I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.
Orphaned as a young teenager, Lowlander David Ba...
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С детства мечтаете о морских приключениях и поисках пиратского клада? Почему бы не оживить эти мечты с помощью романа Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона "Остров Сокровищ"?
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's ...
VilletteFleeing an unhappy past in England, penniless Lucy Snowe starts life anew at a boarding school in cosmopolitan Villette, a stand-in for Brussels. The mystery, jeal...
Sylvia Plath is a shoo-in for anybody's shortlist of the most talented poets of the 20th century. Her 1966 collection, Ariel, continues to stun new generations of readers ...
"A scintillating and poignant autobiography in letters. . . . Her letters blaze with fresh and stunning revelations, with more to come."—Booklist on The Letters of Sylvia ...
The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume 1940 - 1950
Sylvia Plath, Karen Kukil (Editor), Peter K. Steinberg (Editor)
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(0)Sylvia Plath's renown as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets is beyond dispute, but she was also one of its most captivating correspondents. This remarka...
Poruszająca opowieść o zakazanym uczuciu, które rozkwita w cieniu wojennej tragedii.
Rok 1914. Po obu stronach frontu Wielka Wojna wciąga w swój wir tysiące młodych męż...
Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown...
In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope...
'Eine schwierige Kindheit ist wie ein unsichtbarer Feind: Man weiß nie, wann er zuschlagen wird.'
Jules und seine beiden Geschwister wachsen behütet auf, bis ihre Eltern ...
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and app...
J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 450 million copies, be...
A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts.
Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperat...
There’s a voice in Aline’s head: a voice that wants out.
Brash, boisterous and sexually adventurous, this voice seems to be the antithesis of Aline, a prim literature p...
Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Bot...
Having frittered away his family's fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of his native Genoa and harbours plans for re...
Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century.
When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a...