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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.
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 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 ...
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.
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster ...
Mrs. Craddock (1902) by Somerset Maugham is the story of Bertha Ley, who marries handsome, older Edward Craddock; however she soon realizes ...
Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English ..
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.
Это история о городке Миддлмарч и его жителях, жизнь которых наполнена страстями и заботами. Жители городка очень разные: так, любознательная...
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 ...
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
"Billy Budd" is the final work of American author Herman Melville which was discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and first ...
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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. ..
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 eponymous hero of John Fowles's largest and richest novel is an English playwright turned Hollywood screenwriter who has begun to question ...
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,
Сборник сопровождается вступительной статьей и комментариями и рассчитан на широкие круги читающих по-английски.
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.
Sons and Lovers is a novel written by D.H. Lawrence. The plot is based on the relationship between the mother, Gertrude Morel, and her two sons, ...
Can You Forgive Her? (1864-5) is the first of the six famous Palliser novels which, as a group, provide us with the most extensive and contradictory..
Неповторимый, ироничный юмор Джерома, а также подготовленные для удобства читателей словарик, комментарии, примечания и перевод особенно сложных ...
Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1889 to the early twenties, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, first farm labourer, ...
Phillip Maddison emerges from the war feeling overwhelmed by the powers of destruction. He resumes his old life but feels unsettled and, ...
Сборник произведений С. Т. Кольриджа дает возможность познакомиться в оригинале с творчеством одного из крупнейших английских романтиков.
Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working ...
A romantic adventure story set in south-west England in the 1600s. John Ridd swears revenge upon the evil Carver Doone who murdered his father. ...
Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. ...
Действие "Шпиона" происходит во время Войны за независимость. Главный герой - Гарви Бёрч, скромный американец, выдающий себя за обычного торговца...
Данный сборник на английском языке, составлен из рассказов ведущих австралийских новеллистов; он охватывает более чем вековую историю ...
In 1895 Hardy’s final novel, the great tale of Jude the Obscure, sent shock waves of indignation rolling across Victorian England. ...
Just So Stories is a collection of Rudyard Kipling’s animal tales in which we learn about ‘How the Whale got his Throat’, ‘How the Camel got his...
Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained form childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such,...
It is a social panorama of the city of London, seen largely through the eyes of the employees of the firm Twigg & Dersingham, on the first floor of ..
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter.