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1At Large , Arthur Christopher Benson (1908)
What no doubt heightened the pleasure for me was that I had been passing through a somewhat dreary period. Things had been going wrong, had tied themselves into knots. Several people whose fortunes… 1317 руб2Crabbe , Alfred Ainger (1903)
On the arrival of the family at Parham, poor Crabbe discovered that even an accession of fortune had its attendant drawbacks. His son, George, records his own recollections (he was then a child of… 1308 руб3The Professor , Bronte Charlotte (2009)
The hero of Charlotte Bront 239; 191; 189;'s first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the… 522 руб4The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules , Ingelman-Sundberg Catharina (2014)
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules is an incredibly quirky, humorous and warm-hearted story about growing old disgracefully - and breaking all the rules along the way! 79-year-old Martha… 583 руб5Brief Loves That Live Forever , Makine Andrei (2014)
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of… 859 руб6Mr Bridge , Evan S. Connell (2012)
Walter Bridge, husband to India and father to three, is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The daily dramas of his life only serve to illuminate his prejudice, self-doubts and dreary existence … 569 руб7Lady Chatterley's Love , D. H. Lawrence (2011)
Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who is impotent. Oppressed by her dreary life, she is drawn to Mellors the gamekeeper. Breaking out against the constraints of… 1059 руб8Great Buildings of the World Modern Buildings , John Winter (1969)
When we look at the world around us, it is sometimes difficult to believe that our age has produced any great buildings at all. Medieval towns may have been squalid, Elizabethan architecture may have… 490 руб9Dracula , Bram Stoker (2016)
A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracu-la. A horror… 479 руб10An Utterly Impartial History of Britain , O'Farrell, John (2014)
Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at school. Back then 'The Origins of the Industrial Revolution' somehow seemed less compelling than the chance to test the bold… 1049 руб