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Mr. Lewisham is an ambitious young teacher who has grand plans for his future. Indeed he has written up a Plan or Schema as he calls it and has committed himself to daily study to improve himself. We follow him as he moves to London and becomes a student. He also gets married and the later part of the novel is about how his naive beliefs about himself and the world survive this transition. „Love and...

A young girl named Fanny Price comes to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram. Fanny’s family is quite poor; her mother, unlike her sister Lady Bertram, married beneath her, and Fanny’s father, a sailor, is disabled and drinks heavily. Fanny is abused by her other aunt, Mrs. Norris, a busybody who runs things at Mansfield Park , the Bertrams’ estate. The Bertram daughters,...

This novel is a great document illustrating the anticipation of comings of the 20th century. This early H.G. Wells’ tale is about a 20 year old man who has a job as a Drapers Assistant, a job which he is probably too old for. Loaded with poor self esteem and a second class status, poor Mr. Hoopdriver takes a ten day holiday. On this holiday he falls for a young socialite named Jessie who is rebelling...

Przełom XIX i XX wieku. Cora Cash jest jedyną dziedziczką ogromnej fortuny, co czyni ją najbogatszą panną w Ameryce. Jest niewiarygodnie piękna i uprzywilejowana. Wychowała się w domu wzorowanym na Wersalu, a na jej debiutancki bal przyszło ośmiuset gości. Jest pewna, że każde drzwi stoją przed nią otworem. Jednak gdy matka zabiera ją do Anglii, by tam znaleźć dla niej odpowiednio urodzonego narzeczonego,...