Alias Grace: A NovelKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 M06 8 - 480 páginas The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). • A Netflix original miniseries. It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers. |
Contenido
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BROKEN DISHES | 93 |
SECRET DRAWER | 135 |
SNAKE FENCE | 181 |
FOX AND GEESE | 233 |
HEARTS AND GIZZARDS | 283 |
LADY OF THE LAKE | 325 |
FALLING TIMBERS | 345 |
SOLOMONS TEMPLE | 367 |
PANDORAS BOX | 391 |
THE LETTER X | 415 |
THE TREE OF PARADISE | 437 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 33 - Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee; Holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty! God in three persons, blessed Trinity!
Página 236 - Burningly it came on me all at once, This was the place! those two hills on the right, Crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn in fight; While to the left, a tall scalped mountain ... Dunce, Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, After a life spent training for the sight!
Página 327 - His merits in her presence grow, To match the promise in her eyes, And round her happy footsteps blow The authentic airs of Paradise.
Página 19 - I have been struck," she said, "and I am suffering now; Yet these are little worth, your bolts and irons strong; And, were they forged in steel, they could not hold me long.
Página 38 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Página 183 - Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
Página 394 - I felt a Cleaving in my Mind — As if my Brain had split — I tried to match it — Seam by Seam — But could not make them fit. The thought behind, I strove to join Unto the thought before — But Sequence ravelled out of Sound Like Balls — upon a Floor.
Página 19 - ... woman, with a slight, graceful figure. There is an air of hopeless melancholy in her face which is very painful to contemplate. Her complexion is fair and must, before the touch of hopeless sorrow paled it, have been very brilliant. Her eyes are a bright blue, her hair auburn, and her face would be rather handsome were it not for the long curved chin which gives, as it always does to most persons who have this facial defect, a cunning, cruel expression.
Página 137 - ... and the false symptoms of disease which they show are so like the true ones, that it is often exceedingly difficult to detect the difference. The fits themselves are mostly preceded by great depression of spirits, shedding of tears, sickness, palpitation of the heart, &c. A pain, as if a nail were being driven in, is also often felt at one particular part of the head.
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Género, identidad y lugar: un estudio de las geografías feministas Linda McDowell Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
Older Women in the Criminal Justice System: Running Out of Time Azrini Wahidin Vista previa limitada - 2004 |