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"This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay."-- Washington Post Book World "Bracingly honest." --New York Times Book Review The author of Bombay Time , If Today Be Sweet , and The Weight of Heaven , Thrity Umrigar is as adept and compelling in The Space Between Us --vividly capturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, addictively readable novel of honor, tradition,...
4) The servant
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"A pampered playboy acquires an elegant townhouse complete with a dedicated man servant. But when the young man's fiancè becomes suspicious of the servant's intentions, he and his 'sister' thrust the household into a sinister game where seduction is corruption and power becomes the most shocking desire of all."--Container.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
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English
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Olivier, the priggish son of French aristocrats, embarks on a tour of America in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by Parrot, a survivor of Australia's penal system who has been hired as both servant and secret spy by Olivier's mother, and while the two men, at polar ends of society, start out hating each other, they eventually become fast friends.
6) Miss. Julie
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"In Miss Julie, a willful young aristocrat, whose perverse nature has already driven her fiancé to break off their engagement, pursues and effectively seduces her father's valet during the course of a Midsummer's Eve celebration. The progress of that seduction and the play's stunning denouement shocked Swedish audiences who first attended the play in 1889. Despite its controversial debut, this now-classic drama, inspired by the new ideas of naturalism...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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The psychologically charged affairs between residents and servants on a posh London street escalate to violence involving a handsome valet who is sleeping with a lord's wife and daughter, an au pair who aids her mistress's affair, and a disturbed gardener.
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Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Kentucky farmer and slave owner Arthur Shelby runs into serious debt and decides to sell two of his slaves: Harry, the young son of his wife's maid Eliza, and the devout and hard-working Uncle Tom, whose wife and children will remain with Shelby. Eliza overhears Shelby's plan and flees with her son. Alerted that a slave trader is searching for her, she hastens through the night to the banks of the ice-packed Ohio River. In desperation, she searches...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Although life in Tudor England was ordered in a strict hierarchy and the divisions between social classes were firmly maintained, a life of service was common for all classes, and servants were not necessarily the lowest stratum in society. At the upper levels of society the children of the wealthy would become personal attendants to royalty or to great lords or ladies as part of their upbringing. Further down the social scale apprentices were regarded...
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