Michael Henchard, an unemployed farmhand, gets drunk and sells his wife and baby daughter. Years later, when he is the Mayor of Casterbridge, his past is brought back to haunt him, and he reverts to drinking.
Michael Henchard, an unemployed farmhand, gets drunk and sells his wife and baby daughter. Years later, when he is the Mayor of Casterbridge, his past is brought back to haunt him, and he reverts to drinking.
Presents two classic novels by E.M. Forster including "A Room With A View" about upper-middle-class Edwardian society that satirizes both the clergy and English respectability, and "Howards End" about how class, nationality, and economic status affect personal relationships.
A bitter man living alone with his hoard of gold learns about the power of love when his riches are stolen and a beautiful child is left on his doorstep.
In Victorian England, a woman recounts her difficult marriage to an alcoholic whom she attempted to change and the battles she fought with double standards once she left her husband, taking her son with her.
an authoritative text, backgrounds, reviews and criticism
Austen, Jane
2000
Presents an annotated edition of the nineteenth-century novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy; and includes background materials, reviews, and critical essays.
