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Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Visiting the fashionable city of Bath, 17-year-old Catherine Morland looks for the excitement she finds in romantic fiction. She makes friends and falls in love. But when she is invited to Northanger Abbey, she experiences desperate unhappiness. What is real, and what is the product of her wild imagination?

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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Anne Elliot falls in love with a handsome young officer, Frederick Wentworth, but her parents do not allow her to marry him because he is poor. Seven years later, Anne meets Wentworth again to find he has become successful and wealthy. Anne still has feelings for Wentworth, but he is angry with her and possibly in love with another woman...

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Anne Elliot falls in love with a handsome young officer, Frederick Wentworth, but her parents do not allow her to marry him because he is poor. Seven years later, Anne meets Wentworth again to find he has become successful and wealthy. Anne still has feelings for Wentworth, but he is angry with her and possibly in love with another woman...

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Jane Austen's novels Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey remain hugely popular and are widely acknowledged as classics.

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Emma is wealthy, beautiful and accomplished. Not interested in marriage for herself, Emma is proud of her self-proclaimed ability to match-make others. After befriending, Harriet Smith — a young girl of unknown parentage — Emma is convinced she can find Harriet a suitable husband. But, in her quest to find Harriet the perfect match, she jeopardizes Harriet's happiness and, much to her surprise,…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A tour de force of wit and sparkling dialogue, Pride and Prejudice shows how the headstrong Elizabeth Bennett and the aristocratic Mr Darcy must have their pride humbled and their prejudices dissolved before they can acknowledge their love for each other.

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Spirited Elizabeth Bennet matches wits and wiles of the heart with the arrogant Mr. Darcy in this entertaining portrait of matrimonial rites and rivalries in Regency England.

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price leaves behind her impoverished family in Portsmouth to go and live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Growing up with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted, although she is not treated unkindly. A dashing couple from London, Mary…

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