John Fowles
Author
Pub. Date
c1969.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The major characters in the love-intrigue triangle are Charles Smithson, 32, a gentleman of independent means & vaguely scientific bent; his fiancée, Ernestina Freeman, a pretty heiress daughter of a wealthy & pompous dry goods merchant; & Sarah Woodruff, mysterious & fascinating...deserted after a brief affair with a French naval officer a short time before the story begins. Obsessed with an irresistible fascination for the enigmatic Sarah, Charles...
2) Cinderella
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1974.
Language
English
Description
In her haste to flee the place before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and...