The ugly duckling: A tale from Hans Christian Andersen - Softcover

Cauley, Lorinda Bryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0152924353 ISBN 13: 9780152924355

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979

Synopsis

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals in the barnyard before he grows into a beautiful swan.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A New York Times bestseller!

"A spectacular tale of revenge, betrayal and survival."
--Publishers Weekly

"A real knockout...[an] intense thriller...bravo!"
--The Atlanta Journal

At last, she will see her new face...so will the killer...

From the Inside Flap:

rd-winning first novel to her latest spectacular success, Iris Johansen has triumphed as a national bestseller and been heralded as a dazzling
storyteller of incomparable brilliance.   Now she reveals a new side to her talent, weaving a thrilling tale of contemporary romantic suspense that gives the age-old myth of transformation a stunningly unique twist...as an ugly duckling becomes a breathtaking beauty whose burning wish for revenge entangles her in a precarious world of sinister intrigue and dark desire.

For Iris Johansen's millions of fans and for anyone who loves the novels of Sandra Brown and Nora Roberts, this is explosive, enthralling, powerfully engrossing entertainment.

Plain, soft-spoken Nell Calder isn't the type of woman to inspire envy, lust--or murderous passions.   Until one night on an exotic island in the Aegean Sea, at an elegant gathering that should have cemented her husband's glorious career in finance, the unimaginable happen

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0152924353
• ISBN 13: 9780152924355
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 44