Grace Metalious

Dramatizes the lives, problems, and failings of the people of a small New England town

Peyton Place

The continuing story of Peyton Place is once again available in paperback

Return to Peyton Place

F. Branco

T. S. Corrêa

A caldeira do diabo (Peyton Place): romance

The story of a repressive New England town known for its high standards of public morality, and the steamy sexual activities that take place behind its bedroom doors. While the town's rigid mores lead to hypocrisy and repression, the earthy characters have an unbelievably high level of sexual functioning. In this environment, Allison McKenzie, a dreamy girl coming to womanhood, must make her way without a father, living with her frigid mother Constance McKenzie.

Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor.

Peyton Place is a sleepy little American town, like any other. But like any other, it harbours its fair share of secrets. Constance MacKenzie is a widower—or so the residents of Peyton Place believe. In reality, after leaving Peyton Place she carried on an affair that lasted until her illicit lover’s untimely death. No one in town knows the truth—not even her daughter, Allison, a budding intellectual, and aspiring author. Allison feels lonely and isolated in Peyton Place, save for the company of her best friend, Selena Cross, a poor girl trapped under the thumb of an abusive step-father. As the ebb and flow of small-town drama cascades over Peyton Place, the three women must navigate the constraints of their pasts, the potential of their futures, and growing understandings of their own sexuality. Return to Peyton Place reunites the reader with Allison MacKenzie, now a successful writer in New York, and working on her daughter novel, her mother Constance, now happily married, and her friend Selena Cross, free from the torments of her abusive step father. All three women are, by any reasonable standard, happy. But things become complicated when Allison’s novel, based heavily on the town—and not in a flattering way—attracts the ire of their friends and neighbours. Peyton Place was a resoundingly successful—and deeply controversial—novel when published, bolstered by its colourful cast and frank discussions of sex and sexuality. The two novels were adapted numerous times, for both film and television. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Peyton Place + Return to Peyton Place

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Peyton Place" by Grace Metalious. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Tight White Collar

Newly arrived in Cooper Station, a small, New England town, Chris Pappas and his wife, Lisa, struggle to join the insular society that views them as outsiders. While Chris sets out to establish himself as a teacher, Lisa enters into a clandestine relationship with Anthony Cooper, a descendent of the town founder. But it is only when the pair run afoul of Doris Palmer—a woman desperate to keep her secret—that they feel the true weight of the collar that constrains Cooper Station’s citizens. Although redolent of the same themes as Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place, Grace Metalious’s The Tight White Collar did not achieve the same level of success as its predecessors. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

This big, richly diverse novel of life in a small New England town teems with incident, vitality and character. Its people are presented in the full dimensioins of their lives--their corruptions and kindnesses, their high hopes and secret drives.

Switch off those TVs, kill your mobiles and settle down with the most controversial book ever written. Once denounced as 'wicked', 'sordid', 'cheap' 'moral filth', PEYTON PLACE was the top read of its time and sold millions of copies worldwide. Way before TWIN PEAKS, SURVIVOR or BIG BROTHER, the curtains were twitching in the mythical New England town of Peyton Place, and this soapy story exposed the dirty secrets of 1950s small-town America: incest, abortion, adultery, repression and lust. Take a peek ...

New England, anii ’50. După un început presărat cu evenimente nu tocmai fericite, Allison MacKenzie cunoaşte gloria: primul său roman, Castelul lui Samuel, devine bestseller. Dar succesul, oricât de plin de satisfacţii, poate avea un gust amar când admiraţia presei se transformă în hărţuire zilnică. Numai iubirea clandestină pe care o trăieşte în New York cu Lewis, editorul ei, pare sinceră pentru ea. Pentru a se pune la adăpost, Allison se întoarce la Peyton Place, în casa părintească, alături de mama sa, Constance. Dar va trebui să înfrunte din nou ura întregului oraş, o ură alimentată de invidie... Cu Întoarcerea la Peyton Place, Grace Metalious a scris un roman sensibil şi emoţionant; în spatele personajului Allison, cititorul o va recunoaşte pe autoare şi suferinţele cu care aceasta s-a confruntat după publicarea volumului Peyton Place, romanul-cult vândut în peste 12 milioane de exemplare în întreaga lume. La rândul său, Întoarcerea la Peyton Place a devenit rapid bestseller internaţional, cartea fiind ecranizată de două ori, pentru marele ecran şi pentru televiziune.

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