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41The Diary of a Nobody , George and Weedon Grossmith (1994)
The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a "Somebody"- Charles Pooter of'The Laurels', Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London - and it chronicles in hilarious… 212 руб42The Voice of the People , Ellen Glasgow (1900)
1900. Glasgow's realistic fiction novels often showed the female characters as stronger than the male characters. It was this new type of Southern fiction that made Ellen Glasgow one of the major… 1318 руб43Gullible's Travels , Ring Lardner (1917)
The Poinciana station's a couple hundred yards from one end o'the hotel, and that means it's close to five miles from the clerk's desk. By the time we'd registered and been gave our key and… 1310 руб44Wolf Hall , Hilary Mantel (2010)
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning', says Thomas More,'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating… 621 руб45Dombey and Son , Charles Dickens (1995)
This novel comes with an introduction and notes by Karl Ashley Smith, University of St Andrews and illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is… 232 руб46The Winter of Our Discontent , John Steinbeck (2001)
Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy forebears. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery store clerk. But his wife is restless, his teenage children troubled and… 937 руб47The Last Dickens , Matthew Pearl (2010)
News of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches James R Osgood at his American publisher. Expecting the arrival of the latest instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and suspicious of… 621 руб48Theodore Boone , Grisham John (2015)
Half the man, twice the lawyer. In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he's only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he's one of them. Theo knows every judge… 559 руб49Poor People , Dostoyevsky Fyodor (2012)
Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, Poor People brings to the fore the underclass of St Petersburg, who live… 474 руб50The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol , Gogol Nikolai (2012)
Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - from the demon-haunted St John's Eve to the strange surrealism of The Nose, from the heart-rending trials of the copyist in The Overcoat to those of the… 927 руб
