Accursed, Ferrars, Vivien

Автор: Ferrars, Vivien
Название: Accursed
ISBN: 1528985494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781528985499
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Описание: Piemonte, 1894. Maria, the impoverished daughter of a once affluent farming family, faces a painful choice: live as a poor relation in her brother's wife's household, or marry a newcomer to the county, the game warden brought in by Maria's mother's godmother, who is the chatelaine of one of the principal estates of the area. She chooses marriage, and it proves to be a disastrous choice. Her husband, Mat , turns out to be a dishonest, violent drunkard who is soon dismissed by his employer for...poaching.
A profoundly devout Catholic, Maria appeals to her confessor for guidance; he tells her that it is a wife's duty to receive her husband - even if he is a drunken lout. To refuse him is a mortal sin.
She is trapped. But she is not alone: she has friends, and they rally to her. Her own upright character earns her the respect and loyalty of those who know her.
Years pass. Maria gives birth to child after child, desperately trying to maintain some decency, to protect her growing family against the shambles Mat makes of their chances.
WWI breaks out, depleting the countryside of its young men. Maria's first-born son goes missing in action. He is not heard of again.
Through it all, Maria struggles to support her family, to pay off her small farm and to maintain her faith, which falters when, the war over, her second youngest son, -Sandr n, falls victim to diphtheria after the epidemic is over.

Автор: Ferrars, Vivien
Название: Ten miles and worlds apart
ISBN: 1528981995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781528981996
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Описание: In 1925, in a small church at the outskirts of Turin, Pier Venturi sings at mass each Sunday, his pure voice lending exquisite grace to the familiar litany of prayers.
Pier's talents do not go unnoticed for long, and the day he rides his bicycle into the city centre for the first time, anxiously anticipating a place in the grand cathedral choir, his life changes forever.
With his eyes opened to the glittering life of the -gentry, his budding love for opera develops into a -burning desire for the theatre, for literature, for music - in short, for a cultured life - awakening in him a passion he could never have imagined.
Meantime, at the FIAT car factory where he works, his incipient refinement catches the eye of the beautiful Lena with its echoes of the perceived perfections of her first - and lost - love, a scion of a Florence haute bourgeoisie family, whom he re-joins at the end of his legal studies in Turin. Pier and Lena soon fall deeply in love, but this love becomes for Pier a further source of conflict and guilt because her sweet and simple working-class desires clash with his passionate craving for a cultured life.
As operatic fame beckons and a sultry mezzo-soprano stirs Pier in all the wrong ways, he must decide where his true aspirations lie and overcome the crushing burden of suspicion, mistrust and self-doubt that is the -legacy of his brutish and unhappy childhood.

Автор: Ferrars, Vivien
Название: Ten miles and worlds apart
ISBN: 1528982002 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781528982009
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Описание: In 1925, in a small church at the outskirts of Turin, Pier Venturi sings at mass each Sunday, his pure voice lending exquisite grace to the familiar litany of prayers.
Pier's talents do not go unnoticed for long, and the day he rides his bicycle into the city centre for the first time, anxiously anticipating a place in the grand cathedral choir, his life changes forever.
With his eyes opened to the glittering life of the -gentry, his budding love for opera develops into a -burning desire for the theatre, for literature, for music - in short, for a cultured life - awakening in him a passion he could never have imagined.
Meantime, at the FIAT car factory where he works, his incipient refinement catches the eye of the beautiful Lena with its echoes of the perceived perfections of her first - and lost - love, a scion of a Florence haute bourgeoisie family, whom he re-joins at the end of his legal studies in Turin. Pier and Lena soon fall deeply in love, but this love becomes for Pier a further source of conflict and guilt because her sweet and simple working-class desires clash with his passionate craving for a cultured life.
As operatic fame beckons and a sultry mezzo-soprano stirs Pier in all the wrong ways, he must decide where his true aspirations lie and overcome the crushing burden of suspicion, mistrust and self-doubt that is the -legacy of his brutish and unhappy childhood.

Автор: Ferrars E. X.
Название: Something Wicked
ISBN: 1631942263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631942266
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 13750.00 T
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Описание: No longer on the sprightly side of 70, Professor Andrew Basnett is looking forward to retirement, to really digging into the biography he plans to write of an obscure 17th-century botanist, to settling into the little village where he's borrowed a cottage while his flat in town is being renovated. It all sounds peaceful and bucolic, even if the village murderess lives right up the road. But the case never came to trial, says Basnett's nephew, lender of the cottage: She had the perfect alibi. Not entirely comforted, Basnett is yet more unnerved when a blizzard hits, knocking out the power and igniting powerful memories, throughout the village, of that similarly snowy night six years ago when Mrs. Hewison....well, when someone shot Charles Hewison through the head. It doesn't really help that there's now been another murder and that Pauline Hewison, once again, had motive to spare.

Автор: Ferrars, E. X.
Название: Seeing Is Believing
ISBN: 0385506880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385506885
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 9190.00 T
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Автор: Ferrars (Pseudonym) Lord
Название: Clara Alcock
ISBN: 1511947578 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781511947572
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Цена: 8320.00 T
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Автор: Ferrars, E. X.
Название: Hobby Of Murder
ISBN: 0385506902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385506908
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Ferrars, Elizabeth
Название: Fear the Light
ISBN: 1471907082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471907081
Издательство: Orion
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Автор: Ferrars, Elizabeth
Название: Sleeping Dogs
ISBN: 1471907104 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471907104
Издательство: Orion
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Описание:

What happens to a woman after she has been acquitted of murder? Can she ever take up a normal life? And what happens when a journalist sees easy money in ghostwriting her memoirs?

What happens when a helpful young woman, checking on the details of the story, gets caught up in the ugly world that surrounds Teresa Swale, legally acquitted - and possibly a victim herself - of murder?

'A consummate professional in clever plotting' "Washington Post"

Автор: Ferrars, Elizabeth
Название: Furnished for Murder
ISBN: 147190704X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471907043
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: `There are few detective-story writers so consistently good` Sunday Times

Автор: Ferrars, Elizabeth
Название: Unreasonable Doubt
ISBN: 1471907066 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471907067
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: `There are few detective-story writers so consistently good` Sunday Times

Автор: Ferrars, Elizabeth
Название: Ninth Life
ISBN: 1471907163 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471907166
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: One of the best-loved and most prolific crime writers of her generation.