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The Vet's Daughter
Barbara Comyns · 2003
The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
Shirley Jackson · 2006
The greatest haunted house story ever written—the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series!<br/><br/>One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years<br/><br/>First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.<br/><br/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics)
Stefan Zweig · 2005
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.<br/><br/>Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story.<br/><br/>This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.
Dont Look Now & Other Stories
Daphne-Du-Maurier · 2015
Down Below (NYRB Classics)
Leonora Carrington · 2017
<b>A stunning work of memoir and a<b>n unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by</b> one of Surrealism's most compelling figures</b><br><br>In 1937 Leonora Carrington—later to become one of the twentieth century’s great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild—was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. <br><br> In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became “the <i>mirror</i> of the earth”—of all worlds in a hostile universe—and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach “of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings,” she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word <i>Revelation</i>.<br><br> This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor’s sadistic course of treatment. In <i>Down Below</i> she describes her ordeal—in which the agonizing and the marvelous were equally combined—with a startling, almost impersonal precision and without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber’s <i>Memoirs of My Nervous Illness</i>, <i>Down Below</i> brings the hallucinatory logic of madness home.
Cardiff, by the Sea
Oates Joyce Carol · 2021
Ghosts
Edith Wharton · 2021
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel
Muriel Spark · 2018
The Bird's Nest
Shirley Jackson · 2014
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Suskind · 2001
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.<br/><br/>In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille’s genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the “ultimate perfume”—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.<br/><br/>Translated from the German by John E. Woods.
Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner · 2022
Ada Or Ador A Family Chronicle
Vladimir Nabokov · 1974
The juniper tree
Barbara Comyns · 1985
Angel
Elizabeth Taylor · 1973
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch · 1980
The True Heart
Sylvia Townsend Warner · 2008
Little Reunions (New York Review Books Classics)
Eileen Chang · 2018
Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe · 2023
The Dolls Alphabet
Camilla Grudova · 2017
Villette
Charlotte Bronte · 2019
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Raymond Carver · 1992
<b>The first collection of stories from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i>) breathed new life into the American short story, showing us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people.<br></b><br>"[Carver's stories] can ... be counted among the masterpieces of American Literature." —<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>"One of the great short story writers of our time—of any time." —<i>The Philadelhpia Inquirer</i><br><br>"The whole collection is a knock out. Few writers can match Raymond Carver's entwining style and language." —<i>The Dallas Morning News</i>
Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov · 2004
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Barbara Comyns · 2010
“Comyns’ novel is deranged in ways that shouldn’t be disclosed.” —Ben Marcus<br/><br/>This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in the drawing-room windows, “quacking their approval” as they sail around the room. “What about my rose beds?” demands Grandmother Willoweed. Her son shouts down her ear-trumpet that the garden is submerged, dead animals everywhere, she will be lucky to get a bunch. Then the miller drowns himself . . . then the butcher slits his throat . . . and a series of gruesome deaths plagues the villagers. The newspaper asks, “Who will be smitten by this fatal madness next?” Through it all, Comyns' unique voice weaves a text as wonderful as it is horrible, as beautiful as it is cruel. Originally published in England in 1954, this “overlooked small masterpiece” is a twisted, tragicomic gem.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe · 2018
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Shirley Jackson · 2006
<b>Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret</b><br><br>Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, <i>We Have Always Lived in the Castle</i> is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Hangsaman
Shirley Jackson · 2013
Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother. When Natalie finally does get away, however, college life doesn’t bring the happiness she expected. Little by little, Natalie is no longer certain of anything—even where reality ends and her dark imaginings begin. Chilling and suspenseful, Hangsaman is loosely based on the real-life disappearance of a Bennington College sophomore in 1946. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
