Set during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, this classic gives a satirical picture of a worldly society. The novel revolves around the exploits of the impoverished
but beautiful and devious Becky Sharp.
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The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet. Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary and historical fiction, Beautiful Ruins is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962...and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.
A young slave makes his escape with a talking horse. A mysterious lion shadows their every move. A treacherous prince wages war against an unsuspecting Narnia. Across blazing deserts, through beautiful cities, and over rugged mountains, here s adventure on an epic scale.
'Some are born to sweet delight/Some are born to endless night' - William Blake. Agatha Christie wrote "Endless Night" in 1967, and it is one of her greatest - and most unusual - novels. Creepy, malevolent and claustrophobic, it is a story about choices, the nature of good and evil, and grim retribution. Mike Rogers had a childhood fantasy about what life would be like as an adult; he'd have a beautiful wife, they would live in a beautiful home, and this would be a peaceful and deserved reward for a turbulent early life.When he meets Ellie Gutman at a lovely, remote spot known as Gypsy's Acre, suddenly it is all within his grasp.
Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess called Snow White. She had a skin as white as snow and lips as red as roses. Her mother the queen had died when she was a very little child and her father the King married again. The new Queen was very beautiful, but she was not a good woman. She was proud and could not bear anyone to be prettier than herself.
