The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle's condescension in his aunt's bed.ReviewNovel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in Russian in 1928 as Korol, dama, valet. With this novel, Nabokov began his career-long obsession with gamesmanship, word play in several languages, and multiple, surreal images and characterizations. The image of a deck of playing cards is used throughout the novel. Franz, an unsophisticated young man, works in the department store of his rich uncle Dreyer. Out of boredom Martha, the uncle's young wife, seduces Franz. The lovers subsequently plot to drown Dreyer and marry each other. Martha changes her mind abruptly when she learns that an invention by Dreyer stands to increase his wealth, but she then dies suddenly from pneumonia. Her husband never discovers his wife's duplicity. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature Views: 7
She seduced Texas's richest oil family out of a fortune. But now petty thief and ex-stripper Mink LaRue has a rival for the ultimate temptation. . .It didn't take long for Mink LaRue to blow all the money she conned pretending to be the missing oil heiress Sable Dominion. And now that a sweet chunk of the huge Dominion family trust fund is up for grabs, nothing can stop her from going in hard for even more. Trouble is, her drug-dealing ex-boyfriend and the Dominion's irresistible eldest son, Barron, want to take Mink down in as many ways as possible. Even Barron's scheming fiancée is working overtime to expose Mink and bulldoze over her house of lies. But for Mink, the most dangerous opposition to her devious plan is the new pretender who's come to town. . .and she looks—and lies—exactly like Mink!Now, if the sexy little liar is going to get her hands on the Dominion fortune and come out on top, she will have to make friends out of enemies and click up with a... Views: 7
'It's hard to find the right words to praise this novel. I think we need a whole new critical vocabulary to be invented. Rawson recreates a vanished historical world with utterly convincing characters as well as inhabits the mind of a cephalopod alien and make us feel, in both cases, yes, that's exactly how it is. Jane Rawson's writing is mysterious, chilling and tender. The book is a sort of miracle.' Lian HearnFrom the Wreck tells the remarkable story of George Hills, who survived the sinking of the steamship Admella off the South Australian coast in 1859. Haunted by his memories and the disappearance of a fellow survivor, George's fractured life is intertwined with that of a woman from another dimension, seeking refuge on Earth. This is a novel imbued with beauty and feeling, filled both with existential loneliness and a deep awareness that all life is interdependent. Views: 7
The Deluce family name was once a name that struck fear into the cold heart of evil, then one day they just disappeared without a trace no one knew how or why.Mona Deluce has no clue about her families ancient history. She only cares about one thing, getting good grades. Her whole life changes when two mysterious boys arrive at school, she falls for one while the other accidentally reveals her secret. Now an ancient evil wants to finish what it started so many centuries ago unless Mona can show them why they once called the Deluce's the lights of god. Views: 7
Coming home may be more DANGEROUS THAN SHE THINKS.... Libby Morgan never
wanted to return to Lancaster County. She'd made her own life in the city as a news
photographer, leaving the slow pace of Amish country behind. She'd left love behind,
too, when she fled the old-fashioned ways of Adam Byler. But when a friend in trouble
beckons, Libby knows she has no choice. What she doesn't know is that something sinister
awaits her.... For Adam Byler, the traditional ways convey safety and order. As police
chief of Springville, the former marine strives to keep the peace between the Amish and
their modern "Englischer" neighbors - and he will not allow Libby's beauty to distract
him from his duties. But when an innocent woman is attacked, they'll confront a danger
more threatening than their growing passion. Views: 7
Young Lacey Vernon was horrified when she was whisked out of her convent school, taken home and groomed for what she realised was marriage—a forced marriage to the Greek tycoon Troy Andreakis. to save her father from ruin. But Troy was not without his attractions, and once the first shock was over Lacey began to realise that perhaps she wasn't dreading what lay ahead of her as much as she had thought she had. She might indeed have had a very happy marriage—until she learned that Troy was, to put it mildly, not going to be a one-woman man... Views: 7
This futuristic novel has all the elements YA fiction needs to draw critical attention from reviewers, and to elicit award-nominations. It is thematically interesting, culturally diverse, well-written, futuristic, and very funny.Set in the year 2021, this fantastic YA novel explores the tension between a young woman's future building infrastructure for Augmented Reality, and the commitment she makes to her dying grandmother to honour ancient Chinese magic. The Geomancer's Compass imagines a world in the near future while exploring the Chinese immigrant experience and the expanding, elastic and shifting nature of reality. Views: 7
The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change. Views: 7
