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Elizabeth Walker

    David Copperfield
    Vanity Fair
    Sense and Sensibility
    Die Herrin von Wildfell hall
    Rendezvous mit 31/439
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    • Once, enough food could be grown in Britain to feed the whole population. High Streets were full of small businesses where everything could be bought or repaired. We lost this national resilience years ago. Now the High Streets are occupied by chain stores full of imported goods, town centre market gardens are car parks, and we can only produce enough to feed half our ever expanding population. The endless economic growth promised has turned sour. Environmentalists argue with politicians, scientists with religious leaders. Resource wars flare up worldwide. However serious the situation is, however impossible a solution seems, we arrived here slowly, one piece of shopping at a time. We need to take back our power and make new choices. There's no time to lose. The Handbook of Practical Resilience outlines how to proceed in an immediate and realistic way. Accessible ground level strategies are combined, and every positive effort counts. This second edition includes your personal resilience assessment and details on constructing a plan to increase this. Simple tasks, adventures and research lead you on the journey to a future with better quality of life, natural harmony, and hope. Resilience expert Elizabeth J Walker is the author of 'Recipes for Resilience - Common Sense Cooking for the 21st Century'.

      The Handbook of Practical Resilience2020
    • Dickens referred to "David Copperfield" as his favorite work, and it holds significant literary value due to its autobiographical elements. After the death of his father, David Copperfield enjoys a happy childhood with his mother and their maid, Peggotty. His mother's remarriage to Murdstone brings tyranny and suffering until her death. David is thrown out of the house and placed as a servant in a London wine shop. He lives with Mr. Micawber, who is imprisoned due to his debts. David decides to visit his Aunt Trotwood in Dover, who takes him in and sends him to school in Canterbury. After school, David moves to London and meets his friend Steerforth. He aspires to become a lawyer and works in the office of Mr. Spenlow, developing a close relationship with his daughter, Agnes. During a visit to Yarmouth, he learns of Steerforth's elopement with Peggotty's niece, Emily. David secretly becomes engaged to Dora, but after losing Agnes's fortune, she moves in with him in London. David becomes a newspaper reporter and writer, marries Dora, who soon falls into difficult circumstances, and loses her shortly after. Emily is found by Peggotty, Steerforth dies, and the Peggotty family emigrates to Australia. Ultimately, David marries Agnes Wickfield, whom Dora had chosen as her successor.

      David Copperfield2008
      3,9
    • Die Herrin von Wildfell Hall ist ein eindringliches Plädoyer für die Gleichberechtigung der Frau im Viktorianischen Zeitalter. Anne Bronte hat hier ein bis dahin tabuisiertes Thema ins Zentrum einer spannenden Handlung gestellt: die Unterdrückung der Frau in der Ehe und ihr Anspruch auf Achtung und Selbstverwirklichung.

      Die Herrin von Wildfell hall2007
      4,1
    • Vanity Fair

      • 144 Seiten
      • 6 Lesestunden

      Tells the story of Becky Sharp's rise from rags to riches in Vanity Fair. This is a work about the situation of two women during nineteenth century British society and the French napoleonic wars.

      Vanity Fair2007
      3,4
    • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

      • 92 Seiten
      • 4 Lesestunden

      Helbling Readers Classics have a wide variety of Before and After Reading activities to help and develop understanding, as well as background information, fact files and lots of pointers for project and culture work. The stories are carefully gradedin five levels according to internationally recognised standards and include preparation for the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams. Helbling Readers Classics have a wide variety of Before and After Reading activities to help and develop understanding, as well as background information, fact files and lots of pointers for project and culture work. The stories are carefully gradedin five levels according to internationally recognised standards and include preparation for the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams.

      The Wonderful Wizard of Oz2007
      4,5
    • Rendezvous mit 31/439

      • 268 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden

      At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at an inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits — just behind a Raman airlock door.

      Rendezvous mit 31/4392005
      4,1
    • Jane Austens Debütroman "Sinn und Sinnlichkeit" verbindet romantische Komödie mit einer ironischen Auseinandersetzung der gesellschaftlichen Zwänge, denen Frauen des 19. Jahrhunderts ausgesetzt waren. Die beiden Schwestern Elinor und Marianne navigieren durch Heiratsvermittlungen und gesellschaftliche Erwartungen auf der Suche nach Liebe und Sicherheit.

      Sense and Sensibility2005
      4,1
    • Pokušenie

      • 224 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden

      Príbeh mladej lekárky a skúseného chirurga potvrdzuje, že aj tie najväčšie protiklady sa priťahujú...

      Pokušenie1998
      3,0
    • Príznaky vášne

      • 225 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden

      Je to príbeh o životných osudoch pracovníkov prestížnej Fieldingovej kliniky v San Franciscu. Autorka si vzala na mušku lekársku dvojicu, ktorú tvoria neurologička Nan LeBaronová a šéf pohotovosti Steven Winstead. Obaja musia čeliť obvineniu zo zanedbania lekárskej starostlivosti, hoci na záchranu pacientovho života vynaložili všetky sily a odborné vedomosti. To však nie je ich jediný problém. Dramatickú obhajobu výsledkov spoločného úsilia komplikuje ich vzájomný vzťah.

      Príznaky vášne1998
      3,0
    • Le château des Melville

      • 456 Seiten
      • 16 Lesestunden

      À la mort du comte de Melville, ses quatre enfants héritent du château ancestral de Whitecastle. Cadeau empoisonné car la demeure est délabrée et les milliers d'hectares de lande sont hypothéqués. Pour protéger le bien familial, chacun rassemble ses forces. Mara, la fille aînée, n'hésite pas à user de ses charmes dans l'espoir de faire un riche mariage, au risque de faire scandale. Lisa, sa sœur, croit voir en Toby le sauveur du domaine, sans remarquer que ce beau parleur cherche avant tout à s'acheter un titre de noblesse. Alors qu'Angus tente de faire ses débuts dans la politique, il est bientôt contraint de démissionner en raison de la maladie de son frère jumeau, Marcus.

      Le château des Melville1995
    • The four highly visible, much-talked-about Hellyn children, heirs to their crumbling family edifice, The Court, struggle with their own, individual problems while trying to save their ancestral home

      The Court1990
      2,9