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Hard Times, A Longman Cultural Edition
Charles Dickens
Tremendous Trifles
G. K. Chesterton
"Симпсоны" как философия: Эссе
Mark T. Conard, Aeon J. Skoble, William Irwin
Лекции по зарубежной литературе
Vladimir Nabokov
Пробуждающаяся наука. Математика Древнего Египта, Вавилона и Греции
Иван Веселовский, B.L. Van Der Waerden
Letters Written by Lord Chesterfield to His Son
Philip Dormer Stanhope
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady
Samuel Richardson, Angus Ross
Surprised by Joy
C.S. Lewis
A Bit on the Side
William Trevor
Ojos de perro azul
Gabriel García Márquez

Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons, Lynee Truss, Roz Chast Isn't it like Northanger Abbey in reverse? Come now, I mean, there we had an awfully romantic girl who read lots of novels and was looking for similar events in a romantic house, but had to face the reality.
And here we have an awfully sensible girl who read novels and went to an emotionally charged house where people were leading novelistic, rich and emotional lives - and made them face the reality instead.