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This carefully crafted ebook: «Gone with the Wind» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following Sherman's destructive «March to the Sea». This historical...
| Автор | Margaret Mitchell |
Große Themen der Zeitgeschichte: Warum gibt es noch immer keinen Friedensvertrag für Deutschland? Wie lassen sich Fluchtursachen statt Flüchtlingsströme bekämpfen? Historische Altlasten, aktuelle Herausforderungen. Kritischer Journalismus, universale Menschenrechte und der Weltfriede rücken ins Zentrum. Die gewaltfreie Lösung aller Konflikte wird zur Grundaktion, die fundamentale geistige Wende zur globalen Notwendigkeit auf dem Weg zu einer neuen Politik. Ein Appell an unsere Macht als Bürger,...
| Автор | Mamedagha Hüseynov |
Große Themen der Zeitgeschichte: Warum gibt es noch immer keinen Friedensvertrag für Deutschland? Wie lassen sich Fluchtursachen statt Flüchtlingsströme bekämpfen? Historische Altlasten, aktuelle Herausforderungen. Kritischer Journalismus, universale Menschenrechte und der Weltfriede rücken ins Zentrum. Die gewaltfreie Lösung aller Konflikte wird zur Grundaktion, die fundamentale geistige Wende zur globalen Notwendigkeit auf dem Weg zu einer neuen Politik. Ein Appell an unsere Macht als Bürger,...
| Автор | Mamedagha Hüseynov |
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Второй том трилогии «Живые и взрослые». Прошло два года, герои разошлись по разным компаниям и школам, но внезапная опасность заставляет их снова собраться вместе. Каждому предстоит встреча с его потаенными страхами, каждый должен будет заново понять цену дружбы и найти ответ на вопрос «какова цена страдания и боли?»
| Автор | Сергей Кузнецов |
A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle, this epic tale recaptures the world of Norwegian homesteaders at the turn of the twentieth century. Isak and Inger, an idealistic young couple, reject modern society to raise their family on a back country farm. Isak's embrace of outdoor life reflects author Knut Hamsun's attitude of rugged individualism and his back-to-nature philosophy. Rich in symbolism, this moving tale of peasant life and the search for spiritual fulfillment in...
| Автор | Knut Hamsun |
A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle, this epic tale recaptures the world of Norwegian homesteaders at the turn of the twentieth century. Isak and Inger, an idealistic young couple, reject modern society to raise their family on a back country farm. Isak's embrace of outdoor life reflects author Knut Hamsun's attitude of rugged individualism and his back-to-nature philosophy. Rich in symbolism, this moving tale of peasant life and the search for spiritual fulfillment in...
| Автор | Knut Hamsun |
Tolstoy's novella blends fiction and historical fact to portray a legendary Avar chieftain who switched sides in the nineteenth-century Russo-Caucasian war. Inspired by the author's military service, Hadji Murád offers riveting views of warfare and treason, murder and vengeance, and behind-the-scenes political plotting. An uncharacteristically brief story by the creator of War and Peace, it voices Tolstoy's pacifist beliefs. This novella also provides a...
| Автор | Leo Tolstoy |
The novel takes place in the Netherlands and is a colourful fictional portrait of early 19th-century Dutch life, as well as a tale of youthful honour. The book's title refers to the beautiful silver skates to be awarded to the winner of the ice-skating race Hans Brinker hopes to enter. Hans' father, Raff Brinker, suffered head trauma when he fell from a dike. It left him chronically ill, with episodes of amnesia and occasional violent outbursts, so he is unable to work. Mrs. Brinker,...
| Автор | Mary Mapes Dodge |
"My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else," proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a «fanatic of the demonstrable fact,» who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a stifling and arid atmosphere of grim practicality.Without a moral compass to guide them, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim background of Coketown, a...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for his fearsome reputation. On his journey into the...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад |
First published in 1910, “Howards End” is E. M. Forster’s classic story regarding social conventions of different strata of English society at the end of the 19th century. The story centers around three families; the Wilcoxes, a wealthy family who made their fortune in the African colonies; the Schlegels, three siblings, Margaret, Helen, and Tibby, who represent the intellectual bourgeoisie; and the Basts, a young struggling couple from a lower class background. The Schlegels are lively...
| Автор | E. M. Forster |
