The Yellow Wallpaper is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the nineteenth century toward women's physical and mental health.
Sarah Orne Jewett, who wrote the book when she was 47, was largely responsible for popularizing the regionalism genre with her sketches of the fictional Maine fishing village of Dunnet Landing.
Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.
Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress.
Claude, working on the family farm, and married to a woman who is more interested in her missionary work, than she is in him, tires of his monotonous life.
Anne Elliot is the overlooked middle daughter of the vain Sir Walter Elliot, and her elder sister, Elizabeth, resembles her father in temperament and delights in the fact that as the eldest daughter she can assume her mother's former position in their rural neighborhood.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is often cited as one of the seminal works of short fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world; Elias Canetti described it as "e;one of the few great and perfect works of the poetic imagination written during this century.
Much of the novel is written from the view-point of his canine character, enabling London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans.
Elizabeth von Arnim's novel tells the story of four dissimilar women in 1920s England who leave their damp and rainy environs to go on a holiday to a secluded coastal castle in Italy.
An exploration of the sexual practices and doctrinal secrets of Gnosticism*; Reconstructs the lost world of Gnostic spiritual-erotic experience through examination of every surviving text written by heresiologists *; Investigates the sexual gnosis practices of the Barbelo Gnostics of the 2nd century and their connections to the Gnostic Aeon Sophia, the Wild Lady of Wisdom *; Explains the vital significance of ';the seed' as a sacrament in Gnostic practiceExamining every surviving text written by heresiologists, accounts often ignored in favor of the famous Nag Hammadi Library, Tobias Churton reveals the most secret inner teaching passed down by initiated societies: the tradition of sexual gnosis--higher union with God through the sacrament of sex.
After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance.
A gruesome, provocative, stylish fairytale Kaliane Bradley, internationally bestselling author of The Ministry of Time Magnificent and devastating Alan Moore, author of Watchman As mesmerizing as it is surreal, a haunting gothic tapestry Lucy Rose, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lamb I loved it Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under The Sea Will win awards Observer A worthy entrant into the contemporary gothic hall of fame Financial TimesMarguerite P rigord is locked in the attic of her family home, a towering Chelsea house overlooking the stinking Thames.
Open Wide will quite literally get under your skin - a weird, electrifyingly original love story about the mad, troubling and vulnerable things we do to get close to others'Will leave you questioning the boundaries we draw around those we love' CHELSEA BIEKER'Unputdownable' MARIE-HELENE BERTINO'Smart, unsettling, sexy and hilarious' CLARE BEAMS'Obsessed' MirrorOlive is desperate to get close to Theo really, really close.
"Madonna im Pelzmantel" ist ein berühmter Roman, der erstmals 1943 veröffentlicht wurde und seither unzählige Leserinnen und Leser bewegt und begeistert.
