Mr. Darcy is a rich and mystery man settled in the neighbourhood near the poor, but respectable Bennets. One of five daughters Mrs. Bennet was able to win the heart of the young aristocrat. However, energetic beauty Elizabeth Bennet rejected his love. She found him too arrogant and smug. The difference between their social statuses seemed too serious and gossips aggravated the situation. Only gradually, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, overcoming pride and prejudice, get to know each other better and, after all, true love will tie them and help to overcome obstacles…...
Mr. Darcy is a rich and mystery man settled in the neighbourhood near the poor, but respectable Bennets. One of five daughters Mrs. Bennet was able to win the heart of the young aristocrat. However, energetic beauty Elizabeth Bennet rejected his love. She found him too arrogant and smug. The difference between their social statuses seemed too serious and gossips aggravated the situation. Only gradually, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, overcoming pride and prejudice, get to know each other better and, after all, true love will tie them and help to overcome obstacles…...
In America, in the rich family estate of Saddle Meadows, the Glendinning family leads a luxurious and carefree existence - Mrs. Glendinning rotates in the upper circles of local society; her son, Pierre, an athlete and a talented young writer who gained his first fame, is going to marry the lovely Lucy, whom he seems to have a crush on. But an accidental meeting with the mysterious beauty Isabel threatens to destroy Pierre's entire happy life, as she opens the veil of gloomy family secrets......
The book of the English traveler and artist A. Henry Savage Land tells about his journey to the Kailash region and a visit to the origins of the Brahmaputra. This work is a valuable repository of information about southern Tibet and its people. During this incredibly difficult journey undertaken 120 years ago, full of hardships and dangers, Lendor was held captive, he was tortured and miraculously survived......
At birth, the leader’s daughter received the name Amonut, but among her relatives she was known as Matoaka. Pocahontas was the nickname given to her by her father. In the language of her people, this meant something like “prankster” or “playful child”. About 30 local communities, united by language and culture, were subordinate to the leader Paukhatan, all together they formed the Pouhatan tribe. Pocahontas first saw Europeans, probably in 1607 or in 1608, these were colonists from Jamestown, an English settlement in Virginia. One of the directors in this colony was the same captain John...
Richard Francis Burton is a British traveler, writer, poet, translator, ethnographer, linguist, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He became famous for his studies of Asia and Africa, as well as his exceptional knowledge of various languages and cultures. During his life, Burton was a very controversial figure. Although many revered him as a hero, others saw him as an unprincipled adventurer and an immoral person. His free views on sexuality shocked contemporaries and created the basis for rumors....
Mary Ann Evans chose to write realistic works, so the first and only genre work of Mary Ann was the story The Lifted Veil, about a man wielding the gift of foresight. This is one of the classic works of Victorian Gothic....
Behind the outward success of the influential prim Forsyths, representatives of the top of the English bourgeoisie, who are discreetly discussing dividends and stock prices, the madness of passion, family enmity, hopeless love and the pain of loneliness......
The novel "Main Street" brought the author literary fame and placed him among the most significant American writers of that era. Sinclair Lewis's work evolved under the sign of the great events of the twentieth century: the first imperialist war, the October Socialist Revolution. Social inequality at this point became more apparent. Imperialist America presented itself as a rattling reinforced concrete hell with the bestial rudeness of possessive customs. From the feeling of heartlessness and cruelty of modern bourgeois civilization, the theme of the tragedy of a depressed and impersonal...
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen, and, with the difference in a few days, by the British expedition of Scott, in Antarctica there was only one big goal for travel - crossing the continent from sea to sea....
