British Literature

By William Shakespeare

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By Philippa Gregory

Spies, poison, and curses encompass her…. Is there someone she will be able to trust?

In The Kingmaker’s Daughter, bestselling writer Philippa Gregory provides a singular of conspiracy and a struggle to the dying for romance and gear on the courtroom of Edward IV of England.

The Kingmaker’s Daughter is the gripping tale of the daughters of the guy referred to as the “Kingmaker,” Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, the main robust wealthy person in fifteenth-century England. with no son and inheritor, he makes use of his daughters Anne and Isabel as pawns in his political video games, and so they develop as much as be influential gamers of their personal correct. during this novel, her first sister tale when you consider that The different Boleyn woman, Philippa Gregory explores the lives of 2 interesting younger women.

At the courtroom of Edward IV and his attractive queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a pleasant baby to develop into ever extra worried and determined while her father makes battle on his former neighbors. Married at age fourteen, she is quickly left widowed and fatherless, her mom in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy.

Anne manages her personal get away via marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, yet her selection will set her on a collision path with the overpowering strength of the royal relations and may fee the lives of these she loves so much on the earth, together with her valuable in simple terms son, Prince Edward. finally, the kingmaker’s daughter will in achieving her father’s maximum ambition.

By Iris Murdoch

A terrific yet deeply unsuitable guy struggles to earn absolution

Hilary Burde was once a emerging superstar in academia till a sad twist of fate plunged him and his mentor and rival, Gunnar Jopling, into 20 years of melancholy and guilt. Hilary, not able to beat his soreness, deserted his promising occupation for an unfulfilling task as a civil servant. yet at age 41, Hilary crosses paths back with Gunnar—initiating a chain of occasions that would switch their lives forever. 

Set opposed to a richly drawn backdrop of post-war London, A be aware Child is a gripping tale of ardour and the redemptive energy of affection.

By William Shakespeare

Antony, the soldier of Rome, and Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, fight with tragic outcomes opposed to the facility and authority of the rising Roman Empire.

By George Orwell

George Orwell’s recognized satire of the Soviet Union, within which “all animals are equivalent yet a few animals are extra equivalent than others.”

By William Makepeace Thackeray

Quittant l’Irlande à l. a. suite d’un duel qui tourne mal, Redmond Barry s’enrôle dans l’armée anglaise alors en guerre contre l. a. Prusse. Après avoir été fait prisonnier par l’ennemi, il sera contraint d’espionner un yes chevalier de Balibari pour le compte des Allemands. Coup de théâtre : celui-ci n’est autre que son oncle ! Tous deux prennent alors l. a. fuite et deviennent, avec succès et moyennant quelques tricheries, joueurs de cartes professionnels.

Ambitieux, Redmond parvient à se marier avec l. a. comtesse Lyndon, une riche veuve. Mais leur relation se révèle houleuse. En plus de dépenser sa fortune, Barry se comporte en mari tyrannique. Jeune arriviste débauché, libertin, il est l’archétype de l’opportuniste à los angeles recherche de los angeles gloire et de l’argent…

Dans un variety grinçant, le narrateur des fake Mémoires de Barry Lyndon décrit avec ironie les travers de los angeles haute société cosmopolite d’un XVIIIe siècle décadent.

En 1975, Stanley Kubrick healthy de cette oeuvre, qu’il tira d’un relatif oubli, une magistrale edition cinématographique.

By George Orwell

In 1984, London is a grim urban the place tremendous Brother is usually gazing you and the concept Police can virtually learn your brain. Winston is a guy in grave possibility for the straightforward cause that his reminiscence nonetheless features. Drawn right into a forbidden love affair, Winston unearths the braveness to affix a mystery progressive association referred to as The Brotherhood, devoted to the destruction of the social gathering. along with his cherished Julia, he risks his existence in a perilous fit opposed to the powers that be.

