Into his story of a simple but beautiful country girl's seduction by another man which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder, ... Zobraziť viac
The parties at Gatsby's Long Island mansion were legendarily glamorous affairs... Zobraziť viac
Stephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin, feeling different from the other boys... Zobraziť viac
Among the unforgettable descriptions are those of the Paris sewers, the battle of Waterloo and the fighting at the barricades during the July Revolution... Zobraziť viac
Henry James's heroine in Washington Square is the plain, shy heiress Catherine Sloper... Zobraziť viac
As a departure from Edith Wharton's customary novels of urbane New York life, Ethan Frome takes the reader to rural Massachusetts and the small, closed community of Starkfield... Zobraziť viac
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, ... Zobraziť viac
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the ... Zobraziť viac
