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Book Synopsis Invitation To The Waltz by : Rosamond Lehmann
Download or read book Invitation To The Waltz written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her seventeenth birthday, Olivia Curtis receives: a diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first ball dress. She anticipates the dance, the greatest and most terrifying event of her life so far, with uncertainty and excitement. For her pretty sister Kate, it is sure to be a triumph, but what will it be for shy, awkward Olivia? Rosamond Lehmann, one of the best-loved writers of the twentieth century, perfectly captures the emotions of a girl poised on the threshold of womanhood.
Book Synopsis Invitation to the Waltz by : Rosamond Lehmann
Download or read book Invitation to the Waltz written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En poetisk skildring af en engelsk overklassepiges følelser umiddelbart før hun skal til sit første bal
Book Synopsis Invitation to the Waltz by : Rosamond Lehmann
Download or read book Invitation to the Waltz written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Virago. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress: these are the gifts Olivia Curtis receives for her seventeenth birthday. She anticipates her first dance, the greatest yet most terrifying event of her restricted social life, with tremulous uncertainty and excitement. For her pretty, charming elder sister Kate, the dance is certain to be a triumph, but what will it be for shy, awkward Olivia? Exploring the daydreams and miseries attendant upon even the most innocent of social events, Rosamond Lehmann perfectly captures the emotions of a girl standing poised on the threshold of womanhood.
Book Synopsis The Weather In The Streets by : Rosamond Lehmann
Download or read book The Weather In The Streets written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Virago. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, The Weather in the Streets takes you on the rollercoaster of their relationship' ESTHER FREUD, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN 'The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings & perceptions' ANITA BROOKNER Taking up where Invitation to the Waltz left off, The Weather in the Streets shows us Olivia Curtis ten years older, a failed marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, and apparently not much wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a new world of secret meetings, brief phone calls and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms. Years ahead of its time when first published, this subtle and powerful novel shocked even the most stalwart Lehmann fans with its searing honesty and passionate portrayal of clandestine love. Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame.
Download or read book Vatican Waltz written by Roland Merullo and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel from the award-winning author of Breakfast with Buddha and Revere Beach Boulevard tells the story of a young Catholic woman jolted from a quietly devout life in pursuit of a mysterious calling. Cynthia Piantedosi lives a quiet, unassuming life outside of Boston, guided by her Catholic faith. When she loses her beloved grandmother, she begins experiencing “spells” of such intense spiritual intimacy that she wonders about her sanity. Devoted to her elderly father and not particularly interested in dating and socializing, she develops a deep friendship with her parish priest. His congregation sees him as provocative and radical, but he encourages Cynthia to explore her faith—however it presents itself. When he is killed in a mysterious accident, a message begins to emerge from Cynthia’s prayers: God is calling her to be the first female Catholic priest. Her revelation is met with ridicule by certain of the more reactionary officials she reaches out to within the Church. Unable to tune out the divine messages, she lets the power of unswerving faith drive her all the way to the Vatican in pursuit of a destiny she doesn’t fully understand—and a turn of events that will inevitably bring long overdue change to the Catholic Church. From the Hardcover edition.
Book Synopsis A Note In Music by : Rosamond Lehmann
Download or read book A Note In Music written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'She uses words with the enjoyment and mastery with which Renoir used to paint' REBECCA WEST 'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN 'No English writer has told the pains of women in love more truly or more movingly' MARGHANITA LASKI Grace Fairfax lives with her dull, conventional husband Tom in a grey manufacturing town in the north of England. At thirty-four she finds that her external life of dreary routine fails to match up to her lush, wistful and dreamy internal life. Norah, her energetic and chaotic friend, is equally settled in her own marriage to an irritable university professor. Then Hugh Miller and his sister Claire descend upon the quiet town. On all four, the hypnotic charm of these two visitors exerts an enchanting spell. And after their departure, life - having been violently disrupted - will never be quite the same again . . .
