Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0224009141
Category : Avarice
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Claire Zachanassian, the richest woman in the world, returns to her poverty-stricken home town. The townspeople are ready to grovel for favours and select as their representative Anton Schell, for Claire and Anton had once been deeply in love. Claire arrives with a sinister menage. She soon announces that she has come for revenge on her onetime sweetheart, offering a million marks for his life. In the nightmarish climax Schell's friends sacrifice him to their greed.
The Visit
Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0224009141
Category : Avarice
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Claire Zachanassian, the richest woman in the world, returns to her poverty-stricken home town. The townspeople are ready to grovel for favours and select as their representative Anton Schell, for Claire and Anton had once been deeply in love. Claire arrives with a sinister menage. She soon announces that she has come for revenge on her onetime sweetheart, offering a million marks for his life. In the nightmarish climax Schell's friends sacrifice him to their greed.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0224009141
Category : Avarice
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Claire Zachanassian, the richest woman in the world, returns to her poverty-stricken home town. The townspeople are ready to grovel for favours and select as their representative Anton Schell, for Claire and Anton had once been deeply in love. Claire arrives with a sinister menage. She soon announces that she has come for revenge on her onetime sweetheart, offering a million marks for his life. In the nightmarish climax Schell's friends sacrifice him to their greed.
The Visit
Author: Reeve Lindbergh
Publisher: Dial
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Sisters Beth and Jill share an experience of country life when they visit their aunt and uncle.
Publisher: Dial
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Sisters Beth and Jill share an experience of country life when they visit their aunt and uncle.
The Art of the Visit
Author: Kathy Bertone
Publisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN: 0762443952
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Presents a guide in two parts that offers advice on being a gracious host as well as being a considerate guest, with specific suggestions for visits involving children, young adults, and elderly people.
Publisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN: 0762443952
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Presents a guide in two parts that offers advice on being a gracious host as well as being a considerate guest, with specific suggestions for visits involving children, young adults, and elderly people.
A Narrative of the Visit to the American Churches
Author: Andrew Reed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Speeches Incident to the Visit of Philander Chase Knox, Secretary of State of the United States of America, to the Countries of the Caribbean. February 23 to April 17, 1912
A visit to the South Seas in the U.S. Ship Vincennes, during the years 1829 and 1830, etc
Author: Charles Samuel STEWART
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Paragreens on a Visit to the Paris Universal Exhibition
Notes on a Visit Made to Some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England, in Company with Elizabeth Fry
Author: Joseph John Gurney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prison discipline
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Elizabeth Fry was John Gurney's sister. Together, the pair visited 33 prisons in August and September 1818, including those in York, Liverool, Manchester, Newcastle, Dundee, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glascow, with general remarks following the specific commentary on each jail. Shows the conditions under which prisoners were confined before being transported to New South Wales or Van Diemen's Land. Samuel Marsden is mentioned. An important record of Fry's lifelong concern with the incarcerated.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prison discipline
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Elizabeth Fry was John Gurney's sister. Together, the pair visited 33 prisons in August and September 1818, including those in York, Liverool, Manchester, Newcastle, Dundee, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glascow, with general remarks following the specific commentary on each jail. Shows the conditions under which prisoners were confined before being transported to New South Wales or Van Diemen's Land. Samuel Marsden is mentioned. An important record of Fry's lifelong concern with the incarcerated.
A Visit From the Goon Squad
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1849017409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2010 Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the troubled young woman he employs. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her longstanding compulsion to steal. We meet Bennie at the melancholy nadir of his adult life - divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in many places. With music pulsing on every page, this is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption. Breathtaking work from one of our boldest writers. 'Irresistible. Fiction of the highest quality' Sunday Times 'Egan's precise, calm underwater prose is a persistent pleasure' Daily Telegraph 'Stories that defy narrative convention' Financial Times 'A must-read' Sunday Times
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1849017409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2010 Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the troubled young woman he employs. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her longstanding compulsion to steal. We meet Bennie at the melancholy nadir of his adult life - divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in many places. With music pulsing on every page, this is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption. Breathtaking work from one of our boldest writers. 'Irresistible. Fiction of the highest quality' Sunday Times 'Egan's precise, calm underwater prose is a persistent pleasure' Daily Telegraph 'Stories that defy narrative convention' Financial Times 'A must-read' Sunday Times
The Royal Physician's Visit
Author: Per Olov Enquist
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743458036
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An international sensation,The Royal Physician's Visitmagnificently recasts the dramatic era of Danish history when Johann Friedrich Struensee -- court physician to mad young King Christian -- stepped through an aperture in history and became the holder of absolute power in Denmark. His is a gripping tale of power, sex, love, and the life of the mind, and it is superbly rendered here by one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers. A charismatic German doctor and brilliant intellectual, Struensee used his influence to introduce hundreds of reforms in Denmark in the 1760s. He had a tender and erotic affair with Queen Caroline Mathilde, who was unsatisfied by her unstable, childlike husband. Yet Struensee lacked the subtlety of a skilled politician and the cunning to choose enemies wisely; these flaws proved fatal, and would eventually lead to his tragic demise.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743458036
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An international sensation,The Royal Physician's Visitmagnificently recasts the dramatic era of Danish history when Johann Friedrich Struensee -- court physician to mad young King Christian -- stepped through an aperture in history and became the holder of absolute power in Denmark. His is a gripping tale of power, sex, love, and the life of the mind, and it is superbly rendered here by one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers. A charismatic German doctor and brilliant intellectual, Struensee used his influence to introduce hundreds of reforms in Denmark in the 1760s. He had a tender and erotic affair with Queen Caroline Mathilde, who was unsatisfied by her unstable, childlike husband. Yet Struensee lacked the subtlety of a skilled politician and the cunning to choose enemies wisely; these flaws proved fatal, and would eventually lead to his tragic demise.