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Arthur Dimmesdale stands as a classic study of a self divided; trapped by the rules of society, he suppresses his passion and disavows his lover, Hester, and their daughter, Pearl.

In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers – the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his p ..

‚I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.‘ The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe drew on his own unhappy experiences ..

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputa ..

Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of ..

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 ..