Классика + Modern Classics
The beloved author of the hugely best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series joins the growing list of writers in Canongate’s groundbreaking ..
Menagerie Manor is sure to delight fans of Durrell’s beloved classic My Family and Other Animals, ...
Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language.
Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's is a brilliant glimmer of the excitement of 40's New York. Holly Golightly - brashly beautiful with a slim ...
A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, ..
The most famous and popular novel of English writer Oscar Wilde (1854—1900). Dorian Gray is a very attractive young man who wishes to make a link...
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes ...
Сборник "Современный английский рассказ" знакомит читателя с лучшими образцами творчества английских новеллистов 50-х - 60-х годов ХХ века.
Дождь. Рассказы: книга для чтения на английском языке. Неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала снабжен комментариями и словарем.
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 ...
Candide (1759) is a bright, colourful literary firework display of a novella. With sparkling wit and biting humour, Voltaire hits several targets ...
'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 ..
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
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`,
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. ...
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
Объединенные под одним переплетом романы Анны Рэдклифф и Джейн Остин представляют два основных жанрово-стилистических направления английской прозы
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.
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 ...
13 Tales and Short Stories
Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected...
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.
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.
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.
Издание сопровождается вступительной статьей и комментариями к тексту и предназначено для широкого круга лиц, читающих по-английски.
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 ...
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..
The first of the five Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers is perhaps the most realistic and beautiful of the series. Drawing on his own experiences,
Stories of comedy and character from one of Britain's greatest novelists