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Hungry Hill (1943) is a saga of five generations of the Anglo-Irish Brodrick family, owners of Clonmere Castle in Ireland. Du Maurier, a master of Gothic prose, weaves together folklore, curses, and social change, showing how greed destroys heirs.
Mistakenly kidnapped and tied to a ceiling beam, Sam Jones tries to remember her special love adventure. The painful blows, along with her innate humor, will encourage the heroine to focus all her peace of mind on solving life's problems.
The essays collected in this book reveal the origins and meanders of Sanja Lovrenčić's years-long search for the authentic character of Ivana Brlić Mažuranić.
As in Velikić's previous novels, the heroes weave analogous and often intertwined destinies of frustrated Central European citizens and intellectuals, the topography is very diverse, but also recognizable.
The novel represents a journey into an alternative world – a world that we all belong to from time to time, but of which we would not want to be a part, a world of paranoia and alienation that we are not entirely sure is just an alternative or the bare tr
Cronin's moving story of redemption. Robert Shannon, a fanatical doctor-researcher, sacrifices love and life for science, but in the end loses everything – his girlfriend, recognition, health – only to realize through suffering: medicine without humanity