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Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n... In this selection from Milton's great epic poem Paradise Lost, the fallen angels plot their revenge on Heaven after being banished to Hell — and Satan embarks on a perilous journey to discover and corrupt the new world God has created... Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.' When Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire and moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North of England, her whole world changes. As her sympathy for the town's mill workers grows, her sense of social injustice piques…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret`s ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill owner, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Mary's dilemma, and the moving portrayal of…