Pearls of Childhood
The Poignant True Wartime Story of a Young Girl Growing Up in an Adopted Land
- 176 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Book by Gissing, Vera
Alžběta Rejchrtová Books
Psychologically astute and wonderfully poetic, Sanctuary is a powerful novel examining the nature of true evil, through the prisms of mythology, local lore, and hard-boiled detective fiction. This is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.
Život a dílo G. Chaucera v historických souvislostech, doplněno řadou dobových reprodukcí.