Thomas Hardy's classic tale of a woman brave enough to defy convention: Now a major motion picture starring Carey MulliganSpirited, impulsive, and beautiful, Bathsheba Everdene arrives in Wessex to live with her aunt.
Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of World War IThe son of a prosperous farmer, Claude Wheeler's future is laid out for him as clear and monotonous as the Nebraska sky a few semesters at the local Christian college followed by marriage and a lifetime spent worrying about the price of wheat.
The acclaimed sequel to The Long Roll vividly dramatizes the final years of the Civil WarA Confederate artilleryman from Virginia, Richard Cleave was in Chancellorsville when Stonewall Jackson lost an arm and eventually his life to a bullet fired by one of his own men.
A brilliant, sharp-edged novel of the Jazz Age by its most famous chroniclerWith his impeccable lineage and Harvard education, twenty-five-year-old Anthony Patch is one of the sparkling lights of New York society.
A day trip to New Orleans to visit his family's spiritual advisor, Madame Robicheaux, reveals to Honesty, a 22-year deception by his family to conceal the truth about his birth mother, Francis "e;The Franchise"e; Batiste', and a plot to assassinate his entire family.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Dieses eBook: "Der Nachsommer (Ein Bildungsroman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
What would you have done if you were faced with a war that brought soldiers to your doorstep to displace you from you home and business, and family, and place of worship; a war that defied all reason and law; a war that was generated from the minds of psychopaths who were capable of taking over country after country until they took over the entire world?
When the prompter falls dead during the second act of Richard Wagner's Die Walkure during a matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera, as one can imagine, it causes quite a stir, especially when it is discovered that the deceased, a one time world famous Heldentenor has been poisoned.
Manfred, the lord of the castle of Otranto, has long lived in dread of an ancient prophecy: it's foretold that when his family line ends, the true owner of the castle will appear and claim it.
Ibsen's great social drama of a caged woman in the late nineteenth century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom.
Chekhov's great tragicomic eulogy for a passing way of life represents, according to Robert Brustein, "e;some kind of powerful culmination of all his dramas up to that time.
"e;As the straight-man narrator, observer, and regular butt of hundreds of hilarious trials and mishaps, Major Yeates never ceases to be surprised, is usually not amused, and can't stop himself from loving his Irish neighbors.
