A House in the Country

✍ Ruth. Adam 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Dean Street Press 🌐 English ⚖ 144 KB 👁 2 views

"[I]f only we could make the manor subscribe a little bit towards her own upkeep," we fretted.But she was an aristocratic lady on our hands. All ideas for making her work for a living were wrecked on the fact that she was born to be served and not to serve.Six friends have spent the dark, deprived y

A House in the Country (Translate)

✍ José Donoso 📂 Fiction 📅 1978 🌐 en-US ⚖ 533 KB 👁 2 views

Games turn to nightmares during the summer holidays at the magnificent Chilean country estate of the Ventura family when the children - 33 cousins ranging in age from 6 to 16 - are left to themselves while their parents pursue their own pastimes. A House in the Country (Casa de Campo) is Donoso

A House in the Country: A Tale of Psychological Horror

✍ Shaw, Matt 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🌐 English ⚖ 47 KB 👁 2 views

A Very Big House in the Country

✍ Sandy, Claire 📂 Fiction 🏛 Pan Macmillan UK 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 313 KB

"Holidays are about surviving the gaps between one meal and another." For one long hot summer in Devon, three families are sharing one very big house in the country. The Herreras: made up of two tired parents, three grumbling children and one promiscuous dog; the Littles: he's loaded (despite two d

A Very Big House in the Country

✍ Sandy, Claire 📂 Fiction 🏛 Pan Macmillan 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 313 KB

"Holidays are about surviving the gaps between one meal and another." For one long hot summer in Devon, three families are sharing one very big house in the country. The Herreras: made up of two tired parents, three grumbling children and one promiscuous dog; the Littles: he's loaded (despite two d

A Place in the Country

✍ Sebald, W G 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Random House Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 7 MB

***A Place in the Country* is W. G. Sebald's meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind--and the last of this great writer's major works to be translated into English.** *This beautiful hardcover edition, with a full-cloth case, includes more than 40 pieces of art a