Verlag: Greenbooks Editore
The novel is set in a village in Puritan New England. The main character is Hester Prynne, a young woman who has borne a child out of wedlock. Hester believes herself a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, arrives in New England very much alive and conceals his identity.
Agnes Grey is a classic fiction novel by Anne Bronte.Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister who faces financial ruin. Agnes decides to take up one of the only professions available to Victorian gentlewomen and become a governess. Drawing on her own, similar experiences, Anne Bronte portrays the desperation of such a position. Agnes' livelihood depends on the whim of spoiled children, and she witnesses how wealth and status can degrade social values.Zum Buch
A Room With A View by E.M. Forster is at its heart a classic love story, played out within the strict social and class structures of Edwardian England. The author explores many aspects of his contemporary society, but the story could have been written in any time, as the themes are universal. At times the prose is magically descriptive, the dialogue razor sharp. Lucy, the heroine, must find herself, as well as confront the restrictions and expectations of her upbringing in society, and her family. Narrated by Graham Stuart, this book comes alive and transports the listener totally into the scenes.Zum Buch
Stacy Aumonier's classic tale tracking a series of initially mundane events which trigger a series of ever more extraordinary happenings. A father, scolding his son for stealing apples, throws a piece of bacon rind out of the window, sparking a chain of events which bring down the government.Zum Buch
A talisman with a twist. Three wishes it grants, dire consequences it holds for challenging fate.Zum Buch
Godwin Peak leaves his lowly Midlands home to carve out a career as a journalist in London. His poverty and origins hamper him at every turn, but at last one of his articles - attacking the hypocrisy of the Victoria Church - is accepted. Then catastrophically, Peak falls in love with devout well-born Sidwell Warricombe. To be acceptable to her, both socially and ideologically, his only course is to enter the Church.Zum Buch
"Through a Microscope: Some Moral Reflections" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic.This dabbler person has recently disposed of his camera and obtained a microscope-a short, complacent-looking implement it is, of brass-and he goes about everywhere now with little glass bottles in his pocket, ready to jump upon any stray polly-woggle he may find, and hale it home and pry into its affairs.Zum Buch
