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The final novel by the acclaimed writer places heroine Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity and deep emotion, against the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England.Persuasion By Jane AustenOf all Jane Austens great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance. Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is Austens most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Annes family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?

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Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books.These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies.We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Victorian Literature.- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.- Tess of the Durbervilles by Thomas Hardy.- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called Heart of Africa. Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlows story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between what Conrad calls "the greatest town on earth", London, and Africa as places of darkness.Tess of the dUrbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891, then in book form in three volumes in 1891, and as a single volume in 1892. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly Hardys fictional masterpiece, Tess of the dUrbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England.Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackerays interest in deconstructing his eras conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel.This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.

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This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poes greatest writings, including novels, short stories and poems such as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado".This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where youll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

One of the pioneers of modern detective literature, the English writer Wilkie Collins is considered to be a master of intrigue, who can combine mystery, detective and love in his works.The novel "Woman in White" is based on a fascinating plot about a crime that was conceived and implemented for the sake of money. The arts teacher meets a mysterious girl in a white dress on the road. A frightened and slightly confused stranger begs him to help her to get to London.

War and Peace is an epic novel by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy that describes the Russian society during the era of wars against Napoleon in 18051812.The main topic of the novel is historic destiny of Russian people in the Patriotic War in 1812. There are more than 550 characters in the novel, both fictional and historical. Tolstoy depicts the best his heroes with their whole heart-warming complexity, unstoppable searches for truth and desire for self-improvement. Like these are Andrei, Pierre, Natasha and Princess Maria. The negative heroes lack soul development, dynamics and movement (e.g. Helene and Anatole).The main idea of the novel, as Tolstoy says himself, is "idea of the people". In Tolstoys understanding, people are the main motive power of the history, carrier of the best human qualities. Main heroes travel their distance to people (Pierre in the Battle of Borodino, Bolkonsky was named "our Prince" by soldiers). Tolstoys nonpareil is shown in the character of Platon Karataev. Natasha Rostova is an ideal of feminine beauty. Kutuzov and Napoleon are moral poles of the novel: "There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, kindness or truth.""What is needed for happiness? Calm family life with a possibility to be good to people." (L.N.Tolstoy)

Baseado na passagem bíblica de Lucas 5.1-11, cujo objetivo central é a convocação dos primeiros discípulos do Mestre, o pastor Renan Di Melo traz uma análise, em especial, do chamado de Simão Pedro.

Charles Dickens is the greatest writer of the Victorian era who became the classic of English literature while still being alive. This book contains the cream of authors creations. Here can be found an amusing novel about the adventures of English gentlemen The Pickwick Papers and fascinating story Great Expectations about wealth that came upon a young apprentice Pip. The book is garnished with such novels as Oliver Twist which is about a young vagrant who unexpectedly finds relatives and David Copperfield that describes the power of human will in overcoming any difficulties on the way to happiness. Dickens can be called one of the most human loving authors, he teaches the reader to be sincerely happy or sad. To be sad because of the horrible misery the characters of his books feel, to be happy due to kind and soft humour inseparable with the narration of his characters life adventures.

Butler Parker ist ein Detektiv mit Witz, Charme und Stil. Er wird von Verbrechern gerne unterschatzt und das hat meist unangenehme Folgen. Der Regenschirm ist sein Markenzeichen, mit dem auch seine Gegner ofters mal Bekanntschaft machen. Diese Krimis haben eine besondere Art ihre Leser zu unterhalten. Diesen Titel gibt es nur als E-Book."Sie haben sich naturlich wieder mal verfahren", rasonierte Lady Simpson grollend und deutete auf das Schlo jenseits des schmalen Fluarms. "Die letzte Trauerfeier durfte dort vor ein paar hundert Jahren stattgefunden haben.""Mylady sehen meine bescheidene Wenigkeit konsterniert", raumte Butler Parker ein."Das ist kein besonderes Schlo, Mister Parker, das ist eine Ruine.""Wenn Mylady gestatten, mochte ich mir erlauben, mich Myladys Eindruck und Feststellung anzuschlieen.""Und was jetzt?" Agatha Simpson, gro, stattlich, leicht reizbar und sehr unternehmungslustig, erinnerte rein auerlich an die Walkure einer antiquierten Wagner-inszenierung. Sie trug eines ihrer ausgebeulten, ungemein bequemen Tweed-Kostume und einen Hut, der eine abenteuerliche Kreuzung aus Sudwester und Topfhut darstellte."Mit Myladys Erlaubnis mochte ich noch mal die Einladung zur Trauerfeier studieren", antwortete Parker, ohne sich aus der Ruhe bringen zu lassen.Parker, ein Mann undefinierbaren Alters, mit ausdruckslosem Pokergesicht, stoppte sein hochbeiniges Monstrum und griff in die Innentasche seines schwarzen Zweireihers.Josuah Parker war ein Butler, wie man ihn eigentlich nur noch in Filmen oder auf dem Bildschirm erlebte. Er schien das Relikt langst vergangener Zeiten zu sein. Seine Hoflichkeit war irritierend und verleitete dazu, ihn zu unterschatzen. Zu seiner schwarzen Melone trug er einen rabenschwarzen Anzug, einen Eckkragen und einen schwarzen Binder. Sein altvaterlich gebundener Regenschirm, von dem er sich so gut wie nie trennte, befand sich in einer speziellen Halterung neben seinem Sitz.Den Wagen, den er steuerte, konnte man wirklich nur noch als Monstrum bezeichnen. Es handelte sich um ein uraltes Londoner Taxi mit betont rechteckigem Aufbau und harten Kanten. Dieses Taxi war allerdings nach Parkers eigenwilligen

