Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil
"Human, All Too Human" (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic...
This is the first English biography of the man who saved the Iron Duke and his army at this most famous battle. Without the timely arrival of the brave seventy-two-year old Blucher at the head of his Prussian army,...
In a Glass Darkly (Tales of Mystery & Supernatural)
Sheridan Le Fanu, wrote fellow author; , "stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". A best-selling author from 1860 to I 880, Le Fanu is feted today as a master of his art. In a Glass Darkly...
In Ghostly Company (Mystery & Supernatural)
This title features Introduction by David Stuart Davies. `A grey cloud formed on the summit of the altar, diminishing, thickening and turning into a Shape, a shape of evil and fear. The silent group by the fire once...
`Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party`? So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The...
Interpretation of Dreams. Толкование снов
Translated by A.A. Brill With an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. Sigmund Freud`s audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900. Freud is...
Interpretation of Dreams. Толкование снов
Sigmund Freud`s audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900. Freud is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis, the key to...
Издание на английском языке.
Irish Ghost Stories (Mystery & Supernatural)
This title is selected by Rosemary Gray. When you think of Irish writers of supernatural tales, then the names Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker will figure prominently, but this does no more than scratch the surface...
With a word of warning to those of nervous a disposition, Wordsworth presents this spellbinding collection of chilling Celtic tales of the macabre, all drawn from the rich and varied literary tradition of a culture...
In this, his final adventure, Buchan`s hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the tormented Valdemar Haraldsen, and a third decides...
Italian (Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural)
With an Introduction by Kathryn White. `He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging...
Издание на английском языке.
Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They never succeeded...
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and...
The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus represent one of the most important records of Judaism and the Jews that survive from the ancient world. The Jewish Antiquities, his largest historical enterprise, is an...
John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval power. The resourceful victim of a manhunt, he is pursued by both the police and the...
Joseph Conrad: Mirror of Sea & Personal Record
`I have tried with an almost filial regard to render the vibration of life in the great world of waters, in the hearts of simple men who have traversed its solitudes, and also that something sentient which seems to...
Joseph Conrad: The Lingard Trilogy
Almayer`s Folly was Conrad`s outstanding debut novel: as well as exploring the culture of a part of the world previously unknown to English fiction, it showed immense sophistication in its handling of narrative,...
Journey to the centre of the earth
The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a...
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne`s third great `science fiction` novel describes the discovery and exploration of a secret tunnel which leads through a volcano to the centre of the Earth. The leader of the expedition is an archetypal...
