Author: Caroline Blackwood
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175387
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Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood’s masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of ruined lives.
Language: en
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood’s masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great
Language: en
Pages: 348
Pages: 348
Surveys the lives and works of roughly 75 Irish women writers active in a range of genres and periods.
Language: en
Pages: 1351
Pages: 1351
With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our understanding of the twentieth century. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century provides a useful, comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume. Organized
Language: en
Pages: 814
Pages: 814
Books about Macmillan Dictionary of Irish Literature
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Language: uk
Pages: 3480
Pages: 3480
Ця повість-казка, написана в 1952 році американським письменником Елвісом Бруксом Байтом, стала однією з найулюбленіших дитячих книжок в усьому світі, тому що в ній ідеться про справжню дружбу, відданість, невичерпні вигадки й веселі пустощі. Маленька дівчинка на ім'я Ферн урятувала і виростила поросятка Вілбера як свого домашнього улюбленця. На фермі,
Language: en
Pages: 542
Pages: 542
Provides information on the works of British author John Betjeman (1906-1984), compiled by Steve Phillips. Includes photographs, a bibliography, a FAQ section, online texts, and a description of the Betjeman Society. Links to related sites.
Language: en
Pages: 473
Pages: 473
Covers writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the fourteenth century to the present day. Includes in-depth critical and biographical analysis.
Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. André Mariolle
Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a