Diane Pearson Book order (chronological)

Twenty years after the scandal that destroyed her career, former diva Therese Aschmann returns to the stage to sing opposite Karl Gesner, the best-looking tenor in Europe. Reprint.

Young Miriam Wakeford was full of hope when she arrived to take up her new appointment as needlewoman and companion in the bleak, windswept House of Tancred, high on the South Downs. But her strict Quaker upbringing was no preparation for the experiences which awaited her there... Her master, John Tancred, is a moody widower, whose scarred face reflects the emotional torment of his soul... He is frequently harsh and sometimes surprisingly kind. His young daughter, Esmee Tancred, seemed unbalanced... His mother was an imperious old lady who ruled the decaying mansion from her wheelchair. Above all, the atmosphere was filled with the evil, violent presence of his dead father, Richard Tancred, who by his excesses had brought ruin, infamy and tragedy to the name of Tancred. Miriam's fate becomes entwined with the sinister past of the ancient mansion and its strange and mysterious master, a strong, passionate, frightening man, with whom no innocent girl should dare to fall in love...

Autor/in: Diane Pearson Titel: Eine russische Liebe oder Der Sommer der Barschinskys, DBG, Darmstadt, Seiten: 507 Gewicht: 726 g Auflage: Lizenzausgabe Erschienen: 1985 Einband: Hardcover, Leinen Sprache: Deutsch Zustand: gut Kurzinfo: Eine russische Liebe oder Der Sommer der Barschinskys Gebundene Ausgabe, Als junges Mädchen habe ich dieses Buch zu Weihnachten geschenkt bekommen und es aufgrund des abschreckenden Covers und des mich nicht ansprechenden Titels jahrelang nicht angefasst. Als ich es dann las, war ich völlig gefangen von der wundervollen Geschichte. Es ist eines der schönsten Bücher, das ich je gelesen habe, auch wenn ich mich heute nur noch sehr vage daran erinnere. Wer einen schönen Liebesroman sucht, ist hier jedenfalls an der richtigen Adresse

Two families find their destinies are fated to entwine many times over beginning in 1902.

An epic, historical saga, following the fortunes of an aristocratic Hungarian family through two World Wars.

Through the vibrant years of the early part of the century--from 1896 to 1919--lived the Whitmans, the Pritchards and the Dances, whose lives were destined to be interwined... These poor, proud, high-spirited people... people whose roots were in the farming country of southern England... in the bawdy and exuberant streets of the East End. Jonathan Whitman, his cousin Myra, sisters Anne Louise and Betsy Pritchard and the enormous Pritchard clan to which they belonged, saw the changing era and the incredible events of a passing age--an age of great poverty and great wealth, of the Boer War and social reform, of straw boaters, feather boas and the music hall. Throughout of years, ambicious Anne-Louise Pritchard, became a selfish vixen who lies, cheats, does whatever she must to get what she wants; but her sister, Betsy, plain and good, who may be the richer of the two after all; and Jonathan Whitman, with his books, his poignant first love, and his dream for the future. Around these three move others who affect their lives: big, lovable Maxie Dance, the natty fishmonger who walks out with Anne-Louise when she is working in London; Betsy's quietly loving husband, Math; Jonathan's strange sister, Emily. And finally the story of one woman's consuming love and of a jealous obsession that threatened to destroy the very man she adored...