Penguin classics apr 2004 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each other Vladimir's unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair - although he remains unaware of his true rival for Zinaida's affections. Set in the world of nineteenth-century Russia's fading aristocracy Turgenev's story depicts a boy's growth of knowledge and mastery over his own heart as he awakens to the complex nature of adult love.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When rich and imperious American widow Beatrice Chavender eats a forkful of inferior ham at her sister's country house near London, it affects the lives of everyone around her - her sister, her brother-in-law, her sister's butler, her sister's poor relation Sally, Sally's fiance Lord Holberton, and, most of all, Mrs Chavender's own one-time fiance, 'Ham King' J. B. Duff, whose rotten product spoils her breakfast. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each other Vladimir's unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair - although he remains unaware of his true rival for Zinaida's affections. Set in the world of nineteenth-century Russia's fading aristocracy Turgenev's story depicts a boy's growth of knowledge and mastery over his own heart as he awakens to the complex nature of adult love. 112 pp. Englisch.…