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Hero Of Our Time(1992) LERMONTOV, MIKHAILSet in the Caucasus, the scene of Russia's military campaigns in the 19th century, this is both an adventure story and a sardonic look at the heroic ideals of the author's contemporaries - which makes it all the more ironic that the main character, PushkiVezava: Trda21,02 € -
Villette(1992) BRONTE, CHARLOTTEThe narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romanVezava: Trda22,42 € -
Barchester Towers(1992) TROLLOPE, ANTHONYThe author was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other guises, led to civil war and constitutionaVezava: Trda23,82 € -
Sense And Sensibility(1992) AUSTEN, JANEJane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later, was completed in 1797 at the age of twenty-two.Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
Scarlet And Black(1991) STENDHALIn this account of a disillusioned soul failing to come to terms with reality, the novelist recreates the Byronic anti-hero in the context of post-revolutionary France where the church, politics and society itself are in upheaval.Vezava: Trda22,42 € -
Portrait Of A Lady(1991) JAMES, HENRYThe talented and beautiful Isabel Archer, courted by several suitors and enriched by her dying uncle, chooses to marry the cold and ambitious Gilbert Osmond. The heroine soon discovers to her cost that freedom of choice is never what it seems.Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
Old Goriot(1991) BALZAC, HONORE DEIn this novel of obsessive passion the author tells stories of Old Goriot and the ungrateful daughters he adores; young Rastignac, a country lad determined to make his way in Paris; and Vautrin, his satanic tempter. Their lives all cross in the Maison VauVezava: Trda21,02 € -
Emma(1991) AUSTEN, JANEEmma Wodehouse has led a simple life, but during the course of this, she at last reaps her share of the world's vexations. In this comedy of manners, the heroine learns to come to terms with the reality of other people, and with her own erring nature.Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
Vanity Fair(1991) THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACEThackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer.Vezava: Trda28,04 € -
Middlemarch(1991) ELIOT, GEORGEMiddlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, published 1871-2, is set in the imaginary county of Loamshire during the years of unrest preceding the 1832 Reform Bill. With its complex plot, broad canvas and huge cast of characters, it has long been recognizedVezava: Trda26,62 € -
Just So Stories(2016) KIPLING, RUDYARDRudyard Kipling's original extraordinary tales, fully illustrated by the authorVezava: Trda15,41 € -
Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England(2016) AUSTEN, JANEA delightful collection of Jane Austen's juvenilia in a pocket hardback edition, with an introduction by Kathryn White.Vezava: Trda15,41 € -
Mansfield Park(2016) AUSTEN, JANEAusten's classic novel about class and virtue, featuring classic illustrations from Hugh Thomson and an introduction from historian and author Nigel Cliff.Vezava: Trda15,41 € -
Persuasion(2016) AUSTEN, JANEA pocket edition of Persuasion, Jane Austen's celebrated final novel, featuring classic illustrations from Hugh Thomson and an afterword by author and critic Henry Hitchings.Vezava: Trda15,41 € -
Northanger Abbey(2016) AUSTEN, JANEJane Austen's superb pastiche of the gothic romance, featuring classic illustrations from Hugh Thomson and an afterword from David Pinching.Vezava: Trda15,41 € -
Hunchback of Notre-Dame(2016) HUGO, VICTORThe complete and unabridged text of Victor Hugo's sweeping novel in a pocket hardback editionVezava: Trda15,41 €











