Классика + Modern Classics
Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time.
В настоящее издание включены повести - "короткие романы" - четырех американских писателей, видных представителей литературы США середины XX столетия:
Mrs. Craddock (1902) by Somerset Maugham is the story of Bertha Ley, who marries handsome, older Edward Craddock; however she soon realizes ...
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant
Autobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo; both a classic avowal ...
In this selection of tales by the master folklorist Andrew Lang, the reader is taken into the romantic world of the gallant Knights of the Round
Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English ..
A vivid and charming memoir of the author's country childhood on a Derbyshire farm in the late 19th century. Alison Uttley had a wonderful eye for
The towering sequel to Sir Gibbie and MacDonald’s longest book (786 pages). This novel offers a bit of everything: a wonderfully bittersweet romance,
The sequel to Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood. Set in the English seaside town of Bude and based on a MacDonald family holiday there, this novel ...
Although Castle Warlock is not technically a “sequel” to Mary Marston, thematically, the two books are very much linked. In the former, MacDonald
One of George MacDonald’s lesser known, but imminently worthwhile stories set in London, and whose cast of characters, from the street orphan ...
Perhaps George MacDonald’s most well-known novel and which details the life story of his most memorable character.
When she was only twenty-three her first novel, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter , created a literary sensation. She is very special, one of America's ...
Это история о городке Миддлмарч и его жителях, жизнь которых наполнена страстями и заботами. Жители городка очень разные: так, любознательная...
M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre.
A disturbing and powerful portrait of the sea and sea life.
Роман "Тропою грома" принадлежит перу южноафриканского писателя Питера Абрахамса. В своей книге автор стремится показать, как изуверские расовые
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner.
Издание включает послесловие и комментарии к тексту. Рекомендуется всем знающим или изучающим английский язык.
An electrifying short novel published posthumously set in a small village in the English countryside and tells the story of a sheltered rector's ...
This edition contains two of the most famous stories by 'The Father of Science Fiction' - Jules Verne.
This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, ...
The New York Times Book Review called The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, J. P. Donleavy's hilarious, bittersweet tale of a lost young man's ...
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering
Сонеты Шекспира поражают эмоциональной и смысловой мощностью, великолепно вписанной в традиционную форму.
В книге представлен неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала.
"Billy Budd" is the final work of American author Herman Melville which was discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and first ...
Much of D.H. Lawrence’s life was defined by his passion for travel and it was those wanderings that gave life to some of his greatest novels.
Г. Лоуренс — видный английский прозаик XX века. Действие многих его рассказов происходит в родном для писателя Ноттингемшире, в среде шахтеров
Wheels is a novel by Arthur Hailey, concerning the automobile industry and the day-to-day pressures involved in its operation.
Miracle drugs save lives and ease suffering, but for profit-motivated companies, the miracle is the money they generate...at any cost.
Это сатира на современную литературную и художественную жизнь Лондона. Ситуэллы, Гертруда Стайн, Джеймс Джойс, Вирджиния Вулф ...
The Red Badge of Courage is Stephen Crane’s second book, notable for its realism and the fact that Crane had never personally experienced battle. ..
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. ...
The story of an imposter and bigamist, who travels to the North where he marries the maid of Buttermere, a young woman whose natural beauty inspired
The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, ..
The eponymous hero of John Fowles's largest and richest novel is an English playwright turned Hollywood screenwriter who has begun to question ...
As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel takes sombre themes - adultery, incest, castration,
Carel is a widowed rector presiding over a London church destroyed during the war. The rectory is home to an array of residents: his daughter,...
After his wifes death, hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress his son, randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect ...
When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house on a desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with a number...
Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melancholy Rosa is torn ..
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol ...
Three Powerful Novels From the Scottish Writer Whom C. S. Lewis Called His "Master" The Maiden's Bequest Orphaned as a child, Annie Anderson's ....
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress,
A lively, humorous retelling for children of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean.
Сборник сопровождается вступительной статьей и комментариями и рассчитан на широкие круги читающих по-английски.
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft ...
ith neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette.
