Clare Chambers Libros Populares
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Robert William Chambers (Brooklyn, 26 de mayo de 1865 - 16 de diciembre de 1933) fue un escritor de literatura de terror y misterio. Biografía Nació en Brooklyn el 26 de mayo de 1865. Era hijo de un abogado, nieto de un médico y descendiente directo del fundador de Rhode Island. Su hermano fue arquitecto. Robert estudió en el Instituto Politécnico de Brooklyn, pero le interesaban más los deportes, el dibujo y la entomología. En 1886 se trasladó a París para estudiar bellas artes. Sus trabajos fueron expuestos en el Salón de 1889. En 1893 volvió a Nueva York y vendió sus ilustraciones a las principales revistas de actualidad: Life, Truth y Vogue. Se convirtió así en uno de los dibujantes más conocidos del momento. En 1894 publicó su primer libro, In the Quarter, un muestrario de escenas de la vida bohemia a la manera de Murger o Du Maurier basadas en las notas que tomó en París. Se supone que nadie esperaba que se dedicase a escribir, ni siquiera él mismo, aunque según sus amigos tenía una facilidad natural para contar historias. Sea como fuere, en 1895 publicó su segundo libro, The King in Yellow ("El Rey de Amarillo"), en el que combinaba nuevos retratos parisienses con originales historias de fantasía y terror que tuvieron un enorme éxito. Ahí empezó su carrera literaria y su continua y pasmosa variación de temas y estilos. En The Maker of Moons (1896) y The Mystery of Choice (1897) siguió aún la estela de "El Rey de Amarillo", pero en The Search of the Unknown (1904) se decantó más bien por la ficción científica. Después escribió un sinfín de novelas históricas, relatos de detectives y novelas rosa ambientados en la alta sociedad de Nueva York. Todos sus libros se vendieron bien y un par de ellos incluso alcanzaron la condición oficial de best-seller. No necesitaba ese dinero para vivir y lo invirtió en sus muchas y onerosas aficiones: coleccionar mariposas, muebles, porcelana japonesa, alfombras y arte chino, y plantar árboles en la hacienda de 800 acres de su familia. Se dice que llegó a plantar, con sus propias manos, más de 20 000. Todo eso parecía importarle mucho más que la reputación literaria. Que la crítica lo despreciase e ignorase ni mucho menos le quitaba el sueño. Como dijo en cierta ocasión: «¡Literatura! ¡Esa palabra me pone enfermo!» Lovecraft debió considerar lamentable que aquel que había apuntado a lo más alto del terror cósmico con sus primeros cuentos se rebajase después a escribir folletines para las masas. En una carta a Clark Ashton Smith se refirió a Chambers como un «titán caído». Robert W. Chambers murió el 16 de diciembre de 1933, a los sesenta y ocho años, tras ser operado de una dolencia intestinal. Había entregado a la imprenta más de ochenta libros entre novelas y recopilaciones de cuentos, aunque no es fácil determinar exactamente cuántos: acostumbraba a reciclar el material para volver a venderlo y no siempre quedaba claro si se trataba de una obra completamente nueva o una mera reedición o revisión. Obra "In the Quarter" (1894) El Rey de Amarillo (1895) libro de relatos que incluye El Signo Amarillo La demoiselle d´Ys El Creador de Lunas El Reparador de Reputaciones The Mystery of Choice (1896) Lorraine (1897) Ashes of Empire (1898) Cardigan (1901) In Search of the Unknown (1904) The Reckoning (1905) The Tracer of Lost Persons (1906) The Tree of Heaven (1907) The Green Mouse (1907) The Common Law (1911) The Gay Rebellion (1913) Quick Action (1914) Athalie (1915) Police!!! (1915) The Slayer of Souls (1920) The Talkers (1923) The Yellow Sign and Other Stories: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers (2001, ed. S. T.Joshi)-colección de sus primeros relatos macabros y de fantasía. Enlaces externos Wikimedia Commons alberga una categoría multimedia sobre Robert William Chambers.. Descubre los libros populares de Clare Chambers. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Clare Chambers
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Seesaw
Deborah MoggachDiscover the suspenseful crime thriller from the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.Meet the Prices. Nothing but an ordinary, welloff family. Until one Sunday, wh...
