A Plot in Private Life and Other Tales
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
Published: 1859
Total Pages: 324
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Private Life
Author: Josep Maria de Sagarra
Publisher: Archipelago
Published: 2015-11-24
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 091467126X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrivate Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail. The novel, practically a roman-à-clef for its contemporaries, was a scandal in 1932. The 1960's edition was bowdlerized by Franco's censors. Part Lampedusa, part Genet, this translation will bring an essential piece of 20th-century European literature to the English-speaking public.
A Plot in Private Life
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-02-12
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 3382304724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
A Plot in Private Life and Other Tales by [William] Wilkie Collins
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
Published: 1859
Total Pages: 314
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Author: Jane Smiley
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2010-05-06
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 0571258778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMargaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer and an astronomer-a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck." Yet Andrew confounds Margaret's expectations from the moment their train leaves for his naval base in San Francisco, and soon she realizes that his devotion to science leaves little room for anything, or anyone, else. She stands by him through tragedies both personal and those they share with the nation. But as World War II approaches, Andrew's obsessions take a darker turn, forcing Margaret to reconsider the life she'd so carefully constructed.
A Private Life
Author: Ran Chen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0231131968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet against a backdrop of the decades that included the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square Incident, A Private Life portrays the effect of that social change and political turbulence on the protagonists inner life as she moves from childhood to early maturity.
The Private Lives of Trees
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Publisher: Open Letter Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1934824240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorried that his wife Veronica will not return home from an art class, Julian imagines his stepdaughter Daniela's future without her mother and tells her an improvisional bedtime story.
Private Lives
Author: Noel Coward
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780573619250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEen gescheiden echtpaar ontmoet elkaar weer na vijf jaar, terwijl zij beiden op huwelijksreis zijn met hun nieuwe partner.
Private Life under Socialism
Author: Yunxiang Yan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003-03-12
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0804764115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.
The Private Life of Mrs Sharma
Author: Ratika Kapur
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-12-03
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1408873664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an uncommonly self-possessed stranger at a Metro station. Because while Mrs Sharma may espouse traditional values, India is changing all around her, and it wouldn't be the end of the world if she came out of her shell a little, would it? With equal doses of humour and pathos, The Private Life of Mrs Sharma is a sharp-eyed examination of the clashing of tradition and modernity, from a dramatic new voice in Indian fiction.
