Vintage books North and South Гаскелл Элизабет

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Милтон - шумный северный городок, закопченный, расположенными вокруг хлопчатобумажными фабриками, на которых работает большинство его жителей. Приехав из сельской идиллии на юге, Маргарет Хейл поначалу шокирована социальными беспорядками и бедностью, которые она обнаруживает в своем новом родном городе. Однако по мере того, как она начинает дружить со своими соседями и развиваются ее бурные отношения с владельцем фабрики Джоном Торнтоном, она начинает видеть Милтон в другом свете • «Север и Юг» — роман викторианской писательницы Элизабет Гаскелл, впервые опубликованный в виде книги в 1855 году • Книга на английском языке • 'A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting examination of changing social conscience' Joanna Trollope • Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants подробнее

Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory workers are engaged in an acrimonious strike. Against this backdrop of social unrest, the relationship between the two is tumultuous, and it takes further upheaval and tragedy for them to see each other in a different light • First serialized in Dickens’s magazine Household Words in the same period as Hard Times, North and South shares its famous counterpart’s concern with the inequality and hardship generated by the Industrial Revolution in northern England, while at the same time creating one of the nineteenth century’s most memorable and engaging female protagonists in Margaret Hale

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Vintage books Wives and Daughters Гаскелл Элизабет

This tender story of parents, children and step-children, mistakes and secrets was Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel and is considered her masterpiece • Set in the watchful society of Hollingford, this is a warm tale of love and longing. Molly Gibson is the spirited, loyal daughter of the local doctor. Their peaceful close-knit home is turned upside down when Molly's father decides to remarry. Whilst Molly struggles to adjust to her snobbish stepmother, she forms a close relationship with her glamorous new stepsister Cynthia. The strength of this friendship is soon tested as their lives become entwined with Squire Hamley and his two sons

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Penguin North and South Гаскелл Элизабет

Столь же актуальная сейчас, как и в момент первой публикации, книга Элизабет Гаскелл "Север и юг" умело вплетает захватывающую историю любви в столкновение между погоней за прибылью и гуманитарными идеалами • Когда ее отец покидает Церковь из-за угрызений совести, Маргарет Хейл вынуждена покинуть свой уютный дом в Хэмпшире и переехать со своей семьей на север Англии. Поначалу испытывая отвращение к уродству своего нового окружения в промышленном городе Милтон, Маргарет осознает бедность и страдания местных работников фабрики и развивает в себе страстное чувство социальной справедливости. Это усугубляется ее бурными отношениями с владельцем фабрики и человеком, сделавшим себя сам, Джоном Торнтоном, поскольку их яростное противостояние из-за его обращения со своими работниками маскирует более глубокое влечение

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Vintage books The Cranford Chronicles Гаскелл Элизабет

In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of migrant workers and the breakdown of law and order. The arrival of handsome young Doctor Harrison causes yet further agitation not just because of his revolutionary methods but also because of his effect on the hearts of the ladies. Meanwhile Miss Matty Jenkyns nurses her own broken heart after she was forced to give up the man she loved when she was a young girl

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Vintage books Pride and Prejudice Остен Джейн

Элизабет Беннет, полная жизнерадостности и остроумия, ведет тихую деревенскую жизнь вместе со своими четырьмя сестрами. К радости их матери, преисполненной решимости найти своим дочерям подходящую партию, завидные женихи мистер Дарси и мистер Бингли приезжают по соседству, принося с собой танцы, богатство - и возможности. Поначалу не впечатленная надменным видом Дарси, Элизабет клянется не иметь с ним ничего общего. Но по мере того, как она совершает свои собственные ошибки в суждениях, пара начинает понимать друг друга и приходит к пониманию того, что первое впечатление не всегда такое, каким кажется • "Гордость и предубеждение", самая любимая повесть Джейн Остин о браке и обществе в георгианской Англии, продолжает радовать современных читателей своей социальной комедией, хорошо прорисованными персонажами и тонкими нюансами

