The Ladies of Grace Adieu
Title | The Ladies of Grace Adieu PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Clarke |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2009-12-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1408809338 |
A gorgeously illustrated book of short stories from the world of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, the 4-million-copy global bestseller 'These tales read as if Jane Austen had rewritten the Brothers Grimm ... wonderful' Spectator Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairy tales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as two characters from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Strange himself and the Raven King.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Title | Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Clarke |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 1098 |
Release | 2010-06-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 160819535X |
In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world. In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity. Another practicing magician then emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's pupil, and the two join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wild, most perilous forms of magic, and he soon risks sacrificing his partnership with Norrell and everything else he holds dear. Susanna Clarke's brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who, first as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history.
Piranesi
Title | Piranesi PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Clarke |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2020-09-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1635575648 |
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known. For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.
The Ladies of Grace Adieu
Title | The Ladies of Grace Adieu PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Clarke |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Paperbacks |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Fairies |
ISBN | 9780747592402 |
Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics favorite "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell," Clarke delivers a delicious collection of ten stories set in the same fairy-crossed world of 19th-century England.
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Title | The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Clarke |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-10-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 163973547X |
"Vivid and amusing . . . Magically funny." -Ursula K. LeGuin, Los Angeles Times An enchanting collection of stories from Susanna Clarke, set in the same world as the award-winning, internationally bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Susanna Clarke's The Ladies of Grace Adieu is a spellbinding collection of stories brimming with all the ingredients of good fairy tales: petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates, endless paths in deep, dark woods, and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes who must grapple with these problems include the Duke of Wellington, a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor, and Mary Queen of Scots, as well as beloved figures from Susanna's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell including Jonathan Strange himself and the Raven King. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories invites readers into a world where charm is always tempered by eerieness, and picaresque comedy is always darkened by the disturbing shadow of Faerie.
Starlight (A Historical Western Romance)
Title | Starlight (A Historical Western Romance) PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Hagan |
Publisher | ePublishing Works! |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2011-06-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1614170673 |
Samara Labonte is the prettiest passenger aboard the train to Kansas City. Delicate and elegantly dressed, she hides a tumultuous past and holds hope that America might offer happiness... maybe even love. Then blood-curdling cries fill the air. Swept from the train by wild painted savages, Samara fears her life is over. But not even fear can overtake the growing attraction for her mysterious bronze-skinned captor and his exotic new world. OTHER TITLES by Patricia Hagan: Say You Love Me Simply Heaven Orchids in Moonlight
Smoke
Title | Smoke PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Vyleta |
Publisher | Anchor |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2016-05-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385540175 |
Readers of the Harry Potter series and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell are sure to be mesmerized by Dan Vyleta’s thrilling blend of historical fiction and fantasy, as three young friends scratch the surface of the grown-up world to discover startling wonders—and dangerous secrets. “Dan Vyleta writes with intricacy and imagination and skillful pacing; never once would I have considered putting his book down. In the manner of both a Dickens novel and the best young adult adventure stories (the Harry Potter series among them). . .his ending, which I wouldn’t dare reveal here, is a real firecracker.”—Jennifer Senior, The New York Times Welcome to a Victorian England unlike any other you have experienced before. Here, wicked thoughts (both harmless and hate-filled) appear in the air as telltale wisps of Smoke. Young Thomas Argyle, a son of aristocracy, has been sent to an elite boarding school. Here he will be purged of Wickedness, for the wealthy do not Smoke. When he resists a sadistic headboy's temptations to Smoke, a much larger struggle beyond the school walls is revealed. Shortly thereafter, on a trip to London, Thomas and his best friend witness events that make them begin to question everything they have been taught about Smoke. And thus the adventure begins... You will travel by coach to a grand estate where secrets lurk in attic rooms and hidden laboratories; where young love blossoms; and where a tumultuous relationship between a mother and her children is the crucible in which powerful passions are kindled, and dangerous deeds must be snuffed out in a desperate race against time.