Vain

  • 11The Emperor's New Clothes: Level 1 (2013)
    The vain emperor has a splendid new outfit made, and only clever people can see these very special clothes. Or can they? Read it yourself is a series of character stories and traditional tales… 229 руб

  • 12What Maisie Knew , Henry James (2013)
    During her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie finds herself shuttled between her vain father and egotistical mother, who, constantly distracted and self-involved, value her only as a means for… 449 руб

  • 13Queenan Country , Joe Queenan (2006)
    In this hilarious romp through England, one of America's pre-eminent humourists seeks the answer to an eternal question: what makes the Brits tick? One semi-tropical Fourth of July, Joe Queenan’s… 764 руб

  • 14Vanity Fair (+ Audio CD) , William Thackeray (2003)
    Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp are two friends. Amelia comes from a wealthy family but her father is made bankrupt. She marries George Osborne, a vain and shallow young man who does not really love… 796 руб

  • 15The Poison Maiden , Paul Doherty (2007)
    It's 1308 and England hovers on the brink of civil war. Edward II, his wife Isabella and the royal favourite Peter Gaveston Earl of Cornwall, have been forced to retreat to the King's folly. Just an… 668 руб

  • 16A Garland for Girls , Louisa May Alcott (1887)
    1887. From the author of Little Women, these stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which weremy solace and pleasure suggested titles for the… 1311 руб

  • 17Virginia , Ellen Glasgow (1913)
    1913. Glasgow's realistic fiction novels often showed the female characters as stronger than the male characters. It was this new type of Southern fiction that made Ellen Glasgow one of the major… 1322 руб

  • 18The Town Traveller , George Gissing (1898)
    Here, on the quiet pavement shadowed by the College of Surgeons, she lingered in expectancy. Ten was striking, but she looked in vain for the figureshe would recognize -- that of a well-dressed… 1311 руб

  • 19The Three Fates , F. Marion Crawford (1891)
    1891. With frontispiece. F. Marion Crawford was one of the more famous authors in the English-speaking world at the time of his death in 1909. He wrote over forty novels, most of which were in the… 1317 руб

  • 20The Cavalier , George W. Cable (1906)
    1906. Cable, American short-story writer and novelist, is known for his tales dealing with the Creoles of New Orleans. The book begins: Our camp wasin the heart of Copiah County, Mississippi, a mile… 1314 руб

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