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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.
The work is based on a true event that occurred in Spain in 1933: Aurora Rodriguez killed her daughter Hildegart, a famous fighter for women's emancipation and a cult figure on the political scene of the time.
In Boll's novels, one of the central themes is the attempt to preserve basic moral values in a time of terror, as well as in a period of material prosperity and corruption.
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
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.
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.