Sketches by Boz II. Dickens C. This richly varied collection of observation, fancy and fiction shows the London he knew so intimately at its best and worst - its streets, theatres, inns, pawnshops, law courts, prisons, omnibuses and the river Thames - in honest and visionary descriptions of eveiyday life and people. We see the
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The Chainbearer or The Littlepage Manuscripts / Землемер. James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper was a prolifi c and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature.The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with
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The Frozen Deep / Морозная глубина. Wilkie Collins Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham is haunted by the memory of Richard Wardour, and his mistaken belief that they will one day marry. With her gift of ‘Second Sight’, Clara foresees terrible tragedy ahead and is racked by guilt.
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The Bravo / Браво. James Fenimore Cooper The Bravo was inspired by a James Fenimore Cooper’s trip to Europe where he traveled through much of Italy. This novel set in Venice and it is the first of Cooper’s three novels to be set in Europe. The book largely focuses on political themes ecially the tension between the social elite and
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Dombey and Son 1. Dickens C. Paul Dombey is a heartless London merchant who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business. In the tight orbit of his daily life there is no room for dealing with emotions because emotion has no market value. In his son he sees the future of his firm and the continuation of his name, while he
The Wind in the Willows. Kenneth Grahame Кеннет Грэм - британский писатель, мировую славу которому принесла книга "Ветер в ивах", написанная в 1908 году.Сказочная повесть о жизни и приключениях дядюшки
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The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway В сборник вошли два произведения: "Старик и море", о вере в нравственные силы человека, и "Зеленые холмы Африки", в котором автор пытается осмыслить творческий путь и
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The Days of My Life / Дни моей жизни. H. Rider Haggard An autobiography of Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer, largely of adventure fi ction. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and infl
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A Modern Comedy III. John Galsworthy John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting
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Twixt Land & Sea Tales. Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.The stories contained in
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Tanglewood Tales. N. Hawthorne Натаниель Готорн - классик американской литературы, чьи работы остаются актуальными по сей день.В увлекательный сборник мифов "Сказания Лесной Чащи" представлены
Villa Rubein and Other Tales. John Galsworthy John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. This volume includes some amazing stories like "Villa Rubein", "A Man of Devon", "A Knight", "Salvation of a Forsyte" and "The
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The Virgin of the Sun. Haggard H.R. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. The Virgin of the Sun is a novel by Haggard set in South America. It is a tale about marvelous Incas of Peru. The legend says that long before the Spanish
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The Treasure of the Lake. Haggard Henry Rider Treasure and the occult are vividly blended in this stirring tale of Africa. Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future
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The Country House. John Galsworthy John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright whose literary career spanned the Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian eras. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte
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The Speckled Band and Other Plays. Doyle A.C. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume is a collection of plays about a world-famous detective, and his assistant Dr. Watson, investigating the cases of The Speckled Band, and The Crown Diamond. The book also
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Tales of Unrest. Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and
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Rodney Stone. Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. While being a gothic mystery novel, "Rodney Stone" contains so much more! This book has a fantastic coming-of-age story set in the world of boxing fights in England during the Napoleonic Wars. The
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Грозовой перевал. Эмили Бронте На вересковых пустошах Йоркшира, открытых всем ветрам, стоит старый уединенный дом, Грозовой перевал, который скрывает мрачные тайны. Какие же страшные события
The Hand of Ethelberta. Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London. Turning the maledominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions of four very different suitors. Will
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Сияние / The Shining. Стивен Кинг Джек Торренс устраивается на работу зимнего сторожа в горный отель "Оверлук" и переезжает туда со своей семьей: женой Венди и пятилетним сыном Денни. Шикарный на
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Agnes Grey. Anne Bronte Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience.At age 19 Anne Bronte left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer.Bronte depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can aff ect a young woman. Agnes was the daughter of a minister whose family was
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Great Expectations. Charles Dickens Чарльз Диккенс - один из самых известных писателей викторианской Англии. Его мастерство владения языком, умение строить сюжет и наполнять его незабываемыми
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The Phantom Rickshaw. R. Kipling Блестящая книга от самого индийского из английских писателей - Редъярда Киплинга. Иногда так случается, что бывшие возлюбленные не дают о себе забыть.
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The Turn of the Screw / Поворот винта. H. James Генри Джеймс - не только один из самых известных классиков мировой литературы, но и ярчайший представитель трансатлантической культуры рубежа XIX и XX веков.
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The Observations of Henry. Jerome K. Jerome Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. "The Observations of Henry" is the collection of wonderful tales told by the waiter Henry to the author, mostly about people he has known and how they managed to solve their romantic
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They and I. Jerome K. Jerome Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. A charming story in which fiction is intertwined with autobiographical motifs, and humor goes side by side with delicate lyricism. How true to an English gentleman, burdened not only with self-esteem, but also with three teenage children,
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Английский с Генри Джеймсом. Дейзи Миллер Молодая, обаятельная и открытая американка, приехав в Европу, казалось бы, должна была снискать в обществе всеобщее расположение, однако встретила лишь
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The Four Million. O. Henry O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. The Four Million is the second collection of short stories by O. Henry that was published in 1906. The
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Vivian Grey. B. Disraeli Бенджамин Дизраэли - это не только известный английский писатель, представитель "социального романа", но и важный государственный деятель Великобритании XIX века.
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Трое в лодке, не считая собаки. К. Д. Джером Повесть "Трое в лодке, не считая собаки" - наиболее популярное произведение английского писателя Джерома К.Джерома. С большим юмором автор описывает приключения
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Fraternity. John Galsworthy John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. "Fraternity" is his early satire of middleclass complacency and artistic aspiration. This work stands as one of his best novels outside "The Forsyte Saga". It is the story of a bohemian upper-class love triangle, and of a mystic
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The Rover. Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The Rover is a novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France, a country now ravaged and scarred
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Mary of Marion Isle. Haggard H.R. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. In Mary of Marion Isle we make the acquaintance of Andrew West, a young doctor who enters into a loveless marriage with Clara, his first cousin. With Clara pushing
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Dombey and Son II. Dickens C. Paul Dombey is a heartless London merchant who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business. In the tight orbit of his daily life there is no room for dealing with emotions because emotion has no market value. In his son he sees the future of his firm and the continuation of his name, while he
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The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. Doyle A.C. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is one of many wonderful historical stories about Brigadier Gerard, an officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars, the bravest soldier, and one of the most gallant
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The Sacred Fount. Henry James Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. In "The Sacred Fount" an unnamed narrator attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He spurns the
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Short Stories II. E. C. Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of GaskelPs best
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Ayesha. The Return of She. Haggard Henry Rider Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic-fantasy novel by the popular Victorian author Henry Rider Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to his far more popular and well known novel, She.Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey once again embark on a quest to find the mysterious woman known as Ayesha.
The Hound of the Baskervilles. Arthur Conan Doyle Английский писатель Артур Конан Дойл вошёл в историю как создатель и автор цикла рассказов и повестей о Великом Сыщике - Шерлоке Холмсе. Обладатель уникального