“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

After Davy had gone to bed Anne wandered down to Victoria Island and sat there alone, curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while the water laughed around her in a duet of brook and wind. Anne had always loved that brook. Many a dream had she spun over its sparkling water in days gone by. She forgot lovelorn youths, and the cayenne speeches of malicious neighbors, and all the problems of her girlish existence. In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of “faery lands forlorn,” where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart’s Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

“It was the best of time, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom and foolishness, it was the epoch of belief and disbelief, it was the season of Light and Darkness…” The story takes place in the 18th century in two cities, London and Paris. A political prisoner called Alexander Manette is released from prison after his long imprisonment and recalled to life by his daughter Lucie. His life seems to go better: his haunted fears and memories are quietened down, his daughter gets married and he works as a doctor in London. But their mutual happiness is not destined to last long. At that time the French Revolution starts when least expected. The French monarchy and aristocrats die under the Guillotine in a terrible way. The feudal system falls and the new rules spread all over the country. A new
life begins in France, where poor people, humiliated people rule the country in their own way. By fatal coincidence, Lucie’s husband goes to Paris and falls into the hands of the merciless revolutionaries. Doctor Manette, his daughter, and their friends come to Paris to save Lucie’s husband from death. But it is not that simple. They are all in mortal danger. Moreover, many fatal secrets from the past come out and shed light on the lives of the main characters. This story describes the great tragedy of the French Revolution. Human lives can be taken without warning and trial. Devoted love, persistent hatred, unexpected self-sacrifice, and heinous betrayal are all mixed together…

Events are unfolding in the north of England, in Wuthering Heights. Once a long time ago, Mr Earnshaw brings to his house a gipsy-like boy, with black hair and dark eyes. Despite his wife’s objections, Mr Earnshaw adopts this boy, giving him only one name – Heathcliff. His children now, Catherine and Hindley, must share their father’s love with Heathcliff. Heathcliff’s early years were very complicated: Mr Earnshaw’s death, Hindley’s constant bullying, servants’ harsh humiliation etc. However, there was a good thing – Catherine’s kind attitude raises in Heathcliff’s heart an eternal love for her for a life time. When his love for Catherine is not returned, he suddenly escapes from Wuthering Heights.

Many years later, Heathcliff comes back to Wuthering Heights as a wealthy, handsome man, who wants to avenge his former childhood sufferings. He finds Catherine married to another man and does his best to get revenge for her selfishness and indifference. His revenge takes horrible forms and knows no limits in time. He turns into a heartless, cruel man who can hardly stop on his way of revenge and hatred. Although, his love for Catherine never dies in his heart…