Marie Belloc Lowndes, Collection novels II

ISBN-13: 9781500516956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 528 str.

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Opis

Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes, (1868 - 1947), was a prolific English novelist. Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incident with psychological interest. Her most famous novel, The Lodger (1913), based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, has been adapted for the screen five different times; the first movie version was Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), followed by Maurice Elvey's in 1932, John Brahm's in 1944, Man in the Attic in 1953, and David Ondaatje's in 2009. Another novel of hers, Letty Lynton (1931), was the basis for the 1932 motion picture of the same name starring Joan Crawford. In this book: Good Old Anna Barbara Rebell Love and hatred Jane Oglander The Red Cross Barge What Timmy Did