The Secret Witness
Автор: Charles Brockden Brown
Год издания: 0000
The story follows a female protagonist Constantia Dudley and her relationship with the mysterious Ormond. The Dudley family lives in New York where they get victimized by a trusted employee who embezzles their money and leave them in huge debt. They are forced to move to Philadelphia where they endure the loss of their mother, a yellow fever epidemic, rigors of winter and the exactions of landlords. Constantia, the daughter of the family, manages to keep the family afloat by her efforts and determination. Her luck changes when she meets Ormond, a wealthy military projector and conscientious atheist, who falls in love with her. Ormond helps the Dudley family to rise from poverty and makes numerous efforts to win Constantia's heart. The Secret Witness thematically focuses on the ways in which individuals change in reaction to their social environments. The novel thoroughly explores the republicanism and republican values common to the early American nation.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Автор: Дж. К. Роулинг
Год издания:
"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'"
Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors – and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone… Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.
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Memoires secrets sur la Russie. T. 1
Автор: Charles Philibert
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoires secrets sur la Russie : Tome 1 : et particulierement sur la fin du regne de Catherine II et le commencement de celui du Paul I : formant un tableau des moeurs de St. Petersbourg, a la fin du XVIII siecle».
Memoires secrets sur la Russie. T. 2
Автор: Charles Philibert
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoires secrets sur la Russie. Tome 2 / et particulierement sur la fin du regne de Catherine II et le commencement de celui du Paul I : formant un tableau des moeurs de St. Petersbourg, a la fin du XVIII siecle».