VANITY FAIR

Autor:
William Thackeray

Cena: 268.00din

Opis:
Vanity Fair, Thackeray's panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of English society, was published in 1847 but set during the Napoleonic Wars. It chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native

MRS DALLOWAY

Autor:
Virginia Woolf

Cena: 268.00din

Opis:
On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a grand party that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers, observing life, her thoughts are in the past, and she remembers the time when she was as young as her own daughter Elizabeth;

MOLL FLANDERS

Autor:
Daniel Defoe

Cena: 201.00din

Opis:
Born and abandoned in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is forced to make her own way in life. She duly embarks on a career that includes husband-hunting, incest, bigamy, prostitution and pick-pocketing, until her crimes eventually catch up with her. One of the earliest and most vivid female narrators in

THE MOONSTONE

Autor:
Wilkie Collins

Cena: 201.00din

Opis:
The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that

THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER STORIES

Autor:
Oscar Wilde

Cena: 268.00din

Opis:
These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed; 'The Selfish Giant', who learned to love little children; 'The Star Child', who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents. . . . Often whimsical and sometimes

FRANKENSTEIN

Autor:
Mary Shelley

Cena: 268.00din

Opis:
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story ofFrankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink.

THE SECRET AGENT

Autor:
Joseph Conrad

Cena: 201.00din

Opis:
In the only novel Conrad set in London, "The Secret Agent" communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist

MOONFLEET

Autor:
John Meade Falkner

Cena: 268.00din

Opis:
Moonfleet (1898) begins as a mystery and an adventure story, a tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. What will be the outcome of the conflict between smugglers and revenue men? How can the hero, John Trenchard, discover the secret of Colonel John Mohune's treasure? As the

THE CANTERBURY TALES

Autor:
Geoffrey Chaucer

Cena: 201.00din

Opis:
Chaucer's tale of his motley band of travellers on their pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket have become legendary and still represent, in John Dryden's words, "God's plenty." The Canterbury Tales, compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer's

HARD TIMES

Autor:
Charles Dickens

Cena: 268.00din

Opis:
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity'