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Benjamin Disraeli’s powerful, polemical story of love across the class divide Chosen by The Guardian as one of the best 100 novels of all time, Disraeli’s classic 1845 ‘condition-of-England’ novel exposes the inequality and exploitation endemic in 19th century Britain, and the vast gulf...

Il sottotitolo di questo romanzo lo descrive come "Un seguito immaginario ai romanzi di Jane Austen". In effetti Sybil Brinton, nata più di mezzo secolo dopo la morte della Austen, e autrice di solo questo romanzo, realizza il desiderio di molti appassionati lettori della Austen e dà vita a molti suoi personaggi, facendoli incontrare a Bath, a Londra, e nelle varie residenze di campagna così affascinanti dei romanzi della famosa scrittrice inglese.

Hedda Krause, a young widow in search of a new rich husband, checked into the Menger Hotel in 1915 with a case full of jewels - and never checked out. In 2017, Dini Blackstone gives ghost walk tours in San Antonio. Her favorite is the tale of Hedda Krause who, in Dini's estimation, perpetrated the world's longest con, dying old and wealthy. Hedda adamantly claimed a ghost apparition lured her into a long, dark hallway, and when she returned to her room, her precious jewelry had been stolen. Can Dini see another side of the story that is worth God's grace?

Struggling to remain independent in the 1800s, four women reluctantly open up to help from lumberjacks - and love.

Euripides's play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and their remaining families taken away as slaves. It serves as an anti-war narrative as it highlights the suffering of the women left behind. The tragedy also calls attention to how women were treated as commodities in the past by showing how they were divided among the remaining men as spoils of war.