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Thomas Hardy's second to last novel, «Tess of the d'Urbervilles» is the story of Teresa «Tess» Durbeyfield. The plot of the novel is set in motion when a local parson mentions that the Durbeyfields are actually related to the noble family the d'Urbervilles. Trying to capitalize on this knowledge the Durbeyfields send a reluctant Tess to work at the d'Urbervilles estate. There the tragic fate of Tess ensues. «Tess of the d'Urbervilles» challenged the sexual mores of the...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
Thomas Hardy, Томас Харди и др.
First published serially in 1891 in “The Graphic”, an illustrated British newspaper, “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” is one of the last novels written by Thomas Hardy. It is the titular story of Teresa “Tess” Durbeyfield, the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield. The Durbeyfields are a poor family living in rural England who are led to believe by a local parson that they may actually be related to the d’Urbervilles, a noble Norman family. Trying to capitalize on this knowledge the Durbeyfields...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy, Томас Харди и др. |
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'I want – I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.’Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts himself by the rules and standards of the polite, upper class New York society that he resides in....
| Автор | Edith Wharton |
The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds,...
| Автор | Edith Wharton |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris; his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth and find a wife. Newman soon falls for a young widow, the aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde, but his brash New World sensibility horrifies her haughty family. Though the family oppose the idea of the couple’s marriage, reversals of fortune cause them to reconsider. When another suitor...
| Автор | Генри Джеймс |
"The American" is Henry James novel about American businessman and civil war veteran Christopher Newman, a man who has found early fortune in business and having retired decides to take a tour of Europe. There he meets Claire de Cintre, a young widow from an aristocratic Parisian family, whom he falls in love with. The novel is primarily concerned with this courtship. «The American» is a melodramatic social comedy that exemplifies the stark contrasts between America and Europe at the end of...
| Автор | Генри Джеймс |
Despite a decreasing popularity throughout his career, Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) has become one of the most notable and respected English novelists of the Victorian Era. His penetrating novels on political, social and gender issues of his day have placed him among such nineteenth century literary icons as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Trollope penned 47 novels in his career, in addition to various short stories, travel books and biographies. «The American Senator,» published...
| Автор | Anthony Trollope |
"The American Senator" by Anthony Trollope. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible...
| Автор | Anthony Trollope |
"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" is James Weldon's Johnson fictional account of a light-skinned mulatto who can pass for white. The anonymous narrator is the son of a black mother and a white father living in the early part of the 20th century in the rural south, the urban north and in Europe. The novel masterfully explores the complexity of race relations between whites and blacks in America and the search for racial identity by one of mixed ethnicity.
| Автор | James Weldon Johnson |
Claire’s ListConnect with familyClaire Keyes is a piano prodigy. She spends her life on tour – she hasn’t seen the family bakery or her two sisters in years. Now Nicole is ill, Jesse has disappeared and Claire’s coming home to help. Be normalWhich is tough when Wyatt Knight is permanently on her case. Claire needs to rebuild her relationship with her sisters. But she’s being distracted by this provocative, annoying, sexy man…Fall in loveClaire would give anything for a home and a family of her...
| Автор | Susan Mallery |
Take one responsible womanNicole Keyes sacrificed her teenage years to running the family bakery and bringing up her little sister. Her reward? She can create the perfect cupcake for her single nights in. Add one deliciously sexy man Then Nicole meets Hawk, the new guy in town. And soon after he strolls into the bakery, Nicole has somehow agreed to a no-strings-attached fling… Mix together and stand well back!Nicole swears she’ll never let Hawk get close enough to break her heart, but she can’t...
| Автор | Susan Mallery |