The novelist and critic Margaret Oliphant , with whom Hardy was personally acquainted , saw Jude as a wholesale attack on the institution of marriage , and Bishop William Walsham How of Wakefield sent Hardy a packet of ashes , having ...
Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both with the search for his ideal woman and with sculpting the perfect figure of Aphrodite.
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
The first of Jean Plaidy's flamboyant French Revolution series.
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Born in an upward fall out of certainty and into a transcendent belovedness, this book is a companion for anyone on the journey of transformation by loss.
When they were again indoors she sat down to a note, but after a while threw aside her pen despairingly. ' No : I cannot do it ! ' she said. ' I can't bend my pride to such a job. Will you write 40 THE WELL-BELOVED 8: 'TOO LIKE THE ...
Aphrodite was punishing him simply, as she knew but too well how to punish her votaries when they reverted from the ephemeral to the stable mood. This curse of his heart not aging while his frame moved naturally onward, when was it to ...
Thankfully, each June, Charles and his mother packed the station wagon with canvas totes full of shorts and white sneakers and escaped to her parents' square, damp summer house on Martha's Vineyard, which was full of rag rugs, ...
Arguably Toni Morrison's best novel, Beloved addresses the powerful legacy of slavery and those whose voices have been historically silenced by it.