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Book The Colonel s Daughter and Other Stories

Download or read book The Colonel s Daughter and Other Stories written by Rose Tremain and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories deal with the feminist daughter of wealthy parents, an English banker and his wife who vacation in Florida, a disillusioned actor, and a blind man's remarriage.

Book The Colonel

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  • Author : Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
  • Publisher : Haus Publishing
  • Release : 2015-08-15
  • ISBN : 1907822895
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book The Colonel written by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his children, who had joined the different factions of the 1979 revolution. There is a knock on the door. Two young policemen have come to summon the Colonel to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter and bury her before sunrise. The Islamic Revolution, like every other revolution in history, is devouring its own children. And whose fault is that? This shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian left over the last fifty years does not leave one taboo unbroken.

Book The Daughters of the Late Colonel

Download or read book The Daughters of the Late Colonel written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Colonel s Daughter

Download or read book The Colonel s Daughter written by Charles King and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seducing the Colonel s Daughter

Download or read book Seducing the Colonel s Daughter written by Jennifer Morey and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raeleen Randall dumps her boyfriend after discovering he's married. Then she's kidnapped and taken to a remote lighthouse on the island of Anguilla. With a hurricane fast approaching, Raeleen needs a miracle to save her. And that miracle shows up in the strapping form of Travis Todd—the irresistibly handsome stranger who rescues her. When operative Travis Todd first sees Raeleen, he wants her. But getting involved with a powerful colonel's daughter is bad news. With someone out to harm her, he can't walk away. In this tropical paradise with its sultry nights, it's nearly impossible to ignore his desire.

Book The Colonel s Wife

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  • Author : Rosa Liksom
  • Publisher : Graywolf Press
  • Release : 2019-11-05
  • ISBN : 1644451077
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book The Colonel s Wife written by Rosa Liksom and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. Based on a true story, The Colonel’s Wife is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism.

Book The General s Daughter

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  • Author : Nelson DeMille
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2001-04-01
  • ISBN : 0759522642
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book The General s Daughter written by Nelson DeMille and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The gripping murder mystery about an upstanding military officer - the base commander's daughter - who's been leading an unsavory double life. When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain paraphernalia, and sex toys that point to a scandal of major proportions, The chief investigator is reluctant to take the case when he learns that his partner will be a woman with whom he had a tempestuous affair and an unpleasant parting. But duty calls and intrigue begins when they learn that several top-level people may have been involved with the "golden girl" - and many have wanted her dead. "DeMille is a master at keeping the reader hanging on to see what happens next." - Associated Press

Book The Colonel s Lady

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  • Author : Laura Frantz
  • Publisher : Revell
  • Release : 2011-08
  • ISBN : 080073341X
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The Colonel s Lady written by Laura Frantz and published by Revell. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1779, a search for her father brings Roxanna to the Kentucky frontier--but she discovers instead a young colonel, a dark secret...and a compelling reason to stay.

Book Eliza s Daughter

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  • Author : Joan Aiken
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2008-11-01
  • ISBN : 1402225962
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Eliza s Daughter written by Joan Aiken and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Young Woman Longing for Adventure and an Artistic Life... Because she's an illegitimate child, Eliza is raised in the rural backwater with very little supervision. An intelligent, creative, and free-spirited heroine, unfettered by the strictures of her time, she makes friends with poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, finds her way to London, and eventually travels the world, all the while seeking to solve the mystery of her parentage. With fierce determination and irrepressible spirits, Eliza carves out a life full of adventure and artistic endeavor. PRAISE FOR JOAN AIKEN "Others may try, but nobody comes close to Aiken in writing sequels to Jane Austen." PublishersWeekly "Aiken's story is rich with humor, and her language is compelling. Readers captivated with Elinor and Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility will thoroughly enjoy Aiken's crystal gazing, but so will those unacquainted with Austen." Booklist "...innovative storyteller Aiken again pays tribute to Jane Austen in a cheerful spinoff of Sense and Sensibility." Kirkus Reviews

Book Jane Eyre s Daughter

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  • Author : Elizabeth Newark
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2008-09-01
  • ISBN : 1402234341
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Jane Eyre s Daughter written by Elizabeth Newark and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate young woman of high courage... IN THIS SEQUEL TO JANE EYRE, young Janet Rochester is consigned to Highcrest Manor and the guardianship of the strict Colonel Dent while her parents journey to the West Indies. As Janet struggles to make a life for herself, guided by the ideals of her parents, she finds herself caught up in the mysteries of Highcrest. Why is the East Wing forbidden to her? What lies behind locked gates? And what is the source of the voices she hears in the night? Can she trust the enigmatic Roderick Landless, or should she transfer her allegiance to the suave and charming Sir Hugo Calendar? Whether riding her mare on the Yorkshire moors, holding her own with Colonel Dent, or waltzing at her first ball, Janet is strong, sympathetic, and courageous. After all, she is her mother's daughter. "The very first scene pulled me in and the suspense continued to build to the very end. I'm very impressed."—Historical-Fiction.com

Book The Colonel s Daughter

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  • Author : Charles King
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Colonel s Daughter written by Charles King and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Colonel s Daughter

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  • Author : Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-06-27
  • ISBN : 9781500100544
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book The Colonel s Daughter written by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant and emotional love story set in the 1950s and 1960s In the summer of 1954, young George West, qualified as an architect but completing his National Service, meets 17-year-old Josella Grace, daughter of a retired colonel. He falls passionately in love with this reserved but beautiful girl – a love that seems destined never to be fulfilled. Their story, and its dark secrets, alternates between George's tale of first love in 1954 and Josella's bitter-sweet perspective a decade later in 1964. Their unique voices chart the anguish, tragedy and despair, as their lives are led apart... “Vivid characters, an enthralling plot, and realistic ambience...dramatic, taut and gripping.”Emily Melton, Booklist

Book The Colonel s Daughter

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  • Author : Charles King
  • Publisher : Nabu Press
  • Release : 2013-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781289763091
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book The Colonel s Daughter written by Charles King and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Book Bringing Down the Colonel

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  • Author : Patricia Miller
  • Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
  • Release : 2018-11-13
  • ISBN : 0374715629
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Bringing Down the Colonel written by Patricia Miller and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.” In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man—and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality—to trial. And, surprisingly, she won. Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge asked for Pollard’s hand—and then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. But Pollard struck back, suing Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. With premarital sex considered irredeemably ruinous for a woman, Pollard was asserting the unthinkable: that the sexual morality of men and women should be judged equally. Nearly 125 years after the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, America is still obsessed with women’s sexual morality. And in the age of Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein, we’ve witnessed fraught public reckonings with a type of sexual exploitation unnervingly similar to that experienced by Pollard. Using newspaper articles, personal journals, previously unpublished autobiographies, and letters, Bringing Down the Colonel tells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back.

Book Daughter of the Hills

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  • Author : Myra Page
  • Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780935312591
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Daughter of the Hills written by Myra Page and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1986 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel offers a powerful account of family life and labor conflicts, told through the eyes of a tough, resilient Appalachian woman who is, according to Richard Wright, "one of the most impressive proletarian characters in our literature." Daughter of the Hills exposes the economic conditions of the working class and the scarcity of opportunities for working-class women, but also tells the story of a loving marriage that endures despite severe hardships.

Book Leaf Storm

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  • Author : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2005-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780060751555
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Leaf Storm written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains Leaf Storm, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo, Nabo

Book The Garden Party  and Other Stories

Download or read book The Garden Party and Other Stories written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: