The Snow-Image and Other Tales от Т8

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...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer This is a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne's stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly"...

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century.His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature.The Oak Openings; or, The Bee Hunter focuses on the activities of professional honeyhunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed "Ben Buzz"...

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 "Fraternity" is his early satire of middleclass complacency and artistic aspiration This work stands as one of his best novels outside "The Forsyte Saga"...

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...

Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The Outcry" is an effervescent comedy of money and manners...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric archintriguer Miss Aldclyffe On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston...

F S Fitzgerald (18961940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, "The Beautiful and Damned" is the story of Harvardeducated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria, As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice...

Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet In the novel "Two On A Tower" Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful Swithin St Cleeve...

Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet "The Return of the Native" illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies...