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61Tess of the D'Urbervilles , Thomas Hardy (2012)
When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her "cousin" Alec proves to be her downfall. A… 403 руб62Freakonomics , Steven D. Levitt (2006)
Modern life can be baffling and chaotic. Is there any way of making sense of it? The answer, explains groundbreaking thinker Steven Levitt, lies in economics. Not ordinary economics, but… 532 руб63Penguin Readers 6: Les Miserables , Victor Hugo (2008)
Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen years in prison. Cold and hungry, he is rejected by everyone he meets. But Jean's life is changed forever when he discovers love. He spends the rest of his… 689 руб64Penguin Active Reading 3: The Pearl (+ CD-ROM) , John Steinbeck (2007)
Kino finds a large pearl, which he thinks will save his family from poverty. But the pearl is what they think they want instead of what they need. The misfortune it brings changes the life of the… 781 руб65House of Hilton. From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilege , Jerry Oppenheimer (2007)
This intimate, shocking— and thoroughly unauthorized — portrait of the Hiltons chronicles the family’s amazing odyssey from poverty and obscurity to glory and glamour. From Conrad Hilton, the… 929 руб66The Collected Poems of Robert Burns , Robert Burns (1994)
Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over… 353 руб67Jude the Obscure , Thomas Hardy (1995)
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of… 212 руб68A Little Princess , Frances Hodgson Burnett (1994)
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became'show pupil'- a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth… 232 руб69Oliver Twist , Charles Dickens (2000)
Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty… 222 руб70Cold Mountain , Charles Frazier (2008)
Inman leaves the horrors of the American Civil War and begins a long, dangerous journey home to Ada, the woman he loves. Along the way, he witnesses great poverty, cruelty, and violence. Will he ever… 689 руб
