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A Night on the Moor & Other Tales of Dread

Robert Murray Gilchrist (1868-1917) is perhaps best known for his interest in topography, and for his stories set in Derbyshire`s Peak District. But he was also a master of mystery and horror, as this richly varied...

A Pair of Blue Eyes

A Pair of Blue Eyes is celebrated for its central scene which shocked and stimulated Victorian readers. Forever after it caused Hardy to be embroiled in arguments concerning the sexual morality of his novels in which...

A Portrait of Artist as a Young Man

J. Joyce

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" represent the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce`s "Dubliners" and the symbolism of "Ulysses", and is essential to the understanding of the later work. The novel...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce`s Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work. This novel is a...

A Tale of Two Cities

C. Dickens

`A Tale of Two Cities` (1859), Dickens` greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail...

A to Z of English Literature

David Rothwell takes on the challenge of summarising the entire body of English Literature, from its earliest origins to the current day within the confines of a standard paperback. His whistle-stop through the best...

Adam Bede

`Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...`Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot`s first...

Adam Bede. Адам Бид

"Adam Bede" George Eliot`s first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century,...

Advanced Learners Dict

The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and...

Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy

`Hello, I`m Raggedy Ann. Welcome to my world. I`m going to tell you about myself and this book. Some grown-ups think I`m just another rag doll with floppy arms and legs who has been nibbled by the mice but they are...

Aesop`s Fables

Aesop

Aesop`s celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of individual fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the...

Age of Innocence = Возраст невинности

Вартон

Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton`s greatest achievements, "The Age of Innocence" is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the "eternal...

Agnes Grey

Agnes Grey

A. Bronte

`Agnes Grey` is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal...

Alices Adventures in Wonderland Including Through’

All Saints Eve

Over half a century before the rise of the great ‘Queens of Crime’, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, Amelia B. Edwards was an expert practitioner of crime fiction and murder mysteries, of which the best dozen...

Almayers Folly / The Rover

This title includes an Introduction and Notes by John Lester, formerly Head of English at Havering College of Further and Higher Education. From the rain forests of Almayer`s Folly to the Mediterranean coast of "The...

An Arsene Lupin Omnibus

Enter Arsene Lupin, Gentleman - Cambrioleur, the `Prince of Thieves`, one of the most daring and dashing individuals who ever lifted a diamond necklace from under the noses of the authorities. Young and handsome,...

Animal Farm / Оруэлл Дж. Скотный двор

In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin’s brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case,...

Anna Karenina = Анна Каренина

Лев Николаевич Толстой

Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at...

Anne of Green Gables

Antoine Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince

Antony and Cleopatra (Шекспир. Антоний и Клеопатра)

"Antony and Cleopatra" is one of Shakespeare`s greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of Imperial power and the...

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare`s greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial power and the...

Art of War & The Book of Lord Shang. Искусство войны

The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli`s The Prince by nearly...