Pastoral
41Childhood, Boyhood&Youth , Tolstoy Leo (1991)
A fictionalized account of the author's own early experience, which ranks with Turgenev's "Huntsman's Sketches" as a masterpiece of 19th-century Russian pastoral life 1105 руб42Under the Greenwood Tree , Thomas Hardy (2012)
A story of love and passion tinged with melancholy for a disappearing rural world, Under the Greenwood Tree evokes life in the village of Mellstock. When two newcomers arrive in the village they both… 429 руб43Under the Greenwood Tree , Thomas Hardy (2004)
One of Thomas Hard's most greatly loved and gentlest books, "Under the Greenwood Tree" is an unashamed idyll and picturesque portrait of the long-vanished pastoral society of early Victorian England… 236 руб44Roth Unbound , Claudia Roth Pierpont (2015)
Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation - hardly needs introduction. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning… 990 руб45Harvest , Jim Crace (2013)
On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a remote English village awaken looking forward to a hard-earned day of rest and feasting at their landowner's table. But the sky is marred by two… 1166 руб46The Pious Sex. Catholic Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity in Belgium, c. 1800 - 1940 , Tine Van Osselaer (2014)
Although women were called the pious sex much earlier, it was during the nineteenth century, when the differences between men and women were being made more explicit, that an intense bond between… 15276 руб47The Vicar of Wakefield , Goldsmith Oliver (2008)
When Dr. Primrose loses his fortune in a disastrous investment, his idyllic life in the country is shattered and he is forced to move with his wife and six children to an impoverished living on the… 805 руб48The Eclogues and Georgics (1999)
The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the'Second'Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended an… 227 руб49The Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland , Christopher Fitz-Simon (2011)
Clusters of white cottages huddled between hills of an unbelievably rich green, villages of a single street, dazzling in their array of colour washes and picturesque shop-fronts such are the villages… 2219 руб50Far From the Madding Crowd , Hardy Thomas (2000)
"Far from the Madding Crowd" is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene… 197 руб
