Classic Victorian Romance

Sullo sfondo della brughiera battuta dai venti, una ragazza umile ma volitiva trova lavoro come istitutrice nella casa di un uomo aspro e malinconico. Tra di loro nascerà inaspettata una grande passione, che dovrà però fare i conti con un segreto scabroso. Un capolavoro di una modernità dirompente, un cult che continua ad affascinare generazione dopo generazione.

In order to help support her parents and siblings, Agnes becomes a governess in various households. Then, while assisting a vision-impaired neighbor, she meets Mr. Weston, the new curate. Their paths cross briefly, but it has a lasting effect on her.

Scritto tra il 1815 e il 1816, questo romanzo fu pubblicato postumo, nel 1818, dopo la morte dell'autrice nel 1817. Sembra che il titolo originale fosse "The Elliotts", ma l'autrice non ebbe la possibilità di scegliere il titolo prima della sua morte. "Persuasione" è ciò che avviene quando la protagonista del romanzo, Anna, si fa convincere da ragioni di convenienza e di rango a non sposare l'uomo che ama.

This multi-layered novel concerns complex social relationships in a provincial Victorian neighborhood and the struggle to hold fast to personal integrity in a materialistic environment.

This multi-layered novel concerns complex social relationships in a provincial Victorian neighborhood and the struggle to hold fast to personal integrity in a materialistic environment.

Thomas Hardy brings us an England that once existed but no more. It is rural, traditional, pastoral - a society of mannered conduct that flows like a deep river where powerful currents eddy and swirl. In this powerful novel of love and disillusion, Hardy's heroine is torn between the three men in her life. Passionate but capricious, her romantic involvements have fascinated generations of readers.

Charity Royall, a young New England woman of humble origins, meets and falls in love with the worldly Lucius Harney, an architect from the city. In evocative and descriptive prose, Edith Wharton conveys the ecstasy of Charity's first experience in sexual and romantic love, and pulls her heroine through the throes of loving a man who ultimately cannot choose her. Wharton's tale elicits the passion and despair of all great but ill-fated love affairs and enthralls the contemporary audience with its pathos just as it did nearly 100 years ago.

Esta versión del audiolibro Una Mujer Sin Importancia (la versión completa) es la más barata que también tiene audio de calidad superior. El audio fue editado especialmente para su placer en los Estados Unidos. El estudio usa un proceso tecnológico y trabajo artesano para crear una experiencia exquisita. ¡Es nuestro distinto placer presentarle nuestra versión de Una Mujer Sin Importancia por Oscar Wilde, narrada por Nina Iniestra!

Im England des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts steht die junge und schöne Elisabeth Bennet vor einer großen Lebensentscheidung: der Wahl eines geeigneten Heiratskandidaten. Ihr allzu stolzes Wesen jedoch vernebelt ihr ein ums andere Mal den Blick, bis sie nach vielen Verwicklungen schließlich doch die Liebe ihres Lebens findet. Der erste Satz von Jane Austens Roman "Stolz und Vorurteil", eine in England zitierfähige Sentenz, lautet: "Nichts ist leichter vorauszusetzen, als dass ein junger, reicher, unverheirateter Mann, vor allen anderen Dingen, einer Frau bedarf."

When Frederick, an American expatriate traveling in Europe, meets the commonplace, newly rich Miller family from New York, he is charmed by the daughter, Daisy, and her "inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence". The Millers have no perception of the complex code that underlies behavior in European society, and Winterbourne is astonished at the girl's unworldliness and her mother's unconcern when Daisy accompanies him to the Castle of Chillon.

A 'Woman's Hour' reading by Janet Suzman of Jane Austen's last completed work. When the personable Captain Wentworth reappears in Anne Elliot's life several years after she had been persuaded to break off their engagement, he at first makes no secret of his angry indignation.

Una historia de amor accidentada. Las tres hermanas Bronte, Jane, Charlotte y Emmy publicaron en forma casi simultanea, a mediados del siglo XIX tres novelas, que ya son clasicas dentro de la literatura ingles. Quiza la mas popular ha sido "Jane Eyre" de Charlotte, por su gran dramatismo y su sensacional desarrollo.

Henry James' signature theme - the American abroad - centers here on a chatterbox, provincial (not to say ignorant) daughter of a wealthy Schenectady industrialist, as she travels through Europe with her doting, vapid mother and rambunctious young brother. She meets up with one Mr. Winterbourne, another ex-patriate, with whom she flirts before coming to a sad end.

Daisy Miller is a beautiful and flirtatious rich young American visiting a Swiss spa. There she meets upper class expatriate American, Frederick Winterbourne, who is warned about her reckless ways with men by his aunt. Their relationship and Daisy's with the Italian lawyer Mr. Giovanelli leads to a climactic scene in the Coliseum in Rome, followed by tragedy and regret.

Anne Elliot has grieved for seven years over the loss of her first and only love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. When their paths finally cross again, Anne finds herself slighted and all traces of their former intimacy gone. As the pair continue to share the same social circle, dramatic events in Lyme Regis, and later in Bath, conspire to unravel the knots of deceit and misunderstanding in this beguiling and gently comic story of love and fidelity.

The innocent and insolent Daisy confronts the traditions of old Europe and confounds all of the people (especially the men) who surround her. All throughout the story, there are classic Jamesian views on the differences between English and American societies.

Der Diener Yellowplush lebt zusammen mit seinem Herrn Frederick Altamont zur Untermiete bei der Familie Shum in London. Frederick Altamont hat sich unsterblich in Mary, die jüngste Tochter der Familie, verliebt und Yellowplush hilft den beiden, so dass diese sich ungestört treffen können. Endlich kommt es zu der lang ersehnten Hochzeit, doch Altamont verbirgt ein Geheimnis vor seiner Frau, welches das Glück des jungen Paares zu trüben droht. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) war ein britischer Schriftsteller. Thackeray wurde als Sohn eines Kolonialbeamten in Indien geboren.

Esta novela epistolar, escrita probablemente en 1794, narra los planes de la protagonista, la recientemente viuda lady Susan, para encontrar un nuevo marido, a la vez que intenta casar a su hija de dieciséis años. Austen se sirve de este género para construir una obra en donde las distintas cartas se engarzan como piezas de un rompecabezas hasta completar ante los ojos del lector una historia de pequeñas intrigas.

Leggendo questa storia estrema, questa esistenza di febbre, la follia assume consistenza fisica. Sembra quasi di poterla toccare. Toccare la follia ci atterrisce, perché ci spalanca l'universo vuoto sotto di noi.La comprensione di quanto sia vano il gioco estetico del consumismo della follia, la rete elettrica circolante nel sistema nervoso centrale di questi tempi estemporanei è un effetto inevitabile, una sorta d’illuminazione che folgora la lettura.

Ein junger aufgeschlossener Mann erweckt mit seinem scharfen Intellekt das Interesse einer jungen Frau. Man freundet sich an und tauscht sich gegenseitig aus. Man entwickelt ein Gefühl füreinander, das über die reine Sympathie hinausgeht, und beide wägen nun ab, welche Konsequenzen mit einer festen Bindung entstehen würden. Der Mann ist sich seiner Gefühle und Absichten sicher - die Frau ist sich fast sicher.