The Pierced Heart And Other Stories
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The Pierced Heart and Other Stories
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Author | : Mayne Reid |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1152713362 |
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The Pierced Heart and Other Stories
Author | : Mayne Reid |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HN1VC5 |
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The Pierced Heart
Author | : Lynn Shepherd |
Publsiher | : Delacorte Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2014-10-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780345545442 |
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The shadow of Bram Stoker’s Dracula looms large over the darkest mystery yet faced by Victorian detective Charles Maddox—as the acclaimed author of The Solitary House and A Fatal Likeness once again pays homage to a literary classic, in a chilling tale of superstition, dangerous science, and shocking secrets. When an Austrian nobleman offers a substantial donation to the University of Oxford, Charles Maddox is called on to investigate the generous benefactor. It is a decidedly mundane task for the increasingly renowned criminal investigator, but Maddox welcomes the chance to trade London’s teeming streets for the comforts of a castle in the Viennese countryside. Comfort, however, is in short supply once Maddox steps onto foreign soil—and into the company of the mysterious Baron Von Reisenberg. A man of impeccable breeding, the Baron is nonetheless the subject of frightened whispers and macabre legends. Though Maddox isn’t one to entertain supernatural beliefs, the dank halls and foreboding shadows of the castle begin to haunt his sleep with nightmares. But in the light of day the veteran detective can find no evidence of the sinister—until a series of disturbing incidents prove him gravely mistaken and thrust him into a harrowing quest to expose whatever evil lurks behind the locked doors of the Baron’s secretive domain. After a terrifying encounter nearly costs him his sanity, Maddox is forced to return home defeated—and still pursued by the horror he’s unearthed. Owing to a string of gruesome murders committed by an elusive predator branded the Vampire, London is on the verge of widespread panic. But there’s little doubt in Maddox’s mind who is responsible. And whether his enemy proves merely mortal—or something more—Maddox must finally end the monstrous affair . . . before more innocent blood is spilled. Praise for The Pierced Heart “Another tour de force with a striking finale from [Lynn] Shepherd, who specializes in turning iconic novels into clever, complicated mysteries for her tormented hero to solve.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Shepherd’s [plots] are darkly serious and feel very real. . . . The idea that Stoker’s novel was somehow inspired by events surrounding the subject of Maddox’s investigation seems tantalizing plausible. Another sterling entry in this imaginative series.”—Booklist “A heart-thumping climax . . . The Pierced Heart is a clever and seductive pastiche of genres [that] builds to an electrifying and stunning dénouement. A stylish and gripping Gothic revival.”—Lancashire Evening Post “Compulsively readable, suspenseful, and dark . . . The book is unsettling in the best way. . . . This is a new tale, with a similar creepy flavor that Dracula lovers will enjoy.”—Historical Novels Review “With wonderfully descriptive passages and stunningly atmospheric prose, Shepherd spins a compelling, intricately plotted story which quite capably stands apart from the novel that inspires it.”—Book Batter (five stars) “Captures some of the best elements of Dracula, while at the same time creating a thrilling and absorbing crime novel.”—The Dracula Society
Une Vie Or The History Of A Heart And Other Stories
Author | : Guy de Maupassant |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2023-07-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783368362539 |
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Reproduction of the original.
The history and antiquities of the county of the town of Carrickfergus etc
Author | : Samuel MACSKIMIN |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1829 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0021801255 |
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Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories
Author | : Ch’oe Myŏngik |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2024-04-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780231554671 |
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Korean writer Ch’oe Myŏngik was a lifelong resident of Pyongyang, a city his short stories masterfully evoke in exquisite modernist prose. His career spanned decades of tumult, from his debut in the 1930s while Korea was under Japanese colonial rule through the Asia-Pacific and Korean Wars and the early years of the Democratic People’s Republic. As Pyongyang transformed from Korea’s second city, peripheral to the Seoul-centered literary scene, into a socialist capital in the late 1940s, Ch’oe briefly ascended to the center of North Korean culture. Despite the vitality and originality of Ch’oe’s writing, Cold War politics and censorship, including South Korea’s anticommunist laws, consigned his work to obscurity. Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories presents a selection of Ch’oe’s short fiction in translation, including later works from hard-to-find North Korean publications. These cinematic, keenly observed tales explore Pyongyang in meticulous detail, depicting the city’s transformations and the conflicts between old and new. They pay close attention to the lives of the disaffected and the marginalized: a drifter confronts a former revolutionary dying of opium addiction; a sex worker is trafficked across the border aboard a train, amid the indifference of her fellow passengers. Later stories provide a striking glimpse of the Korean War—the occupation of Pyongyang, U.S. fighter jets bombing civilian refugees, guerrilla heroics—from a North Korean perspective. Hidden treasures of world literature, these stories offer new perspectives on Korea’s turbulent twentieth century, across political divides still in place today.
Black Heart and White Heart and Other Stories
Author | : H. Rider Haggard |
Publsiher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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At the date of our introduction to him, Philip Hadden was a transport- rider and trader in "the Zulu." Still on the right side of forty, in appearance he was singularly handsome; tall, dark, upright, with keen eyes, short-pointed beard, curling hair and clear-cut features.
Bookseller
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1288 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015071099496 |
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.