Классика + Modern Classics
In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, The Stars Look Down and Cronin's other classic novels, A Song of Sixpence is a great book...
Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling.
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
When a palm-reader reveals that Lord Arthur Savile's destiny is to be a murderer, Lord Arthur sets out to commit the crime so that he might marry ...
From the imaginative author of "The Wind in the Willows," an enchanting pair of books that map the imaginative landscape of childhood..
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....
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive ....
From the beloved author of Treasure Island
The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame is a children's novel published in 1908. It follows Mole, Ratty, and Badger as they attempt to help ....
Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and....
The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published.
Beginning with well-known stories by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, this diverse and colorful collection includes tales by Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce,
The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel is an old and familiar one which George Eliot ....
In this novel we see a young man madly in love with a girl from a moderately poor family. This girl falls in love with a very aristocratic prince—...
As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, his life changes drastically. He has many new ....
The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family ....
On a summer break from his New England education, John T. Unger of Hades, accompanies a new friend to his father’s private estate—a hidden palace....
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Anthology of English Humour (In English)
When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly ....
In a house full of sadness and secrets, can young, orphaned Mary find happiness?
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rising of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart ....
Illustrated by Harry Theaker
Eight full-color plates and intricate black-and-white drawings by the author complement this imagination-stimulating collection of exciting adventures
Featuring a Foreword by Karla Dougherty, this book eloquently renders the story of the brave Indian princess who saves the life of colonist Captain ..
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, ...
Peter Pan is a beloved children’s classic written by Scottish novelist and playwright J.M. Barrie. The story centers on Peter Pan, a mischievous yet
"Mr. Midshipman Easy" by Frederick Marryat is a novel published in 1836. The story follows young Jack Easy, spoiled by his philosopher father's eccent
This award-winning translation has been acclaimed as the definitive English version of Tolstoy's masterpiece.
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Имя Г. Уэллса хорошо знакомо советскому читателю. Настоящий сборник отражает наиболее существенные стороны творчества этого классика английской
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, ...
An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a route to the earth's core.
Alice in Wonderland is an 1865 novel by English author Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice, who falls through a rabbit hole into...
In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve ...
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about ..
Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent ....
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful ...
Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm ...
A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens
With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and with a new ...
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens lifetime. His natural inclination towards drama and the macabre lead ....
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 and
W. Somerset Maugham led many lives, including that of a doctor in London's slums, a successful playwright and novelist, an agent for British Intellige
When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a secret.
Emma is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life.
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway ...
"Allan Quatermain" by H. Rider Haggard is a novel written during the late 19th century. The story revolves around the main character, Allan Quatermain