social life and customs

"On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its . . . climax"--OCLC.

Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.

Set in the early nineteenth-century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl and crime, remorse, and suffering are the consequences.

Two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love, but their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between them and true love finally triumphs.

"Christmas is a special holiday that is celebrated all over the world. Look inside to learn the customs and traditions of people in Italy"--Back cover.

"Christmas is a special holiday that is celebrated all over the world. Look inside to learn the customs and traditions of people in Germany"--Back cover.

Contains fictional and nonfictional stories written by journalist Joseph Mitchell about the often odd lives and experiences of people in New York City, including selections from four books published between 1943 and 1965, as well as several uncollected stories.

"Tells the story of the ingredients used in cooking in different regions of Spain in terms of culture, history, cultivation, tradition, location, and content, and provides a selection of local recipes using the ingredients described."--Provided by publisher.

Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned confidence man, comes up with a plan to elevate his social standing by buying the souls of dead peasants. Includes an introduction, chronology, and notes.

Explores how the West rose and fell, discussing boomtowns,ranch life, cattle drives and more, while looking at the careers of such notable persons as William Sturgis, Theodore Roosevelt, and Clara Frewen.