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31Jane Eyre , Charlotte Bronte (2010)
Jane Eyre is one of the great romantic heroines of world literature. Orphaned into cold charity at the hands of her rich cousins and, later, at Lowood School, Jane escapes to take up a position as… 263 руб32Persuasion , Jane Austen (2010)
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends and family to reject a… 259 руб33Venus in Furs , Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2000)
A shocking exploration of masochism, narcissism, and sexual power, Venus in Furs brought instant notoriety to its author for its unprecedented portrayal of a man who passionately makes himself the… 1529 руб34Beautiful Fools , R. Clifton Spargo (2013)
Beautiful Fools imagines the relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald; a lyrical portrayal of an intense romance that ultimately destroyed them. Their standing as one of America’s most… 519.5 руб35Mary and the Giant , Philip K. Dick (2005)
Mary Anne Reynolds is a young and vulnerable woman, determined to make her own way in the world. But Pacific Park, California, in the 1950s is not really the place for Mary. Her relationship with a… 989 руб36Abraham Lincoln on Screen and Television , Mark S. Reinhart (2012)
President Lincoln is the most frequently portrayed American historical figure in the history of the film and television arts, having been featured in about 300 productions since the birth of the… 839.1 руб37The Early Plays of Harold Pinter and Edward Albee: A Comparative Study , Jahangir Sarwar (2010)
Harold Pinter, a Nobel laureate, has been the most gifted and prolific playwright of the British theatre. His portrayal of the vulnerability of the individual in the face of often unidentifiable… 2258.1 руб38Mr Bridge , Evan S. Connell (2012)
Walter Bridge, husband to India and father to three, is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The daily dramas of his life only serve to illuminate his prejudice, self-doubts and dreary existence … 569 руб39Hemingway on War , Hemingway Ernest (2014)
Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century, as a Red Cross ambulance driver during the First World War and during his twenty-five years as a war correspondent… 978 руб40Little Women , Louisa May Alcott (2012)
Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls… 414 руб
