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Inman leaves the horrors of the American Civil War and begins a long, dangerous journey home to Ada, the woman he loves. Along the way, he witnesses great poverty, cruelty, and violence. Will he ever see Ada again?

Das Buch schildert in Texten und Bildern das Leben und Schaffen der beruehmten deutschen Schriftstellerin Christa Wolf

It is a novel about people at work - working from inner motivation -which makes it both a social and historical document and a significant literary breakthrough.

Cranford is one of Mrs Gaskell"s most successful novels, largely it is such an affectionate portrait of the society she understood well.

It is a terrified novel of a man hunted by a Devil.

В романе описывается борьба индийского пролетариата против каторжных условий жизни и труда.

These stories bring such lofty preoccupations to bear on individuals and particular circumstances in ways which always illuminate both.

This book was a sensation when first published in 1821, and it has remained in print ever since. Remarkable for its pre-Freudian insights into the obscurer workings of the human mind, the Confessions has had a lasting impact on the writing of autobiography.

This book about nineteenth-century Russian pastoral life. Peasants and soldiers, servants and aristocrats: the whole world of Tolstoy"s later fiction appears before us here in glowing colours, painted with that vivid freshness and sharp observation which were to become the mature writer"s hallmarks.