Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre, also translated under the titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volc...
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. The novel is the first to be set in Hardy's fictional county of Wessex in rural south-west England. It d...
Una bambina viziata, bruttina, dispotica rimane l'unica soppravvisuta dopo un'epidemia di colera che uccide tutti, padre, madre e servitú, lasciandola sola al mondo. L'unico parente é un eccentrico zio inglese, che vive isolato in un castello in mezzo alla brughiera. Mary un po' alla volta viene in contatto con il fig...
The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published as a book in 1911 after a version was published as an American magazine serial beginning in 1910. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children's literature. Several stage...
« È verità universalmente riconosciuta che uno scapolo in possesso di un solido patrimonio debba essere in cerca di moglie » Cinque sorelle, due giovani scapoli ricchi e contesi tra molte altre donne. Elizabeth e Jane, le due sorelle più grandi non contagiate dalla frivolezza della loro madre e in cerca di marito. D...
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
"Little Women" follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
tutti i grandi sono stati bambini una volta (ma pochi di essi se ne ricordano)
