Under the influence of rum, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a sailor. Years later, the widowed wife returns to find her husband the Mayor of Casterbridge.
Letture Vere Serie
Questa serie offre rielaborazioni avvincenti e condensate di capolavori letterari di fama mondiale. Ogni volume presenta un racconto classico di diverse culture in un formato accessibile ai lettori più giovani. Funge da eccellente introduzione alla ricchezza della letteratura mondiale, ampliando gli orizzonti di molti. Questi libri fungono da ponte verso i testi originali, arricchendo sia gli studenti di lingue che i lettori occasionali.






Ordine di lettura consigliato
- Mill on the Floss- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - Why was this feeling of regret so familiar to her? Why must she always wish she had done something different? 
- Persuasion- 224pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
 - ????The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died, unmarried, in her early forties, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author's own lost love. 
- Aladdin and his Magic Lamp- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - Though Aladdin's childhood had been full of beauty, comfort and happiness, without any trace of sadness or sorrow, he entirely failed to learn the lessons of hard work and responsibility. 
- Time Machine, The- 51pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
 - Well's science fiction of time travel, and his protagonist's adventures in the future. 
- I had been given a simple but enormous task. This was the role for which I had spent my whole life preparing. 
- Pip, a poor young boy, receives amazing news. Someone has given him a large amount of money and wants to make him a gentleman. But who is his mysterious benefactor? Is it Miss Havisham, the strange lady who lives in an old house with the beautiful Estella? Pip loves Estella but can she love him? Life is full of surprises... 
- Tale of Two Cities, A- 376pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
 - Set in London and Paris, 'A Tale of Two Cities' paints a story of economic and political unrest at the time of the French Revolution. 
- Hard Times- 272pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
 - Novel depicting Victorian industrial society. 
- Northanger Abbey- 219pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
 
- If there ever was an epic that touches upon every conceivable human emotion and poses the most complex of questions, it has to be the Mahabharata, the most famous of stories from India. 
- Picture of Dorian Gray, The- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - Young, rich and handsome, Dorian Gray seems to have it all. So why do people who were once his friends, leave the room when he enters? Can there really be any truth in the dark tales that are told about him? And just why does he keep his portrait locked away in an attic room? 
- Riddle of the Sands, The- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - `It seems pretty clear to me that sooner or later we'll be at war with Germany, whether we like it or not.' 
- Christmas Carol, A- 52pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
 - Dickens's classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. 
- Siddhartha Gautama- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - Can the path to the ultimate truth about human life be found by leaving behind wealth, comfort, family and security? 
- Baoyu has always believed that he will marry his childhood sweetheart, Daiyu. Daiyu is beautiful and talented, very sensitive, and physically fragile. It is a huge shock to him when he learns that his parents want him to marry Baochai instead, a healthy and considerate girl. 
- Pride and Prejudice- 369pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
 - For use in schools and libraries only. In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. 
- La mia vita per la libertà. L'autobiografia del profeta della non-violenza- 384pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
 - It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. ...Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without self-purification, the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream; God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification, therefore, must remain purification in all walks of life. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings. But the path to self-purification is hard and steep. To attain perfect purity, one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet the triple purity, in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me; indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me far harder than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms. Ever since my return to India, I have had experiences of the dormant passions lying hidden within me. The knowledge of them has made me feel humiliated though not defeated. The experiences and experiments have sustained me and given me great joy. But I know I still have before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 26 November, 1925. 
- If there ever was an epic that touches upon every conceivable human emotion and poses the most complex of questions, it has to be the Mahabharata, the most famous of stories from India. 
- Here is a test, a puzzle for you. It is a faithful account of two most gruesome murders. Can you work out what actually happened in the early hours of one fateful morning in the Rue Morgue? 
- Woman in White, The- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - A strange figure stood in front of him, dressed from head to foot in white clothing. The moonlight showed her pale, youthful face. 
- Journey to the West- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - In ancient China a magical monkey appears, creating chaos everywhere he goes. The only way to put his tricks and talents to good use is to make him protector of Xuanzang, a young and handsome monk determined to travel from China to India in search of the precious scriptures. 
- David, orfano di padre, vive una infanzia felice con la madre, ma questa poi si risposa con il signor Murdstone, un uomo crudele che la porta alla tomba. Privo di affetti, David sperimenta la dura scuola del maestro Creakle. Il patrigno gli impone un lavoro avvilente in un negozio di Londra. Disperato fugge a piedi a Dover, dove una zia, Betsey, accetta di occuparsi di lui. Lo manda a Canterbury, per educarlo, in casa del suo avvocato, padre di Agnes, una dolce fanciulla. Divenuto cronista parlamentare e conquistata anche fama letteraria, David sposa Dora che pochi anni dopo muore. Il giovane allora si accorge della dolce Agnes che sposa, dopo aver salvato il futuro suocero dalle trame del suo amministratore. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali 
- Odyssey, The- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - After ten long years of war and the fall of Troy, the Greek hero Odysseus sets sail for his homeland. His voyage, however, is destined to take much longer than he expects. 
- Study in Scarlet, A- 52pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
 - Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes mystery. This book also includes another Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Speckled Band. 
- Heart of Midlothian- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - New Title from the highly acclaimed series introducing children to the world's classic literature. 
- Old Curiosity Shop, The- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - `Why bless you, Little Nell! What if I had lost you?' 
- Although Song Jiang is only a lowly local government official, he is loyal to the emperor and kind to all the citizens in his care. But Song is in trouble. A series of unfortunate incidents have led to him being arrested, and his political enemies are keen to see him sentenced to death. 
- Gold-Bug, The- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - The arrival of a gold bug leads the three men on an exciting adventure towards skeletons, a skull and a hunt for buried treasure. 
- Pit and the Pendulum, The- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. The intense darkness oppressed and stifled me so that I struggled for breath. 
- My darkness lifted, never to return. This man was truly the light of the world. 
- The classic story of Amy Dorrit, who lives much of her life at the Marshalsea prison where her father is imprisoned for debt, earning meager wages at jobs outside the prison walls, including seamstress work for Mrs. Clennam, whose son Arthur takes an interest in her plight. 
- Catching fish. That's what I was doing on the day that changed my life for ever. 
- Hound of the Baskervilles, The- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - Upon the ground around the body were the footprints of a gigantic hound! 
- Silas Marner- 176pagine
- 7 ore di lettura
 - Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the reader's attention until the last page as Eppie's bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test. 
- Bleak house- 128pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
 - zjednodušená anglická četba, vhodná při přípravě na zkoušku FCE jako doplňkový materiál ( úroveň B2 - Upper-Intermediate, slovní zásoba 2 200 slov)věk 16+ 
- Les Miserables- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - `Send the brat home? Oh no we won't! Her mother must have met some rich man - we can make a load of money out of this.' 
- Moonstone, The- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - Rachel opened the box and lifted out the diamond. She held it up in a ray of sunlight that poured through the window, and cried out in amazement. 
- Mahabharata: The Final Battle- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - If there ever was an epic that touches upon every conceivable human emotion and poses the most complex of questions, it has to be the Mahabharata, the most famous of stories from India. 
- Tempest, The- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
 - A storm, a shipwreck, an enchanted island ... 











