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Arthur Doyle: The Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Collection (6 Books)

As You Like It

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare`s finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in...

Australian Ghost Stories (Tales of Mystery & Supernatural)

Murderous ghosts, horrific curses and monstrous beings haunt an unforgiving landscape into which travellers stray at their peril. Journey through the dark byways of Australia`s Gothic past in the rare stories gathered...

Aylmer Vance: Ghost Seer

The Aylmer Vance stories date from the Edwardian period, and there are echoes in them of the Sherlock Holmes adventures which had proved so popular in the preceding decade. The friendship between Aylmer Vance and...

Barnaby Rudge

C. Dickens

Dickens`s first historical novel is set against the infamous `No Popery` riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised London for days. Prejudice, intolerance, misplaced religious and...

Barnaby Rudge

Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cattermole, with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is...

Barrie, Кэрролл, Киплинг: The Ultimate Children`s Classic Collection (7 Books)

Beatrix Potter Collection vol.1

All your favourite Beatrix Potter stories in two volumes.

Bel-Ami & Une Vie

Bell in the Fog & Other Stories

Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco in 1857, and died in 1948. She eloped at the age of nineteen, took up writing against her husband`s wishes, and after his death became a protegee of Ambrose Bierce, whose...

Ben Hur. Бен Гур

An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom`s...

Beowulf

Beowulf is the longest surviving poem of Anglo-Saxon England. Beowulf, a young warrior of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, king of the Danes, in his time of need. He first fights the hellish Grendel, then...

Best Short Stories (Мопассан. Лучшие рассказы)

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in...

Best Ghost Stories = Рассказы о привидениях

Чарльз Диккенс

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to...

Best Short Stories

Bhagavad Gita. Бхагават Гита

Arguably India`s greatest gift to the world, The Bhagavadgita (`The Song of the Blessed`) forms an episode in the sixth book of the Hindu epic The Mahabharata and is the supreme work of that religion. The Gita...

Billy Budd & Other Stories

Герман Мелвилл

Melville`s short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the...

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

`Black Beauty` had a fine, soft black coat, one white foot and silver star on his forehead. This story of a horse`s adventures, disappointments and joys is perhaps the most famous animal story of all time. Tens of...

Black Veil & Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths

The Gateway of the Monster… The Red Hand… The Ghost Hunter To Sherlock Holmes the supernatural was a closed book: but other great detectives have always been ready to do battle with the dark instead. This volume...

Black Beauty

Bleak House

Чарльз Диккенс

In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and...

Bleak House. Complete and Unabridged / Чарльз Диккенс. Холодный дом

In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and...

Book of Kings and Queens of Britain

An overview of British monarchs from Cerdic First King of Wessex to George VI, this guide provides a regal chronology of Britain and contains many insights into the foibles of one of the world`s constitutional...

Book of Humorous Quotations

From Oscar Wilde`s witty observation in Lady Windermere`s Fan that `I can resist everything except temptation`, to Zsa Zsa Gabor`s admission that `I know nothing about sex, because I was always married`, and by way of...

Book of Limericks

While no collection of limericks can claim to be ‘complete`, The Wordsworth Book of Limericks contains an astonishing collection of over 1,800 verses - all of them comical, and a great number so far from cleanliness...