Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly, and the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy. It explores Tess's relationships with two very different men, her struggle against the social mores of ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Книгата представя опит за аналитично разглобяване на известни политически метафори. В първата част са разгледани фигури с глобално значение: война срещу терора, организирана престъпност, антикорупция, популизъм. Във втората е развит коментар на политически фигури от българския политически живот: идеологеми на 90 -те , идеите за земеделска партия, твърд електорат и етнически модел. Анализирани в семантична перспектива, тези фигури на политическата реч се разкриват като безсмислени. Смисловата им празнота не произтича от случайни обстоятелства, а е свързана с фундаментални основания. Въпреки това те се радват на висока ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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The Prince and the Pauper is a classic adventure of mistaken identity set in Tudor London and told with Mark Twain’s trademark humour and concern for social justice. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library - a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by author and journalist Nicolette Jones. Penniless Tom Canty wonders what it would be like to be a prince. Heir to the throne Edward Tudor dreams of a life outside the royal palace walls. When the two boys ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In The Pickwick Papers we are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language, but to some of fiction's most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded Samuel Pickwick himself. It is a rollicking tour de force through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Reform of government, justice and commercial life are imminent, as are rail travel, social convulsion and the death of deference, but Pickwick sails through on a tide of delirious adventure, fortifying us for the ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Tales of the Jazz Age" features eleven of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and "novelettes" including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz". Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... A novel of social and moral themes, "Hard Times" is the archetypal Dickens novel, filled with family difficulties, estrangement, rotten values and unhappiness. Published in 1854, it is set in the imaginary Coketown, an industrial city inspired by Preston, and tells the story of the family of Thomas Gradgrind, a man obsessed with misguided "Utilitarian" values that make him trust facts, statistics and practicality over emotion. Based on James Mill (the Utilitarian leader), Gradgrind raises his own children, Louisa and Tom, in line with ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Jonty Claypole. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable mysteries. "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are key works in the horror canon, while in the "The Murders ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me." Forced to move from the rural tranquillity of southern England to the turbulent northern mill town of Milton, Margaret Hale takes an instant dislike to the dirt and noise that seems to characterize her new home and its inhabitants - even the handsome and charismatic cotton mill owner, John Thornton. But as she begins to settle in, and to understand the nature of the surrounding poverty and injustice, events conspire to throw her and Thornton together. Amidst the chaos of industrial ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Tales of the Jazz Age" features some of F. Scott's Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and "novelettes" including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz". Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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In the two-volume book titled "Broken Grounds", you will find many international and national articles in which you will witness the transformational impact of mass communication and mass media devices. The drive that has initiated the reason for which this book has been prepared in two volumes is to trace the marks of this era on different societies and social layers and to explicate the relationships and communication ways which have emerged from it. The study which brings together the different conceptions in national and international level introduces the new quests to its audience through the route map of ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Drawing on different versions of the constitutional analysis of culture, this study addresses the search for "new post-epistemological identities" of science, political culture and art criticism. The book offers hermeneutic investigations of issues like the rationality of science, the notion of dialogue relevant to the pluralist public spheres, and the character of art criticisms after the "end of art". Dimitri Ginev is a professor at the University of Sofia. His research interests include history of modern hermeneutics, cultural and social theory of modernity, non-foundational epistemology, and ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Nominal Categories ... Ellie (Elissaveta) Boyadzhieva, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Head of the English Department at the Philological Faculty, South - West - University of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. The volume elaborates on the nominal categories in Modern English from the perspective of the general theory of language. It is a result of the author`s year experience in lecturing on English morphology to students majoring in English Philology and Applied Linguistics at various Bulgarian universities. The analysis of the linguistic phenomena discussed in the book is based on data from written and oral ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |