Rumer Godden was an English author with more than sixty books, fiction and non-fiction, to her credit. Best known for her bestselling novels, Black Narcissus and The River which were both made into memorable movies, Godden went on to write popular works such as Two Under the Indian Sun (a memoir of her time in India, co-written with sister Jon Godden), A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep, A House with Four Rooms, Gulbadan and Indian Dust.
42 Ebooks tarafından Rumer Godden
Rumer Godden: Rungli-Rungliot {Thus Far and No Further}
In the 1940s, as the Second World War raged elsewhere, author Rumer Godden lived for a year in Rungli-Rungliotan isolated tea estate three thousand feet down the mountain from Darjeelingwith her …
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Jon Godden & Rumer Godden: Two under the Indian Sun
When World War I began in 1914, sisters Jon and Rumer Godden—aged six and seven respectively—left England to join their parents in Narayangunj, a village in Bengal. There, the sisters led an idyllic …
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Rumer Godden: Gulbadan
An accomplished scholar and author of the Humayun-nama, Gulbadan Begam was also Babur’s daughter, Humayun’s sister, and Akbar’s aunt.
In this compact biography, Rumer Godden draws upon the …
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Rumer Godden: A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep
‘Ms Godden has a magical skill in conjuring up with a few suggestive details a veritable panorama of Indian life.’—The New York Times
In this sensitive and superbly crafted memoir, one of the forem …
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Rumer Godden: A House with Four Rooms
‘The miniature in her books [contains], by reflection, the vastness of the world. This is surely the reason why her work has given so much pleasure to generations in many lands, and continues to do s …
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Rumer Godden: Black Narcissus
NOW A HAUNTING BBC DRAMA, STARRING GEMMA ARTERTON AND DIANA RIGG’A remarkable and beautiful book’ DAILY TELEGRAPH’I envy anyone reading it for the first time’ AMANDA COE'[Godden has] a genius for …
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Rumer Godden: Kingfishers Catch Fire
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BLACK NARCISSUS AND THE RIVER ‘A haunting tale . . . the whole book burns with the beauty and poetry’ EVENING STANDARD’Powerful adult themes underlie the novel’s …
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Rumer Godden: Breakfast with the Nikolides
By the author of Black Narcissus and The River’One of our best and most captivating novelists’ PHILIP HENSHER’She has distilled in simple, luminous prose the experiences of expatriate India, of …
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Rumer Godden: Battle of the Villa Fiorita
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BLACK NARCISSUS AND THE RIVER’One of our best and most captivating novelists’ PHILIP HENSHER ‘[Godden has] a genius for storytelling’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Her prose is …
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Rumer Godden: Lady and the Unicorn
By the author of Black Narcissus and The River’Rumer Godden’s novels have a timeless shimmer’ GUARDIAN ‘Touching, amusing, enchanting . . . an exceptional work’ OBSERVER’Her prose is pure, delicate, …
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Rumer Godden: Listen to the Nightingale
By the bestselling author of Black Narcissus and The Battle of the Villa Fiorita’This is an absolutely heart-warming read, which will make you laugh, cry and love it’ GUARDIAN ‘Her craftsmanship is …
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Rumer Godden: Episode of Sparrows
By the author of Black Narcissus and The River WITH A FOREWORD BY JACQUELINE WILSON’A masterpiece of construction and utterly realistically convincing’ JACQUELINE WILSON ‘Author Godden here tries her …
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Rumer Godden: Dark Horse
By the author of Black Narcissus and The Diddakoi comes the moving tale of Dark Invader, a powerful racehorse. ‘[Godden’s] distinctive, poised and unsentimental books have never lost a shred of their …
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Rumer Godden: China Court
By the author of Black Narcissus and The River’Godden was a writer who constantly drew on her own life experiences’ ROSIE THOMAS, GUARDIAN’Her prose is pure, delicate, and gently witty’ NEW YORK …
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Rumer Godden: In this House of Brede
By the author of Black Narcissus and The River’Rumer Godden’s novels have a timeless shimmer’ GUARDIAN ‘One hundred years after her birth, Rumer Godden’s novels still pulse with life’ MATTHEW …
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Rumer Godden: Fugue in Time
Ghosts past, present, and future haunt an old London house in this masterful work of fiction from a New York Times bestselling author.’A genius for storytelling’ EVENING STANDARD ‘One of our best and …
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Rumer Godden: Cromartie vs The God Shiva
BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘One of our best and most captivating novelists’ PHILIP HENSHER ‘[Godden] writes with grace and a cheerfully lilting prose’ KIRKUS REVIEWS ‘Her craftsmanship …
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Rumer Godden: Five for Sorrow Ten for Joy
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BLACK NARCISSUS AND THE RIVER ‘One of our best and most captivating novelists’ PHILIP HENSHER ‘Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy is about growth, choice, struggle, and the …
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Rumer Godden: Black Narcissus
