John Cornelius: His Life and Adventures, Walpole Hugh

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: A Prayer for my Son: Large Print
ISBN: 1706903065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706903062
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Цена: 28730.00 T
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Описание: This belongs to the Man With The Red Hair Walpole, and is again a story of a sadist, in this instance a grandfather with an overweening ego and a thirst for a gratification of his sense of power. The boy's mother, his aunt, the boy himself are prey to his madness, and the story gathers momentum until they are forced to escape from the setting which gives him his power. It's a skilful build-up of atmosphere and suspense.-Kirkus Review.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: Above the Dark Circus
ISBN: 1706682115 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706682110
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Цена: 25280.00 T
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Описание: Huge Walpole's thrilling adventure novel of the 1920s revolves around Piccadily Circus. Richard Gunn is an ex-soldier in trouble after the end of the Great War. Jobless and starving in Piccadilly Circus, he encounters his nemesis, Leroy Pengelly. From this encounter the secrets of their shared past start to unravel... A novel which combines elements of the horror and supernatural - at which Walpole was so skilled - with the puzzle element of the whodunnit - all wrapped up in one unsettling and uncanny whole.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: The Killer and the Slain: Large Print
ISBN: 1674619308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781674619309
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Цена: 20680.00 T
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Описание: As boys, Jimmie Tunstall was John Talbot's implacable foe, never ceasing to taunt, torment, and bully him. Years later, John is married and living in a small coastal town when he learns, much to his chagrin, that his old adversary has just moved to the same town. Before long the harassment begins anew until finally, driven to desperation, John murders his tormentor. Soon he starts to suffer from frightening hallucinations and his personality and physical appearance begin to alter, causing him increasingly to resemble the man he killed. Is it merely the psychological effect of his guilt, or is it the manifestation of something supernatural - and evil? The tension builds until the chilling final scene, when the horrifying truth will be revealed about the killer - and the slain.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: A Prayer for my Son: Large Print
ISBN: 1674035594 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781674035598
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Цена: 19530.00 T
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Описание: My homeward course led up a long ascent, Where the road's watery surface, to the top Of that sharp rising, glittered to the moon And bore the semblance of another stream Stealing with silent lapse to join the brook That murmured in the vale. All else was still: No living thing appeared in earth or air, And, save the flowing water's peaceful voice, Sound there was none-but lo an uncouth shape...

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: The Killer and the Slain
ISBN: 1676743898 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781676743897
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Цена: 12630.00 T
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Описание: As boys, Jimmie Tunstall was John Talbot's implacable foe, never ceasing to taunt, torment, and bully him. Years later, John is married and living in a small coastal town when he learns, much to his chagrin, that his old adversary has just moved to the same town. Before long the harassment begins anew until finally, driven to desperation, John murders his tormentor. Soon he starts to suffer from frightening hallucinations and his personality and physical appearance begin to alter, causing him increasingly to resemble the man he killed. Is it merely the psychological effect of his guilt, or is it the manifestation of something supernatural - and evil? The tension builds until the chilling final scene, when the horrifying truth will be revealed about the killer - and the slain.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: John Cornelius: His Life and Adventures: Large Print
ISBN: 1706891237 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706891239
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Цена: 39070.00 T
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Описание: Walpole, as the biographer of the life of John Cornelius, wrote a long, first person narrative of the life of a genius who could never bring his world of dreams in tune with the world of reality for himself or for those who read his books, a writer who strove desperately to produce serious novels, and who died famous and acknowledged for three slim volumes of fairy tales. Walpole wrote romantically of a character whose life was never very real, and who could not find happiness, except at odd moments because of this gulf between him and the world.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: The Old Ladies
ISBN: 1706695861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706695868
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Цена: 25280.00 T
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Описание: In an old rickety building on the rock above an old grass-grown square in the city of Polchester live three old ladies. The house was a windy, creaky, rain-bitten place where tthe ladies lived as tenants. One of the tenants, Miss Beringer, has a rather nervous personality but is befriended by a kindly neighbour named Mrs. Amorest. Soon, however, she meets the third tenant, a strange woman who takes an interest in her one treasured possession, an amber figurine. Although it is the morning of Christmas Eve, the mood in the house soon turns ominous, despite Mrs Amorest's best efforts to foster a festive spirit.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: Jeremy and Hamlet: Large Print
ISBN: 1706882130 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706882138
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Цена: 21830.00 T
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Описание: The book begins: There was a certain window between the kitchen and the pantry that was Hamlet's favorite. Thirty years ago-these chronicles are of the year 1894-the basements of houses in provincial English towns, even of large houses owned by rich people, were dark, chill, odorful caverns hissing with ill-burning gas and smelling of ill-cooked cabbage. The basement of the Coles' house in Polchester was as bad as any other, but this little window between the kitchen and the pantry was higher in the wall than the other basement windows, almost on a level with the iron railings beyond it, and offering a view down over Orange Street and, obliquely, sharp to the right and past the Polchester High School, a glimpse of the Cathedral towers themselves.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: The Killer and the Slain
ISBN: 1706695454 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706695455
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Цена: 28730.00 T
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Описание: As boys, Jimmie Tunstall was John Talbot's implacable foe, never ceasing to taunt, torment, and bully him. Years later, John is married and living in a small coastal town when he learns, much to his chagrin, that his old adversary has just moved to the same town. Before long the harassment begins anew until finally, driven to desperation, John murders his tormentor. Soon he starts to suffer from frightening hallucinations and his personality and physical appearance begin to alter, causing him increasingly to resemble the man he killed. Is it merely the psychological effect of his guilt, or is it the manifestation of something supernatural - and evil? The tension builds until the chilling final scene, when the horrifying truth will be revealed about the killer - and the slain.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: The Prelude to Adventure: Large Print
ISBN: 170690889X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706908890
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Цена: 21830.00 T
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Описание: Praised in a letter to the author by Carl Jung as "a psychological masterpiece," Walpole's early (1912) novel is the story of a Cambridge undergraduate, Olva Dune, who commits a murder. Ironically, at the moment he commits his crime, he feels the presence of God.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: Jeremy and Hamlet
ISBN: 1706686161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706686163
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Описание: Jeremy and Hamlet is the second book in the Jeremy Trilogy published by Sir Hugh Walpole. Published to critical acclaim across the world, it quickly became a bestseller. Hamlet in the second novel is Jeremy's trusty best friend and sidekick, his dog. The portrayal of young Jeremy is authentic, engaging, and incredibly realistic glimpse of an English boyhood.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: The Prelude to Adventure
ISBN: 1706908903 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706908906
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Цена: 21830.00 T
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Описание: Praised in a letter to the author by Carl Jung as "a psychological masterpiece," Walpole's early (1912) novel is the story of a Cambridge undergraduate, Olva Dune, who commits a murder. Ironically, at the moment he commits his crime, he feels the presence of God.