When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world.
In his introduction, Pankaj Mishra outlines Forster's complex engagement with Indian society and culture. This edition reproduces the Abinger text and notes, and also includes four of Forster's essays on India, a chronology and further reading. Views: 690
Zhara, the First. Elysia, her clone. On the surface, they are identical. But looks can be deceiving.
When Zhara plays, she plays to win. She thought she had escaped the horrors of Doctor Lusardi's cloning compound. But the nightmare is just beginning. Elysia has taken everything from Zhara-a softer, prettier version of herself and an inescapable reminder of all she's failed at in her life. Now the man Zhara loves has replaced her with Elysia. Zhara will get her clone out of the way, no matter the cost.
Elysia has finally learned the truth: she has a soul. Her First is alive. She knows it hurts Zhara to see her with Alexander, but she can't give him up. The genetically-perfected Aquine has chosen as her as his life mate, and their days together are limited.
Elysia can't remain in the Rave Caves off the shores of Denesme forever. Revolution is brewing on the island paradise. Hundreds of soulless clones remain imprisoned like Elysia once was, slaves to the whims of their owners-wealthy human inhabitants of the island. As a group of clones and humans, led by Alexander, plot an insurrection that will turn Denesme's world upside down, Elysia knows her place is fighting by his side. Terrible sacrifices must be made to defeat Denesme's twisted regime. But even the greatest losses cannot prepare Elysia for the ticking time bomb built into her own programming... Views: 690
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and "writer of astonishing depth" (The Washington Times) comes a poignant comedy about a crime that never book place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.Viewing an apartment normally doesn't turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As the pressure mounts, the eight strangers begin slowly opening up to one another and reveal long-hidden truths. First is Zara, a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else until tragedy changed her life. Now, she's obsessed with visiting open houses to see how ordinary people live—and, perhaps, to send an old wrong to right. Then there's Roger and Anna-Lena, an Ikea-addicted... Views: 690
Here is the collection of nonfiction pieces that John Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009. It opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter, a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic. It concludes with a moving meditation on a world without religion, without art, and on the difficulties of faith in a disbelieving age. In between are pieces on Peanuts, Mars, and the songs of Cole Porter, a pageant of scenes from early Massachusetts, and a good deal of Updikean table talk. At the heart of the volume are dozens of book reviews from The New Yorker and illustrated art writings from The New York Review of Books. Updike’s criticism is gossip of the highest sort. We will not hear the likes of it again. Views: 690
Desire...Demon slayer Andrea Cole has always taken down the demons and vampires she hunts without mercy. But when a fellow slayer is captured and turned into a vampire by a sadistic monster, she must choose between loyalty to her family and the man she loves.Versus Instinct...Kaden Quinn has dedicated his life to slaying vampires, so when he is turned into one, his greatest nightmare comes to life. And when the woman he loves is thrown into a dungeon with him — as food — he must battle new instincts and old desires, and choose between his life, and hers.NOTE: This is a short novella that originally appeared in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2 and the anthology Vampires in Love. It has been expanded for its stand-alone digital release. In the Demonica timeline, it falls between book 4, Ecstasy Unveiled, and book 5, Sin Undone, though it can be read without having read the Demonica novels. Views: 690
Bart returns to his home town to await an evil he can no longer avoid. As he waits, he questions the decisions he has made that have led him to this fate, and he wonders if perhaps he has sacrificed his own happiness and the happiness of those he loves for the sake of a higher cause that may prove to be beyond him.Bart returns to his home town to await an evil he can no longer avoid. As he waits, he questions the decisions he has made that have led him to this fate, and he wonders if perhaps he has sacrificed his own happiness and the happiness of those he loves for the sake of a higher cause that may prove to be beyond him. For an ancient evil has fixed its eyes upon him, and its minions are coming to claim him. Views: 690
This is the Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, with illustrations and a comprehensive scope of her many works. This is the only eBook available with every novel, novella, short story – even the very rare ones – poem, and much more! (Current version: 4)* brief but informative introductions to the novels and other texts* ALL 6 novels and ALL 7 novellas, each with their own contents table* images of film and television adaptations* BONUS original illustrations for ‘Wives and Daughters’ – give your eReader a taste of the Victorian text!