As the novel opens, Constance Chatterly finds herself trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to a rich aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent. After a brief but unsatisfying affairs with a playwright, Lady Chatterley enjoys an extremely passionate relationship with Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on the family estate. As Lady Chatterley falls in love with Mellors, she moves from the heartless, bloodless world of the intelligentsia and aristocracy into a vital and profound connection rooted in sexual fulfillment

Many new readers of Paradise Lost may be tempted to agree with Victorian critic Sir Walter Raleigh`s notorious description of the poem as a "monument to dead ideas"

Called the most widely read English novel of the twentieth century, D.H.Lawrence`s largely autobiographical Sons and Lovers tells the story of Paul Morel, a young artisit growing into manhood in a British working-class community near the Nottingham coalfields

Thomas Hardy`s first masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit of drunken rage, sells his wife and baby daughter to a stranger at a country fair.

The Virginian`s characters include: the hero, tall, taciturn, and unflappable, confident in his skills, careful of his honor, mysterious in his background; the heroin, the "schoolmarm from the East," dedicated to civilizing the untamed town but willing to adapt to its ways - up to a point; and the villain, who is a liar, a thief, a killer, and worst of all, a coward beneath his bluster

The book concers the time during the French revolution

First published in 1840, the book convincingly recreates life at sea - the beauty and adventure, but also the cold, danger, and backbreaking labor

This book provides learners of English with high-interest reading passages, many of them adapted from authentic sources. These passages act as springboards into reading comprehension activities, reading skills development, vocabulary building, grammatical analysis and practice, and thought-provoking discussion and writing

This book provides learners of English with high-interest reading passages, many of them adapted from authentic sources. These passages act as springboards into reading comprehension activities, reading skills development, vocabulary building, grammatical analysis and practice, and thought-provoking discussion and writing