Классика + Modern Classics
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes #2
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes is a series of anthologies of detective stories edited by Hugh Greene,
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes is a series of anthologies of detective stories edited by Hugh Greene, a former Director General of the BBC.
A biographical novel of John Adams, as told from the perspective of his wife, Abigail Adams.
Jack London, the fabulous literary enigma brought to life through the superb talents of Irving Stone.
Издание сопровождается вступительной статьей и комментариями к тексту и предназначено для широкого круга лиц, читающих по-английски.
Издание сопровождается вступительной статьей и комментариями к тексту и предназначено для широкого круга лиц, читающих по-английски.
The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and ...
In Someone Like You are fifteen classic tales told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl.
It's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosaic, decides to go in search of adventure and ...
As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, his life changes drastically.
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie.
Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly..
A gripping tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion, set amid the mist-shrouded mountains of a fictional South American republic, employs ...
Written during the final stages of her illness, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" is full of a sense of urgency and was Katherine Mansfield's ...
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced ...
Sean O'Faolain's position among the greatest in the rich tradition of Irish storytellers is unquestioned. The stories in this volume run the gamut ...
First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century..
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rising of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart...
The first of the five Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers is perhaps the most realistic and beautiful of the series. Drawing on his own experiences,
First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector ...
Stories of comedy and character from one of Britain's greatest novelists
When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother ...
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where ...
An unsurpassed blending of vibrant storytelling and social conscience, A Christmas Carol is one of Dickens' most perennially popular stories. ...
A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs ...
These twenty-one stories by H.G. Wells represents the variety of his imagination and reveal his power to evoke both scene and atmosphere.
Tom Canty and Edward Tudor could have been identical twins. Their birthdays match, their faces match, but there the likeness stops. ...
"My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else," proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel.
While writing Martin Chuzzlewit - his sixth novel - Dickens declared it 'immeasurably the best of my stories.' He was already famous as the author ...
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, ...
Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers–-a comic masterpiece that catapulted its 24-year-old author...
Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion.
Charles Dickens’s first historical novel–set during the anti-Catholic riots of 1780–is an unparalleled portrayal of the terror of a rampaging mob, ...
The personal problems of directors and officers of the First Mercantile American Bank lead them to involvement in corruption, violence, scandal, ...
Any building is a 'living organism'. Life flows in it. Many internal processes take place in it. This skyscraper is the 'St. Gregory'. ...
A look at the workings of a modern day hospital through the lens of the pathologists department.
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes ...
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and ...
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation
Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921.
Twelve stories all from the last eight years of Lawrence's life, when his vision sought...
Twelve stories of remarkable power and sensitivity from one of Britain's great modernists
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence. With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation ...
Set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881, but before the Third fought in 1919, probably in the period 1893 to 1898.
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood ...
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw ...
In The Prairie (1827), Cooper's most celebrated literary work, Natty Bumppo, now aged, is reduced to making a living by trapping.
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, ...
Story about a woman who has a complex past who comes back to her hometown to start over and rekindle the love she had for her childhood sweetheart.
