Zbirka: Klasični romani (pred l. 1945)
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Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics)(1998) OLIPHANT, MARGARETReturning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties. Optimistic, resourceful and blithely unimpeded by self-doubt, Lucilla isVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
The History of Tom Jones (Penguin Classics)(2005) FIELDING, HENRYTom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighbouring squire - though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. But when his amorous escapades earn the disapproval of his benefVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics)(1999) DICKENS, CHARLESThe greed of Patricia Ingham's family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed chaVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)(1998) HARDY, THOMASMoving to Christminster to work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking "New Woman". Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live togetherVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Dombey and Son (Penguin Classics)(2002) DICKENS, CHARLESOffers a compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, it explores the devastating effects of emotional deprivation on a dysfunctional family and on society as a whole. This title also discusses the character of Paul Dombey, business and famiVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Wives and Daughters(1996) GASKELL, ELIZABETHWhen seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson's widowed father remarries, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of her vain, manipulative stepfather. She also acquires an intriguing new stepsister, Cynthia, glamorous, sophisticated and irresistible to everVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Mary Barton (Penguin Classics)(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: Mehka14,01 € -
The Master of Ballantrae (Penguin Classics)(1996) STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUISThis novel is set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, in the French Indies and in the North American wilderness. The story has as its hero one of the most compelling yet horrifying studies of evil in 19th-century fiction - James Durie, MasterVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Felix Holt (Penguin Classics)(1995) ELIOT, GEORGEWhen the young Harold Transome returns to England with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But, after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference betweeVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics)(1995) ELIOT, GEORGEGwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes traVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
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 € -
Way We Live Now(1994) TROLLOPE, ANTHONYAugustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco toVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
He Knew He Was Right (Penguin Classics)(1994) TROLLOPE, ANTHONYOn a visit to the Mandarin Islands, Louis Trevelyan falls in love with Emily, the daughter of the governor, and they are swiftly married and return to live in London.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Effi Briest(2015) FONTANE, THEODOREffi Briest is steered into marriage with a man twenty years her senior, and taken to live in a remote Baltic seaport. Isolated and bored, she drifts into an affair, which is quickly ended. Years later the past catches up with Effi, with profound consequeVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Chatterton Square(2020) YOUNG, E HA sophisticated, emotive novel, Chatterton Square concerns the complex web of relationships between two neighbouring families, the Blacketts and the Frasers, as the Second World War approaches.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Father(2020) ARNIM, ELIZABETH VONSince her mother's death Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home and acting as his secretary. After the sudden announcement that he has taken a new wife, Jennifer, at 33, seizes the opportunity to lead an independentVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
My Husband Simon(2020) PANTER-DOWNES, MOLLIEPublished in 1931, Mollie Panter-Downes's book explores the different echelons of the increasingly self-conscious middle class and the ways in which the tensions and nuances of vocabulary, dress, occupation, politics, taste and, ultimately, the literary wVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Sally on the Rocks(2021) BOGGS, WINIFREDThis entertaining novel is full of acute and humorous observations of male and female attitudes to love and marriage. Sally is a spirited heroine, who is determined to settle into a comfortable life now that she is in her early thirties. But in securing hVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Sketches by Boz(1995) DICKENS, CHARLESdeals with the London the author knew at its best and worst - its streets, theatres, inns, pawnshops, law courts, prisons, omnibuses and the river Thames - in honest and visionary descriptions of everyday life and people.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
