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The Adventure of the Dancing Men and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories

A. Conan Doyle

Undoubtedly the world`s best-known fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, with his faithful sidekick, Dr. Watson, is the scourge of London`s underworld, sallying forth from his rooms at 221B Baker Street to solve...

The Call of the Wild

J. London

Jack London`s novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the 20th century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of...

The Cherry Orchard

Chekhov

Classic of world drama concerns the passing of the old semifeudal order in turn-of-the-century Russia, symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevskaya. The work also showcases Chekhov`s rich...

The Double

F. Dostoyevsky

While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as `Crime and Punishment`, `The Brothers Karamazov` and `The Idiot`, Dostoyevsky also wrote much superb short fiction. `The Double` is one of the...

The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright

A. David

The Days of Henry Thoreau

W. Harding

The Egg and Other Stories

S. Anderson

The stories in the present volume have been selected from `The Triumph of the Egg`, a rich collection of tales published in 1921, two years after the resounding success of Anderson`s masterpiece, `Winesburg, Ohio`....

The Gambler

F. Dostoyevsky

A compulsive gambler himself at a certain period of his life, Dostoyevsky wrote this novel with real authority. Set in the appropriately named Roulettenburg, a German spa with a casino and an international clientele,...

The Gold-Bug and Other Tales

E. Poe

Recognized today as the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) revealed his genius in tales of death, terror, evil and perversity. Highly skilled in achieving a calculated...

The Hound of the Baskerviles

A.C. Doyle A. Conan Doyle

At Baskerville Hall on the grim moors of Devonshire, a legendary curse has apparently claimed one more victim. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead. There are no signs of violence, but his face is hideously...

The importance of Being Earnest

Wilde

This is how Oscar Wilde described the philosophy of "The Importance of Being Earnest", his most sparkling, witty and light-hearted play of aristocratic manners and high society. To avoid family duties, Algernon...

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories. Крейцерова Соната и другие истории

Tolstoy

The Kreutzer Sonata portrays an intense conflict between sexual desire and moral constraint. How Much Land Does a Man Need? Is a simple, moving tale of peasant life with a moral lesson; the hero of The Death of Ivan...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Here are two favorite stories by "the father of American literature" exactly as Washington Irving wrote them, newly reset in easy-to-read type, with six handsome new illustrations. Once again in these pages, Ichabod...

The Meaning of Truth

W. James

The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

Gogol

Gogol`s stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details - as Gogol put it - `to extract the extraordinary from the ordinary.` Imaginative and...

The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

Six masterpieces of the genre include title story plus "An Amateur Peasant Girl," "The Shot," "The Snowstorm," "The Postmaster," and "The Coffin-Maker - all fascinating portraits of life in Tsarist Russia by one of...

The Rigging of Ships: In the Days of the Spritsail Topmast, 1600-1720

Describes and depicts in detail how 17th-century English, French, Dutch, and other European trading ships and warships were rigged, from the lower masts and bowsprit to the running rigging of the topsails and...

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Great title poem plus Kubla Khan, Christabel, 20 other sonnets, lyrics, odes. Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me, Frost at Midnight, The Nightingale, The Pains of...

The Raven and other Favorite Poems

E. Poe

Forty-one of Poe’s most memorable poems—among them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado" and "Annabel Lee"—reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe’s personality and his...

The School for Scandal

Sheridan

Often called the best comedy of manners in English, and one of the most produced of all theatre classics, this delightful play brilliantly displays Sheridan`s mastery of the mechanics of stage comedy, his flair for...

The Sea Gull. Морская чайка

Chekhov

In this tragic masterpiece portraying the inner anguish of a tormented artist who burns with unrequited love, the Russian playwright uses the death of a sea gull to symbolize the ruined hopes and dreams of his...

The Three Sisters

The Three Sisters

Chekhov

Landmark of modern drama probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha, and Irina.

The will to believe, Human Immortality

W. James

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

This low-priced volume gathers together hundreds of Twain s most memorable quips and comments on life, love, history, culture, travel, and sundry topics that occupied his thoughts over 50 years of writing and lecturing.