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Collected Short Stories 2 = Сборник рассказов 2: на англ.яз

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:24:06 +0000

Автор: Gaskell Elizabet Cleghorn, «Collected Short Stories II. Сборник рассказов II (на английском языке)»: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Collected Short Stories II introduces us to a set of characters who take turns to recount stories to one another during their weekly soiree. The Half Brothers is sad short story about brotherly love and a sheep-dog named Lassie.

Mr. Harrison’s Confessions = Признания Мистера Харрисона: на англ.яз

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:16:06 +0000

Автор: Gaskell E.C., «Mr. Harrison’s Confessions = Признания Мистера Харрисона: на англ.яз»: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Mr. Harrison’s Confessions is a story of country doctor William Harrison who is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the «wooing and winning» of women’s affections.

Collected Tales 1 = Сборник историй 1: на англ.яз

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:31:05 +0000

Автор: Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn, «Collected Tales I. Сборник историй I (на английском языке)»: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Collected Tales I contains five stories, including touching and emotional story Lizzie Leigh — a poignant tale about illicit love. It deals with the story of a young girl Lizzie who commits a sin and its repercussions. Gaskell brilliantly portraits the deep and true relations of a family.

Mary Barton = Мэри Бартон: кн. на англ.яз

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 06:20:44 +0000

Автор: Gaskell E.C., «Mary Barton = Мэри Бартон: кн. на англ.яз»: 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 her father, the embittered and courageous activist John Barton, Mary Barton (1848) powerfully dramatizes the class divides of the ‘hungry forties’ as personal tragedy.

North and South = Север и Юг: роман на англ.яз. Gaskell E.C.

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:32:06 +0000

Автор: Gaskell E.C., «North and South = Север и Юг: роман на англ.яз»: When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.

Lois the Witch = Лоис Ведьма: кн. на англ.яз

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 08:39:58 +0000

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell’s best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters.

Ruth = Руфь: кн. на англ.яз

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 08:39:58 +0000

Автор: Gaskell E.C., «Ruth = Руфь: кн. на англ.яз»: A fallen woman would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her Ruth. Overturning the conventional assumption that a woman once seduced is condemned to exclusion from respectable society, Gaskell draws a heroine whose emotional honesty, innate morality, and the love she shares with her illegitimate son are sufficient for redemption.

Sylvia’s Lovers = Поклонники Сильвии: кн. на англ.яз

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 08:39:58 +0000

Автор: Gaskell E.C., «Sylvia’s Lovers = Поклонники Сильвии: кн. на англ.яз»: Sylvia’s Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whaling-port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire where the sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants. The people of Monkshaven hate the French, but they live in greater and more immediate fear of the callous press-gang, who snatch sailors returning from a whaling trip before they have even spoken to their friends or families. The story of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men. One of them is a whaling harpooner named Charley Kinraid, whose charm and vivacity have captured the heart of Sylvia Robson. But Sylvia’s devoted cousin, Philip Hepburn, hopes to marry her himself…