Who killed Charles McCarthy at Boscombe Pool? And why? Detective Lestrade from Scotland Yard thinks it was McCarthy's son, James. Things do not look good for James. But the famous English detective, Sherlock Holmes, sees things differently. His friend, Dr Watson, joins him and tells the story.
This is the story of the author's life in Camusfearna, a wild and remote area of Scotland, and of three otters, Chahala, Mijbil and Edal, who became his constant companions.
"Das psychologische Meisterwerk des kühnen englischen Erzählers spielt im Milieu der Bergarbeiter und ist einem Urthema der Menscheit gewidmet: der Liebe zwischen Mutter und Sohn. Schwankend zwischen einer nahezu erotischen Verbundenheit mit seiner Mutter und einem hassenden Verlangen, sich ihrem starken Einfluss zu entziehen, versucht er vergeblich, Glück bei anderen Frauen zu finden." (Rowohlt)
Die Damen des fiktiven Kleinstädtchens Cranford leben in vornehmer Bescheidenheit und weigern sich entschieden, die Veränderungen des 19. Jahrhunderts anzunehmen. In ihrem Alltag gibt es aber auch genug Klatsch und Tratsch, Verwirrungen, Liebeleien und überraschende Begegnungen, die ihre volle Aufmerksamkeit erfordern. In kleinen liebevollen Episoden erzählt Elizabeth Gaskell, eine enge Freundin von Charlotte Brontë, vom Landleben im viktorianischen England, von altmodischen Gewohnheiten und von stolzen Frauen, die selbstbewusst die Geschicke ihres Städtchens lenken. – Mit einer kompakten Biographie der Autorin.
[Penguin Readers Level 5]“She was a brazen hussy.”“She wasn’t. And she was pretty, wasn't she?”“I didn’t look. . . . And tell your girls, my son, that when they’re running after you, they’re not to come and ask your mother for you—tell them that—brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes.”The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul—determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother’s suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age. Set in Lawrence’s native Nottinghamshire, Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.
[Penguin Readers Level 5]The book centres on the character of Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity, whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended. Young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he considers to be an abuse of privilege, despite being in love with Mr. Harding's daughter Eleanor. The novel was highly topical as a case regarding the misapplication of church funds was the scandalous subject of contemporary debate. But Trollope uses this specific case to explore and illuminate the universal complexities of human motivation and social morality.
Wenn das Kindermädchen in Wirklichkeit ein Mann ist - und dazu noch der eigene Vater! Das Buch, dessen Verfilmung ein Welterfolg wurde.
[Penguin Readers Level 6]When Loona Bimberton pulls off a coup with her celebrated 'Algerian aviator', Mrs Packletide feels compelled to respond.
Stream of consciousness novel has events taking place in a single day, as Clarissa prepares for a party she is giving. An adaptation of a novel first published in 1925. Suitable for adult literacy learners of English as a second language.
