The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a...
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One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837-8. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of ‘polite’ society. Oliver...
“What you have loved remains yours.” Thus speaks the irresistible rogue Sindbad, ironic hero of these fantastic tales, who has seduced and abandoned countless women over the course of centuries but never lost one, for he returns to visit them...
„Balthazar” on Lawrence Durrelli neljaköitelise romaani „Aleksandria kvartett” teine köide, mille tegevuspaik on Teise maailmasõja eelne Aleksandria Egiptuses. Autor toob taas lugeja ette Vahemere idaosa möödunud sajandi alguse...
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The Angel of the...
Long out of print in English, this dizzying hybrid of novel, essay, and polemic has less to do with religion than with what Roth sees as the disintegrating moral fabric of the modern world.
Written while Roth was in exile from Germany and his...
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