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Miss Mole
E.H. Young & Lucy Scholes'Young is a sharp and funny writer with a brilliant eye for moral fudging and verbal hypocrisy, and she has a splendid foil in Miss Mole' Sally BeaumanWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLAC...
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What Will Survive of Us
Howard JacobsonLove can change your life. Can it survive it?Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily – independent, hea...
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Levitation for Beginners
Suzannah DunnA sharp eye and keen wit are brought to bear on the secrets and lies of a small rural community secrets and lies that may prove deadly.It's 1972 and tenyearold Deborah is living a...
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Married Love
Tessa Hadley'The ghost of Katherine Mansfield hovers lightly over these deceptively delicate snapshots' MetroA beguiling collection of short stories from awardwinning author of Free Love, The ...
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Free Love
Tessa HadleyAs London comes alive with the 1960s youth revolution, one woman makes a choice that defies all expectations.'So real and humane and utterly transporting' Meg MasonIt's 1967 and Lo...
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Deep and Silent Waters
Charlotte LambInfatuation can make you do the stupidest things. Like risk your very life . . . Laura would never have gone to Venice if she had known she would meet Sebastian Ferrese there the ...
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Why We Read
Penguin Books LtdWhy read nonfiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinker...
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Rethink
Amol RajanAfter darkness, there is always lightIn a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a muchneeded global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us...
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Redhead by the Side of the Road
Anne TylerA BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM A perfect love story for imperfect people.Micah Mortimer measures out his days running errands for work, maintaining an impeccable cleanin...
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Nothing But Blue Sky
Kathleen MacMahonIs there such a thing as a perfect marriage?David thought so. But when his wife Mary Rose dies suddenly he has to think again. In reliving their twenty years together David sees th...
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That Green Eyed Girl
Julie Owen MoylanTransport yourself to midcentury New York in this compelling and evocative story of secrets, jealousy and hidden love'Book of the Month' WOMAN & HOME'Dazzling debut' GOOD HOUSE...
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We Were Killers Once
Becky MastermanIn 1959, The Walker family murders shook Florida. As many as 587 people were considered suspects but 60 years on the investigation remains unsolved. Former FBI agent Brigid Quinn ...
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Lost Property
Helen ParisReaders have fallen in love with Lost Property: 'A beautiful book and one of my best reads this year' 'An emotional journey that had me hooked' 'A wonderful, uplifting debut novel'...
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Sunstroke and Other Stories
Tessa HadleyDiscover this brooding collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest writers. A world where everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, b...
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Amazing Grace Adams
Fran LittlewoodTender, funny and unapologetic, Amazing Grace Adams is the fiercest debut of 2023, about a woman and a story you'll never forgetA READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK!THE NEW YORK TIME...
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Found Her
NJ MackayThe most gripping, emotional and redemptive psychological thriller of 2021 for fans of Erin Kinsley, Lisa Jewell, Louise Jensen, Phoebe Morgan, CL Taylor, Cara Hunter and KL Slate...
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Swing Time
Zadie SmithLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' Observer A dazzlingly exubera...
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Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont
Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Bailey'Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece' ROBERT McCRUM, GUARDIAN'An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth' SARAH WATERS'Jane Austen, Elizabet...
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The Master Bedroom
Tessa HadleyLONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTIONKate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is fortythree and has given up ...
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A Fairly Honourable Defeat (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)
Iris MurdochI feel there are demons around.' Everyone is thinking about Julius King. For comfortable, longmarried Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda's tormented sister,...
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Homegoing
Yaa GyasiA BBC Top 100 Novels that Shaped Our WorldEffia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their ...
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Summary of Phil Parvin & Clare Chambers's Political Philosophy
Everest MediaPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Freedom is one of the most important concepts in political philosophy. For many, t...
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Our Endless Numbered Days
Claire FullerWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEAn imaginative, mysterious modern fairytale from the Women's Prizeshortlisted author of Unsettled Ground1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends...
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Red Queen
Victoria AveyardTHE RUMOURS ARE TRUE . . . TIKTOK SENSATION VICTORIA AVEYARD IS COMING BACK TO THE UK ON TOUR IN MARCH 2024! PREORDER FATE BREAKER AND SECURE YOUR TICKETS TODAY!The Hunger Games me...
