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The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18yearold undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage girl could still be delivered by the hand of a discreet manservant, and the residents of Piccadilly kept their horses stabled close by so that they could gallop down to Richmond for fresh air...

A fallen woman would seem a lessthanideal choice for a Victorian heroine Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her Ruth Overturning the conventional assumption that a woman once seduced is condemned to exclusion from respectable society, Gaskell draws a heroine whose emotional honesty, innate morality, and the love she shares with her illegitimate son are sufficient for redemption...

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...

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...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright "Fraternity" is his early satire of middleclass complacency and artistic aspiration This work stands as one of his best novels outside "The Forsyte Saga"...

Notes and Introduction by Mark G Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (16321704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth century, and Locke's works are often ? rightly ? presented as foundations of the Age of Enlightenment...

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable source of social and economic history...

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...

The "Genius" is Theodore Dreiser's autobiographical novel about the turnofthecentury art scene It explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality...

После похорон в доме покойного собрались многочисленные родственники, рассчитывающие на получение наследства...

It is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury Captain Macwhirr has a reputation as a solid, steadfast man, who "having just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day, and no more" cannot fully believe any storm would be a match for his powerful ship...

Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "Confidence" is a great novel which centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angela Vivian...

Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The American" is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman...

Worldfamofor his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing In 1919 Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of bestloved, essential classics.'Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.'Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuohistory of the Highlands in his classic adventure novel Rob Roy...

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"...

Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice andagency...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright "Love moves the world." And this statement was reflected on the pages of the novel "Freeland"...

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright One of his notable works is the novel "Beyond" Together with his heroes the author goes to spheres of unrestrained feelings Love is depicted as an all consuming power, before which man is powerless...

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre.This is an extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright In this final volume of "The Forsyte Chronicles" Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes...

Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet "The TrumpetMajor" is one of Hardy's most underrated and unpredictable works Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill, has three suitors : the squire's nephew Festand the miller's two sons, Robert and John...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer This volume includes such amazing three amazing stories "Fanshawe", "The SnowImage" and "The New Adam and Eve"...

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...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright "The Burning Spear" is a work that reveals to the reader a completely different Galsworthy a sarcastic and witty cynic, a true master of British ironic prose...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions...

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 story collection includes "The World and the Door", "The Theory and the Hound", "The Hypotheses of Failure", "Calloway's Code", "A Matter of Mean Elevation" and others...