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Jane Eyre(2018) BRONTE, CHARLOTTEJane Eyre is a vivid and powerful novel, abridged and retold here but containing the best and key elements of the novels on which they are based. This book comes with notes, author biography, key themes, a glossary and free audiobook on CD.Vezava: Mehka8,40 € -
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My Antonia(2000) CATHER, WILLASplendid early novel (1918) evokes the Nebraska prairie life of the author's childhood, and touchingly commemorates the spirit and courage of the immigrant pioneers who settled the land.Vezava: Mehka10,50 € -
Way of All Flesh(2006) BUTLER, SAMUELThrows a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, this novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth 'in the bosom of a Christian family'.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Child of the Jago(2012) MORRISON, ARTHURIn the slum streets of the Jago, Dicky Perrott lives a life of petty crime and violence. With Father Sturt's arrival, he sees how his horizons might alter. Dicky's story highlights the terrible conditions of the Victorian underworld and the social policyVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Cranford Chronicles(2007) GASKELL, ELIZABETHIn this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of migrant workers and the breakdown of law and order. Meanwhile Miss Matty Jenkyns nurses her own broken heart after she was forVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Mike at Wrykyn(2011) WODEHOUSE, P.G.This charming story of the Jackson cricketing dynasty describes the adventures of Mike Jackson at boarding school as he makes his way up the sporting ladder to the first eleven.Vezava: Trda21,03 € -
Tess of the D'Urbervilles(2011) HARDY, THOMAS‘Thomas Hardy's thrilling story of seduction, murder, cruelty and betrayal’ The TimesTess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Ruth(2011) GASKELL, ELIZABETHGaskell's depiction of a fallen woman as her heroine shocked contemporary readers. Ruth is seduced and heartlessly abandoned but finds shelter and love with her illegitimate child until a twist of fate brings her past back to haunt her. This new edition eVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Love Among the Chickens(2011) WODEHOUSE, P.G.This is the tale of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, one of Wodehouse's favourite protagonists, and his fraught attempt to establish a business farming chickens on the coast of Dorset.Vezava: Trda21,03 € -
Lost World(2011) DOYLE, ARTHUR CONANThe notorious Professor Challenger claims that dinosaurs still walk the earth. On a remote plateau in the middle of impenetrable jungle, they discover the impossible truth, but must battle monsters and men before they can bring their testimony home.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Georgics: A Poem of the Land(2010) VIRGIL'Georgic' means 'to work the earth'. This poetic guide to country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with fantasy and eulogies to the rhythms of nature. It describes hills strewn with wild berries in 'vine-spread autumn', and gives guidaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Cousin Phillis and Other Stories(2010) GASKELL, ELIZABETHThis representative selection includes five tales of very different kinds written in the 1850s and the longer Cousin Phillis. Immensely readable and sophisticated works of art, they show Gaskell's mastery of the genre, in an edition that celebrates her acVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Return of the Native(2010) HARDY, THOMAS'Tremendous...utterly absorbing' Independent Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd(2010) CHAUCER, GEOFFREY,ACKROYD, PETERFrom the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, this title includes tales which can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Restoration(2009) TREMAIN, ROSERobert Merivel is a dissolute young medical student when an accident of fate leads him to the attention of King Charles II. Finding favour with the King, Merivel embarks on the time of his life, enthusiastically enjoying the luxury, women and wine of theVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Aeneid(2008) VIRGILFrederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of Virgil's epic poem in a way that has never been done before. Echoing the Virgilian hexameter the verse stays almost line for line with the original in a thriVezava: Mehka11,87 €