In the days when it was the General’s ‘harem’ palace, ladies with their retinues and rich clothes could be seen walking on the high windy terraces. At night, music floated out over villages and …
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Rumer Godden: Breakfast With The Nikolides
Louise sets out to India with her two daughters to stay with her estranged husband. They arrive at his farm in the vast and unstable plains of East Bengal and almost immediately the fragile …
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Rumer Godden: Kingfishers Catch Fire
Set in Kashmir, this is the story of Sophie, a young and idealistic English woman with two young daughters who decides to set up house in a remote Indian Village. She finds a tumbledown house nestled …
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Rumer Godden: Thursday’s Children
‘Her prose is pure, delicate, and gently witty’ NEW YORK TIMES'[Many] relish the delicacy of her writing for children’ IRISH TIMES ‘A sensitive exploration of a boy’s triumph over the objections of …
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Rumer Godden: Black Narcissus
Five nuns confront nature—physical and human—in a remote Himalayan convent in the bestselling novel that inspired the new FX miniseries. Under the guidance of Sister Clodagh, the …
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Rumer Godden: Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Two English children travel to Italy to rescue their wayward mother from her lover and save their family in this New York Times–bestselling novel. The lives of the two Clavering …
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Rumer Godden: Greengage Summer
A sixteen-year-old girl captures the dangerous attention of an older man in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of Black Narcissus. Soon after the end of the terrible …
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Rumer Godden: China Court
A New York Times–bestselling novel of the lives, loves, and foibles of five generations of a British family occupying a manor house in Wales. For nearly one hundred and fifty years the …
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Rumer Godden: Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy
From a New York Times–bestselling author: A novel of a woman’s journey from prostitute to brothel madam to murderess to nun in post–World War II France. A sense of adventure …
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Rumer Godden: Peacock Spring
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Greengage Summer: Two English sisters’ lives are transformed when their father brings them to India. At fifteen and twelve, the daughters …
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Rumer Godden: Fugue in Time
Ghosts past, present, and future haunt an old London house in this masterful work of fiction from a New York Times–bestselling author. Sir Roland Ironmonger Dane is the last of his family to …
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Rumer Godden: River
Facing harsh adult realities, a young English girl in India must leave childhood behind, in this masterful tale from a New York Times–bestselling author. The Ganges River runs through young …
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Rumer Godden: Breakfast with the Nikolides
A troubled European family struggles to make a life in India during WWII in this “absorbing” novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews). Eight years ago, Louise …
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Rumer Godden: Coromandel Sea Change
A hotel in southern India is home to a host of romantic intrigues and human misadventures in this delightful novel from a New York Times–bestselling author. Over a decade before The Best Exotic …
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Rumer Godden: Cromartie vs. the God Shiva
Love, intrigue, and death ensue when a statue of a Hindu god is stolen from an Indian hotel in this masterwork from a New York Times–bestselling author. Sydney Cromartie is aghast when London …
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Rumer Godden: Lady and the Unicorn
Three sisters battle poverty and prejudice in 1930s India in this heart-wrenching tale from a New York Times–bestselling novelist. Life is difficult for the three Lemarchant sisters in the …
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Rumer Godden: India Novels Volume One
Three unforgettable novels from a New York Times–bestselling author—including Black Narcissus, which “bears comparison with A Passage to India” (Arthur Koestler). With …
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Rumer Godden: India Novels Volume Two
Four evocative and moving works of fiction set in India from the New York Times–bestselling author of Black Narcissus—including her final novel. Having spent her formative years in …
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Rumer Godden: In This House of Brede
Following World War II, a British widow joins a Benedictine monastery in this poignant New York Times bestseller from the author of Black Narcissus. For most of her adult life, Philippa Talbot …
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Rumer Godden: Dark Horse
The disappearance of a majestic Thoroughbred unites a community in 1930s India in “one of the greatest horse books ever written. . . . Moving, and highly original” (Lauren …
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Rumer Godden: Unser Sommer im Mirabellengarten
Die meisten Leute erleben in einem ganzen Leben nicht, was den fünf Geschwistern in diesem einen heißen Sommer in Vieux-Moutiers widerfährt, da sind sich die beiden ältesten Joss und Cecil einig. …
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