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O Professor Charlotte Brontë · 1856 · ★ 3.5 The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Bronte completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death. Like Villette (1853), The Professor is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842. Told from the point of… Temas em comum: Belgium, Women teachers, Teachers, British

Sob o Dossel Verde ou, O Coral de Mellstock Thomas Hardy · 1872 · ★ 3.6 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Desafiador Under the Greenwood Tree is the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, Under the Greenwood Tree is one of Thomas Hardy's most gentle and pastoral novels. Temas em comum: Women teachers, Teachers, British and irish fiction, Romance & Relationships

Pelham Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1828 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Desafiador This is the tale of Henry Pelham. He falls in love with his best friend’s sister, and then learns that his friend is accused of murder. He must find the real killer in order to marry his love. The book really illustrates the manners, habits and lifestyles of the rich and famous in the first half of the 19th century. This is a very entertaining read!Please Note: This book is easy to read in true… Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, Drama, Classic Literature

O Viajante Desinteressado Charles Dickens · 1776 · ★ 3.5 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Exigente A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches. Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

O Rio Culpado Wilkie Collins · 1886 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Desafiador B..melodrama is perennial and the craving for it is perennial and must be satisfied' T. S. Eliot ('Wilkie Collins and Dickens') Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and to create an atmosphere of mystery and menace is fully evident in the three novellas reprinted here. All proceed through a series of dramatic scenes to a climax that in one case at least is literally explosive. The… Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature

O Mistério de Edwin Drood Charles Dickens · 1870 · ★ 3.7 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Desafiador The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final, uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens. John Jasper is a choirmaster who is in love with one of his pupils, Rosa Bud. She is the fiancee of his nephew, Edwin Drood. A hot-tempered man from Ceylon also becomes interested in her and he and Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Later, Drood disappears, and as Dickens never finished the novel, Drood's… Temas em comum: Separation, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs

Contos Simples das Colinas Rudyard Kipling · 1888 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Desafiador Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling's stories tell of… Temas em comum: British, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

O Bom Soldado Ford Madox Ford · 1915 · ★ 3.7 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Desafiador This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy - or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove's with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about… Temas em comum: British, British and irish fiction, Drama, Social life and customs

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett · 1910 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Desafiador This coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England follows Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business and falls in love. Bennett wrote it in 1910 at the Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton, and in Lausanne. Edwin Clayhanger's father, Darius, has risen from an extremely poor background, which Bennett repeatedly returns to, to become a prominent printer in Bursley.… Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, Romance & Relationships, Social life and customs

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