As Trains Pass By - formato ePub

Herregården Ludvigsbakke og Kommunehospitalet i København er kulisser for den unge sygeplejerske Ida Brandts forelskelse i Karl Von Eichbaum. I knivskarpe replikker, toneleje og bevægelser skildres borgerskabets...

"Den store novelle Les Quatre Diables eller De fire Djævle fra 1890 er en feberhed fortælling om ulykkelig kærlighed og en jaloux kvinde, der langsomt ædes op af et vanvittigt had. Men vanviddet griber...

Elegante residenza di campagna sull’isola di Als, la casa bianca è la cornice in cui la famiglia del pastore Fritz Hvide trascorre le sue giornate di aristocratico ozio, tra gli spensierati ricevimenti...

Una sola è la legge che regge le fila dell’universo di Bang: la legge del desiderio, implacabile come un destino cui non si può che soccombere. Sotto un cielo vuoto, nostalgici di una felicità o di un’innocenza...

Ex medico di corte, il vegliardo Ole Hvide, per tutti Sua Eccellenza, si è ora ritirato nella sua casa padronale, vicino al palazzo reale di Copenaghen, mausoleo di un mondo nobil-borghese destinato a...

Herman Bangs "Stuk" fra 1887 handler om 1880'ernes København og er vores første storbyroman. I centrum står det nybyggede Victoriateater og dets omtumlede skæbne. En strålende begyndelse under en højkonjunktur...

"Haabløse Slægter" (1880) er den 23-årige Herman Bangs debutroman. Romanen er en delvis selvbiografi. Alle de kendte begivenheder i Herman Bangs liv er centrale i romanen: moderens tidlige død, faderens...

"Den store novelle Les Quatre Diables eller De fire Djævle fra 1890 er en feberhed fortælling om ulykkelig kærlighed og en jaloux kvinde, der langsomt ædes op af et vanvittigt had. Men vanviddet griber...

"Liv og død" rummer fortællingerne "Om Lykken", "Om Elskov" og "Om dem der skal dø". De handler om erotisk besættelse hos mennesker, der vælger blindt at følge deres drifter.

"Haabløse Slægter" (1880) er den 23-årige Herman Bangs debutroman. Romanen er en delvis selvbiografi. Alle de kendte begivenheder i Herman Bangs liv er centrale i romanen: moderens tidlige død, faderens...

"Liv og død" rummer fortællingerne "Om Lykken", "Om Elskov" og "Om dem der skal dø". De handler om erotisk besættelse hos mennesker, der vælger blindt at følge deres drifter.

Ce recueil de dix nouvelles publiées entre 1880 et 1899 offre un panel représentatif de l’écriture impressionniste de l’écrivain danois Herman Bang (1857-1912). Fin observateur des frustrations et espoirs...

Ce recueil de dix nouvelles publiées entre 1880 et 1899 offre un panel représentatif de l’écriture impressionniste de l’écrivain danois Herman Bang (1857-1912). Fin observateur des frustrations et espoirs...

Ida Brandt is a classic outsider, too moneyed for her nursing colleagues and not quite good enough for the aristocratic circles she grew up on the fringe of. Beautiful and gentle, she is betrayed by the...

"Monsieur Bang, you are the first impressionist author in the world." Claude Monet. Katinka is the stationmaster's wife in a sleepy Danish provincial town and her domestic languor is disrupted by...

Herregården Ludvigsbakke og Kommunehospitalet i København er kulisser for den unge sygeplejerske Ida Brandts forelskelse i Karl Von Eichbaum. I knivskarpe replikker, toneleje og bevægelser skildres borgerskabets...

'Grady's style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I sometimes thought of Orwell's novel 1984, sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row'' Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post'Grady is a master...

April, 1941. At the former Whitechapel Road Underground station, repurposed as an air raid shelter since the onset of the Blitz, the body of a woman has been discovered, stabbed and eviscerated. With...

TThere is something sinister about Drumdalloch Woods in the Black Isle near Inverness. It is a place of tangled growth and shadowy darkness, and it has business opportunists, biological scientists and...

Bologna, 1575.A talented seamstressA powerful merchantA fierce battle of willsElena Morandi has gained a fragile foothold in the workshop of a master tailor, despite the profession being officially barred...

When gods war...Death is everywhere, Hopelessness. Despair. Dark Days.Fate has chosen her champions, and no one will expect what two children can do against the might of the Last God.They don't know it...

