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Little Men. Or, Life at Plumfield With Jos Boys
Louisa May Alcott
Now married, the warm-hearted and fiesty Jo Bhaer (nee March) couldnt be happier. Jo, along with her husband Professor Friedrich Bhaer, operates the Plumfield Estate School, an unconventional school based on individuality and diversity. Plumfield is a haven for poor orphans which is attended by 12 adopted boy and Jos own two sons. Although Plumfield is a place of trust and warmth, the boys occasionally struggle to maintain good manners. Personal relationships are key to the school, as well as to the novel, and the lovable characters get up to plenty of scrapes and adventures, but in the end, even the troublesome among them find redemption in the love and support of the extended March family. Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jos Boys is the delightful unofficial sequel to Louisa May Alcotts Little Women, which is completed with Alcotts 1886 novel Jos Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to Little Men.
Wilkie Collins
These are Victorian melodramas set in England with a strong focus on the class system, but in the end thats what makes the stories so special. There are several common themes of Wilkie Collins, including the general theme of the return of a character presumed dead. Great for readers of Victorian fiction.
Louisa May Alcott
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcotts most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Four sisters are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother in a quiet Massachusetts town while their father serves as an army chaplain during the American Civil War. Here are independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg; or precocious and artistic Amy, the baby of the family. The charming story of these four little women and their wise and patient mother Marmee enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England was an instant success when first published in 1868 and has been adored for generations. Following the lives of the March sisters, the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. The novel has two sequels: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jos Boys (1871) and Jos Boys and How They Turned Out (1886).
Litwa za Witolda. Opowiadanie historyczne
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Ignacy Kraszewski, mistrz powieści historycznej, tym razem przenosi czytelnika w czasy średniowiecza. Opisuje relacje pomiędzy wielkim księciem litewskim Witoldem i założycielem polskiej dynastii Jagiellonów. Obaj władcy uwikłani są także politycznie w stosunki z rodzącą się potęgą Zakonu Krzyżackiego, która zaczyna zagrażać zarówno Rzeczpospolitej, jak i Księstwu Litewskiemu.
lombre des jeunes filles en fleurs
Marcel Proust
lombre des jeunes filles en fleurs est consacré la période de maturation du héros le premier amour, le désir dattirer lattention des filles, ils laiment bien; La premiere attente damitié et le premier ami du personnage principal, la premiere attente du voyage et le premier voyage. Les attentes et la réalité sont le theme principal du livre: comment un héros imagine son premier amour, son amitié, son voyage et comment les choses se passent dans la réalité et non dans limagination. Quest-ce quil éprouve vraiment des sentiments?
London Pride. Or, When the World Was Younger
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This is a story about a knight who lost his wife during childbirth and his two daughters. The eldest daughter Hyacinth with a family monastery in Paris and Angela in a Flemish monastery with an aunt. The cloisters and surroundings were like night and day. The story of the reunion of the sisters after several years apart. The sisters have different moral values, but their sisterly cares prevail until forbidden love paves the way for despair. The author does not disappoint the Gothic romantic reader and the end, be he sad, but not all together are hopeless in the readers mind.
B.M. Bower
Pioneering Western writer Bertha Muzzy Bower was herself the wife of a Montana rancher for a time, so she brings a wealth of personal experience and psychological insight to this gripping narrative that follows protagonist Valeria as she enters into marriage and struggles with the often-harsh reality of rural life. Val is cast into circumstances that test her temper, strength, and sanity. One of her few contacts with the outside world is a friend of her husbands whom she despises. Their relationship gradually changes as her husbands true character is slowly revealed to her. Kent watches Val very closely as she struggles with poverty and a drunken husband. He knows Val is worthy of more than her husband can give. Is he the man to do it?
Guy Boothby
Located in the imaginary country of Pannonia, the irresistible novel by Guy Newell Boothby Long Live the King gives readers a place in the front row of the hectic life of royalty. From decisions on the battlefield of life or death, which must be made in seconds, with thousands of soldiers hanging in the balance, to intense political negotiations in which every word and expression is important, and, of course, triumphs and trials of royal romance, this wide novel will surely capture the interest and attention of every reader.