Romans i literatura obyczajowa
The Provincial Lady in America
E.M. Delafield
No one could have been more surprised than our Provincial Lady to receive an invitation from her American agent to travel transatlantic and embark upon a programme of lectures and signings. What follows after she sets foot on American soil is a series of whirlwind tours about the continent, and also including a trip to Canada. This is book 3 in the Provincial Lady series by English author E. M. Delafield.
E.M. Delafield
Written in the style of a diary, it tells the story of woman living in 1930s Russia who finds herself toiling on a collective farm, battling with public transport, and generally struggling with life in Soviet Russia. Although the style and humor are slightly different than the others in the series, it manages to be on itself a thoroughly interesting book about one womans experiences in Communist Russia.
The Provincial Lady in Wartime
E.M. Delafield
This is the fourth and last of autobiographical novel series by English author E. M. Delafield (1890-1943). It takes the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman in the 1930s. The story of a volunteer in a womans underground canteen service in England during the World War 2 who must cope with gas masks, evacuated relatives etc.
Edith Wharton
This is Whartons fifth novel. It is considered, together with the previous Ethan Frome and the subsequent The Custom of the Country, as partly autobiographical. Young diplomat George Darrow is on his way to meet Anna Leath, an old girlfriend who is now a widow with a young daughter and a grown stepson. When Anna abruptly postpones their rendezvous without explanation, Darrow concludes that she is no longer interested in him. He has a brief liaison with the delicate, generous Sophy Viner, a kind woman of the working class. Unfortunately, the lives of Darrow, Anna, Sophy and Annas stepson Owen become linked and the extremely discreet sexual relationship between Darrow and Sophy complicates their lives. Whartons talent for balancing emotional turmoil and all the social manners of her time is blended into this philosophical work that explores the metaphorical reefs in the hearts of women.
E.F. Benson
The Relentless City is a manners novel built around Lord Bertie Keynes, intending to inherit the title and pledged property of a young English widow. These two people decide they want to marry wealth, and that means marrying Americans. Bertie must marry money, and Sybil admires the American spirit. A novel about the American way of life, embodied by the millionaire and workaholic himself, a former railway porter, Lewis Palmer a man whose whole life is directed, with great concern, to making money.
Thomas Hardy
Young beauty Eustace Way, passionate, self-willed, selfish and ambitious, eager to break out of the hateful rural outback into a different life, full of splendor, fun and pleasure. Meanwhile, after several years of service as a manager in a Paris jewelry salon, Clime Ibright returns to his Blooms End estate, who also wants to live a different life - to settle in his native land and open a school for the rural poor. Soon, Eustace and Klyme meet - and this meeting is destined to be fatal for both ...
Joanna Śweiątkowska
Nerissa Langley to ambitna i pewna siebie kobieta, której stabilna pozycja specjalisty w dziale finansowym w międzynarodowej firmie medialnej chwieje się, gdy do siedziby wraca syn właściciela. Leonardo Voight nie kryje swojej niechęci do podwładnej. Wzajemnie podkopują swoją pozycję w firmie, próbując zdyskredytować się w oczach współpracowników. Znająca swoją wartość Nerissa obiecała sobie, że nigdy więcej jej życie nie będzie zależne od woli silniejszego od niej mężczyzny. W momencie gdy jej związek z Nate'em - detektywem wydziału zabójstw - przechodzi kryzys z powodu niezgodności dotyczącej tematu założenia rodziny, Nerissa zbliża się z Leo, dostrzegając w nim kogoś więcej niż tylko rywala. Między wrogami rodzi się cienka nić przyjaźni i pożądania, komplikująca dotychczasowe relacje. Gdy Nerissie wydaje się, że jej życie wróciło na właściwy tor, nieoczekiwanie pojawia się w nim biologiczny ojciec. Kiedy mężczyzna zostaje znaleziony martwy, Langley staje się główną podejrzaną, a jej życie zamienia się w koszmar. Musi stawić czoła nie tylko zarzutom, lecz także demonom przeszłości. Skrywane sekrety wychodzą na jaw, a nic nie boli bardziej niż zdrada bliskich osób. "Rywale" to pełna napięcia opowieść o ambicji, zemście, lojalności, nieoczekiwanej miłości oraz rywalizacji, w której Nerissa Langley udowodni, jak silna potrafi być kobieta, gdy stawką jest wszystko, co kocha.
Ethel M. Dell
First published in 1913, The Rocks of Valpré is a novel by the British writer Ethel M. Dell. While readers adored Ethel M. Dells novels, critics hated them with a passion; but she did not care what the critics thought. She considered herself a good storyteller nothing more and nothing less. Ethel M. Dell continued to write novels for a number of years. The Rocks of Valpré novel is set in the mid-nineteenth century when an officer wrongly imprisoned on Devils Island escapes and heads to Europe to rescue the love of his life from the villain. Like many of Dells stories and novels this harkens back to the day when marriage was a binding promise and considered both morally and legally until death. It is a touching love story that shows true love as selfless love.