Diese beliebte Romanserie der groartigen Schriftstellerin Patricia Vandenberg uberzeugt durch ihr klares Konzept und seine beiden Identifikationsfiguren: Denise von Schoenecker verwaltet das Erbe ihres Sohnes Nick, dem spater einmal, das Kinderheim Sophienlust gehoren wird.Denise von Schoenecker bog in den Park von Gut Schoeneich ein. Zum Gluck hatte sie das Tempo schon gedrosselt, denn Henrik, ihr neunjahriger Sprossling, flitzte ungeniert uber die Fahrbahn."Mutti, Mutti! Hast du Jens gesehen?"Kopfschuttelnd brachte Denise ihr Auto zum Stehen. Sie wollte schimpfen, als sie aber in Henriks aufgeregtes Gesicht sah, dessen Haarschopf wieder einmal wild in die Hohe stand, fragte sie nur: "Wer ist Jens?""Mein Freund", lautete die Antwort. Vorwurfsvoll ruhten Henriks graue Augen auf der Mutter. "Erinnerst du dich nicht? Ich habe dir doch schon viel von ihm erzahlt. Seit Schulbeginn geht er in meine Klasse. Er ist mit seinen Eltern wahrend der Sommerferien nach Wildmoos gezogen. Er wohnt in einem tollen Bungalow. Ich war schon oft bei ihm. Heute kommt er nun zu mir. Ich habe ihm versprochen, ihm die Pferdekoppeln zu zeigen." Henrik nahm sich kaum Zeit, Luft zu holen, so schnell sprudelte er alles hervor. "Hattest du Jens wirklich vergessen?"Denise hatte es. Jetzt fiel ihr auch wieder ein, dass sie Henrik fur diesen Nachmittag Kuchen und Sahne versprochen hatte. Da musste sie schnell Martha Bescheid sagen.Henrik erriet ihre Gedanken. "Du hast es vergessen", stellte er fest. "Aber mach dir keine Sorgen, ich habe Martha bereits heute fruh, bevor ich in die Schule ging, Bescheid gesagt. Ich kann mich doch vor Jens nicht blamieren.""Du bist wirklich ein gescheiter Junge. Auerdem glaube ich deinen Freund gesehen zu haben. Jedenfalls uberholte ich einen Jungen, der auf einem Fahrrad fuhr." Denise wollte Henrik uber den Haarschopf streichen, aber sie

Seit uber 40 Jahren ist Mami die erfolgreichste Mutter-Kind-Reihe auf dem deutschen Markt! Buchstablich ein Qualitatssiegel der besonderen Art, denn diese wirklich einzigartige Romanreihe ist generell der Mastab und einer der wichtigsten Wegbereiter fur den modernen Familienroman geworden. Weit uber 2.600 erschienene Mami-Romane zeugen von der Popularitat dieser Reihe.

Around the World in 80 Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne.In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 wager (the approximate equivalent of 2 million in 2016) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Vernes most acclaimed works.The story starts in London on Tuesday, 1 October, 1872.Phileas Fogg is a rich British gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Forster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 F (29 C) instead of 86 F (30 C), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement.

A Romance of Wastdale is a novel by the British writer A.E.W. Mason.In 1921 it was turned into a film of the same name directed by Maurice Elvey and made by Stoll Pictures, Britains biggest studio of the silent era.A.E.W. Mason (7 May 1865 22 November 1948) was an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christies famous Hercule Poirot.His prolific output in short stories and novels were frequently made and remade into films during his lifetime; though many of the silent versions have been lost or forgotten, the Korda productions of Fire Over England (1937) and The Four Feathers (1939) remain enduring classics of British cinema.

Armadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins.Armadale is the third of the four great novels produced by Collins during the 1860s: after The Woman in White (185960) and No Name (1862), and before The Moonstone (1868).In the German spa town of Wildbad, the Scotchman Mr. Neal is asked to transcribe the deathbed confession of Allan Armadale; his story concerns his murder of the man he had disinherited (also called Allan Armadale), who had subsequently married the woman he was betrothed to under false pretensions. Under Allans instructions, the confession is left to be opened by his son once he comes of age.Nineteen years later, the son of the murdered man, also Allan Armadale, rescues a man of his own age--Ozias Midwinter. The stranger reveals himself to Reverend Decimus Brock, a friend of Allan through his late mother, as another Allan Armadale (the son of the man who committed the murder). Ozias tells Brock of his desperate upbringing, having run away from his mother and stepfather (Mr. Neal).

