A timeless tale of switched identities, Twain`s story revolves around the miserably poor Tom Canty "of Offal Court", who is lucky enough to trade his rags for the gilded robes of England`s prince, Edward Tudor

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The book collected excepts from "Freedom Writers Diaries", the way, teacher of English - Erin Gruwell laid for helping children to tackle with violence.

The Last of the Mohicans is the second and most popular of James Feminor Cooper`s five Leatherstocking Tales. The brave, skillful loner (Hawkeye), who rejects "white" civilization while aiding the settles who spread it; "the noble savage" (Chingachgook) who becomes his deepest friend; a plot involving chases, epic battles, and lovely heroines (Cora and Alice Munro) menaced by an Indian renegade (Magua); and the central role played by the most important "character" of all, the awesomely beautiful but dangerous wilderness

Perhaps the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri`s all-encompessing vision of the three realism of Cristian afterlife. Joyfully anticipating heaven, Purgatorio continues the poet`s journey from the darkness of Hell toward the divine light of Paradise

The novel begins by introducing the richest family in town, the Ambersons have everything money can buy - and more

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 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"

At this romantic triangle`s apex stands the vibrantly beautiful Verena Tarrant, an intense public speaker who arouses the passions of two very different people: Oliver Chancellor and Basil Ransom