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Short Stories(2016) SODERBERG, HJALMARThe twenty-six stories included in this volume are taut, economical in structure, precisely observed and laced with irony.Vezava: Trda21,55 €
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Little Lord(2016) BORGEN, JOHANWilfred (alias Little Lord) is a privileged young man growing up in Kristiania (Oslo) during the halcyon days before the First World War. Beneath the well-adjusted surface, runs a darker current. This best-selling novel is also an evocative study of a vanVezava: Mehka23,09 €
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Barnaby Rudge(1998) DICKENS, CHARLESProvides an account of the 'No Popery' riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised London for days. This novel tells the tale of a long unsolved murder, and a romance that combines forbidden love, passion, treachery and heroisVezava: Mehka4,74 €
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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 €
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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 €
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Hard Times(1995) DICKENS, CHARLESSet in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment, which is the the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory ownerVezava: Mehka4,74 €
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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 €
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Silas Marner(1994) ELIOT, GEORGETells the story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie.Vezava: Mehka4,74 €
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Martin Chuzzlewit(1994) DICKENS, CHARLESOld Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage to America. It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin, but also for his gVezava: Mehka4,74 €
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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 €
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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 €
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Little Dorrit(1996) DICKENS, CHARLESPresenting a tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, this novel highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life.Vezava: Mehka4,74 €
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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 €