The Constant Nymph

Author : Margaret Kennedy
Publisher : Warbler Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781962572026
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constant Nymph (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) written by Margaret Kennedy and published by Warbler Classics. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constant Nymph chronicles the complicated relationships within two families, primarily focusing on the character of Lewis Dodd, a charismatic, talented composer, and Tessa Sanger, the teenage daughter of his mentor, whose passionate love defies societal norms. Set against the stunning backdrop of the Swiss Alps and the bustling city of London, the narrative follows the lives of both the Dodd family and members of the Sanger household. The story takes a harrowing turn when the deaths of key figures destabilize the fragile equilibrium within each family. Central to the novel is the unquenchable love that Tessa Sanger harbors for Lewis. She is a vibrant and fervent young woman deeply enamored with him, despite the insurmountable barriers posed by their age difference and Lewis's marriage to her cousin. Despite these obstacles, Tessa's love for Lewis persists, and her emotions drive much of the story's tension and conflict. The Constant Nymph explores themes of love, obsession, artistic pursuit, and sacrifice, and delves into the enigma of human emotions and the complexities of unfulfilled desire. The novel has garnered praised for its vivid characters and emotional depth and has inspired various adaptations across different media over the years, including a 1943 film adaptation starring Charles Boyer and Joan Fontaine, whose performance as Tess earned her an Academy Award nomination. This Warbler Classics edition includes a biographical timeline.

Author : Margaret Kennedy
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144819203X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constant Nymph written by Margaret Kennedy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his 'Circus' of assorted children, admirers and a slatternly mistress. The family and their home life may be chaotic, but visitors fall into an enchantment, and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away. When Sanger dies, his Circus must break up and each find a more conventional way of life. But fourteen-year-old Teresa is already deeply in love: for her, the outside world holds nothing but tragedy.

Author : Margaret Kennedy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1946022519
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Feast written by Margaret Kennedy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist." —Anita Brookner Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster. Everyone else makes a narrow escape. As the survivors tell their stories, the events of the previous week are revealed, and a parade of sins exposed. Gluttony, Lecherousness, Sloth, Pride, Covetousness, Envy and Wrath: all are in residence at Pendizack Manor, and as the day of the disaster creeps closer, it becomes clear that who’s spared and who’s lost might not be as arbitrary as first assumed. A modern upstairs-downstairs comedy with an old-fashioned morality play tucked away inside, The Feast is sly, kaleidoscopic, and utterly ingenious, a novel that only Margaret Kennedy could have written.

Author : Margaret Kennedy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1946022306
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troy Chimneys written by Margaret Kennedy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in 1953 by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London"--Title page verso.

Author : Margaret Kennedy
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, [19--?]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ladies of Lyndon written by Margaret Kennedy and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, [19--?]. This book was released on 1925 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Kennedy
Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780299197704
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory written by Matthew Kennedy and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of sound, he wrote the story for the Academy Award-winning musical The Broadway Melody and collaborated memorably with Gloria Swanson and Joseph Kennedy for The Trespasser. He excelled at anti-war drama (White Banners, The Dawn Patrol, We Are Not Alone), fantastic Bette Davis weepies (Dark Victory, The Old Maid, The Great Lie), lilting romantic dramas (The Constant Nymph, Claudia), big-budgeted literary adaptations (The Razor's Edge), and even film noir (Nightmare Alley).

Author : Sofka Zinovieff
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062847597
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Putney written by Sofka Zinovieff and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior. A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by renowned novelist Edmund Greenslay to score a stage adaptation of his most famous work. Welcomed into Greenslay’s sprawling bohemian house in Putney, an artistic and prosperous district in southwest London, the musical wunderkind is introduced to Edmund’s activist wife Ellie, his aloof son Theo, and his nine-year old daughter Daphne, who quickly becomes Ralph’s muse. Ralph showers Daphne with tokens of his affection—clandestine gifts and secret notes. In a home that is exciting but often lonely, Daphne finds Ralph to be a dazzling companion, and while he worships her, he doesn't touch her. Their bond remains strong even after Ralph becomes a husband and father. But in the summer of 1976, when Ralph accompanies thirteen-year-old Daphne alone to meet her parents in Greece, their relationship intensifies irrevocably. One person knows of their passionate trysts: Daphne’s best friend Jane, whose awe of the intoxicating Greenslay family ensures her silence. Forty years later Daphne is back in London. After years lost to decadence and drug abuse, she is struggling to create a normal, stable life for herself and her adolescent daughter. When circumstances bring her back in touch with her long-lost friend, Jane, their reunion inevitably turns to Ralph, now a world-famous musician also living in the city. Daphne’s recollections of her childhood and her growing anxiety over her own daughter eventually lead to an explosive realization that propels her to confront Ralph and their years together. Told from three diverse viewpoints—victim, perpetrator, and witness—Putney is a subtle and powerful novel about consent, agency, and what we tell ourselves to justify what we do, and what others do to us.

Author : Ilaria Tuti
Publisher : Soho Crime
ISBN 13 : 1641291214
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sleeping Nymph written by Ilaria Tuti and published by Soho Crime. This book was released on 2020 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Italian under the title Ninfa Dormiente. First published in English in the United Kingdom under the title Painted in Blood by The Orion Publishing Group, Ltd, 2020"--Title page verso.

Author : Michele Jaffe
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1626811938
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Water Nymph written by Michele Jaffe and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man out to save his own skin meets a woman who may be the end of him in a rollicking historical romantic mystery that “will utterly delight the reader” (Abilene Reporter-News). As one of Queen Elizabeth I’s most trusted spies, the daring Crispin Foscari never leaves anything to chance. So, he’s surprised when he’s told he has two weeks to clear his name of treason, or his neck will meet the executioner’s noose. Sophie Champion is a hero to women of London, dedicating her seemingly endless resources to free them from their bondage to men. But when her investigation into the death of her godfather places her in danger, she herself is liberated from danger by Crispin—also known as the notorious “Earl of Scandal.” Not that she would ever admit she needed his help. Even as his mind warns him to stay away from the seductive siren, Crispin offers a proposal. By day, they will pit their equally sharp wits against a calculating enemy, and by night they will fight their searing mutual attraction. But as they grow closer to identifying the killer, they grow closer to one another. Unfortunately, that is only going to make it easier for their foe to finish them both off. With peril, passion, and swashbuckling to spare, this fast-paced romantic adventure from “a writer to watch” is sure to keep you riveted until the thrilling climax (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Billie Melman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349190993
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women And The Popular Imagination In The Twenties written by Billie Melman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-04-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: