A Clergyman's Daughter
Title | A Clergyman's Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | George Orwell |
Publisher | HMH |
Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 1950-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547563841 |
A pious young woman grapples with a loss of memory—and of faith—in this sharp, witty novel by the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. Dorothy is the daughter of the Reverend Charles Hare, rector of St. Athelstan’s in Depression-era Suffolk, England. She serves as a dutiful housekeeper, performs good works, cultivates good thoughts—and pricks her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. But even as she toils away making costumes for the church school play, she is haunted by thoughts about the poverty that surrounds her and the debts she can’t afford to pay. Then, suddenly, she finds herself in London. She is wearing silk stockings, has money in her pocket, and cannot remember her own name . . . This novel of a woman thrust into a strange journey, struck by amnesia and grappling with questions of faith and identity in a world of unemployment and hunger, is a masterful work of satire by one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
The Clergyman's Daughter
Title | The Clergyman's Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Jeffries |
Publisher | Belgrave House |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2014-09-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1610848675 |
When Jessica eloped with a young nobleman, the resulting scandal destroyed their marriage. Now her once-beloved husband is dead, and Jessica wishes only to escape from his disapproving family, especially Graham Foxe, Earl of Raeburn, her husband's older brother. But Graham is determined to keep her and her infant daughter close by--for the sake of his brother's child, he insists, but Jessica suspects he has much more personal motives. Regency Romance by Julia Jeffries; originally published by Signet
The Clergyman's Wife
Title | The Clergyman's Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Molly Greeley |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 2019-12-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062942905 |
For everyone who loved Pride and Prejudice—and legions of historical fiction lovers—an inspired debut novel set in Austen’s world. Charlotte Collins, nee Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford’s vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners, and patiently tolerating the lectures of her awkward husband and his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Intelligent, pragmatic, and anxious to escape the shame of spinsterhood, Charlotte chose this life, an inevitable one so socially acceptable that its quietness threatens to overwhelm her. Then she makes the acquaintance of Mr. Travis, a local farmer and tenant of Lady Catherine.. In Mr. Travis’ company, Charlotte feels appreciated, heard, and seen. For the first time in her life, Charlotte begins to understand emotional intimacy and its effect on the heart—and how breakable that heart can be. With her sensible nature confronted, and her own future about to take a turn, Charlotte must now question the role of love and passion in a woman’s life, and whether they truly matter for a clergyman’s wife.
Excellent Women
Title | Excellent Women PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Pym |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2006-12-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101666250 |
Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.
Diaries
Title | Diaries PDF eBook |
Author | George Orwell |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 690 |
Release | 2012-08-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0871403293 |
A major literary event—the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works. This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell’s youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War II, and the feverish composition of his great masterpieces Animal Farm and 1984 (which have now sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author). Personal entries cover the tragic death of his first wife and Orwell’s own decline as he battled tuberculosis. Exhibiting great brilliance of prose and composition, these treasured dispatches, edited by the world’s leading Orwell scholar, exhibit “the seeds of famous passages to come” (New Statesman) and amount to a volume as penetrating as the autobiography he would never write.
The South and the Southerner
Title | The South and the Southerner PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph McGill |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780820314433 |
The author, former editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, share his impressions of the South and its recent changes
The Rector's Daughter
Title | The Rector's Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | F. M. Mayor |
Publisher | Rare Treasure Editions |
Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 2021-11-10T14:54:00Z |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1774644312 |
The Rector’s Daughter is the story of Mary Jocelyn, a woman who fears life is passing her by. Having lost her mother and her beloved invalid sister, Mary shares her days in sleepy Dedmayne with her father, the severe and distant Canon Jocelyn. Then, with the arrival in the village of Robert Herbert, her quiet, ordered existence is changed forever.