Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomass best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is his first collection of short stories. These works show us his creative brillianc...Lasīt vairāk
Orwells subjects in Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier are the political and social upheavals of his time. He focusses on the sense of profound injustice, incipient violence, and malign betrayal that were ubiquitous in Europ...Lasīt vairāk
The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother 1984 itself: these terms have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were created by George Orwe...Lasīt vairāk
Elizabeth Gaskells first novel depicts the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-19th century. Mary Barton was published in 1848, at a time of great social ferment in Euro...Lasīt vairāk
Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermeres Fan. His other plays include: A Woman of No Importance and The Importance of Being Earnest. This work features Wildes plays ranging from his early tragedy era to the controver...Lasīt vairāk
The Professor is Charlotte Brontės first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth...Lasīt vairāk
Based on the authors personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, this work presents a tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude....Lasīt vairāk
Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Bronte vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on something real and unromantic as Monday morning. Set in...Lasīt vairāk
