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Today Maya Angelou is one of the world's most respected writers and poets. In the 1930s and 1940s she was a poor Black girl growing up in the segregated American South. Sh...
One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only...
<p>On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force sees a way to restore his family's dignity in an attractive bungalow available on county auction...
Когда весной 1666 года в деревне Им в графстве Дербишир начинается эпидемия чумы, ее жители принимают мужественное решение изолировать себя от внешнего мира, чтобы страшна...
<p>Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clan...
In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After 15 years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the isla...
<p>Роман «Инес души моей», основанный на подлинной истории жизни одного из тех смелых испанских конкистадоров, которые в XVI веке сыграли важнейшую роль в становлении чили...
An extraordinarily vivid and beautifully written first novel exploring the hidden world of the geisha.
Memoirs of a Geisha is a rare and utterly engaging experience. Th...
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the f...
<p>When the animals take over the farm, they think it is the start of a better life. Their dream is of a world where all animals are equal and all property is shared. But ...
During one hot summer on Long Island, Jay Gatsby throws an amazing party every weekend. He is an extremely wealthy man, although no one knows where he or his money have co...
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian, a hero who is furious becaus...
Classic / British English
Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her...
Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child...
When Ella Turner moves with her husband to Lisle-sur-Tarn, a small town in southwestern France, she hopes to qualify to practice as a midwife as well as to start a family ...
