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There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of passionate love than the story of the tormented Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from ..

'You said I killed you – haunt me, then ' Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fie

Kniha Wuthering Heights vydaná v nakladatelství UNION SQUARE & CO v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 360, ISBN-13: 9781454952961, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

This volume brings together Virginia Woolf's last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer prec ..

A portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the new twentieth century – the most popular of Woolf's books during her lifetime

2018 Reprint of 1892 Edition. This short story is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. Presented in the first person, the story i

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‚There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will‘ Hailed as one of the most distinctive and compelling literary voices of he ..

A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin's „We“ is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. This „Penguin Classics“ edition is transla ..

The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. Le Guin The dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, We depicts a futuristic totalitarian society, ‚OneState‘, where humans have become numbers. Suppresse

Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bulgakov reveals his doubts about his own competence and the immense burden of responsibility, as he deals with a superstitious and poorly educated people struggling to enter the modern age. This acclaime ..

Choice collection of masterly short fiction. In addition to title story: „The Birthmark,“ „Rappaccini's Daughter,“ „Roger Malvin's Burial,“ „The Artist of the Beautiful,“ „Dr. Heidegger's Experiment,“ and „My Kinsman, Major Molineux.“

Povest' „Zapiski iz Mertvogo doma“ osnovana na vospominaniyakh pisatelya o godakh, provedennykh v Omskom ostroge. Po mneniyu kritikov, imenno s etogo proizvedeniya nachinayetsya podlinnyy Dostoyevskiy s yego psikhologizmom i glubinoy obrazov. V "Zapi ..