hours after he began reading it, he knew he "had crossed a great ......
Seven of the eight short stories in this collection were originally published in Collier's magazine. The eighth story, Dreamt Last Night, was published in Redbook magazine.
With an introduction from IWM which puts the novel in historical context, this timely reprint of a 1945 classic is published for the VE Day anniversary in 2025.
ISBN-13: 9781912423934
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
In this dazzling finale - both of the Ghorba Ghost Story Series and award-winning author Massoud Hayoun's brief career as a novelist - Darf Publishers brings you a Jewish Egyptian Wizard of Oz, radiating "crushed velour and luxury" and "sensuality, once more".