It was Fern Honeycutt's eyes that gave her away. Not witch. All demon.Her coven saw her as an abomination, handing her over to pure evil.She escaped, but a lone female is an easy target. When breeder...

Lights, camera... action?Ainsley Beckett might be television's sweetheart, star of a dozen romantic movies and known the world over for her sweet-as-pie schoolmarm on hit historical TV show As The Heart...

Summer and Ruari were the perfect childhood sweethearts. They did everything together, from book festivals to escape rooms, coastal walks to paintballing, and their love was the stuff of fairy tales....

Truth makes traitors out of even the most dutiful.Zanteera Island has a secret: it has two prisons. Vana, the one the world knows and fears, and an unnamed compound lined with comforts. Serving her National...

Don't miss the next instalment in the Solanki and McQueen Crime Series, perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Val McDermid and Marion Todd. 'A complex and expertly crafted thriller.'...

A. K. Herman's wondrous and shattering debut collection imbues people on the periphery with power hardly visible to outsiders—where no one conforms to type. In the title story, to leave a seemingly friendly...

And anyway, who cares? All that matters is that the guy is dead, right? A dark and thrilling ride about the most unlikely of killers, perfect for Tarantino fans, by the award-winning and bestselling...

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Thinking Beyond La Boìte is a magical realist novel that explores the intersection of fate, self-discovery, and connection. Vincent, a young man trapped in a seemingly ordinary world, stumbles upon an...

October 1678. Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, respected London wood monger and Court Justice, sets out from his house, early one foggy morning, in his second-best coat. Then he vanishes. Six days later, his...

From PEN Award­­–winning author Sergio de la Pava comes an existential detective novel about a private investigator who flees New York City for Colombia after a personal tragedy and finds himself entangled...

'The stories are rich in dialogue - indeed on many pages there is only dialogue - while the quick exchange of words beats out the rhythm of history on the move' CLAIRE CONNOLLY from her preface to The...

Perfect for fans of Raven Kennedy and Thea Guanzon, Rebecca Robinson’s thrilling romantasy debut combines high-stakes political intrigue and a steamy, slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance. All her life,...

The truth is buried for a reason.Ansgar the Skald is sailing into the middle of an epic war between two legendary vikings. That's about to be the least of his problems.Delving deep beneath Midgard? Battling...

From Britney King, the bestselling author of HER and The Social Affair, comes a dark psychological thriller that will make you question the boundaries of trust and the depths of deception.They say love...

Chris was a young man full of life, ready to seize every moment. But one fateful night at a party by the river, everything changed. When the enigmatic Angie is found dead the next morning, Chris becomes...

EJ inherited a royal treasure…but who will wear the crown?My specialty is guest lists and cocktails, not casting spells and hawking houseplants–but when I became heir to faery portal along with a plant...

Do you love winter and holiday reads? How about TEN OF THEM?Wishes, Snow, and Misteltoe is the perfect primer if you're new to my books or a longtime reader, and want all the fun and spice of the winter...

Dragons need love too… sometimes they're just too stubborn to admit it. Luckily, it's true what they say about love: it really does conquer all. Eventually. This box set contains: Dragon His Heels, in...

 The Addison Smith Chapbook Series collects the short fiction of Addison Smith in small, themed volumes of five to six stories each. These stories have appeared in various publications, and may appear...

A mysterious confession leads Amy and Ambrose down an unexpected path in their latest case.After a teenager comes into the station to confess to murder, Amy and Ambrose find themselves looking into a...

Emily Peterson is the Great Witch, the most powerful of them all. Even she has limits. Defeating the Great Dark Witch pushed magical essence, the remnants of good and evil magic through space. Since both...

A Christmas wedding at Edelweiss Inn may sound like the romantic ending of a fairy tale; but for Sandra and her lifelong friends it becomes a sequence of uncomfortable and often hilarious incidents which...

YOU LOVED TAYLOR'S VERSION, NOW IT'S TIME FOR TAYLOR'S CATS' SIDE OF THE STORY.Meet Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button - Taylor Swift's three cats. By day, they live the ultra-pampered,...

A bastard among the outcasts of Faery—Corlas is a rare and unwanted hybrid born of a forbidden love. Half elf, half green seer; it seems he has no future with either of his blood lines.But Fate won't...