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Jude the Obscure

Jude Fawley is a rural stonemason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie...

Julius Caesar

In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of...

Jungle Books

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli`s parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub...

Just so Stories

R. Kipling

These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are. Generations of children have delighted to learn how...

Just So Stories

These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are.Generations of children have delighted to learn how the...

Karamazov Brothers Ned

Translated by Constance Garnett. With an introduction by A. D. P. Briggs.

Karl Marx: Capital. Volumes 1 & 2

Kate Chopin: The Awakening and Selected Stories

Key Philosophical Writings

Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the `father` of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity. Breaking with the...

Kidnapped & Catriona. Stevenson R

Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped tells of how young David Balfour, orphaned, and betrayed by his uncle Ebenezer who should have been his guardian, falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of...

Kidnapped. (Стивенсон. Похищенный)

Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped tells of how young David Balfour, orphaned, and betrayed by his uncle Ebenezer who should have been his guardian, falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of...

Kim

Kim. Ким

"Kim" tells the story of Kimball O`Hara (Kim) who is the orphaned son of a soldier in an Irish regiment stationed in India during the British Raj. Kim`s early life varies from being a vagabond on the streets of Lahore...

King Lear. Еороль Лир

Вильям Шекспир

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeare`s most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it...

King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain

In King Solomon`s Mines, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good persuade Allan Quatermain to help them find Sir Henry`s brother George, who has gone missing in the unexplored African interior while searching for the...

King in Yellow (Mystery & Supernatural)

Offers a series of vaguely connected stories that is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom...

Kipps and The History of Mr Polly

Lady Audley`s Secret. Секрет леди Аудлей

The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But `s classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder. It...

Lady Audley’s Secret

Lair of White Worm & Lady of Shroud (Mystery & Supernatural)

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Here are two great, neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, together in one volume for the first time. It is a double treat for lovers of blood-curdling...

Le Morte Darthur

The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring and influential stories in world literature. Its themes - love, war, religion, treachery and family loyalty - are timeless, as...

Les Miserables. Volume 2

This is the second volume of a novel rich in both character portrayal and historical description. Characters include the absurdly criminalized Valjean and the implacable detective Javert. It includes scenes such as...

Les Miserables. Volume 1

Les Miserables. Volume 1

V. Hugo

One of the great Classics of Western Literature, "Les Miserables" is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised...

Life and Voyages of Christophor Columbus

Modern views of Columbus are overshadowed by guilt about past conquests. Credit for discovering the New World, we are told, belongs to its original inhabitants rather than any European, and Columbus gave those...