Astute
1Sister Carrie , Theodore Dreiser (2007)
"Sister Carrie", Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900 - sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman… 499 руб2Henry V , William Shakespeare (2000)
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned… 222 руб3Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed , Martin Postle (2011)
The 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was an astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an artist over the course of his long career. This catalogue… 4763 руб4A Dark Anatomy , Blake Robin (2012)
The year is 1740. George II is on the throne but England's remoter provinces remain largely a law unto themselves. In Lancashire a grim discovery has been made: a Squire's wife, Dolores Brockletower… 687 руб5Grasshopper , Vine Barbara (2002)
From the writer Patricia Cornwell calls the most brilliant mystery novelist of our times comes a typically astute and suspenseful tale of what happens when a taste for dangerous heights becomes a way… 642 руб6Agnes Grey , Bronte (2011)
Anne Bront&# 235;'s first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which… 432 руб7Tales of the Jazz Age , Fitzgerald F.Scott (2012)
Often overshadowed by his major novels, Fitzgerald's short stories demonstrate the same originality and inventive range, as he chronicles with wry and astute observation the temper of the hedonistic… 528 руб8The Penguin History of Europe , Roberts J.M. (1998)
Since its publication twenty years ago, J. M. Roberts's monumental History of the World has remained the unrivaled World History of our day (A. J. P. Taylor), selling more than a quarter of a million… 1463 руб9Hound of the Baskervilles , Arthur Conan Doyle (2009)
In the 17th century Hugo Baskerville is killed by a vicious hellhound. Generations later, Sir Henry Baskerville is found dead at the family estate, and the hound of legend is to blame. Can Holmes and… 1809 руб10The Narrative of John Smith , Arthur Conan Doyle (2011)
Before there was the astute detective Sherlock Holmes and his capable compatriot Watson, there was the opinionated Everyman John Smith. In 1883, when he was just twenty-three, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle… 649 руб
