Lauren Groff

"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...

"From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes,...

The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man.

Lotto et Mathilde sont beaux, séduisants, follement amoureux. Promis à un avenir radieux, ils se marient très vite. Dix ans plus tard, Lotto est devenu un dramaturge au succès planétaire ; Mathilde, dans l'ombre, l'a toujours soutenu. Leur couple est l'image type d'un partenariat réussi. Mais les histoires d'amour parfaites cachent souvent des secrets qu'il vaudrait mieux taire… Née en 1978, Lauren Groff est notamment l'autrice des Monstres...

Glavnyy geroy romana, Kroh, vyros v kommune, kotoruyu v semidesyatyh organizovali neskolko desyatkov entuziastov na zapade shtata Nyu-York. V kommune pytalis zhit soobscha, vmeste vospityvat detey, pitatsya tem, chto vyrastili sami. No vsyakoy utopii prihodit konets. Kogda kommuna raspadaetsya, Kroh otpravlyaetsya v bolshoy mir i privykaet zhit v nem, no sudba povorachivaetsya neozhidannym obrazom, i mnogo let spustya Kroh vozvraschaetsya v Arkadiyu,...

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor.

“There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against

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"Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region-from New England to Florida to California-these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans' dark and light angels"-- Providedby publisher.

"Siedemnastoletnia Marie de France, uznana za niepasującą do dworskiego życia i nienadającą się do małżeństwa, zostaje wygnana z królewskiego dworu przez Eleonorę Akwitańską i wysłana do Anglii, gdzie ma zostać nową przeoryszą zubożałego opactwa, w którym zakonnice umierają z głodu, dziesiątkowane chorobami. Początkowe zaskoczenie surowością nowego życia mija, gdy Marie znajduje sens i miłość w byciu z siostrami, we wspólnocie....

Utopia never lasts forever, sometimes life verifies plans for us in the least expected moment - building it again in a completely different and strange place is not one of the simplest tasks ... Fourteen years have passed since Ridley came into the world. The boy, throughout his life, grew up in Arcadia - the place of liberated and independent people who always tried to draw life from their lives full of life. It was here that he discovered the taste...

"The Transit of Venus tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in postwar England. What happens to these young women--seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal--becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves"-- Provided by publisher.