Showing results for "The Enemy" in Literary Fiction

The fourth volume of classic Sherlock Holmes stories on audio, brilliantly performed by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

A colony of Canadian and American writers and filmmakers, exiled by McCarthyist witch hunts at home, find themselves in London, England, where they evolve a society every bit as merciless, destructive, and closed-minded as that from which they have fled.

Brought to you by Penguin. A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa, where he serves...

Dark, cutting, and coursed through with bright flashes of humour, crystalline imagery, and razor-sharp detail, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a gut-wrenchingly powerful, breathtakingly beautiful meditation on the violence and shame inflicted on the female body and psyche. An experimental...

First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness. As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic...

Myra Henshawe gave up her uncle's fortune for love. Having eloped with her husband, they embarked on a journey that can only be deemed as ordinary. As their lives play out, Myra begins to regret the decisions she had made in life, leading their marriage—and her health—to its demise. In this thought-provoking novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather paints a picture of American normalcy riddled with life's regrets and scorned love.

New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates welcomes you to Copper Ridge, where a onetime bad girl comes home to small-town Oregon and reconnects with a cowboy from her past... Sadie Miller isn’t expecting any welcome-home parades on her return to Copper Ridge. Least of all from part-time...

Eva Leigh launches a seductive new series that sizzles with the dark secrets of London’s underworld... Years ago, the Duke of Greyland gave his heart—and a princely sum of money—to a charming, destitute widow with unparalleled beauty. But after one passionate night, she slipped from his...

Ein gesetzloses Land voller Monster und Magie und eine Liebe, die nicht sein darf: "A Breath of Winter" ist ein düster-romantischer Fantasy-Roman voller nordischer Mythologie von Bestseller-Autorin Carina Schnell. Middangard ist ein Ort uralter Magie, die Heimat von Hexen und Seherinnen. Seitdem sich die Götter aus dem gebeutelten Reich zurückgezogen haben, machen Trolle die Wälder unsicher und Walküren ziehen mordend und brandschatzend umher. Als ein gnadenloser Mörder immer mehr Hexen den Tod bringt, wird der Trupp des gefürchteten Söldnerführers Gent auf den Hexenschlächter angesetzt.

Emma, vingt-six ans, sage-femme et célibattante : sympa, non ? Oui... si seulement c'était vrai ! Ça, c'est la vie que je me suis inventée pour impressionner Lucas, le beau baroudeur aux milliers d'abonnés sur les réseaux sociaux. LE Lucas dont j'étais raide dingue en secret, de la maternelle au lycée ! Alors quand ce dernier me propose de traverser l'Atlantique pour nous revoir, forcément, ça coince. En reine de la débrouille, j'ai tout prévu pour le faire craquer. Sauf de me retrouver en plein désert pour une méga bringue, et face à... Lui.

In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of war Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma’s husband...

En folkefjende er et af Ibsens mest læste og opførte dramaer. Dramaet udspiller sig i en lille norsk kystby, hvor lægen ved det netop opførte kurbad, Dr. Tomas Stockmann, får mistanke om, at badevandet er forurenet. Hans mistanke bliver bekræftet, da analysen af en vandprøve kommer med posten. Badevandet er sygdomsfremkaldende. Dr. Stockmann forventer, på baggrund af sin opdagelse, at blive mødt af hele byens taknemmelighed, men ikke alle er lige begejstrede for lægens afsløring.

From the author of Mister Hockey—the Hellions are back, this time with a scorching-hot enemies-to-lovers romance between a championship winning NHL coach and a no-nonsense sports reporter... Neve Angel’s life is all work and no play, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. One of...