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Based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, this is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.

Combines history and fiction to show Russia's lengthy war with the French armies of Napoleon and its effects on the domestic lives of those caught up in the conflict. This work is translated from the Tolstoy's original, and includes an introduction, notes, a chapter summary, and an index of histo...

At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuou...

Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently regarded each other, cleared away all signs of work in an instant, examined their souls for defects, in a sense crossed themselves, and waited." After Laura and Clare are abandoned by their mother, Felix is there to help, even ...

"Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn't leaving the Blackwoods alone. And when Cous...