Satire that cuts to the bone.
This short novella is about a woman in the 1950s, who falls asleep on a chaise-lounge and after having woken up finds herself trapped in another womans body. As she comes to term with her situation, she not only realizes that they both are having the same fate but that she has gone back in time and ...
"Will you give me your word of honour," said Melanie, "that I am not going to die?" I love it when a book starts with a first sentence that packs a punch. With this one, we immediately know that what follows will be a story of life and death. The Victorian Chaise-longue is a very short (99 pages)...
“The Victorian Chaise-Longue” is a short gothic horror about a 1950s bedridden housewife who falls asleep on an old chaise-longue and awakens eighty years in the past. The main character, Melanie, takes on the life of a deathly ill Victorian woman named Millie Baines. Little does she know that secre...
This is a fairly short biography of Jane Austen with a lot of illustrations, a good book to get a flavour of the woman and her time. The language occasionally shifts into a more academic mode occasionally but overall it reads almost like a well done website on the author.
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