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By Jane Austen

«La agudeza y los angeles ironía permean l. a. narración desde las primeras páginas y por ello no hay lector que pueda resistirse al razonamiento, expuesto casi con sarcasmo en el segundo capítulo, por el que l. a. cuñada de Elinor y Marianne convence a su marido para que reduzca l. a. pensión de sus hermanastras a lo mínimo imprescindible. O a esa magistral simplicidad y sutileza con que retrata situaciones y paisajes, características que obligan a pensar en Jane Austen como una de las más grandes novelistas de todos los tiempos. Imprescindible desde esta obra primeriza.» Leah Bonnín, La tormenta en un vaso

«Ninguna de las dos tiene nada que decir; tú, porque no te comunicas, y yo, porque no escondo nada», le cube Marianne Dashwood a su hermana mayor Elinor en uno de los pasajes más célebres de Juicio y sentimiento (1811), los angeles primera novela que consiguió publicar Jane Austen. Lo no dicho, el secreto deliberado o impuesto, l. a. verdad oculta y l. a. mentira, el pacto de silencio dictado por l. a. lealtad o l. a. piedad, son en efecto los temas principales de esta novela que traza un cuadro tan hilarante como patético de las desventuras de dos hermanas casaderas, hijas de l. a. gentry pero apartadas –en su condición de mujeres- de l. a. fortuna widely used.

Sus tropiezos en el camino del matrimonio, a veces empujadas por los angeles mezquindad de sus propios parientes, las alegres presiones de sus vecinos o los mismos «principios» de su carácter y ethical, las llevan a conocer todos los extremos que el «terror a los angeles pobreza» o los estragos de una vida inútil pueden ocasionar en el destino de los hombres.Marianne, locuaz y ultrarromántica, y Elinor, prudente y reservada, componen una descompensada balanza de caracteres que finalmente se habrá de equilibrar. Ingeniosísima en su trama, cáustica en su pintura de ambientes y personajes, grave en su espíritu ethical, ésta es l. a. primera de las obras maestras de Jane Austen.

Jane Austen nació en 1775 en Steventon, séptima de los ocho hijos del rec-tor de los angeles parroquia. Educada principalmente por su padre, empezó a escribir de muy joven, para recreo de l. a. familia: una muestra de sus escritos juveniles, fantasiosos y humorísticos, se encuentra en Amor y amistad (ALBA CLÁSICA núm. XX), y, de una forma ya más elaborada, en Lady Susan y los Watson (ALBA CLÁSICA núm. XXXVII). A los veintitrés años envió a los editores el manuscrito de La abadía de Northanger (ALBA CLÁSICA núm. VII), que fue rechazado. Trece años después, en 1811, conseguiría publicar Juicio y sentimiento (ALBA CLÁSICA núm. LXXXVI), de l. a. que se hicieron dos ediciones, y a los angeles que siguieron Orgullo y prejuicio (1813; (ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. XLVI), Mansfield Park (1814; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. I) y Emma (1816; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. XLIX), que obtuvieron un gran éxito. Después de su muerte, acaecida prematuramente en 1817 y que le impidió concluir su novela Sanditon, aparecería Persuasión (1817; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. VIII) y, con ella, La abadía de Northanger, que no consiguió publicar en vida. Satírica, antirromántica, profunda y tan primorosa como mordaz, l. a. obra de Jane Austen nace toda ella de una estética necesidad de orden ethical. «La Sabiduría – escribió una vez- es mejor que el Ingenio, y a l. a. larga tendrá sin duda los angeles risa de su parte.»

By Iris Murdoch

 An previous guy struggles to make one final reference to his estranged son, sooner than it’s too late 

The aged Bruno understands he's not faraway from loss of life. one among his final needs is to touch his estranged son, Miles, whose marriage to an Indian girl drove a decades-long wedge among father and son. while Miles comes again into his father’s lifestyles, Bruno needs to confront his guilt, and his relatives needs to conquer the strain that grew in the course of his lengthy absence.

 Set opposed to a fascinating London backdrop, Murdoch’s advanced kinfolk drama is a poignant exploration of affection, regret, and the facility of emotional redemption.

By D. H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley's Lover used to be encouraged through the long-standing affair among Frieda, Lawrence's aristocratic German spouse, and an Italian peasant who finally grew to become her 3rd husband; Lawrence's fight with sexual impotence; and the conditions of his and Frieda's courtship and the early years in their marriage.

Constance Chatterley, married to an aristocrat and mine proprietor whose warfare wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, has an affair with Mellors, a gamekeeper, turns into pregnant, and considers leaving behind her husband. one of many seminal type novels of the century, it was once thought of flagrantly pornographic whilst first released in 1928. The ebook additionally exists in different, totally different types: The First girl Chatterley and John Thomas and girl Jane. Lawrence thought of Lady Chatterley's Lover to be definitive, and the single least prone to be prosecuted, and even though its early banning proved him fallacious, a well-known obscenity trial a few 3 many years after his loss of life in 1930 ultimately cleared it for wider dissemination.