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Джон Хардинг - автор 5 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Флоренс и Джайлс, Florence and Giles, While the Sun Shines. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Должна признаться, хотя, может, и не следовало бы, что для девочки моего возраста запас слов у меня весьма богатый. Но из-за того, что мой дядюшка – убежденный противник образования для женщин, я вынуждена скрывать свое красноречие, держать его под спудом, позволяя себе только простейшие, самые примитивные высказывания. Со временем скрытность стала моей второй натурой, а виной всему опасения, серь...
1891. In a crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence and her younger brother Giles are neglected by their guardian uncle. Banned from reading, Florence devours books in secret, and twists words and phrases into a language uniquely her own. After the violent dead of the children’s first governess, a second arrives. Florence becomes convinced she is vengeful and malevolent spiri...
About to hit 50, obsessed with sex, cocaine-fueled, and gripped by a crippling fear of death, Professor Michael Cole is finding life a bit of a struggle. He knows the time has come to act his age—the question is how. It's when he's caught in the act of adultery by his grandmother that Michael truly begins to see the writing on the wall. After all, she's been dead for 25 years.
Thirty-somethings Nick and Laura have been married for 10 years and things aren't going well. She senses her biological clock ticking away and wants children while he doesn't. Not because he doesn't like children but because he feels a child would be just one responsibility too many. Nick's problem is his parents. He's devoted to them of course, but sometimes even he finds...
A man calling himself Doctor John Shepherd arrives at an isolated women’s mental hospital to begin work as assistant to the owner Dr Morgan. As Shepherd struggles to conceal his own dark secrets, he finds the asylum has plenty of its own. Who is the woman who wanders the corridors by night with murderous intent? Why does the chief nurse hate him? And why is he not allowed to visit the hospital’s t...
