Die Bucht des Franzosen: Roman
Format: paperback
ISBN:
3453071964
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Heyne
Pages no: 287
Edition language: Deutsch
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Mystery,
Historical Romance,
Pirates,
Suspense,
Gothic
Frenchman’s Creek, Daphne du MaurierThis is not the typical novel that is written today. Looking at the style of the original cover, I would have turned away from it, and more’s the pity because I would have missed a book that demands an audience and perhaps a conversation about what we seek and how...
I received a copy of this book from the publishers and this is my honest opinion of the book. Dona, Lady St Columb, being bored with life at court, has escaped London, travelling to her Cornish estate, Navron. Here she enjoys lazy days and solitary evenings. Until she discovers her house has been ...
Daphne du Maurier was certainly an author who liked to challenge conventions. She did so in her most famous novel, Rebecca, and she does so again here.Frenchman's Creek tells the tale of the Lady Dona St Columb, a spoiled darling of London who decided to leave her husband simply because he is a fool...
Lady Dona St. Columb, an 18th-century aristocrat married to a baronet, flees from an over-indulgent life in London, away from tedium of King Charles II's court, to the family's house in Cornwall. Lady Dona is self-willed and obstinate, frustrated and unhappy with her life. Suffocated by her boring...
cross-posted at goodreads and the mo-centric universe. a few months of staring blankly into space means that finishing this book was a major accomplishment for me. normally, it would have been a quick read but for this cursed lack of focus.. anyway, it is a simple little romance, and i do like eni...
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