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Vintage books Elizabeth and her German Garden фон Арним Элизабет

Meet Elizabeth and discover there is no greater happiness to be found than when lost in a wilderness of a garden, with bird cherries, lilacs, hollyhocks and lilies crowding the vision. This is her sanctuary from a host of unreasonable demands, whether from the Man of Wrath (husband), babies, servants and (worst of all horrors) house guests. Plunge into her charming diaries and be warned: you won't be able to remain indoors

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Vintage books Luka and the Fire of Life Рушди Салман

A glittering, magical fable, the follow-up to the bestselling Haroun and the Sea of Stories • On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on a journey through the Magic World, encountering a slew of phantasmagorical obstacles along the way, to steal the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly dangerous task • With Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie proved that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables, and it proved to be one of his most popular books with readers of all ages

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Vintage books Fattypuffs and Thinifers Моруа Андре

'Two Surface-dwellers. Two! He’s a Fattypuff and you’re a Thinifer. There’s no doubt about it!’ • This is the tale of two brothers. Edmund is a little on the plump side and Terry is a bit of a rake. When they discover the countries under the Earth they are divided and sent to the warring kingdoms of the Fattypuffs and the Thinifers. The Fattypuffs eat hourly with light snacks in between. The Thinifers like nothing more than discipline and work six days a week. Whether you are a jolly Fattypuff or a driven Thinifer you’ll be rooting for the brothers to bring peace to the countries under the Earth • Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can take the quiz to find out if you’re a Fattypuff or a Thinifer! • Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives

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Vintage books War and Turpentine Hertmans Stefan

Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New York Times • Shortly before his death, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather Urbain Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the detailed memories of his life. He grew up in poverty around 1900, the son of a struggling church painter who died young, and went to work in an iron foundry at only 13. Afternoons spent with his father at work on a church fresco were Urbain’s heaven; the iron foundry an inferno • During the First World War, Urbain was on the front line confronting the invading Germans, and ever after he is haunted by events he can never forget. The war ends and he marries his great love, Maria Emelia, but she dies tragically in the 1919 flu epidemic

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Vintage books Truth and Consequences Lurie Alison

'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books • Alan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum, demanding and resentful. His wife Jane has to do everything for him - fetching, carrying, shopping, cooking, even dressing and undressing him. Sometimes she longs for escape • Delia is a writer and researcher specialising in fairy tales - she is, in her own estimation, a 'Great Artist'. Her husband, Henry, manages her every need making certain Delia gets everything she desires including spectacular doses of adulation • Can Delia coax Alan out of his grumpiness? Can Henry stop Jane feeling guilty? Can the two couples break out of their fixed roles?

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Vintage books Cat and Mouse Грасс Гюнтер

A powerful story set in war-torn Danzig about a teenager's rise from clown to hero by Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass • To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple - source of both discomfort and distress - fourteen year old Joachim Mahlke turns himself into athlete and ace diver. Soon he is known to his peers and his nation as 'The Great Mahlke'. But to his enemies, he remains a target. He is different and doomed in a country scarred by the war • Cat and Mouse was first published in 1961, two years after Gunter Grass' controversial and applauded masterpiece, The Tin Drum. Once again Grass turns his attention on Danzig. With a subtle blend of humour and power, Cat and Mouse ostensibly relates the rise of Mahlke from clown to hero. But Mahlke's outlandish antics hide the darkness at the heart of a nation torn by Nazi violence, the war and its aftermath

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Vintage books Frances and Bernard Bauer Carlene

It is not love at first sight for Frances and Bernard • She finds him faintly ridiculous while he sees her as aloof. But after that first meeting, Bernard writes Frances a letter which changes everything and soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can alter the course of lives. They find their way to New York and discover cramped West Village kitchens, rowdy cocktail parties stocked with the sharp-witted and glamorous, taxis that can take you anywhere at all and long talks along the Hudson River as the lights of the Empire State Building blink on above • Irresistibly witty and deeply moving, Frances and Bernard is a story of kindred spirits and the people who help us discover who we are

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