The extraordinary story of a soldier`s perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War, Gold Mountain is at once an enthrelling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land

Reacting against the sentimantality and moralism of the earliest English novels, Henry Fielding chose to creat a work whose main character contains all the complexities of a real human being: the foundling Tom Lones. Tom has been raised by the Squire Allworthy to love virtue, and he truly wants to do good. But Tom`s inability to control his temper and his hearty appetite for good, drink, and the opposite sex get him kicked out of Allworthy`s estate - and separated from his one real love, Sophia Western. So begins Tom`s journey from the English countryside to the teeming city of London. Along the way he meets a parade of colorful characters, enjoys a series of bawdy, comic adventures, eventually discovers his true parentage, triumphs over the villainous Blifil, and rejoins the beautiful Sophia

The book contains materials on American Poetry. It is a great collection of 20th century original poetry.

The book collected famous American poetry. Good opportunity to read in original.

The book will be of special interest for educators, parents, children`s rights advocates. Special focus is on children with disabilities

The book contains information and basic facts about DNA and genetics

The fiction book is about loneliness and how real friendship tackles with it.

The book is about human rights and human rights protection. Includes theory and practical cases. Will be of special use to human rights protectionists

The wings of the Dove dramatizes the conflict between ninteenth-century values and twentieth-century passions. Born to wealth and privilege, Kate Croy`s mother threw it all away to marry a panniless opium addict. After her mother`s depth Kate is offered an opportunity to return to the opulent lifestyle her mother gave up - on one condition

We meet young, free-spirited Rachel Vinrace abroad her father`s ship, the Euphrosyne, departing London for South America. Surrounded by a clutch of genteel companions - among them her aunt Helen, who judges Rachel to be "vacillating", "amotional", and "more than normally incompetent for her years" - Rachel displays a startling maturity when she finds her engagement to the writer Terence Hewet listing toward disaster. As she soon discovers, "tragedies come in the hungry hours"