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Late in the Day
Tessa Hadley'Unflinching, intelligent and fascinating' Marian KeyesThe lives of two closeknit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novelAlex an...
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My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth StroutA #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE & THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONAn exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prizewinning auth...
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In the Still of the Night
Charlotte LambAnnie Lang, star of the TV police drama The Force, is a character known to millions. Men want to protect her; women want to be her friend. But the actress with the innocent face ha...
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Under The Net (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)
Iris MurdochThis is real life, Jake,' she said. 'You'd better wake up.' Jake is clever, lazy and scraping by in London as a hack translator. Jake loves Anna. Anna is an elusive and lovel...
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Trio
William BoydWilliam Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to preorder now'An elating read' Sunday TimesA producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassina...
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A Prayer For Owen Meany
John Irving'A work of genius' Independent'So extraordinary, so original, and so enriching' Stephen King'May justly join the classic American list' Anthony Burgess'Marvellously funny . . . Wha...
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The Far Pavilions
M M KayeOne of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World' The Far Pavilions is the story of an English man Ashton PelhamMartyn brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate,...
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A Complicated Matter
Anne YoungsonSet against the Blitz in London, a young woman's extraordinary journey of selfdiscovery and an intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.A March Best Book...
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Broken Half
Jessie CaveThe quirky, hilarious and utterly relatable new novel from bestselling author Jessie Cave coming soon!
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Three Women and a Boat
Anne YoungsonTender and humorous novel of second chances and lifechanging new friendship for fans of Rachel Joyce, Clare Chambers and Barbara Pym'Lifeaffirming and funny' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Anne...
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What Are You Like
Anne Enright'What is a really good novel like? This for a start' The TimesWhen Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through h...
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Excellent Women
Barbara Pym & Alexander McCall SmithINTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMANMildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend,...
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The Home Scar
Kathleen MacMahon"MacMahon writes with such beautiful simplicity, conjuring real and complex people straight off the page ... subtle and authentic" Claire Fuller On opposite sides of the world, ha...
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Mrs Quinn's Rise to Fame
Olivia Ford'As delicious and comforting as a freshly baked sponge. A most, heartwarming story and delightful debut' Ruth Jones, bestselling author of Love Untold'An absolute delight. A lovely...
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa BankGeneroushearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing is the New York Times bestselling novel by Melissa Bank The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing map...
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The Island Home
Libby Page'A perfect, warm escape from these cold, dark times' Kate Eberlen'Bursting with hope and heart' Cathy Bramley'Wonderfully engaging . . . beautifully drawn' Mike GayleLorna's world ...
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Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
Temi OhREAD TEMI'S LATEST NOVEL, MORE PERFECT, OUT NOW 'A major new voice. Read Temi Oh today. Everybody will be reading her tomorrow' Stephen Baxter. author of World Engines '...
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Love, Iris
Elizabeth NobleThe SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB pick from the author of The Family Holiday'A moving and heartwarming novel about love in all its forms' Sunday ...
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A Dry Spell
Clare ChambersFrom the highlyacclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES WINNER of the 2022 British Book Awards PageTurner.In 1976, four students took a trip to the desert. Now the repercussions of tha...
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Treasons of the Heart
Charlotte LambLOVEWhen Claudia and Ben first meet on the banks of the Seine, the attraction between them is powerful, instantaneous and mutual. For Claudia, life is looking up.DANGERBut then Cla...
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When God Was a Rabbit
Sarah WinmanWHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT is an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Spanning four decades, from 1968 onwards, this is the story of a fabulous but flaw...
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All the Stars in the Heavens
Adriana Trigiani‘This book will give even the greyest of Mondays a sheen of glamour’ Heat THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Los Angeles, 1935. Loretta Young meets Clark Gable on the set of The Ca...
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The Family Holiday
Elizabeth NobleCosy up in the Cotswolds with the heartwarming new novel that will make you laugh, cry and feel truly uplifted, from the bestselling author of the Richard & Judy selection Love...
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White on White
Aysegul Savas'I loved this book for its depth and perception, for its beauty and eerie rhythms, but most of all for its wonderfully dreamlike spell. It's breathtaking' Brandon TaylorA student m...
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Clever Girl
Tessa HadleyThe fifth novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Clever Girl is a tale of an ordinary life made extraordinary by the gifts of Te...