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Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, „Tender is the Night“ is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment.

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „Tess of the D'Urbervilles“ by Thomas Hardy. "I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and t ..

Für Hobbitologen und solche, die es werden wollen: die große kommentierte Ausgabe.§Der komplette Text des „Hobbit“ mit Hintergründen aus dem Tolkien-Legendarium und reichem Bildmaterial, kommentiert von Tolkien-Forscher Douglas A. Anderson.An annotat ..

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in ..

Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey through the English waterways full of anecdotes, ..

Lewis Carroll wrote ‚Alice through the Looking Glass‘ in 1871, five years after his more famous ‚Alice's Adventures in Wonderland‘. Partaking of the same surreal and dream-like quality, the book tells the story of Alice's magical trip through her li ..

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802, 701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon re ..

Title: Walden; or Life in the Woods.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all know ..

John Rowland, a disgraced former Royal Navy lieutenant, has taken a job as a lowly deck hand aboard the largest ship ever to have sailed, the Titan. One night in deep fog, the Titan strikes a gigantic iceberg and sinks almost immediately. Written in ..

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „Wuthering Heights“ by Emily Bronte. „May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then“. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is ..

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 ..