Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods live together in pleasant isolation, which they ensure through an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic. But one day, a stranger...
Castles
- Author:Jackson, ShirleySummary:
- Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:
A surveyor is lost in a labyrinth in this 1926 German novel, reflecting the author's concern with man's inability to assert himself in the face of bureaucracy. It is a new translation that restores the eccentricities in style...
- Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:
The story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home, seems to depict like a dream from the deepest recesses of consciousness, an inexplicable truth about...
- Author:Ibbotson, Eva.Summary:
While spending the summer with elderly relatives at Clawstone Castle in northern England, Madlyn and her brother Rollo, with the help of several ghosts, attempt to save the rare cattle that live on the castle grounds.
- Author:Reamer, Sharon KaeSummary:
Cologne, Germany. Her bruises barely healed, Caitlin Schwarzbach needs time to settle into expatriate life with her brother Gus. Caitlin looks forward to her new job. She has new friends. She also has new enemies. And a new boyfriend....
- Author:Quick, AmandaSummary:
While investigating a suspicious death, private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself on the grounds of Aldwick Castle-and in the midst of utter chaos. The ramshackle castle is in flames-and a beautiful woman and four young girls...
- Author:Day George, JessicaSummary:
Le mercredi au château Malicieux est une journée très ordinaire, plutôt banale. Pas de nouveaux couloirs, pas d’autres tourelles, pas de changements soudains. C’est du moins l’avis de la princesse Celie, qui connaît le château mieux que...
- Author:George, Jessica DaySummary:
Le mardi au château Malicieux est la journée préférée de la princesse Celie. C’est ce jour-là que le château fait apparaître par magie une nouvelle pièce, une tourelle ou parfois même une aile entière. Personne ne sait comment le...
- Author:SMITH, DodieSummary:
Set in 1930's Suffolk, Cassandra and her family live in a crumbling castle. They are poor and eccentric. When 2 rich young Americans enter their lives, Cassandra records the daily events and adventures that occur. Funny,...
- Author:Citra, BeckySummary:
Will Poppy has always been fascinated with writing - he thinks there's something almost... magical about it. But when his mother dies, Will finds himself stuck living with his awful aunt, unable to write a single word (despite the fact...
- Author:Finan, ThomasSummary:
Professor Finan examines the castle from a variety of contemporary perspectives, including those of history, archaeology, geography, and landscape studies. The course also covers the morphology of medieval fortifications and castles and...
- Author:Macaulay, DavidSummary:
Reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created.