ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1900 - 1949.
Jezik: Engleski
Tematika: Književnost
Kulturno dobro: Predmet koji prodajem nije kulturno dobro ili ovlašćena institucija odbija pravo preče kupovine
Autor: Strani

Daphne du Maurier - Hungry Hill
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, New York, 1943
402 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: dobro, oštećenje na hrbtu.

The story of a deadly curse that afflicted an Irish family for a hundred years.

`I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten . . . but this hill will be standing still to confound you.` So curses Morty Donovan when Copper John Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill.

The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of Hungry Hill and extracting the treasure it holds. The Donovans, the original owners of Clonmere Castle, resent the Brodricks` success, and consider the great house and its surrounding land theirs by rights. For generations the feud between the families has simmered, always threatening to break into violence...

A storyteller of cunning and genius - Sally Beauman

Hungry Hill` is a passionate story told with du Maurier`s unique gift for drama. It follows five generations of an Irish family and the copper mine on Hungry Hill to which their fortunes and fates are bound.

`I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten . . . but this hill will be standing still to confound you.` So curses Morty Donovan when `Copper John` Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill.


Fiction, Classics