Ergebnis für "Householders" in Belletristik

A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighborhood, tensions escalate around two events planned for the same day. The barista girlfriend of a tech billionaire survives a zombie apocalypse only to face spending her life with the paranoid super-rich. From an underground bunker to Toronto and back again, the stories in Householders move effortlessly between the commonplace and the fantastic. In deft and exacting narratives, Kate Cayley mines the moral hazards inherent in the ways we try to save each other and ourselves.

An Englishman plans to assassinate the dictator of a European country. But he is foiled at the last moment and falls into the hands of ruthless and inventive torturers. They devise for him an ingenious and diplomatic death but, for once, they bungle the job and he escapes. But England provides no safety from his pursuers - and the Rogue Male must strip away all the trappings of status and civilization as the hunter becomes a hunted animal.

A brilliantly moving and darkly comic novel, which charts the attempts of dying heroine Delia – a modern day Mrs Beeton – to prepare her family for the future and lay to rest a ghost from her past Inspired by her heroine, Isabella Beeton, Delia has made a living writing a series of hugely...

There’s something wrong next door. At least, that’s what neighbours Howie Jeffries and Emily Phane both think. Howie is an accidental recluse, content with his fishing and dreams of someday sailing away on a boat. Emily couldn’t be more different: she’s irreverent, outgoing and seemingly...

"Brooding and twisted, but beautiful in its honesty, A Veritable Household Pet will chill you to the bone as it simultaneously breaks your heart." —Paulette Kennedy, bestselling author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport Darla Gregory received a lobotomy at eleven years old . . . and she was never...

Delve into the festive world of Charles Dickens with this collection of twenty stories originally published in the Christmas editions of his periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round. While some tales brim with holiday spirit, others reveal Dickens' sharp critique of the social and economic injustices of his time. Each story offers a unique glimpse into the complexities of Victorian society, blending warmth, wit, and social commentary.

A powerful, singular collection of short stories depicting masculinity and the evolving role of fatherhood in contemporary society—perfect for readers of Jamel Brinkley’s A Lucky Man and Phil Klay’s Redeployment. From stories about a father who shows up hungover to chaperone his...

The setting is New York's Little Italy in the 1950's - a community closely knit by gossip and tradition. This is the story of an extraordinary family, the Santangelos. There is Joseph, the butcher, who cheats in his shop and at pinochle, only to find the deck is stacked against him; his mother, Mrs. Santangelo, who sees the evil eye everywhere and who calls on her saints; and Catherine, his wife, whose determination to raise a modern daughter leads her to confront ancient questions.

Twenty stories were originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stories have little holiday sentiment and exhibit much of the indignation Dickens felt at the social and economic injustices of his day. Some of the stories were written in collaboration with other authors.

This short novel follows the fate of Sissy Jupe, a warm-hearted circus child, and the family that adopts her. Deserted by her ailing father, Sissy is taken into the cold household of the Gradgrind family, which operates a school. The "eminently practical" Thomas Gradgrind believes only in facts and figures and has raised his children accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative side of their nature, and the consequences are devastating.

The worst monsters are the human kind . . . Dundee, 1812. Isabel Baxter awaits the arrival of Mary Godwin, a girl of fierce intelligence and grand passions, sent north to recover from a mysterious ailment. The Baxter family home, nestled in woodland by the river Tay, seems the perfect retreat...

Richard is at the end of his financial rope and disappears into the woods behind his home. Where has he gone, and what is required of Felicity before she can find him? Unlock with Richard the secret behind the voice of inspiration and find out for yourself how truly dependable and ingenious your own inner voice can be.

Seven hundred years after the age of Destruction, all is not well in the Euro-African Federation settlement at Avebury. The ancient British tribes who inhabit the forest beyond the perimeter of the Federation-imposed civilisation have taken up the notions of self-rule and nationalism. Will there be a show of strength, or will native British shrewdness prevail?

Sir Iweala Adichie ad a blissful life with his family until he received a Benemerenti medal from the Pope same time his wife becomes the first female Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. At a special dinner with his nuclear family and parish priest, he learns that his family’s perfect life is about to keel over as his four children decide to come out of their various closets.

"In a Literary Household" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. In the literary household of fiction and the drama, things are usually in a distressing enough condition. The husband, as you know, has a hacking cough, and the wife a dying baby, and they write in the intervals of these cares among the litter of the breakfast things.