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Romola(1996) ELIOT, GEORGEAlthough not among George Eliot's most admired works, this story is set in Florence at the end of the 15th century. It re-creates the picturesque complexion of the city and the characters of the historical figures, Charles VIII, Machiavelli and SavanorolaVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare(2007) CHESTERTON, G.K.The fantastically surreal classic from a master of suspenseVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Little Women and Good Wives(2008) ALCOTT, LOUISA MAYSensible Meg, impetuous Jo, shy Beth and artistic Amy each have to confront different challenges as they grow up together and attempt to learn how to be both happy and good. ‘Deals with life's big questions - love and death, war and peace, and ambitionVezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Sylvia's Lovers(1996) GASKELL, ELIZABETHSet in 1790 in Monkshaven, where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service in the Napoleonic wars. One of their victims is Charley Kinraid, who captured the heart of Sylvia Robson. But Sylvia's cousin, Philip Hepburn, hopes to marry her himVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Monarch of the Glen(2009) MACKENZIE, COMPTONChester Royde, an American millionaire, travels to Scotland with his new bride Carrie and sister Myrtle, to find out more about Carrie's Scottish ancestry.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Sons and Lovers(2006) LAWRENCE, D. H.The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their fatheVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Mary Barton(1996) GASKELL, ELIZABETHMary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the streeVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Dead Souls(2004) GOGOL, NIKOLAISince its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale;Vezava: Trda23,82 € -
Lost Illusions(1976) HUNT, HERBERT,BALZAC, HONORE DELucien Chardon, an aspiring young author, leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in the Parisian literary circles of the early 19th century.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
My Antonia(2008) CATHER, WILLAMy Antonia took Cather out of the rank of provincial novelists while at the same time celebrating the provinces. It depicts the pioneering period of European settlement in the American prairie, through the stories of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, who iVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
English Patient(2011) ONDAATJE, MICHAELKip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper - each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upstairs room. and also of forbidden love, suffering and betrayal - illuminate the storVezava: Trda21,02 € -
Shirley, The Professor(2008) BRONTE, CHARLOTTEStruggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers.Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
Persians and Other Plays(2009) AESCHYLUSDeals with events from Athenian history, and depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis. This work shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, and relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of DanausVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Orlando(2004) WOOLF, VIRGINIAOrlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passVezava: Mehka12,61 €
