Translator Mary J. Serrano
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Benito Perez Galdos was a Spanish author best known for realism. Galdos was a prolific writer and is considered by most to be the most famous Spanish author after Cervantes. This edition of Dona Perfecta includes a table of contents.
Dark Journey is the disturbing, fast-paced story of a young Turkish woman's descent towards moral annihilation in the early twentieth century -one part Maupassant, one part One Thousand and One Nights. In the early Turkish republic, the options for an impoverished widow with a child are few, and the choices made by Kamelya lead to her estrangement from her son Murat. But blood ties, secrecy and fate bring them back together for a denouement that smoulders, like a Greek myth, with pent-up love and its explosive corollary, deep-seated hate. More than thirty years after the death of Irfan Orga, author of the cult memoir Portrait of a Turkish Family, his son opened an old attaché case and rediscovered a coffee-stained typescript tied up with string. This is Dark Journey. It springs from a sombre understanding of the ambivalence of human nature, a metaphor, perhaps, for the exiled Orga's Turkish republican homeland.Show book
Skrimshaw is the saloon passenger on board the Lochwinnoch, bound for Australia. He is relieved as the ship sets sail from England, because for the next three months at least, he is safe from the gallows. He has just committed a brutal murder and is fleeing justice. But within a month, news of the fugitive passenger is signalled to the captain of the ship.Skrimshaw has to find a way to escape before the police are called aboard the ship at Melbourne. He has two whole months to think of an ingenious and very cunning plan....Show book
This rip-roaring, 19th century adventure yarn by Anthony Hope tells us the adventure of Rudolph Rassendyll, who, thanks to his bearing an uncanny likeness to his distant relative Crown Prince Rudolph of Ruritania, is forced to swap places with him in order to secure the throne from Black Michael the usurper. What follows is a fast paced adventure, replete with daring do, romance and heroism. Narrated by Michael WardShow book
“The Prodigal Parents” is a novel by Sinclair Lewis, an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. The story revolves around a typical middle-class family of four and is about the revolt of the parents against the revolt of youth. The daughter, inclined towards communism, and the hard-drinking brother want their mother and father to continue to support them.Show book
Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well – Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in vivid colour and with great warmth. Amusing, saucy, and sometimes even farcical they may be, but they are also capable of great pathos, often branching off to end tragically. It is this skilful and affecting blend of tragedy and comedy, of tears and laughter, which make Maupassant’s Normandy Stories the enduring favourites they are today.Show book
The German tale of four brothers who set out to learn their crafts in the big wide world. When they return home as skilled men; a thief, an astronomer, a hunter, and a tailor their skills are challenged by their father - 'I should like to try what each of you can do in this way.Show book
