The story follows a year in the life of a man named Tom Novellus (includes sexual content, therefore, reader discretion advised). Tom contemplated suicide daily as a way to escape the ever pervading torment of his overbearing mother and aggressive father in his mind. To avoid suicide, he was desperate for the chance of a new life; what he thought of as a new beginning. Therefore, he moved to a new city to give himself one last chance of finding a new career, new friends and a loving partner. However, he entered into a romance with a woman named Rachel who he was completely psychologically and...
The story follows a year in the life of a man named Tom Novellus (includes sexual content, therefore, reader discretion advised). Tom contemplated sui...
A black man living in a racist town accuses the town's prestigious white man of murdering a black girl over fifty years ago, back in 1964; an accusation made unbelievable by the fact he only dreamt about the murder. Before he's imprisoned by the white man, or killed either by white supremacists or his own stress related failing health, he's pressured to determine whether the white man really did kill her, or he killed her himself, or that it was just a dream.
A black man living in a racist town accuses the town's prestigious white man of murdering a black girl over fifty years ago, back in 1964; an accusati...
Jean des Esseintes is the last member of a powerful and once proud noble family. He has lived an extremely decadent life in Paris, which has left him disgusted with human society. Without telling anyone, he retreats to a house in the countryside. He fills the house with his eclectic art collection (which notably consists of reprints of the paintings of Gustave Moreau). Drawing from the theme of Gustave Flaubert's Bouvard et Pecuchet, Des Esseintes decides to spend the rest of his life in intellectual and aesthetic contemplation.
Jean des Esseintes is the last member of a powerful and once proud noble family. He has lived an extremely decadent life in Paris, which has left him ...
Though best known for his classic novel of Edwardian childhood The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley was also a master of supernatural and macabre fiction, the best of which is collected in The Travelling Grave and Other Stories.
This volume demonstrates Hartley's versatility, ranging from traditional ghost stories like 'Feet Foremost' and 'The Cotillon' to the wickedly black humour of the horror masterpieces 'The Travelling Grave' and 'The Killing Bottle'. Originally published in 1948 and long out of print, this collection features twelve of Hartley's finest tales,...
Though best known for his classic novel of Edwardian childhood The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley was also a master of supernatural and macabre...
Though best known for his classic novel of Edwardian childhood The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley was also a master of supernatural and macabre fiction, the best of which is collected in The Travelling Grave and Other Stories.
This volume demonstrates Hartley's versatility, ranging from traditional ghost stories like 'Feet Foremost' and 'The Cotillon' to the wonderfully black humour of the horror masterpieces 'The Travelling Grave' and 'The Killing Bottle'. Originally published in 1948 and long out of print, this collection features twelve of Hartley's best tales, presented...
Though best known for his classic novel of Edwardian childhood The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley was also a master of supernatural and macabre f...
