Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
The Black Robe (1881) is a novel by Wilkie Collins. Written toward the end of Collins' career, The Black Robe shows brilliant flashes of the author's trademark sense of mystery and psychological unease, which made him a household name around the world. Recognized as an important Victorian novelist and pioneer of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins was a writer with a gift for thoughtful entertainment, stories written for a popular audience that continue...
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to amother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in...
Author
Description
The Lady of the Shroud (1909) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Written just before the outbreak of the Balkan Wars, The Lady of the Shroud is a prophetic and politically informed work of fiction that helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horror's reputation as a leading writer of the early-twentieth century.
When Rupert Saint Leger is unexpectedly named heir to his uncle's fortune, he is even more surprised to learn the details of...
Author
Formats
Description
A 30-something-year-old man, unhappy with his lot in life, once again, enters an old trail to meet a young attractive drifter. The two men, over time, developed a unique relationship. After receiving some life-changing news from his fiancée, the man plans to give his friend a new lease on life. This changes, however, when he stumbles upon a mysterious killer in the woods. Will the man attack, run or experience the fate that befell his friend and...
Author
Formats
Description
Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache, the 30 year-old library tech is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia Earhart wrote to her lover, Gene Vidal. She becomes captivated by the famous pilot who disappeared in 1937. Letter by letter, she understands more about the aviation hero while piecing her own life back together.
When Grace discovers she is pregnant,...
6) Amado Señor
Author
Description
Al escribiente de cartas de Amado Señor la cosa se le desvió. Allí donde planeaba, le confiesa a su destinatario, "armar un universo de ficción" a partir de la primera epístola, "abandonar esta conversación e iniciar otra más indirecta", descubre que no puede dejar de escribir cartas: está cansado de narrar, prefiere el coloquio directo. El escribiente no cree en su interlocutor y se lo advierte, pero su falta de fe lo empuja a un panteísmo...
Author
Description
En un tiempo donde las cartas están ya casi en desuso, a través de ellas, se cuenta cada sentimiento entre la musa y quien escribe. Tomando trazas de lo que se vive, se imagina o ambas. Aunque allí vive una guerra donde la soledad, tras mil batallas, lanza el mayor de los ataques jamás imaginado. Abarcando incluso la realidad. Amenazando una pasión que va deshaciéndose como una vela y se viste por momentos de añoranza, de sentimientos confesados,...
Author
Description
Las apariencias pueden engañar, y en un siglo en el que destacan, la joven María Ana De LaTour, noble de 22 años, lo aprenderá, ¡y a qué costo!. Su curiosidad la llevará a escribir a una reclusa de su misma edad que pondrá frente a una realidad que conoce de mucho tiempo atrás, pero que se niega a enfrentar. Cuando la nobleza conoce al tercer estado a finales del siglo XVII, pueden tener tanto que decirse que un detalle trastornar por completo...
Author
Description
Somewhere around 1969, I began to grow dissatisfied with the underlying principle of most novels - that a disembodied voice in the first or third person was telling us a story.
I liked the idea of novels passing themselves off as documents and drew inspiration from Mark Harris's Wake Up, Stupid and Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife, the first, ostensibly a collection of letters, the second, duh, a diary. (One could, of course, go back further,...
Author
Description
Business As Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford was first published in 1933. It's a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancé. After a nervous beginning looking for a job while her savings rapidly diminish, she finds work as a typist in the London department store of...
Author
Description
Fortement inspirée et touchée par la dimension mystique du livre Cette aveuglante absence de lumière de l'écrivain franco-marocain, Tahar Ben Jelloun, cette lettre qui lui est adressée est à la fois un regard sur la beauté du monde et son inhumanité.
La narratrice rompt en quelque sorte avec la conscience grégaire o l'on menace de s'endormir, et se met à écrire. Elle est dans un état d'écoute, d'observation, de questionnement... l'écriture,...
Author
Description
Shouldn't life be more than simply showing up? Is it enough to be part of a family, make another family, earn your living, and then exit stage left? Or should you engage and be engaged in a bit of purposeful shaking and shoving along the way? These are questions that Kit Bakke urgently needs answered. Tired of self-proclaimed gurus and self-help books, she turns to her childhood role model -- Louisa May Alcott -- for direction. She sends an e-mail...
Author
Description
Pamela Andrews is a fifteen-year-old maidservant at an estate in Bedfordshire. When Lady B, her employer, dies, her son Mr. B takes an interest in the innocent young girl, quickly turning from generosity to outright attempts at seducing her. As Pamela rejects his advances, she considers returning home to live in poverty with her parents. When he catches wind of her plan, however, Mr. B accuses Pamela of having an affair, notifying her parents and...
Author
Description
Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) is a novel by English writer and feminist Mary Hays. Inspired by events from her own life, as well as by her acquaintance with radical political philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Hays's novel received mixed reviews and was controversial for its representation of female sexuality, adultery, infanticide, and suicide. Modern critics and readers, however, have recognized the novel as a groundbreaking...
Author
Description
La Dérive des Anges évalue la quête du bonheur, un bonheur placé au coeur d'une relation amoureuse impossible. C'est un amour bancal qui mesure l'étendue de ses rêves par les caractéristiques individuelles de chacun plutt que de les mettre en commun.
Dans un long voyage qui mène de l'Asie jusqu'en Amérique, des amoureux défendent leur individualité avec amour, colère, ardeur et jalousie. Elle, qui a tous les attributs pour plaire, préfère...
Author
Description
With his wedding around the corner, Tanna decides to clean out the loft in his house and stumbles upon a satchel belonging to his dead postman father. Even worse, he discovers a bunch of letters which never got mailed. Tanna almost tosses the letters out but acting on an instinct of responsibility he decides to post them. What happens to people when these letters arrive after more than a decade is explored through twenty-six stories that contain generous...
18) Cartas a la hija
Author
Description
Las cartas que madame de Sévigné escribió a la condesa de Grignan, su hija, han pasado a la historia por ser una cima absoluta de la literatura epistolar, aún más, de la literatura amorosa. En efecto, la marquesa de Sévigné, viuda de un vividor, vuelca en su hija recién casada un amor filial complejo y anhelante, hasta descubrir—alarmada, por más que Sévigné no sea ninguna beata—que la ama más que a Dios.
Figura destacada en la brillante...
19) Cartas a Giselle
Author
Description
El libro es una recopilación de cartas imaginarias escritas con gran belleza. En ellas cuenta, con prosa poética y sátira, a veces, la vida y las penurias de un poeta en Cuba. Se sirve de las metáforas para mostrarnos lo que quisiera decir pero debe esconder tras bellas palabras. El autor es natural de Sancti Spíritus; es políglota y entre otro destacados galardones, ha obtenido los premios Fayad Jamís y Escombray. Asimismo, Manuel González...
Author
Description
Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her from a distance. Once, Royce was her benefactor and she was one of his brightest protégées. Now Royce is ailing and Vita's career as a filmmaker has stalled, and both have reasons for wanting to settle accounts. They enter into an intimate game of words, played according to shifting rules of engagement.
Beyond their murky shared history,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request