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Classic fiction
Att vara besatt av sin karriär, och son till en dominerande far, har gjort Francis till en arbetsnarkoman och mångmiljonär.…
En dag så mister han dock allt han har, och han överväger att ta sitt eget liv. I ett desperat försök att förstå allt och hantera den kommande skilsmässan, så finner han sig själv på en strand där han av en händelse träffar en för honom okänd kvinna som heter Astrid. De börjar prata och deras konversation blir en analys av livet där Astrid hjälper honom att identifiera problemen och visa honom vägen till lyckan som hela tiden funnits rakt framför honom. De sista kapitlen i boken erbjuder en oväntad vändning, och visar hur ödet ingriper.
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Classic fiction, Romantic suspense, Ghost and horror stories
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'No room!-Full up!'He banged the door in my face. That was the final blow. To have tramped about all day…
looking for work; to have begged even for a job which would give me money enough to buy a little food; and to have tramped and to have begged in vain,-that was bad. But, sick at heart, depressed in mind and in body, exhausted by hunger and fatigue, to have been compelled to pocket any little pride I might have left, and solicit, as the penniless, homeless tramp which indeed I was, a night's lodging in the casual ward,- and to solicit it in vain!-that was worse. Much worse. About as bad as bad could be. I stared, stupidly, at the door which had just been banged in my face. I could scarcely believe that the thing was possible. I had hardly expected to figure as a tramp; but, supposing it conceivable that I could become a tramp, that I should be refused admission to that abode of all ignominy, the tramp's ward, was to have attained a depth of misery of which never even in nightmares I had dreamed. As I stood wondering what I should do, a man slouched towards me out of the shadow of the wall. 'Won't 'e let yer in?''He says it's full. ''Says it's full, does 'e? That's the lay at Fulham,-they always says it's full. They wants to keep the number down. 'I looked at the man askance. His head hung forward; his hands were in his trouser pockets; his clothes were rags; his tone was husky.