He had been watchingLucy from between those twowindows all through her firstlunch, and must, flashed through Lucy's brain, have watched Vera like that all through her last one. “How long hashe been there?”she asked, looking up into ...
It is a frightening analysis of the naivety of a young woman, as she falls into the power of a pathologically narcissistic husband. In outline, this utterly unromantic novel anticipates Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
"Vera" by Elizabeth Von Arnim.
Vera
Vera
Elizabeth von Arnim, scrittrice talentuosa e di grande successo, torna in libreria con una storia avvolta da un’inedita atmosfera noir.
Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine—a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.
As the city burns and looters vie with the injured, orphaned, and starving, Vera and her guileless sister, Pie, are cast adrift. Disregarding societal norms and prejudices, Vera begins to imagine a new kind of life.
Together they navigate their way beyond disaster. In Vera, Carol Edgarian creates a cinematic, deeply entertaining world, in which honor and fates are tested; notions of sex, class, and justice are turned upside down; and love is hard-won.
In this volume, richly illustrated with Vera's original sketches, paintings, and photographs of her worldwide travels, readers are introduced to the amazing woman behind the dynamic designs that continue to inspire and influence art, design ...
In Vera, acclaimed biographer Robert Hillman has captured the fierce and passionate life of an amazing Australian.
Pensó unos segundos , y arrastrando la mirada por el suelo me respondió con voz dubitativa : -Por amor ... Sí . Así suene cursi , lo que hice lo hice por amor . No pude evitar una ráfaga de ira sorda : -¡Por amor me separaste de mi ...
Lucy Entwhistle is swept into marriage by rich charismatic widower, Everard Wemyss. Together they live in The Willows, an old sprawling mansion which they share with the specter of his dead wife...
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Kiddo, I'm cold, it's getting just a little gray. Kiddo, don't show no one; it's yours. Spend it a little at a time so's no one notices. It's for you kiddo. You're cute. I had plans for you.” Vera looks in the thick briefcase; ...
Scritto diciassette anni prima di Rebecca, la prima moglie, questo libro – che la von Arnim stessa considerava il suo romanzo migliore – anticipa le atmosfere inquietanti del thriller di Daphne du Maurier che Alfred Hitchcock ...
To me, life is beautiful in every way. Somehow I ran from myself for years and became someone else that made me very unhappy. That person was Vera, which is my first name that was given to me by my parents.
In Vera, Carol Edgarian creates a cinematic, deeply entertaining world, in which honor and fates are tested; notions of sex, class, and justice are turned upside down; and love is hard-won.
Vera: or, The Nihilists
... Véra and Lord Kendal , as they moved into the supper - room , congratulated them- selves that the musical entertainment was at an end . Both of them , in feeling and understanding , that this was their last chance of being alone ...