Illustrated by Roberto Tomei. ... "The rain was still falling against the windows and the wind was blowing strongly. Inside the library, there was silence. Dorothea sat down on a couch in the middle of the room. Will sat down beside her and help her hand. "Oh, it is impossible!" Will cried. "We love each other, but we can never be married!" From the Book "Middlemarch" is George Eliot 's classic story of the lives and loves of people living in a small English town. The idealistic Dorothea, unhappy and bored with her marriage, begins a sensitive friendship with her husband's ... |
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With an introduction by Jenifer Egan. Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. An eternal masterpiece of candid observation, emotional insight and transcending humour, "Middlemarch" is a truly monumental novel. Endlessly appealing to modern readers, "Middlemarch" has been adapted as BBC Radio 4 drama. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition ... |
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This book is in British English. ... England - 1828 to 1840. Maggie Tulliver is beautiful and intelligent. But she is lonely and unhappy. Philip Wakem loves her. But she cannot meet him. The Tullivers and the Wakems are enemies. Then Maggie meets Stephen Guest. They fall in love. But Stephen is going to be married to Maggie's cousin. There are exercises at the end of the book. Included CD contains audio versions of all the chapters of the book. ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... With precise plotting underpinned by a wise understanding of human nature, George Eliot's most autobiographical novel gives a wonderful evocation of rural life and the complicated relationship between siblings. 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 of "The Mill on the Floss" features an introduction by Professor Kathryn Hughes. Maggie Tulliver and ... |
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Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the reader's attention until the last page as Eppie's bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test. ... |
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Мидълмарч е въображаемо градче с истински герои, които всеки среща. Доротея Брук има благородно сърце и то постоянно я подтиква към саможертви. Така тя попада в брак, който се оказва капан. Д-р Лидгейт пристига в Мидълмарч с мечти за открития в медицината, а намира... съпруга. Какви тайни крие Уил Ладисло и ще се впише ли в града? Колко струва дадената дума? Романът Мидълмарч e панорама на бурна епоха, свидетелство за живота в английската провинция през XIX век и битките за парламентарни реформи в страната на кралица Виктория. Джордж Елиът е литературният псевдоним на английската писателка, поетеса, журналистка и ... |
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Мидълмарч е въображаемо градче с истински герои, които всеки среща. Доротея Брук има благородно сърце и то постоянно я подтиква към саможертви. Така тя попада в брак, който се оказва капан. Д-р Лидгейт пристига в Мидълмарч с мечти за открития в медицината, а намира... съпруга. Какви тайни крие Уил Ладисло и ще се впише ли в града? Колко струва дадената дума? Романът Мидълмарч e панорама на бурна епоха, свидетелство за живота в английската провинция през XIX век и битките за парламентарни реформи в страната на кралица Виктория. Джордж Елиът е литературният псевдоним на английската писателка, поетеса, журналистка и ... |
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When darkness falls, heroes rise... ... If everything was taken from you, what would you do to get it back? Agatha patrols the sea wall with pride, despite those in her clan who question her right to be there, because of the condition she was born with. Jaime is a reluctant Angler, full of self-doubt and afraid of the sea. When disaster strikes, the pair must embark on a terrifying journey to a land where forgotten magic and dark secrets lurk in every shadow..."A brave new voice in fantasy fiction" Sally Green, author of "Half Bad" ... |
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The production of this Reader in the 20th century British literature is a result of years of lecturing on the subject of English literature to the English Students undergraduates at the South Western University, and the cooperation of my students and colleagues as well as the support of the faculty bodies and administration. ... |
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James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience. ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Alex Forley had everything: good looks, money, a beautiful house in London, an attractive girlfriend and a close group of friends. But now he is dead - an apparent case of suicide. Detective Inspector Rod Eliot isn't sure Alex killed himself and he wants the answers to two simple questions.Was it murder? And if so, who did it? ... |
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Колекция "Хемингуей" възражда както най-популярните произведения на световноизвестния писател, така и редица от позабравените му творби. ... В колекция "Хемингуей" издаването на разказите "В наше време" непосредствено след "Сбогом на оръжията" не е случайно. Връзката между "Съвсем кратък разказ", включен в сборника, и романа е очевидна и документирана. В основата и на двете произведения е преживяното от Хемингуей след раняването му на Италиано-австрийския фронт през Първата световна война и запознанството му с медицинската сестра Агнес фон Куровски в американската болница ... |
