poverty
91Chanel: An Intimate Life , Chaney Lisa (2012)
Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She was mistress to aristocrats, artists and… 978 руб92Oliver Twist , Dickens Charles (2012)
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of" Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens. A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through… 565 руб93Poor 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 руб94Mansfield Park , Austen (2013)
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful… 1287 руб95Skagboys , Welsh Irvine (2013)
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class… 625 руб96Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain , Welshman John (2010)
'We were dumped at a roundabout with our labels on. People pulled and tugged at the children they wanted. It was a bit like a cattle market... people just waded in. I went with a lady and her… 976 руб97We the Living , Rand Ayn (2010)
Depicting the daily struggle of the individual against a tyrannical dictatorship, We the Living shows the terrible impact of a revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives… 978 руб98No One Writes To The Colonel , Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014)
Fridays are different— every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food… 439.5 руб99A Little Princess , Burnett Frances Hodgson (1994)
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became'show pupil'- a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth… 254 руб100Young Stalin , Montefiore Simon (2007)
What makes a Stalin? Was he illegitimate? Was Stalin a Tsarist agent or Lenin's chief gangster? Was he to blame for his wife's death? And when did the killing start?Born in poverty, scarred by his… 1442 руб