Book Synopsis Invitation to a Waltz by : Beverly C. Warren
Download or read book Invitation to a Waltz written by Beverly C. Warren and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Olivia Curtis Novels by : Rosamond Lehmann
Download or read book The Olivia Curtis Novels written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years separate these two poignant novels featuring the same young woman, by the New York Times–bestselling “novelist in the grand tradition” (Anita Brookner). British novelist Rosamond Lehmann “has always written brilliantly of women in love” (Margaret Drabble). In her pair of novels featuring Olivia Curtis—a shy, romantic, and hopeful seventeen-year-old looking forward to her first dance, and later, a sadder young woman in her twenties who still longs to capture lost passion—Lehmann creates “a completely compelling intimacy” that lingers long after the stories are over (Hermione Lee, The Guardian). Invitation to the Waltz: Seventeen-year-old Olivia Curtis has been invited to her first dance. She is thrilled and terrified. In her diary, she confides her hopes, doubts, and fears—about her pretty, confident older sister, Kate; her precocious baby brother, James; her eccentric country neighbors; and of course, the upcoming party, which she is sure will be the crowning event of her life. Divided into three parts—Olivia’s birthday, the day leading up to the dance, and the event itself—Invitation to the Waltz beautifully captures the conflicting emotions of a teenager on the threshold of womanhood. “Utterly charming and so desperately true that it almost hurts.” —The New York Times The Weather in the Streets: Ten years older with a failed marriage behind her, Olivia runs into Rollo Spencer, her girlhood crush from the ball, on a train, and is swept up in a heated but clandestine affair, since Rollo is married. Lehmann’s “honest” and “powerful” novel charts the tempestuous course of Olivia and Rollo’s forbidden relationship, from the first throes of passion through the toll of their deception on Olivia as she confronts the harsh reality of being the other woman (Kirkus Reviews). “A vividly realized, painfully convincing story of a love affair, written in Lehmann’s characteristic spare, poetic prose.” —Joyce Carol Oates
Download or read book Invitation waltz written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Invitation to Waltz written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farewell Waltz written by Milan Kundera and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul." —L'Unite Set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, Farewell Waltz poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy. In this dark farce of a novel, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; and an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward. It is perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and sheer entertaining of Milan Kundera's novels. Written in Bohemia in 1969-70, the book was first published (in 1976) in France under the title La valse aux adieux (Farewell Waltz), and later in thirty-four other countries. This beautiful translation, made from the French text prepared by the novelist himself, fully reflects Kundera's own tone and intentions, and offers an opportunity for both the discovery and the rediscovery of one of the very best of a great writer's works.
Download or read book Waltz written by Paul Bottomer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and practical dance course that demystifies the Waltz, from the basic moves and essential floorcraft techniques to exhilarating figures for dancers of all abilities.
Book Synopsis An Invitation to Sin by : Suzanne Enoch
Download or read book An Invitation to Sin written by Suzanne Enoch and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven marriageable daughters . . . And Lord Zachary Griffin is just the man to help them. After all, what could be more tantalizing than teaching the beautiful Witfeld sisters all the special ways of driving a man into submission—and marriage? And leading exquisite Caroline Witfeld, the most spirited and least frivolous sister, to temptation would be wildly delicious. Zachary doesn't realize that Caroline's longing gazes have less to do with attraction and more to do with admission—to a prestigious arts conservatory. If only she could set those high cheekbones, that aristocratic brow, and those powerful shoulders to canvas, her dreams would all come true. But Caroline is soon having dreams of a very different sort—ones that involve the charming rogue and some improper behavior hardly befitting a lady dedicated to her art . . .unless she becomes dedicated to the art of love.
Book Synopsis Invitation to the Waltz by : Rosamond Lehmann
Download or read book Invitation to the Waltz written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shy and awkward, Olivia wakes to her seventeenth birthday, her first evening dress and all the excitement and uncertainty of the first dance. The emotions of a young girl reaching womanhood are portrayed with charm and sensitivity.
Download or read book Rebel Waltz written by Kay Hooper and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper tells a timelessly seductive tale of a romance touched by the paranormal and of a woman who opens a door to the unknown and finds a stranger with an irresistible invitation…. With its antebellum setting and gallant history, Jasmine Hall was more than just a business for Banner Clairmont. The lovingly preserved plantation-era inn had been home to the Clairmont family for generations. But the realities of modern real-estate had made it time to sell even the most priceless treasures. So it was hardly with a great deal of enthusiasm that Banner led real-estate speculator Rory Stewart around the property. How could this stranger—whose southern charm and universal good looks made it impossible to entirely distrust him—have any idea of Jasmine Hall’s true value? Yet what was Banner to make of the fact that Rory had seen the ghosts that never showed themselves to outsiders? Was he destined not only to save the Hall but to live there? Was his fate entangled with hers? Or was she banking too much on an old family legend … and wishful thinking?
Book Synopsis Invitation to the Waltz B Special by : Lehmann
Download or read book Invitation to the Waltz B Special written by Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Invitation to Waltz by : Brenda Jackson
Download or read book Invitation to Waltz written by Brenda Jackson and published by Signet Book. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
