social life and customs

Describes the holidays and festivals celebrated throughout the year in Poland.

Describes the holidays and festivals celebrated throughout the year in Honduras.

"Captures the boyhood years of the twelve-year-old [author] in relatable episodes of everyday triumphs and disappointments"--Provided by publisher.

Presents forty-three short stories by nineteenth-century American author Mark Twain, including "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Professor's Yarn," and "Is He Living or Is He Dead?".

An introduction to cowboys, discussing what they are, what they do and more.

A collection of four novels by Charles Dickens set during the French Revolution and in nineteenth-century Great Britain.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes commentary on literary and historical context as well as allusion and language.

In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.