Following her marriage to Michael Mont, Fleur Forsyte throws herself into the Roaring 20s with the rest of London and takes life as it comes. But her marriage is haunted by the ghost of a past love affair, and however vibrant Fleur appears, those closest to her sense her unhappiness. Michael, devoted to Fleur but not blind to her faults, is determined to stand by her through anything. Will their marriage last, and just how much can Michael forgi ...
Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, «I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.» In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as «Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich.» Emma, however, is also rather spoiled; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; and she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives and is often mistaken about the meanings of others' ...
'Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady' tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, and is one of the longest novels in the English language. Clarissa Harlowe is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently and now desires to become part of the aristocracy. Their original plan was to concentrate the wealth and lands of the Harlowes into the p ...
'Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady' tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, and is one of the longest novels in the English language. Clarissa Harlowe is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently and now desires to become part of the aristocracy. Their original plan was to concentrate the wealth and lands of the Harlowes into the p ...
Ujawszy sie za uderzona przez policjanta obca dziewczyna, student Misza trafia do wiezienia, gdzie zadziwia wszystkich usmiechem i pogoda ducha.W miare uplywu czasu zaczyna jednak coraz glebiej zastanawiac sie nad systemem, w ktorym kazdy jest albo oprawca, albo ofiara. Slucha ponurych opowiesci zastraszonych, zobojetnialych straznikow, mocno przezywa okrucienstwo wspolwiezniow wobec najslabszych i czuje, ze to zamkniete, patologiczne srodowisko ...
