Mary Higgins Clark "He Sees You When You're Sleeping" (2001)-Audiobook
Mary Higgins Clark, (b December 24, 1927 in the Bronx, New York) is an American author of suspense novels. Each of her twenty-four suspense novels has been a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of her novels remain in print as of 2007, with her debut suspense novel, Where Are The Children, in its seventy-fifth printing.
Her work dwells primarily on a central theme: the psychological trauma endured and overcome by her strong female characters.
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Robert Asprin - Myth Series - 12 Books One of funniest series I ever read!
About Robert Asprin
Robert
(Lynn) Asprin was born in 1946. While he has written some stand alone
novels such as Cold Cash War, Tambu, The Bug Wars and also the Duncan
and Mallory Illustrated stories, Bob is best known for his series: The
Myth Adventures of Aahz and Skeeve; the Phule novels; and, more
recently, the Time Scout novels written with Linda Evans. He also
edited the groundbreaking Thieves World anthologies with Lynn Abbey.
His most recent collaboration is License Invoked written with Jody Lynn
Nye. It is set in the French Quarter, New Orleans where he currently
lives.
Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society.In Mansfield Park Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Mansfield Park
Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's
The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's
The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In
Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed,
Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this
is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does
not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen
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