D.H Lawrence
4) The Fox
The Classics Exposed...
A young man returns from war to find two women living on the isolated farm he'd called home. Needing to dominate, he sets out to put his life in order.
The bitter, dark night a rugged man appears on their doorstep, everything about the quiet life of Ellen March and Jill Banford changes. The presence of the powerful, brooding man complicates the simple daily existence of their lives on their struggling chicken farm.
Henry
...Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father’s business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s proper upbringing, James Houghton buys a theater. Among the traveling performers he employs is Ciccio,...
"Anyone she touched at the party that night would remain eternally in her power, she thought, smiling at herself in the mirror..."
-From The Red Fox Fur Coat by Teolinda Gersão
Strong female protagonists grace this collection celebrating women in all their incarnations young and old: mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers, lovers, widows ... and a 70-year-old nun.
Teolinda Gersão's The Red Fox Fur Coat
translated by Margaret
...Want to know how to hide a map of an enemy fort in...
