In the 1840s, a young woman is employed as governess to two children in an English country house. The children are beautiful and charming, and – for a while – the young woman thinks her position is both easy and pleasant. Then she... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children.... Zobraziť viac
Henry James's heroine in Washington Square is the plain, shy heiress Catherine Sloper... Zobraziť viac
Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog... Zobraziť viac
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective in the world. The hero of 56 short stories and four novels, he is so convincing that letters still arrive at 221b Baker Street seeking his help, and when it was thought that he had died... Zobraziť viac
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea... Zobraziť viac
