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Book of the Courtier(1976) CASTIGLIONE, BALDESARDefines the essential virtues for those at Court. This title includes a series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, in which his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour - chiefly discretion and gracefulneVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mapp and Lucia(2011) BENSON, E FLook out for the new BBC adaptation starring Anna Chancellor, Miranda Richardson and Mark Gatiss!Miss Elizabeth Mapp reigns supreme over the village of Tilling...until the advent of Mrs Emmeline Lucas, or 'Lucia' to her friends.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Uncle Silas(2000) LE FANU, J.Maud Ruthyn is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. Together with his boorish son and a sinister French governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and claim her fortune.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner(2006) HOGG, JAMESRobert Wringham's family is composed of a dissolute father and brother, a pious mother, and a rival father in the person of a fanatical Calvinist minister. He comes to believe that he is one of the elect, predestined to be saved, while others are damned.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Animal Farm(1993) ORWELL, GEORGEA biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, ANIMAL FARM is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire after the same writer's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.Vezava: Trda18,21 € -
Journey to the Centre of the Earth(2011) VERNE, JULESRead this perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth's core. After decoding a scrap of paper in runic script, the intrepid Professor Lidenbrock and his nervous nephew Axel travel across Iceland to find the secret passage to the centre of the eartVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Adam Bede(1997) ELIOT, GEORGESet in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, this book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'.Vezava: Mehka4,74 € -
Jude the Obscure(1995) HARDY, THOMASJude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventVezava: Mehka4,74 € -
Pair of Blue Eyes(1995) HARDY, THOMASRich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the emergence of the schematic ironies which characterise the author's later worksVezava: Mehka4,74 € -
Moll Flanders(1993) DEFOE, DANIELFollows the life of the heroine through her many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in theVezava: Mehka4,74 € -
Mayor of Casterbridge(1994) HARDY, THOMASSet in the heart of the Wessex, this book charts the rise and downfall of a single 'man of character'. It's moving and contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its force, and features some of the author's episodes and passages of description.Vezava: Mehka4,74 € -
Woodlanders(1996) HARDY, THOMASEducated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous.Vezava: Mehka4,74 € -
Trumpet-Major(1995) HARDY, THOMASThe novel is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. It interweaves a romantic love story of the rivalry of two brothers for the hand of the heroine Anne Garland. It also contains elements of sadness and even tragedy.Vezava: Mehka4,74 € -
Metamorphoses(2013) OVIDOvid’s sequence of fifteen witty and playful poems sketches the history of the world from its creation to the poet’s own time through a series of transformation myths in which gods and goddesses succumb to all-too-human passions, not least in the matter oVezava: Trda22,42 € -
Life of Charlotte Bronte(2009) GASKELL, ELIZABETHElizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell and collated with the manuscript and the previous two edVezava: Mehka18,21 €
