The "Genius" is Theodore Dreiser's autobiographical novel about the turn-of-the-century art scene. It explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality. The "Genius" was deemed so shocking that its sale was immediately prohibited by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Наличные, б/н, visa, qiwi, webmoney, я.деньги.
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy He is most famofor his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations...
John Sheppard was a notorioEnglish robber and thief of early 18thcentury London Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723...
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O Henry, was an American short story writer His stories are known for their surprise endings This volume includes amazing stories like "The Rose of Dixie", "The Third Ingredient", "The Hiding of Black Bill", "Schools and Schools" and many others...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The Portrait of a Lady" is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer...
Dickens' genifor creating eccentric yet entirely captivating characters found its fullest expression in his third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, published in 1839 The narrative follows Nicholas as he escapes from the influence of his villainouncle and the wicked schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, stumbles into a theatrical career, and pursues his fortune through numeroadventures...
Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets...
Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London Turning the maledominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions of four very different suitors...
Rudyard Kipling (18651936) was an English journalist, shortstory writer, poet, and novelist Kate Sheriff, a young American woman, knew without a shadow of a doubt what her calling was She was to move to India where she would dedicate herself to improving the condition of Indian women...
Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him...
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O Henry, was an American short story writer His stories are known for their surprise endings This volume includes amazing stories "Waifs and Strays" and "The Ransom of Red Chief"...
Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet In the novel "Far From the Madding Crowd" an independent Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The Portrait of a Lady" is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer...
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossingsweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done...
The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Charles Dickens, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog such as thedelusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastroattempts at putting on a public show and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which the town is overrun by illustrioscientists and professors conducting ostensibly pointless research...
Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward Through the example and guidance of her mother, who dotes on Edward constantly, a young woman learns that selfsacrifice is the key to living a fulfilled life...
Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer "The House of the Seven Gables" is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism In the novel "Watch and Ward" wealthy and leisured Roger Lawrence adopts twelveyearold Nora Lambert after her father kills himself in the hotel room next to Lawrence's...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The Tragic Muse" is wide, cheerful panorama of English life follows the fortunes of two wouldbe artists : Nick Dormer, who throws over a political career in his efforts to become a painter, and Miriam Rooth, an actress striving for artistic and commercial success...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright This volume includes wonderful stories like "The First and The Last", "A Stoic", "The Apple Tree", "The Juryman" and "Indian Summer of a Forsyte"...
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O Henry, was an American short story writer His stories are known for their surprise endings "Roads Of Destiny" is a story about love triangle...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright This volume includes some amazing stories like "Villa Rubein", "A Man of Devon", "A Knight", "Salvation of a Forsyte" and "The Silence"...
Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer He also wrote great stories for children based on Greek myth and legend They are incomparable retellings of themes which the Greek dramatists used in creating their immortal plays and literature...
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet A Pair of Blue Eyes third published novel, but not his third novel This is because the very first novel he completed, he never published, and in fact he destroyed the manuscript...
An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffiths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success The novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's tawdry ambitions and seal his fate : It is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American Dream...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright The novel "Saint's Progress" tells about spiritual problems This is a classic novel of belief and religion Наличные, б / н, visa, qiwi, webmoney, я.деньги...
Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her workingclass 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...
Sylvia's Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whalingport of Monkshaven in Yorkshire where the sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants...
This richly varied collection of observation, fancy and fiction shows the London he knew so intimately 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...
