โ Scribed by Ivy Compton-Burnett
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The Donne family's move to the country is inspired by a wish to be close to their cousins, who are to be their nearest neighbours. It proves too close for comfort, however. For a secret switching of wills causes the most genteel pursuit of self-interest to threaten good relations and even good manners... Ivy Compton-Burnett employs her sharp ear for comedy and celebrated powers of dialogue to spectacular effect. She reveals a devastating microcosm of human society, in which the elders are by no means always the betters, in which no character is totally scrupulous, but none without their appeal.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Super-brain Zack Griffin and hoops fan Jeff Brown wouldn't normally hang together. But when both boys win trips to a famous science laboratory, they find out they do have one thing in common: curiosity. They discover that one of the machines in the lab can "bend" time--and Jeff and Zack end up in 13
A Chicago Field Museum assistant is suddenly forced to experience the past of every artifact she touches. This unasked for ability quickly entangles her in one of the greatest Who Dunnits? of all time: the murder of Philip II, Alexander the Great's father.
Aliah knows some of the artifacts stored in the bowels of the Chicago Field Museum are coated with arsenic, but as long as she keeps her gloves on, she doesnt think any of the items are actually dangerous... until a sliver of bone knifes through her skin and swims off in her bloodstream. Shortly th
It is closing in on a year since the epidemic that started last July 4th. After joining the Resistance to fight against the diabolical organization that started the apocalypse and controls the undead, Cheryl Malone and her wounded companion succeeded in their attempt to inflict major damage to the g
**When dragons rise from the earth, firefighters are humanity's last line of defence, in this wild near-future fantasy.** Firefighter Cole Brannigan is on the verge of retirement after 30 years on the job, and a decade fighting dragons. But during his final fire call, he discovers he's immune to d