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Love, Mystery and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction

Love, Mystery and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction

Coral Ann Howells

Dr. Howells proposes a radical reassessment of these novels to emphasize their importance as experiments in imaginative writing.
Contemporary Canadian Women’s Fiction: Refiguring Identities

Contemporary Canadian Women’s Fiction: Refiguring Identities

C. Howells

contemporary cANADAN women's FICTION © Coral Ann Howells, 2003. ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Howells, Coral Ann. Contemporary Canadian women's fiction: refiguring identities / by Coral Ann Howells. P. cm.
Part of the Silence

Part of the Silence

Debbie Howells

The doctors and nurses? Or the mysterious figure who's been watching her, who knows all her secrets, has a hidden agenda--and perhaps their own twisted version of reality. Praise for the novels of Debbie Howells "A terrific new talent.
The Bones of You

The Bones of You

Debbie Howells

The Bones of You is a gripping psychological thriller from author Debbie Howells; a story of full of dark secrets, obsession and suspense.
Questionable Shapes

Questionable Shapes

William Dean Howells

In this collection of three longer stories, famed proponent of literary realism William Dean Howells flirts with the supernatural.
William Dean Howells: A Writer’s Life

William Dean Howells: A Writer’s Life

Susan Goodman

This biography, the first comprehensive work on Howells in fifty years, enters the consciousness of the man and his times, revealing a complicated and painfully honest figure who came of age in an era of political corruption, industrial ...
Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution

Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution

William White Howells

Renowned anthropologist, author, and educator Howells, draws together the latest from all of today's sciences to tell the fascinating story of man's evolution.
The Death of Her

The Death of Her

Debbie Howells

'This story holds you tight and then drops you like a stone' - Liz Nugent The Death of Her is a haunting psychological thriller from Debbie Howells, author of the bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club success The Bones of You.
Who's Who in Skulls: Ethnic Identification of Crania from ...

Who's Who in Skulls: Ethnic Identification of Crania from ...

William White Howells

Utilizing and expanding the database presented in his earlier monographs Cranial Variation in Man and Skull Shapes and the Map, Howells develops methods for allocating a human skull to one of 28 modern populations for historical or forensic ...
The Beauty of the End

The Beauty of the End

Debbie Howells

The Beauty of the End is a gripping psychological thriller from Debbie Howells, author of the bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club success, The Bones of You.
The Measures of man: methodologies in biological anthropology

The Measures of man: methodologies in biological anthropology

William White Howells

This Festschrift in honor of William W. Howells demonstrates the vitality and methodological diversity that existed in the field of biological anthropology in the 1970s.
William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism

William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism

Paul Abeln

Despite efforts at revival by John Updike and others, William Dean Howells still remains in the shadows of his close friends Mark Twain and Henry James. This book works against decades of unfavorable comparisons with these literary giants.
Venetian Life

Venetian Life

William Dean Howells

"" "Venetian Life flows from the enchantment, the magical improbability of the years Howells spent in that magnificent city dining with the rich, mingling with the humble, and reporting on it all with a uniquely American wit and curiosity.
Howells: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian ...

Howells: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian ...

William Dean Howells

"Ah, how could he?" Colville insinuated, and the young girl colored. "I mean if I were pretty. This everlasting adulation is insulting." "Mr. Morton doesn't flatter," said Mrs. Bowen, thoughtfully, turning the feather screen she held at her face, now ...
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

Coral Ann Howells

The most supportive, easy-to-use and focussed literature guides to help your students understand the texts they are studying at GCSE and A Level
Mein Tod ist dein: Psychothriller

Mein Tod ist dein: Psychothriller

Debbie Howells

Sie kennt ihren Mörder – und sterbend verzeiht sie ihm.
The Summer of Skinny Dipping

The Summer of Skinny Dipping

Amanda Howells

But I'm jumping ahead, and to tell the story right I have to go back to the beginning. To a place called Indigo Beach. To a boy with pale skin that glowed against the dark waves.
Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals): Canadian ...

Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals): Canadian ...

Coral Ann Howells

First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s.
Suburban Sketches

Suburban Sketches

William Dean Howells

It was on a morning of the lovely New England May that we left the horse-car and spreading our umbrellas walked down the street to our new home in Charlesbridge through a storm of snow and rain so finely blent by the influences of this ...

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