Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is...
Una triste pace porta con sé questa mattina: il sole, addolorato, non mostrerà il suo volto. Andiamo a parlare ancora di questi tristi eventi. Alcuni avranno il perdono, altri un castigo. Ché mai vi fu una storia così piena di dolore come questa di Giulietta e del suo Romeo.
"The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ in order to escape burdensome social obligations.
Il titolo "The Watsons", non presente nel manoscritto, è quello attribuito dal nipote di JA, James-Edward Austen-Leigh, nella seconda edizione della sua biografia della zia: A Memoir of Jane Austen, 1871, dove il testo fu pubblicato per la prima volta. Nel manoscritto non c'è né divisione in capitoli, né indicazione d...
« È verità universalmente riconosciuta che uno scapolo in possesso di un solido patrimonio debba essere in cerca di moglie » Cinque sorelle, due giovani scapoli ricchi e contesi tra molte altre donne. Elizabeth e Jane, le due sorelle più grandi non contagiate dalla frivolezza della loro madre e in cerca di marito. D...
"Jane Eyre" follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes...
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in L...
Il libro della terza delle sorelle Brönte, che mancava in Wattpad, dopo Cime tempestose e Jane Eyre.
Mentre Teseo, duca di Atene, sta per sposare l'Amazzone Ippolita dopo averla sconfitta in battaglia, i rapporti fra due coppie di giovani cittadini (Ermia e Lisandro, Elena e Demetrio), e persino quelli tra i sovrani delle Fate Oberon e Titania, sono inizialmente problematici. In un bosco popolato di presenza sopranna...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his famous detective.
On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive olde...
Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his lo...
Le frasi e le citazioni più belle. Quasi tutte di Shakespeare. Vi chiedo solo una cosa... quando le leggete pensate, fate finta che si tratti di voi e capitele.
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
