Bøger af Hugh Walpole

"The Golden Scarecrow" from Hugh Walpole. New Zealand-born English novelist (1884-1941).

Huge Walpole's thrilling adventure novel of the 1920s revolves around Piccadily Circus. Richard Gunn is an ex-soldier in trouble after the end of the Great War. Jobless and starving in Piccadilly Circus, he encounters his nemesis, Leroy Pengelly. From this encounter the secrets of their shared past start to unravel... A novel which combines elements of the horror and supernatural - at which Walpole was so skilled - with the puzzle element of the whodunnit - all wrapped up in one unsettling and uncanny whole.

Young Jeremy Cole was born there in the year 1884, very early in the morning of December 8th. He was still there very early in the morning of December 8th, 1892. He was sitting up in bed. The cuckoo clock had just struck five, and he was aware that he was, at this very moment, for the first time in his life, eight years old. He had gone to bed at eight o'clock on the preceding evening with the choking consciousness that he would awake in the morning a different creature. Although he had slept, there had permeated the texture of his dreams that same choking excitement, and now, wide awake, as though he had asked the cuckoo to call him in order that he might not be late for the great occasion, he stared into the black distance of his bedroom and reflected, with a beating heart, upon the great event. He was eight years old, and he had as much right now to the nursery arm-chair with a hole in it as Helen had.

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The Inquisitor is a murder thriller set in a haunted village. State of rest which they call Yin...state of action which they call Yang. The play opens with a perfect state of Yin. When Yin is thus complete it is ready to pass over into Yang. The impulse or motive which makes a perfect Yin-state pass over into the new Yang-activity comes from an intrusion of the Devil into the universe of God. Men in the pressure of their daily business forget the examiner. This spiritual world may at any moment break in upon the material world, causing a general disorder which men, in their blindness, attribute to casual accident. I was just going to tell Pa if there was any errands he wanted run my chum and me was just aching to run them, when a yellow cat without any tail was walking over the minister...

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March Square is not very far from Hyde Park Corner in London Town. Behind the whir and rattle of the traffic it stands, spacious and cool and very old, muffled by the little streets that guard it, happily unconscious, you would suppose, that there were any in all the world so unfortunate as to have less than five thousand a year for their support. Perhaps a hundred years ago March Square might boast of such superior ignorance, but fashions change, to prevent, it may be, our own too easily irritated monotonies, and, for some time now, the Square has been compelled, here, there, in one corner and another, to admit the invader. It is true that the solemn, respectable grey house, No. 3, can boast that it is the town residence of His Grace the Duke of Crole and his beautiful young Duchess, née Miss Jane Tunster of New York City, but it is also true that No. -- is in the possession of Mr. Munty Ross of Potted Shrimp fame, and there are Dr. Cruthen, the Misses Dent, Herbert Hoskins and his wife, whose incomes are certainly nearer to £500 than £5,000. Yes, rents and blue blood have come down in March Square; it is, certainly, not the less interesting for that, but--

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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (13 March 1884 - 1 June 1941) was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. A best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s, his works have been neglected since his death.

The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death: A Romantic Commentary by Hugh Walpole is a novel that tells the story of the Duchess of Wrexe, a wealthy and powerful woman who has lived a life of luxury and privilege. As she grows older, however, she begins to feel the weight of her responsibilities and the emptiness of her life. She becomes increasingly isolated and unhappy, and her decline is marked by a series of tragic events. The novel is a commentary on the nature of love, power, and the human condition. It explores the themes of aging, regret, and the search for meaning in life. The characters are complex and nuanced, and the writing is both lyrical and insightful. Overall, The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death is a poignant and thought-provoking novel that will resonate with readers who are interested in exploring the complexities of the human experience.1914. Walpole wrote horror novels that tended more towards the psychological rather than supernatural, with a brooding underlying mysticism. Contents Book I: The Duchess; Felix Brun, Dr. Christopher, Rachel Beaminster-They are Surveyed by the Portrait; Rachel; Lady Adela; The Pool; She Comes Out; Fans; In the Heart of the House; the Tiger; The Golden Cage; Lizzie and Breton; Her Grace's Day; Defiance of the Tiger I and II; Book II: Rachel; The Pool and the Snow; A Little House; First Sequel to Defiance; Rachel-and Christopher and Roddy; Lizzie's Journey-I; All the Beaminsters; Rachel and Breton; Christopher's Day; The Darkest Hour; Lizzie's Journey-II; Roddy is Master; and Lizzie's Journey-III; Regent's Park-Breton and Lizzie; The Duchess Moves; Roddy Moves; March 13th-Breton's Tiger; March 13th Rachel's Heart; March 13th: Roddy Talks to the Devil, and the Duchess Denies God; Chamber Music-A Trio; A Quartette; Rachel and Roddy; Lizzie Becomes Miss Rand Again; The Last View from High Windows; Rachel, Roddy, Lord John, Christopher; Epilogue-Prologue. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

John Durward and John Trenchard are two Englishmen who join a company of Russian doctors, nurses, and orderlies working on the Russian side of the Eastern Front at the height of World War I. Durward, the primary narrator, is a detached and seemingly-objective observer of events; his friend Trenchard is a dreamy, clumsy, and naive man whose fiancee, Marie Ivanova, is serving alongside him as a nurse.The narrative follows the unlikely group as they are embedded in the Front, treating casualties and cholera victims while dodging shellings and enemy ambushes. At first the group seems to get along well enough, until Semyonov, a dark, charismatic, hyper-masculine doctor in their company, sets his romantic sights on Ivanova.As the medics desperately try to fulfill their duty among the brutal backdrop of the war, their intricate relationships become the centerpiece of a complex emotional narrative that winds through the dark forest, a symbol of the confusing shadows that can lie between even two people bonded by wartime.Walpole served in the Russian Red Cross on the Russian-Austrian front during World War I, and his real-life experiences are reflected in the narrative. On its publication The Dark Forest was called ¿the best picture of life in a field-ambulance on the Eastern Front that has yet been written¿ by the Saturday Review, and it was popular enough for Walpole to write a sequel, The Secret City, which went on to win the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.

The Secret City is Walpole¿s sequel to his earlier book about Russian life, The Dark Forest. John Durward, the English protagonist from that book and a semi-autobiographical stand-in for Walpole, is visiting St. Petersburg (then Petrograd) when he runs in to some old friends from England. Through them he meets Vera and Nina, two young and bourgeois sisters, and Nicolai Markovitch, a downtrodden and ridiculous inventor. Semyonov, a brooding doctor who is the sisters¿ uncle and a character from The Dark Forest, returns as a dark, viperous thread weaving through the story.Durward narrates the lives of these bourgeois Russians as they love each other and fight amongst themselves in equal measure. But as they obliviously carry on their cozy, lamp-lit lives, the Russian Revolution breaks out around them. St. Petersburg quickly changes from a comfortable, elegant, and gently mysterious city to a bloody and cold scar across the face of civilization. As the air fills with the sound of gunfire and the smell of smoke and soot, Durward and his English and Russian friends become a microcosm of the chaos they find themselves engulfed in.Walpole lived some years in Russia during the Revolution, working as a journalist, then at the Russian Red Cross, and later as the Head of British Propaganda in St. Petersburg. His intimate knowledge of both the city and of the turbulent early days of the Revolution give The Secret City a more than convincing air. It¿s the first book to have won the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and is considered to be Walpole¿s most delicate and insightful work.