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John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. This is a great story about tragic love that turned over the life of patrician. Love is a passion, which the light doesn't allow. Shame awaits the lovers who dared to resist the cold morals of high society. How to avoid the impending tragedy?

John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions

John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. "Fraternity" is his early satire of middleclass complacency and artistic aspiration. This work stands as one of his best novels outside "The Forsyte Saga". It is the story of a bohemian upper-class love triangle, and of a mystic tract

Frank Cowperwood has moved to Chicago with new wife Aileen. His plan is to take over the street-railway system in the process bankrupting opponents with political allies. The Titan follows Cowperwood through the trials of realizing his dream, marital upheavals and social banishment

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

John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. In this final volume of "The Forsyte Chronicles" Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. Galsworthy's portrayal of the effect of political change on individuals show him as a great social novelist as well as the author of one of the most gripping family sagas ever written

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. Filled with supernatural events, horrific scientific experiments, and bizarre events, "Tales of Mystery" is an excellent opportunity to discover another side of author's ability to immerse and surprise

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales" is the first volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like "The Last Galley", "The Contest" and "Through the Veil."

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales" is the second volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like "De Profundis", "Out of the Running" and "The Lord of Falconbridge"

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. Filled with supernatural events, horrific scientific experiments, and bizarre events, "Tales of Mystery" is an excellent opportunity to discover another side of author's ability to immerse and surprise

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "Tales of Terror" is the collection of six gripping horror stories, such as "The Horror of the Heights", "The New Catacomb" and "The Case of Lady Sannox"

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 GaskelPs best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters. The Short Stories II is a beautiful collection of five stories, including Christmas Storms and Sunshine - beautiful and heart-warming Christmas tale