Showing results for "Kiss" in Contemporary Fiction

Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her sophomore year. They are to be married and her life will be blissful; but Dorothy is pregnant and her fiancé's plans are ruined, for Dorothy would be disinherited if her father discovered the truth. So the...

Oliver and his wife arrive by Eurostar to attend the birthday party of grandchild Hugo. Hugo's grandmother Harriet is also on her way. Oliver and Harriet fail to recognise one another at first - but the physical attraction is instantaneous. Harriet's son, Roderick,, a successful banker, is married to Jennifer, who works in publishing. Attempting to reconcile careers, marriage and children leads to high stress levels as the two generations walk a dangerous tightrope between fidelity and parenthood.

1990. On the luxurious private island of Angel Cay, four privileged students toast the end of their exams. Self-assured Miles, clever Grace, talented Alex and beautiful Sasha have the world at their feet. But one dark night will change their perfect lives forever. As the friends move into glamorous careers – fashion, music, politics – each tries to put the past behind them. But no matter how far their stars rise, they cannot escape the dreadful truth.

Here's a comic story of modern love and life when you're 20-something, single, and male. It is the mess Jon Marshall makes of his life when it stops making sense – a comedy of fallibility and misjudgements.

In 1916 Ambrose March, a young cameraman, was wounded on the Western Front. Nearly a century later his astonishing film remains testament to his talent. Now a Hollywood movie company is aiming to recreate his final days. On set, Rory Defoe is giving the performance of his life. Off set, he’s proving the typical Hollywood bad boy. In utter despair, the director knows there’s only one person to turn to. Ella Buchan is tired of stars like Rory.

When Joe Reed was a teenager, he fell so deeply in love with Mary Claude Moore that his parents threatened to send him away. Decades later, he's living a normal life with his wife and their two children; yet in the thirty years since he's last seen Mary Claude, he hasn't stopped thinking of her. With recent news of her in hand, Joe begins to understand the reasons for which he has never stopped loving her - and just how pivotal that time in his life had been.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Boy That Never Was by Karen Perry. Read by Gerry O'Brien, Niamh Daly, Christopher Ragland and Roy McMillan. You were loved and lost - then you came back . . . Five years ago, three-year-old Dillon disappeared. For his father...

Niezwykla historia mlodziutkiej Serafiny, która zycie wystawilo na ciezka próbe, pozbawiajac domu rodzinnego. Odpowiedzialnosc za jej los bierze w swoje chciwe rece postarzala ciotka Apolonia, wyznajaca zasade, ze nic tak nie wyniszcza kobiety jak praca i nadmierne myslenie, a najwiekszy kapital kazdej panny stanowi uroda. Ów kapital ma zapewnic Serafinie dostatnie zycie u boku godnego partnera - a godnym, zdaniem ciotki, moze byc jedynie mezczyzna stateczny, w wieku, w którym ma sie wieksze sklonnosci do sadla i kont bankowych, niz do kobiet.

Wystepuje tu cala galeria ludzkich typów, smiesznych i tragicznych jak samo zycie. Ta zyciowa prawda jest najwieksza sila ksiazki audio. W doswiadczeniach i przypadkach pana Zdzicha bowiem, w nowym, nieznanym swiecie, kazdy emigrant latwo moze sie przejrzec i potwierdzic, ze tak bylo.

Pan Geldhab dorobił się ogromnego majątku na dostawach wojskowych, a teraz chce awansować towarzysko. Sposobem na to ma być wydanie córki Flory za księcia Radosława. Księcia ścigają wierzyciele, a Flora ma ogromny posag i tak bardzo chce zostać księżną, że odtrąca zakochanego w niej Ludomira, oficera napoleońskiego. Nieoczekiwanie Radosław dostaje spadek, który rozwiązuje jego problemy finansowe... To jedna z nielicznych komedii Fredry, która kończy się realistycznie, a nie w sposób uważany ówcześnie za "szczęśliwe zakończenie".

Hrabina Elwira ma romans z Alfredem, przyjacielem domu, który twierdzi, że kocha ją bardzo romantycznie, ale jednocześnie uwodzi śliczną służącą Justysię, która jest również obiektem zalotów pana domu, hrabiego Wacława.