*ALL 48 short stories, with excellent formatting* includes Gaskell’s poetry, printed in Dickens’ magazines* Gaskell’s scholarly biography on Charlotte Brontë, with its own contents table* SPECIAL BONUS text of Rev. George A. Payne’s semi-biography of Gaskell – explore her beautiful town of Knutsford* many images relating to Gaskell’s life, works and the places she lived in* scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres* front no-nonsense table of contents to allow easy navigation around Gaskell’s oeuvre. CONTENTS: The NovelsMARY BARTONCRANFORDRUTHNORTH AND SOUTHSYLVIA’S LOVERSWIVES AND DAUGHTERS The Novellas:THE MOORLAND COTTAGEMR. HARRISON’S CONFESSIONSLIZZIE LEIGHMY LADY LUDLOWLOIS THE WITCHA DARK NIGHT’S WORKCOUSIN PHILLIS The Short Stories:A FEAR FOR THE FUTURE, A HOUSE TO LET, A VISIT TO ETON, AN ACCURSED RACE, AN ITALIAN INSTITUTION, BESSY’S TROUBLES AT HOME, THE CAGE, AT CRANFORD CHRISTMAS, STORMS AND SUNSHINE, CLOPTON HALL, COMPANY MANNERS, THE CROOKED BRANCH, CROWLEY CASTLE, CUMBERLAND SHEEP-SHEARERS, CURIOUS, IF TRUE, THE DESERTED MANSION, DISAPPEARANCES, THE DOOM OF THE GRIFFITHS, FRENCH LIFE, THE GREY WOMAN, HALF A LIFE-TIME AGO, THE HALF-BROTHERS, HAND AND HEART, THE HAUNTED HOUSE, THE HEART OF JOHN MIDDLETON, THE LAST GENERATION IN ENGLAND, LIBBIE MARSH’S THREE ERAS, THE MANCHESTER MARRIAGE, MARTHA PRESTON, MODERN GREEK SONGS, MORTON HALL, MY FRENCH MASTER, THE OLD NURSE’S STORY, THE POOR CLARE, RIGHT AT LAST, ROUND THE SOFA, THE SEXTON’S HERO, THE SHAH’S ENGLISH GARDENERS, HAMS, SIX WEEKS AT HEPPENHEIM, SOME PASSAGES FROM THE HISTORY OF THE CHOMLEY FAMILY, THE SQUIRE’S STORY, TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE HUGUENOTS, TWO FRAGMENTS OF GHOST STORIES, UNCLE PETER, THE WELL OF PENMORFA The Poetry BRANTHE SCHOLAR’S STORYSKETCHES AMONG THE POOR, NO. I The Biography THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË Payne’s Biography MRS. GASKELL AND KNUTSFORD BY REV. GEORGE A. PAYNEPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles. Views: 690
First published in Redbook in 1975 to enormous acclaim, this O. Henry Award winner sold 100,000 copies in paperback. Swimmer in the Secret Sea is the poignant story of how a man and a woman endured the shock and anguish of their newborn baby's death. Views: 690
Between 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences. In this collection he writes, with his customary wit and perception, about a cruise around the Mediterranean; a train trip from Djibouti to Abyssinia to attend Emperor Haile Selassie's coronation in 1930; his travels in Aden, Zanzibar, Kenya and the Congo, coping with unbearable heat and plagued by mosquitoes; a journey to Guyana and Brazil; and his return to Addis Ababa in 1935 to report on the war between Abyssinia and Italy. Waugh's adventures on his travels gave him the ideas for such classic novels as Scoop and Black Mischief. Views: 690
This short story is the prequel to The Magi series of books - it includes a sample of the 1st novel 'The Magi'.When one of the most elusive criminals in the galaxy uses his power and his money to evade arrest, who you gonna call call?Who else but An Kohli, honoured member of the Guild of Bounty Hunters, pin up girl for police forces across the galaxy and scourge of the criminal classes.This short story is the prequel to The Magi series of books - it includes a sample of the 1st novel 'The Magi'.When one of the most elusive criminals in the galaxy uses his power and his money to evade arrest, who you gonna call call?Who else but An Kohli, honoured member of the Guild of Bounty Hunters, pin up girl for police forces across the galaxy and scourge of the criminal classes.But even An Kohli still has to get up close and personal before she can make an arrest, so when Biggar Fro hides out in a maximum security luxury hotel there are challenges to be faced and bodyguards to be overcome, not least of whom is a knee tremblingly good looking Aloisan by the name of Thomaso. Views: 690
On a frigid December night, an eerie pattern emerges from two equally brutal murder scenes, where a killer's calling card is a moon-faced clock that seemingly ticked away the victims' last moments. From his wheelchair, criminologist Lincoln Rhyme tracks the Watchmaker, a time-obsessed genius. With every passing second, the Watchmaker is moving with razor-sharp precision to his next act of perfectly orchestrated violence -- and Rhyme can't afford to have his trusted partner, Amelia Sachs, distracted by a daunting homicide case of her own. Up against a brilliant madman, Rhyme and Sachs are locked in a blood-chilling race with their deadliest enemy: time itself.... Views: 690
Humanity paid a price in exchange for utopia. Psycho Island is the story of the price we paid.Humanity finally achieved the impossible. Utopia was no longer a dream, but reality. Many nations accepted the authority of the Shepherds, a special class of people who lived by an ideal that others could not. Crime was a thing of the past, and humanity’s dark side was pushed back into the shadows. The streets were not exactly paved with gold, but at least they were safe. But humanity paid a price in exchange for utopia. Psycho Island is the story of the price we paid. Views: 690
Sex was his trade—not by choice, but Elijah learned a long time ago you can't escape fate.There was something inside of him that his mage blood enticed, and when it was hungry, it left naked bodies in its wake.Elijah has lived a life of solitude because of it, until someone found his unique gifts useful.He's left drugged and chained up—a prisoner to his own demons.Until he dreamed of a brother he never knew, who sends a dark-haired pixie to help set Elijah free.For the first time in forever, she silenced the hunger that lived within Elijah. A hunger that never quite belonged to him.The only problem? Elijah wasn't the only man she was there to rescue, and that awoke a different beast inside of him.***Note****This book is part of a seven-book series. Each book can be read as a standalone, and the books do not need to be read in order to understand the plots and general story ideas.However, some of the main... Views: 690
A man receives a bus ticket in the mail from his dead mother. The ticket says Route Zero: Home. Everything in his life from his mother's death up to this point has been as dull as cinder blocks and just as dirty. Should he take the Zero bus? What waits for him at the end of the line?The calls only come when I’m at work. They start as vibrations in telephone wires, igniting under bird feet perched high above the freeway, metal boxes sending electric spider webs into the ground, crackling beneath dead bodies rotting six feet under corn fields, faster and faster into the dark abyss of sewer pipe acid trips and up into my fifth floor apartment, jangling in the handset of my telephone, waking the crack heads next door. I imagine the phone ringing once, twice, a million times before my answering machine picks it up with a click, recording silence for five long seconds before clicking to a stop and rewinding in the dark of my living room. Lights come on in the apartments around mine, but I’m not home. I’m never home anymore. I haven’t been home in years. Views: 689
