Mr Chartwell

Author : Rebecca Hunt
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0679604340
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Chartwell written by Rebecca Hunt and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July 1964. Chartwell House, Kent: Winston Churchill wakes at dawn. There’s a dark, mute “presence” in the room that focuses on him with rapt concentration. It’s Mr. Chartwell. Soon after, in London, Esther Hammerhans, a librarian at the House of Commons, goes to answer the door to her new lodger. Through the glass she sees a vast silhouette the size of a mattress. It’s Mr. Chartwell. Charismatic, dangerously seductive, Mr. Chartwell unites the eminent statesman at the end of his career and the vulnerable young woman. But can they withstand Mr. Chartwell’s strange, powerful charms and his stranglehold on their lives? Can they even explain who or what he is and why he has come to visit? In this utterly original, moving, funny, and exuberant novel, Rebecca Hunt explores how two unlikely lives collide as Mr. Chartwell’s motives are revealed to be far darker and deeper than they at first seem.

Author : Glenn Head
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 168396425X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chartwell Manor written by Glenn Head and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one asks for the childhood they get, and no child ever deserved to go to Chartwell Manor. For Glenn Head, his two years spent at the now-defunct Mendham, NJ, boarding school ― run by a serial sexual and emotional abuser of young boys in the early 1970s ― left emotional scars in ways that he continues to process. This graphic memoir ― a book almost 50 years in the making ― tells the story of that experience, and then delves with even greater detail into the reverberations of that experience in adulthood, including addiction and other self-destructive behavior. Head tells his story with unsparing honesty, depicting himself as a deeply flawed human struggling to make sense of the childhood he was given.

Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408831236
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr Churchill's Profession written by Peter Clarke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter century, his four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples.As an author, Churchill faced woes familiar to many others; chronically short of funds, late on deadlines, scrambling to sell new projects or cajoling his publishers for more advance money. He signed a contract for the English-Speaking project in 1932, a time when his political career seemed over. The magnum opus was to be delivered in 1939, but in that year, history overtook history-writing. When the Nazis swept across Europe, Churchill was summoned from political exile to become Prime Minister. The English-Speaking Peoples would have to wait.The book would indeed be written and become a bestseller, after Churchill left public life. But even before he took office, the massive project was shaping his worldview, his speeches and his leadership. In these pages, Peter Clarke follows Churchill's monumental quest to chronicle the English-Speaking Peoples - a quest that helped to define the enduring 'special relationship' between Britain and America. In the process, Clarke gives us not just an untold chapter in literary history, but a fresh perspective on this iconic figure: a life of Churchill the author.

Author : Rebecca Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781408488324
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr Chartwell written by Rebecca Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr Chartwell is a huge, black dog. In this original, moving, funny and exuberant novel, Rebecca Hunt explores how two unlikelylives collide as Mr Chartwell's motives are revealed to be far darker and deeper than they seem.

Author : Stephanie Laurens
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459244478
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lady of Expectations and Other Stories written by Stephanie Laurens and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lady of Expectations Jack Lester seeks the perfect bride—one who is attractive and kind, but who also loves him in spite of his wealth. Which is why he keeps this trifling detail hidden. But when Sophie Winterton enters his life, believing he must marry into wealth to run his family's estate, how will he convince her that she is the woman he desires—and that he can be the husband she deserves? Secrets of a Courtesan Eve Nightingale thought she had put her past as mistress to the Duke of Welburn behind her. But when the handsome duke strolls into her small village, she finds it hard to keep her secrets concealed…and to keep her heart from stirring for him once again. How to Woo a Spinster Still unmarried at twenty-eight, Lady Emmaline Daughtry has resigned herself to spinsterhood. Then Captain John Alistair arrives at her door—the very image of the perfect lover of her most private dreams. But can a man with a secret and a woman who's never known love find happiness together?

Author : Stephanie Laurens
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 0369705084
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lady of Expectations written by Stephanie Laurens and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is in the air in London society in this heartwarming tale, only from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens. Jack Lester has to find a bride... But where can he find the perfect woman? She has to be attractive, kind, a good conversationalist...and most important, she has to accept him as he is: devilishly handsome, charming and, as far as anyone knows, poor as a church mouse! If London society discovers his hidden wealth, he’ll never find the right wife. Jack’s heart races when he first lays eyes on Sophie Winterton. She is everything he desires—and more—but he is caught in his own trap. Believing that Jack needs to marry into wealth, Sophie rejects all his advances, certain he would never marry a poor girl like her. As they play out a game of cat and mouse, can Jack convince her that she is the woman he wants—and that he is the husband she deserves? Previously published

Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1631062417
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Tales of H.P. Lovecraft written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by . This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including At the Mountains of Madness and The Call of Cthulhu, The Essential Tales of H.P. Lovecraft is now available in an elegantly designed clothbound, portable format.

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Knickerbocker Classics
ISBN 13 : 0760365571
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital written by Karl Marx and published by Knickerbocker Classics. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unabridged versions of these definitive works are now available together as a highly designed paperback with flaps with a new introduction by Robert Weick. Part of the Knickerbocker Classics series, a modern design makes this timeless book a perfect travel companion. Considered to be one of the most influential political writings, The Communist Manifesto is as relevant today as when it was originally published. This pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, published in 1884 as revolutions were erupting across Europe, discusses class struggles and the problems of a capitalist society. After being exiled to London, Marx published the first part of Das Kapital, a theoretical text that argues that capitalism will create greater and greater division in wealth and welfare and ultimately be replaced by a system of common ownership of the means of production. After Marx's death, Engels completed and published the second and third parts from his colleague's notes. The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the essential works of classic authors from around the world in stunning editions to be collected and enjoyed.

Author : Stephanie Laurens
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 0369705254
Total Pages : 1215 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lester Family Trilogy written by Stephanie Laurens and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 1215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MIRA brings you three full length novels in one collection! Be swept off your feet with the Lester Family Collection—three fan-favorite Regencies by #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens. This box set includes: THE REASONS FOR MARRIAGE (A Lester Family Novel) By #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens Lenore Lester is perfectly content with her quiet country life, but the notoriously charming Jason, Duke of Eversleigh, is determined to loosen the hold she has on her heart. A LADY OF EXPECTATIONS (A Lester Family Novel) By #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens Jack Lester seeks the perfect bride—one who is attractive and kind but who also loves him in spite of his wealth. But when Sophie Winterton enters his life, believing he must marry into wealth to run his family's estate, how will he convince her that she is the woman he desires? AN UNWILLING CONQUEST (A Lester Family Novel) By #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens Self-proclaimed rake Harry Lester has no intention of being ensnared by the trap of marriage. But when he encounters Mrs. Lucinda Babbacombe, a beautiful, independent widow, he finds himself prisoner in the most passionate of traps. Read the Lester Family Trilogy by Stephanie Laurens: Book One: The Reasons for Marriage Book Two: A Lady of Expectations Book Three: An Unwilling Conquest

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Lorenz Books
ISBN 13 : 9780754822295
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Wild written by Jack London and published by Lorenz Books. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Call of the Wild' is the story of Buck, a domestic dog stolen, sold as a sled dog and forced to endure the brutal work and competition with the other dogs to be leader of the pack. 'White Fang' presents a similar story but in reverse as a wild wolf-dog mix is domesticated but faces great cruelty before finding a master.