Henry Carter Hull

When a teenage boy is found dead in a Cambridge park, three women are determined to keep their secrets hidden . . . Emma, a detective's wife, watches the park outside her window where a body was discovered. She sees contagion everywhere-even in her new baby. Emma was there the night of the murder, but as her mind spirals, can she be certain about what took place? Jenny's son had fought with the victim at school and didn't come home that night....

"Matty Melgren is a convicted serial killer serving life without parole for the murders of several women in London in the 1980s. He has consistently protested his innocence, and the evidence against him was largely circumstantial. At the time of his arrest, Matty's girlfriend was Amelia-Rose, a single mother to 12-year-old Sophie. Sophie adores Matty. He's handsome, funny, respectable-she could never suspect him of the brutal killings in the headlines....

Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer. The resulting narratives...

At once gargantuan and miniaturist THE LUCY JINX TRILOGY is an intimate Epic, spanning eight years in the life (and innermost mind) of the titular poet as she navigates ambitions, friendships, lovers, and, above all, her monstrous, psychically tumultuous relationships with language, identity, and purpose-a portrait-of-the-artist equal parts romance, comedy, and existential horror-show. NOTE: This is the fully revised and updated 2023 edition of Book...

From Francis Levy, author of Seven Days in Rio, which The New York Times called "a fever dream of a novel," comes The Kafka Studies Department, a highly original collection of short, parable-like stories infused with dark humor, intellect, and insight about the human condition. While the book's style is deceptively simple and aphoristic, it carries a hallucinatory moral message. A prism of interconnected and intertwined tales, inspired by Kafka, the...

Garstin, a pretty upper-middle class debutante, squanders her early youth amusing herself by living a social high life, during which her domineering mother attempts to arrange a "brilliant match" for her.

Ausgabe in aktualisierter Rechtschreibung; voll verlinkt mit Fußnoten und eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis Lange Zeit deutete nichts darauf hin, dass Marcel Proust einmal einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts werden sollte. Wie auf einem schmalen Grat wandert er durchs Leben: Auf der einen Seite ein bequemes Luxusleben, auf der anderen Seite die Sehnsucht nach dem einen großen Roman, der alles erzählt geboren aus Askese und Selbstreflexion....

La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española. En este volumen traemos a James Joyce, un escritor irlandés, mundialmente reconocido como uno de los más importantes e influyentes del siglo XX. Joyce es aclamado por su obra maestra, Ulises y por su controvertida novela posterior, Finnegans Wake. Igualmente ha sido muy valorada la serie de historias breves titulada Dublineses, así como su...

After New York attorney Will Ross gains acquittal for a child abuser and the child is subsequently killed, he resolves to abandon law and become a children's entertainer. Will's change of heart and career is a catalyst for his lover, Clara, who quits her prestigious job to pursue documentary film-making. While the couple are united in their fervor for their nascent careers in art, unexpected challenges rip them apart. Feeling abandoned, Will ventures...

The Place Where Love and Anger Meet Inherent in every human being is the capacity for great goodness and great harm. To live peacefully and productively in the world, we must learn how to recognize and channel these diverse energies. In this groundbreaking work, therapist William DeFoore shows us why the only way to address the violence, cruelty and perpetration of harm in the world around us is to first traverse the dark dimension of our own soul....