Daughter Of The House

Author : Rosie Thomas
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468312812
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughter of the House written by Rosie Thomas and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman faces life-changing decisions in post–World War I London from the “master storyteller” and bestselling author of The Illusionists (Cosmopolitan). In Daughter of the House, Rosie Thomas returns to the marvelous Wix family. Nancy Wix, daughter of the stage impresarios Eliza and Devil, must find a way to keep London’s Palmyra theatre afloat, and to entertain audiences who have lost husbands and sons in the First World War. Nancy is a born performer, but she is set apart—even from her beloved brothers—by her psychic gifts. She must harness her troubling powers to keep her family and the theatre intact. It is a dangerous path and a lonely one, but Nancy’s bold choices lead her to love, and to the recognition of what it takes to become a modern woman. As another war begins to threaten the world, she is forced into a final, fateful confrontation with her demons, and must marshal both her ingenuity and her mysterious talents to fight for the survival of friendship, independence, and family. “Brilliantly bring[s] to life the end of the music hall era and the rise of spiritualism in the 1920s. I highly recommend this smart, gothic, and romantic page-turner.” —Historical Novel Society “[Thomas] creates a dynamic protagonist involved in an uncertain romance, and her other principal characters are equally well-rounded.” —Kirkus Reviews “A long, appealing yarn of a story, Daughter of the House is a sequel to the author’s earlier The Illusionists but is eminently readable as a stand-alone novel.” —Booklist

Author : Haiko Hörnig
Publisher : Graphic Universe TM
ISBN 13 : 1728451604
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Daughter written by Haiko Hörnig and published by Graphic Universe TM. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howl’s Moving Castle meets Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant

Author : Catherine Gaskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughter of the House written by Catherine Gaskin and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kate Morton
Publisher : Washington Square Press
ISBN 13 : 145164941X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clockmaker's Daughter written by Kate Morton and published by Washington Square Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the New York Times bestseller Homecoming—“An ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of characters…Kate Morton at her very best.” —Kristin Hannah “An elaborate tapestry…Morton doesn’t disappoint.” —The Washington Post "Classic English country-house Goth at its finest." —New York Post In the depths of a 19th-century winter, a little girl is abandoned on the streets of Victorian London. She grows up to become in turn a thief, an artist’s muse, and a lover. In the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she travels with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a bend of the Upper Thames. Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. It is not until over a century later, when another young woman is drawn to Birchwood Manor, that its secrets are finally revealed. Told by multiple voices across time, this is an intricately layered, richly atmospheric novel about art and passion, forgiveness and loss, that shows us that sometimes the way forward is through the past.

Author : Hilary M. Schor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139425056
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the Daughter of the House written by Hilary M. Schor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist criticism has not been kind to Charles Dickens. The characters George Orwell referred to as 'legless angels' - Little Nell, Agnes Wickfield, Esther Summerson and others - have been conjured as evidence of Dickens' inability to create 'real' women. Critics wishing to rescue him have turned to the dark, angry women - Nancy, Lady Dedlock, Miss Wade - who disrupt the calm surface of some of Dickens' novels. In this book Hilary M. Schor argues that the role of the good daughter is interwoven with that of her angry double in Dickens' fiction, and is the centre of narrative authority in the Dickens' novel. As the good daughters must leave their father's house and enter the world of the marketplace, they transform and rewrite the stories they are empowered to tell. The daughter's uncertain legal status and her power of narrative gave Dickens a way of reading and writing his own culture differently.

Author : Catherine Gaskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughter of the House written by Catherine Gaskin and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victoria Cornwall
Publisher : Choc Lit
ISBN 13 : 1781893772
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughter of the House written by Victoria Cornwall and published by Choc Lit. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aristocratic young lady finds love in her own backyard in this charming historical romance set in 19th century Cornwall. Cornwall, 1886. As Sir Robert Pendragon’s heir and only son, Nicholas Pendragon is the pride of Carrack House. Meanwhile, the daughter of the house, the spirited and lonely Evelyn, is all but forgotten. But Evelyn soon finds companionship in an unlikely place when she befriends Drake Vennor, an apprentice gardener on her family’s estate. Years later, a sudden tragedy throws Evelyn’s life into turmoil. Grieving for her brother while preparing to become her father’s heir, Evelyn realizes just how much she has come to rely on Drake’s friendship—a closeness that has blossomed into something more. But will the burden of the Pendragon name require her to abandon him when she needs him most?

Author : Michèle Roberts
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466854979
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of the House written by Michèle Roberts and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Booker Prize Finalist, Daughters of the House is Michèle Roberts' acclaimed novel of secrets and lies revealed in the aftermath of World War II. Thérèse and Léonie, French and English cousins of the same age, grow up together in Normandy. Intrigued by parents' and servants' guilty silences and the broken shrine they find in the woods, the girls weave their own elaborate fantasies, unwittingly revealing the village secret and a deep shame that will haunt them in their adult lives.

Author : Hilary M. Schor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521440769
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the Daughter of the House written by Hilary M. Schor and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of 'legless angels' (George Orwell), 'angry women' and 'good daughters' in Dicken's narratives.

Author : Mildred J Mills
Publisher : Hybrid Global Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1961757281
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daddy’s House: A Daughter’s Memoir of Setbacks, Triumphs & Rising Above Her Roots written by Mildred J Mills and published by Hybrid Global Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raw and poignant memoir of a daughter’s journey from a difficult upbringing in rural Alabama to a fulfilling life as a wife and mother with a successful career far beyond the limitations of her upbringing, Mildred J Mills describes unimaginable highs like becoming a fashion model, beauty pageant winner, and corporate American executive, and devastating lows like the horror of gang rape as she simultaneously conveys deep love and respect for most of those who hurt her.