Author: LenaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Lena; Or, The Silent Woman
Author: LenaLena or the Silent Woman. By the author of “King's Cope,” etc. Ellen Wallace
Author: Lena, Or, The Silent Woman
Author: Ellen WallaceThe Silent Escape
Author: Lena ConstantePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520913554
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Winner, 1992 Association des Ecrivains de Langue Française Prix Européen "I have lived, alone, in a cell, 157,852,800 seconds of solitude and fear. Cause for screaming! They sentence me to live yet another 220,838,400 seconds! To live them or to die from them."--from The Silent Escape Victim of Stalinist-era terror, Lena Constante was arrested on trumped-up charges of "espionage" and sentenced to twelve years in Romanian prisons. The Silent Escape is the extraordinary account of the first eight years of her incarceration--years of solitary confinement during which she was tortured, starved, and daily humiliated. The only woman to have endured isolation so long in Romanian jails, Constante is also one of the few women political prisoners to have written about her ordeal. Unlike other more political prison diaries, this book draws us into the practical and emotional experiences of everyday prison life. Candidly, eloquently, Constante describes the physical and psychological abuses that were the common lot of communist-state political prisoners. She also recounts the particular humiliations she suffered as a woman, including that of male guards watching her in the bathroom. Constante survived by escaping into her mind--and finally by discovering the "language of the walls," which enabled her to communicate with other female inmates. A powerful story of totalitarianism and human endurance, this work makes an important contribution to the literature of "prison notebooks."
A simple woman. By the author of "Nut brown maids" [i.e. Henrietta Keddie], & c
Author: Sarah TytlerBentley's Miscellany
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The Silent Wife
Author: Karin SlaughterPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062858912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! “If you’re into mystery thrillers, then you’re into Karin Slaughter.” —THESKIMM He watches. He waits. He takes. Who will be next . . . THE SILENT WIFE Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the inmates claims that he is innocent of a brutal attack for which he has always been the prime suspect. The man insists that he was framed by a corrupt law enforcement team led by Jeffrey Tolliver and that the real culprit is still out there—a serial killer who has systematically been preying on women across the state for years. If Will reopens the investigation and implicates the dead police officer with a hero’s reputation of wrongdoing, the opportunistic convict is willing to provide the information GBI needs about the riot murder. Only days ago, another young woman was viciously murdered in a state park in northern Georgia. Is it a fluke, or could there be a serial killer on the loose? As Will Trent digs into both crimes it becomes clear that he must solve the cold case in order to find the answer. Yet nearly a decade has passed—time for memories to fade, witnesses to vanish, evidence to disappear, and lies to become truth. But Will can’t crack either mystery without the help of the one person he doesn’t want involved: his girlfriend and Jeffrey Tolliver’s widow, medical examiner Sara Linton. When the past and present begin to collide, Will realizes that everything he values is at stake . . .
Grey's Court. A novel. Edited by Georgiana Lady Chatterton
Author: Mysteries of modern London, by one of the crowd
Author: London. - IV. Appendix. - MiscellaneousPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Author: Miss Urquhart