Set in Ireland during the famine years of 1845-7 at a time when Trollope was living in the rural south-west of the country, Castle Richmond relays the story of the Fitzeralds and their fight to retain their family home. Trollope creates a disturbing picture of the lives of the laboring Irish poor both before and during the famine.
In a writing career that spanned the 1920s to the 1960s, Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen created a rich and nuanced body of work in which she enlarged the comedy of manners with her own stunning brand of emotional and psychological depth.In A World of Love, an uneasy group of relations are living under one roof at Montefort, a decaying manor in ...more
Fritz Tolm, a successful German businessman, is caught between death threats by the new left and the heavy police surveillance which keeps him a virtual prisoner in his own home.
Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her unsatisfactory and improvident husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She will devote herself, in the image of her own father, to the serious business of properly raising her two children. Then t...more
The story of Lisa Kelly, a beautiful Irish Catholic women who was raised to believe that sex is evil but who nevertheless finds herself obsessed with the trappings of S&M. She eventually goes to a Caribbean island to open the Club, an S&M resort. There she meets Elliott, with whom she leaves the island to settle in New Orleans.
Brought up in fifteenth-century Renaissance Florence, Vittorio finds his world shattered when his entire family is destroyed in an act of unholy violence and embarks on a desperate quest for revenge, tormented by his love for the mysterious Vampire Ursula and confronted by demonic enemies. Reprint.
In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera h...more
Anne Rice wasn't the first writer to show vampires as sexy--there are powerfully perverse sexual undercurrents in Bram Stoker's Dracula, granddaddy of all modern vampire novels. But Rice's 1976 Interview With the Vampire made vampirism lusher and more explicitly attractive. Though there's still a dark and messy side (as with sex), non-vampires...more
Rice's new novel continues the epic occult saga that began with The Witching Hour and Lasher. Taltos takes readers back through the centuries to a civilization part human and part of wholly mysterious origins, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. A movie of Rice's bestseller, Interview with a Vampire, is scheduled for November...more
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