Overview: This story of a proud rural beauty and the three men who court her is the novel that first made Thomas Hardy famous. Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, Far from the Madding Crowd is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy's great novels. The strong-minded Bathsheba Everdene-and the devoted shepherd, obsessed farmer, and dashing soldier who vie for her favor-move through a beautifully realized late nineteenth-century...

« Après le suicide de sa fille aînée, Etsuko, une Japonaise installée en Angleterre, se replonge dans les souvenirs de sa vie. Keiko, née d'un premier mariage au Japon, ne s'est jamais acclimatée à l'Angleterre, et surtout elle n'accepta pas le remariage de sa mère avec un homme qu'elle considéra toute sa vie comme un parfait étranger. Mais peut-être l'explication du drame demeure-t-elle enfouie dans le Japon de l'après-guerre, à Nagasaki,...

DomKsiazki.com When confirmed bachelor Anthony Bridgerton announces that he has chosen a bride, the notorious viscount faces unexpected opposition when his intended meddlesome sister Kate decides to protect her innocent sister from the wicked aristocrat.

"Sussex, 1957: When Flora Steele and handsome crime writer Jack Carrington attend the grand re-opening of the Priory Hotel in the beautiful little village of Abbeymead, their day out is cut short when the flame-haired female singer in the band suddenly drops dead before their eyes. Flora is stunned by the unexpected turn of events and immediately deduces foul play. Beverly Russo was a spirited young woman with a big voice and Flora is determined to...

In the summer of 1924, at a glittering party held at Riverton House, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were his two sisters - and Grace, a young housemaid. In 1999, Grace is ninety-eight years old and living in a nursing home when a young director making a film about the events of that summer visits her. Grace is taken back to Riverton House where memories that she had long ago consigned to the dark reaches of her mind begin to sneak back...