Kris wants to read We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a 1962 mystery novel by American author Shirley Jackson. It was Jackson's …
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a 1962 mystery novel by American author Shirley Jackson. It was Jackson's …
Since her first, prize-winning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid's work has been met …
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself …
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination …
Since her mother died when she was five years old, it's always just been Ronnie Miller and her dad. Two …
Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by …
Since her mother died when she was five years old, it's always just been Ronnie Miller and her dad. Two …
Their little games and cunning schemes, their anger and their acts of spitefulness seemed miles away from her now, she in whom the General had placed his trust, who was the bearer of secrets in whose recesses lurked the shadow of death.
— Abigail by Len Rix, Magda Szabo
From Ch. 11 | The Statue Speaks
It was such a chaste little mon, with its mouth shut tight, secretive and rather mysterious, not a moon in an operetta.
— Abigail by Len Rix, Magda Szabo
From Ch. 2 | The Bishop Matula Academy
Life undoubtedly calls for dignity and self-discipline, and for a person to be able to react to things in an adult way it was necessary to distinguish between what was merely unpleasant and what was truly bad, especially in wartime, when all over the world people were dying in their tens and hundreds of thousands.
— Abigail by Len Rix, Magda Szabo
From Ch. 1 | Gina is Sent to Boarding School
Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó’s …
Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó’s …
Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year…
Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only …