Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale.
Mrs Gaskell's finest social novel is also the powerfully moving story of the developing relationship between southern-born Margaret Hale and John Thornton, the young northern mill-owner.
V nastojaschem izdanii vpervye na russkom jazyke publikuetsja roman Elizabet Gaskell "Sever i Jug" - istorija ljubvi, rasskazannaja v luchshikh traditsijakh viktorianskoj literatury.
Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors.
Lucy is recovering from an operation in a New York hospital when she wakes to find her estranged mother sitting by her bed. They have not seen one another in years.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in life.
1944. Kathrin Mändler tritt eine Stelle als Krankenschwester an und meint, endlich ihren Platz im Leben gefunden zu haben. Als die junge Frau kurz darauf dem charismatischen Arzt Karl Landmann begegnet, fühlt sie sich unweigerlich zu ihm hingezogen.
As the only woman in her office, Ms Shibata is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her coworkers' dirty cups - because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her.
Je suis un libre écrivain qui n'a eu qu'une passion dans sa vie, celle de la vérité, qui s'est battu pour elle sur tous les champs de bataille. (...) j'ai servi mon pays par la plume, de tout mon courage, de toute ma force de travail et de bonne foi.
Germinal est le récit d'une gréve de mineurs sous le Second Empire, mais également de leurs souffrances et de leurs amours, de leurs révoltes et de leurs espoirs, de leur fraternité et de leurs dissensions.