The Dream Chintz (1857)

The Dream Chintz (1857)

Matilda Anne Mackarness / Mrs. Henry S. Mackarness / MrsHenry SMackarness

24,81 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Kessinger Publishing
Año de edición:
2009
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781104243050
24,81 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

The Dream Chintz is a novel written by Matilda Anne Mackarness and published in 1857. The story follows the life of a young woman named Edith, who is raised by her aunt after the death of her parents. Edith is a dreamer and spends much of her time lost in her own thoughts, imagining a life filled with adventure and romance.As she grows older, Edith becomes increasingly dissatisfied with her mundane existence and longs for something more. She is eventually introduced to a wealthy and handsome young man named Arthur, who seems to embody everything she has ever dreamed of. However, as their relationship progresses, Edith begins to realize that Arthur may not be the man she thought he was.The Dream Chintz is a story about the power of imagination and the dangers of idealizing others. It explores themes of love, loss, and self-discovery, and offers a poignant commentary on the limitations of societal expectations and the importance of following one’s own path in life.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Artículos relacionados

  • The Only Witness
    Pamela Beason / TBD
    A MISSING BABYSeventeen-year-old Brittany Morgan dashed into the store for just a minute, leaving her sleeping baby in the car. Now Ivy's gone and half the town believes Brittany murdered her daughter.A HAUNTED DETECTIVEDetective Matthew Finn, a big-city fish out of water in small-town Evansburg, Washington, struggles with his wife's betrayal as he investigates Ivy Morg...
    Disponible

    20,64 €

  • The Gender of Inanimate Objects and Other Stories
    Laura Marello
    In the phosphorescent title novella of Laura Marello's collection, an enigmatic drifter pursues her circuitous path through the intricate cultural terrain of Sweetwater County, California, a patchwork of communities where "everyone speaks the wrong language." Through subtle, disciplined prose inflected with the deep colors and clear lines of ancient Mykonos and the northern...
    Disponible

    15,29 €

  • What's the Word?
    Lawrence Gordon
    This is a work of non-fiction. The events penned herein reflect real life situations; great times and terrible times; which my family, my friends, and I endured.      This work will reflect the spiritual aspects of my family. I was born and raised in our family church. The name of the church was God’s Universal House of Prayer and my Uncle, James Henderson was the Pastor until...
    Disponible

    7,19 €

  • Meritocrats
    Stuart Evans
    Stuart Evans’s first novel is a comedy-of-ill-manners set in a nouveau riche milieu: a fantastic satirical performance and hyper-referential homage to masters past and present. Paul Keller is the Stephen Dedalus of the piece, the son of Robert and Sylvie, whose internal monologue is spliced into the action, and whose incestuous feelings for his sister lead to an increase in his...
    Disponible

    19,71 €

  • Jack the Lad
    Frank English
    A tale based loosely in reality, this story traces the fortunes of the Ingles family in the West Riding coal fields around Wakefield. Theirs is a saga that could be replicated time after time in an area where scratching a living wasn't easy, and where coal, drink, and occasional infidelity played integral parts in the life of the community. Their story starts in the mid-194...
    Disponible

    13,53 €

  • The Empty Chair
    Penny Goetjen
    o A steamy Caribbean islando A missing female photographero A daughter’s relentless search and her entanglement in the island’s twisted subculture Don’t expect an umbrella in your drink when you escape to the Virgin Islands in this heart-pounding suspense novel as young Olivia Benning desperately searches for her photographer mother who has gone missing during a covert assignme...
    Disponible

    12,62 €

Otros libros del autor

  • The Sequel To Old Jolliffe (1846)
    Matilda Anne Mackarness / Mrs. Henry S. Mackarness / MrsHenry SMackarness
    The Sequel To Old Jolliffe is a novel written by Mrs. Henry S. Mackarness and originally published in 1846. It is a continuation of the story of Old Jolliffe, a character from Mackarness’ earlier work, which follows the lives of a group of characters living in rural England. The novel explores themes of love, family, and community, and is set against the backdrop of the changin...
    Disponible

    22,06 €

  • The House On The Rock (1852)
    Matilda Anne Mackarness / Mrs. Henry S. Mackarness / MrsHenry SMackarness
    The House On The Rock is a novel written by Mrs. Henry S. Mackarness in 1852. The story revolves around a young woman named Edith who is forced to leave her comfortable life in London and move to a small village in the countryside with her father. The two of them move into an old house that is said to be haunted, and Edith soon discovers that there is more to the house than mee...
    Disponible

    28,05 €