В декабре 2019 года исполнилось 80 лет со дня премьеры в Атланте фильма «Унесенные ветром». Если бы не он, может, и не трогала бы так людские сердца история Скарлетт О’Хара и Ретта Батлера, может, не считали бы зрители величайшей несправедливостью их расставание, и может, не появились бы многочисленные продолжения романа. В предлагаемой версии перед вами предстанут попытки полюбившихся героев вновь найти себя и свою любовь. Смогут ли они быть вм ...
'My sandals were made to glide over the marble floor of the Palace of Mycenae, not to walk the road like a common market trader. Of course, as a princess, I was unused to walking. Only female slaves and whore are seen in public. Only female slaves and whores walk…' Electra is the final book in The Delphic Women trilogy. Electra is forced to flee her home after witnessing the shocking murder of her father, Agamemnon. But life outsi ...
Sorceress, Princess of Colchis, Securer of the Golden Fleece.<br /> <br />Her very name is a byword for infamy.<br /> <br />Legend has it that she murdered her own children for revenge.<br /> <br />But love in Ancient Greece was often a dangerous game; and legends are not always what they seem.<br /> <br />Medea, devoted wife of Jason, was also a loving mother, a loyal friend of Herakles and a brav ...
Bereft of family and friends, Lucy Snowe flees her empty life in England to seek independence and fulfillment in a wider world. Her gambit takes her to the Belgian town of Villette, where she secures a job teaching English to the fractious girls of Madame Beck's boarding school. Sensitive but resolute, Lucy struggles with feelings of isolation, and she despairs of her relationships with an English doctor and a haughty schoolmaster. Her dile ...
How could he possibly know that she, a complete stranger, would inexplicably affect his life and be with him forever, whether she was at his side or not? This epic story traces two lives across decades and continents. Drawn together in Russia on a romantic Black Sea beach, Serge and Janna fall headlong in love and rush into marriage. <br><br>Their divorce, months later, leads to years of "if only…" Pressured apart b ...
Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled.<br><br>This edition includes:<br>* 12 tinted line drawings by C. E. Brock (1898)<br>* 24 watercolors by C. E. Brock (1909)<br>* 39 black and white drawin ...
How could he possibly know that she, a complete stranger would inexplicably affect his life and be with him forever, whether she was at his side or not? <br><br>A whirlwind romance on a romantic Black Sea beach turns into a quick marriage for Serge and Janna, only to have family, fate and foolishness tear them apart. If that weren't enough, the politics of post-Soviet Russia puts them on different continents. Never quite comi ...
It was a time of chivalry and grace but also a time of turmoil in antebellum America. Fletcher Stedman is the crown prince of Virginia's famous Seabrook Plantation. The handsome rakehell is a man of dreams with headstrong passions and an ingenious mind. Suddenly his dreams are shattered and his life ripped from him by a jealous cousin, and Fletcher is put to the test fighting for his life and his sanity. Kyndee Brock always dreams of mar ...
Ana Hughes always considered herself unlucky until the day her father announced she was to be a duchess. Saved from the shelf – and with a high title, to boot. Short of becoming a princess, there is nothing any better than that.But this glittering gold is misleading. Ana can't help but feel that she is nothing but a substitute to her husband. ...
