friends

Although most famous for his sci-fi, Wells’ best work often deals with ordinary people having big thoughts in picturesque settings. „The Passionate Friends” is a fine representative example of this. Wells uses the changing relationships among childhood friends as the media for his thoughts on human relations on personal and global scales, and of what it all means. On the death of his father, Stephen...

Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby’s father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. Nicholas then has to protect Smike, while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph taking...

Ola szukała faceta, a Rita była na rozdrożu i wszystkie zakładałyśmy, że to tylko przystanek. Teraz wygląda na to, że chcemy zostać na tym przystanku dłużej. Przynajmniej w tym momencie żadna z nas nie szuka faceta i raczej nam z tym dobrze. (...) - Z nikim mi się tak świetnie nie mieszkało, jak z wami. - Przyjemnie wracać do domu, w którym nikt nigdy nie ma do nikogo o nic pretensji. - I nikt...

First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, „Ann Veronica”, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science,...