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Dr. Mark Henry Kinn grew up both searching for and running from his parents tragic past. How do you live through a trauma that isnt even your own? How does a child live with the poignancy and sadness of a generation, following him to school, to work, and out into a world that doesnt understand?Kinns mother, Sonia, evaded the Nazis by hiding in the forest, but she never forgot her murdered family. His father, Phil, joined the Russian resistance, but sneaked back into the ghetto to find his father and sisters. Sonia and Phil met in 1944 when both joined a secret caravan of Jews escaping from Eastern Europe; both were struggling to move past the memory of extreme brutality and overwhelming loss.As Dr. Kinn explains, "My sister and I were left with an apocalyptic sense that our parents world had been uprooted, killed, destroyed. They thought they were hiding their past, protecting us from the Holocaust and its atrocities, but this made it worse. They rarely spoke about the Holocaust during our childhood yet it was there every day, in everything, omnipresent but never acknowledged, never explained."In stories pieced together from early childhood to adulthood, "Under the Same Roof" sensitively illustrates the impact of the Holocaust on second-generation survivors. "You kids have Holocaust on the brain," Kinns mother would say when he asked her about her experience in the woods or his fathers time in the resistance.This gentle and subtle memoir follows Mark Henry Kinn from a childhood full of secrets and unexpressed feelings (afraid of upsetting parents who had "been through so much") to an adulthood of trying both consciously and unconsciously, to heal his parents pain by becoming a doctor."Under the Same Roof" is about the consequences of unimaginable horror. Its about the struggle to discover an identity apart from an all-encompassing legacy of fear, anger, guilt and sadness. Told with great love for his heroic parents and a wish for a better life in the face of an inescapable past, "Under the Same Roof" is an insightful illustration of the consequences of intergenerational trauma.

Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. The novel centres on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. Nicholas Nickleby is Charles Dickens third published novel. He returned to his favourite publishers and to the format that was considered so successful with The Pickwick Papers. The story first appeared in monthly parts, after which it was issued in one volume. The style is considered to be episodic and humorous, though the second half of the novel becomes more serious and tightly plotted. Dickens began writing Nickleby while still working on Oliver Twist and while the mood is considerably lighter, his depiction of the Yorkshire school run by Wackford Squeers is as moving and influential as those of the workhouse and criminal underclass in Twist. Nickleby marks a new development in a further sense as it is the first of Dickens romances. When it was published the book was an immediate and complete success and established Dickenss lasting reputation. The cruelty of a real Yorkshire schoolmaster named William Shaw became the basis for Dickenss brutal character of Wackford Squeers. Dickens visited his school and based the school section of Nicholas Nickleby on his visit. Like most of Dickens early works, the novel has a contemporary setting. Much of the action takes place in London, with several chapters taking place in Dickens birthplace of Portsmouth, as well as settings in Yorkshire and Devon. The tone of the work is that of ironic social satire, with Dickens taking aim at what he perceives to be social injustices. Many memorable characters are introduced, including Nicholas malevolent Uncle Ralph, and the villainous Wackford Squeers, who operates an abusive all-boys boarding school at which Nicholas temporarily serves as a tutor.

Flatland is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novellas more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. Several films have been made from the story, including the feature film Flatland (2007). Other efforts have been short or experimental films, including one narrated by Dudley Moore and the short films Flatland: The Movie (2007) and Flatland 2: Sphereland (2012). The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square named A Square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The first half of the story goes through the practicalities of existing in a two-dimensional universe as well as a history leading up to the year 1999 on the eve of the 3rd Millennium.

Bleak House is one of Charles Dickenss major novels.The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and the story is told partly by the novels heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of Bleak House is the long-running legal case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills. This legal case is used by Dickens to satirise the English judicial system, and he makes use of his earlier experiences as a law clerk, and as a litigant seeking to enforce copyright on his earlier books.Though the legal profession criticised Dickenss satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, which culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s.There is some debate among scholars as to when Bleak House is set. The English legal historian Sir William Holdsworth sets the action in 1827; however, reference to preparation for the building of a railway in Chapter LV suggests the 1830s.Sir Leicester Dedlock and his wife Lady Honoria live on his estate at Chesney Wold. Unknown to Sir Leicester, Lady Dedlock had a lover, Captain Hawdon, before she married and had a daughter by him. Lady Dedlock believes her daughter is dead.The daughter, Esther, is in fact alive, and being raised by Miss Barbary, Lady Dedlocks sister. Esther does not know Miss Barbary is her aunt. After Miss Barbary dies, John Jarndyce becomes Esthers guardian and assigns the Chancery lawyer "Conversation" Kenge to take charge of her future. After attending school for six years, Esther moves in with him at Bleak House.