Dina has unwillingly inherited her mother's gift: the ability to elicit shamed confessions simply by looking into someone's eyes. To Dina, however, these powers are not a gift but a curse. Surrounded …
'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne.' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting the…
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party p…
Clara mener selv hun er en ganske almindelig pige. Lidt genert, måske, og gennemgående lidt for leverpostejsagtig. Men fra det øjeblik hun møder den sorte kat, er det sket med at være almindelig. Og h…
Linea Maja Ernst debuterer med Kun til navlen, en samtidsroman om at være fanget i en livsfase og panikken over måske at være blevet mere småborgerlig, end man nogensinde havde frygtet.
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken ab…
Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts …
Tildas Tage sind strikt durchgetaktet: studieren, an der Supermarktkasse sitzen, sich um ihre kleine Schwester Ida kümmern und an schlechten Tagen auch um die Mutter. Zu dritt wohnen sie im traurigste…
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."
On the night Ronia was born, a thunderstorm raged over the mountain, but in Matt's castle and among his band of robbers there was only joy -- for Matt now had a spirited little black-haired daughter. …
Emilie sidder normalt bagerst i klassen og holder lav profil. Lige indtil den nat, hvor hun tegner en dreng med turkise øjne og et mystisk prismesmykke. Dagen efter får hun et chok, da drengen starter…
