"París, 1899. Emma Lacasse ha estado separada de su hermana mayor durante casi veinte años, ya que Caroline se casó con un estadounidense rico y se fue de Francia. Así que cuando Emma recibe la petición de Caroline de encontrarse con ella, esto la intriga. Caroline invita a Emma a visitarla en Nueva York con una condición: debe ayudar a su sobrina Isadora a prepararse para su debut en sociedad. Caroline vive una vida de excesos y opulencias...

"The novel "In the Smoke" is about time and the protagonist's farm experience. It examines and reviews a woman's lush and quiet hurried life year by year in a chronological way. Tianzhuang was born in a small mountain village in the 1970s. He went to school, went to work, got married, and had children. She died in Guangzhou in 2011. As a member of the generation who grew up under the background of reform and opening up, her life path has been in sync...

After the murder of their mother by their father, Lulu and Merry grow up living tenuous lives where Lulu denies he ever existed and Merry dutifully visits him in prison, only to find their lives on the brink of collapse when they learn that their unrepentant and manipulative father is about to be paroled.

On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century. En un día de verano en...

By the early nineteenth century, imperial commodities had become commonplace in middle-class English homes. Such Indian goods as tea, textiles, and gemstones led double lives, functioning at once as exotic foreign artifacts and as markers of proper Englishness.This book reveals how Indian imports encapsulated new ideas about both the home and the world in Victorian literature and culture. In novels by Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and Anthony...