Классика + Modern Classics
Elizabeth Gaskell's portrait of kindness, compassion, and hope
The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes ...
First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates ...
When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, ...
Candide (1759) is a bright, colourful literary firework display of a novella. With sparkling wit and biting humour, Voltaire hits several targets ...
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, ...
'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne.' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result ..
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable
This collection of Huxley stories contains 'After the Fireworks' which is the length of a short novel and deals with the predicament of a well-known..
The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translation
Traces the fortunes of a first generation German-American family who pursue their dreams in a post-World War II United States
Any building is a 'living organism'. Life flows in it. Many internal processes take place in it. This skyscraper is the 'St. Gregory'.
Издание включает вступительную статью и комментарии.
Contains "Decline and Fall", "Work Suspended", selected short stories and essays.
"Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are" by William Godwin is a novel written during the late 18th century. The narrative centers around Caleb ...
Настоящий сборник объединяет большинство произведений писателя, составляющих так называемую `сагу о Глассах`,
Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student
In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. ...
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery.
This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, ...
This collection contains the following eleven stories:
Grief
Agafya
Misfortune
A Boring Story (From an Old Man's Notebook)
The Grasshopper
The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister ...
Издание включает широко известные повести о Вини-Пухе классика английской детской литературы А. Милна, а также его стихи ...
Объединенные под одним переплетом романы Анны Рэдклифф и Джейн Остин представляют два основных жанрово-стилистических направления английской прозы
Set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881, but before the Third fought in 1919, probably in the period 1893 to 1898. ...
Edited by David Stuart Davies The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and ...
«Са́га о Форса́йтах» — монументальная серия разноплановых произведений английского писателя Джона Голсуорси, описывает жизнь состоятельной...
Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo’s Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer.
With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, Jo March -- now Jo Bhaer -- couldn't be happier.
Joseph Conrad's 1904 adventure novel, set amid the mist-covered mountains of a fictional South American republic, spins a colorful tale of capitalist
Offers a picture of eighteenth-century society. This story describes Squire Bramble's tour of the Britain of George III.
A literary classic that wasn't recognized for its merits until decades after its publication, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick tells the tale...
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive ...
Maupassant's keenly observed short stories reveal a world of vice and virtue, passions and obsessions.
Сборник знакомит читателя с лучшими образцами творчества американских юмористов и сатириков XX века.
Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected...
Scarlett O'Hara, the beautiful, spoiled daughter of a well-to-do Georgia plantation owner, must use every means at her disposal to claw ...
In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt ...
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation." From the early wonder and disillusionment...
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America ...
Abounding in the energy, variety and unexplored riches of the modern Canadian short story, this is perhaps the most ...
The Story of the Men Who Were Defeated for the Presidency
Kansas small town 19 year old boy artist trying to find his place and ever searching to find himself...his addiction to creating and alcohol ...
Chronicles the indestructible marraige of John C. Fremont and his strong willed wife, who helped aid him in his great accomplishments
Biography of famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow.