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-Over the past two decades, the process of cultural development and, in particular, the role of reading has been of growing interest, but recent research has been episodic...
'Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.'
Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based...
В романе Джорджа Мередита рассмотрен основной социально-психологический конфликт - столкновение естественного начала в человеке с ханжеской моралью. Кроме того, книга пред...
At selected points in the book there occur a series of brief interchapters. The purpose of these is to make explicit a number of questions which were continually being rai...
When Scenes of Clerical Life, George Eliot's first novel, was published anonymously in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1857, it was immediately recognized, in the words ...
Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships -fa...
The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928 (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies)
Florence Emily Hardy
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The great English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) worked with his second wife, Florence, on this account of his life. It was published under her name, in two se...
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) worked with his second wife, Florence, on this account of his life, which was published soon after he died. It offers fascinating insights into hi...
Covering a wide range of authors, among them Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Clare, Mary Shelley, and Disraeli, Cronin brings light and order to one of the murkiest quarters ...
Эта история началась под Рождество, когда группа парней из деревни Мэлсток ходила и распевала колядки. Вот тогда извозчик Дик Дьюи увидел и влюбился с первого взгляда в но...
George Meredith's Modern Love (1862) is a collection of 50 16-line sonnets about the failure of his first marriage. He reflects his own disillusionment after his wife Mary...
Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. Author of Jude the Obscure and Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy reflected in his works...
This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who “was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness....
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a Victorian era English poet. His poetry was highly controversial in its day. He is considered a decadent poet. Many of his earl...
A tragic drama in verse of Mary Stuart and the French poet
Victorian novels remain enormously popular today: some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the...
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a ma...