"Ilert Sundt (1817-1875), a Lutheran minister and extraordinary self-taught sociologist, spent twenty years trekking across his country to study social conditions in nineteenth-century Norway. His work took him to growing cities, small farms, and rural villages, where he questio…
Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure, has been enjoyed by readers around the world for over a century. Somewhat autobiographical, the story follows Jude Fawley, a stonemason in the fictional county of Wessex, who moves to Christminster to follow his dream of becoming a sc…
"Hawthorne's story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet "A" as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale continues to resonate with modern readers. Set in mid-seventeenth-century Boston, this p…
"Hawthorne's story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet "A" as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale continues to resonate with modern readers. Set in mid-seventeenth-century Boston, this p…
"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irrev…
"In this study of what has been called the "century of illegitimacy," Lisa Zunshine seeks to uncover the multiplicity of cultural meanings of illegitimacy in the English Enlightenment. Bastards and Foundlings pits the official legal views on illegitimacy against the actual every…
La Samienne
by Menander,, of Athens, Jacques, J.-M., (Jean-Marie)
fromCollection des universites de France
"The question of illegitimacy was important and complex in Scotland as elsewhere in the Middle Ages. This book examines its legal, political and social implications there between the [end of the] eleventh and fifteenth centuries. It explores illegitimacy in relation to royal suc…
"Eduard und Charlotte, die bereits in ihrer Jugend ineinander verliebt waren, genießen nun in reiferen Jahren ihren gemeinsamen Ehestand auf einem malerischen Landgut. Auf beider Einladung hin gesellen sich nach einiger Zeit der Hauptmann, ein unverschuldet in Not geratener Juge…
Fatherless and frowned upon by society, these figures overcame all odds to achieve greatness, shape society, and leave a lasting mark on the world. They persevered against ostracism, grinding poverty, and ridicule in testaments that should inspire all underdogs. Leonardo da Vinc…
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the rem…
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an …