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Resurrection

Resurrection, the last of Tolstoy`s major novels, tells the story of a nobleman`s attempt to redeem himself for the suffering his youthful philandering caused a peasant girl. Tolstoy`s vision of redemption achieved...

Robinson Crusoe

`I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I saved his I likewise taught him to say Master`. Robinson Crusoe`s seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor...

Romeo and Juliet

The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers * a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all...

Russian Master & Other Stories

A schoolteacher in a provincial town falls in love with and marries a young local woman. He thinks he`s found a bliss only described in novels. But before long, his sharp points of bliss become blurred. The loss of...

Russian Dictionary

Самый авторитетный в мире русско-английский и англо-русский словарь. Содержит свыше 180 000 слов и выражений, свыше 290 000 единиц перевода. Подробный обзор новейшей лексики с включением деловой, компьютерной и...

Russian Revolution 3Ed

The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and...

Sam`s Ball. Grade 3

Scotland

Since Devolution in 1999 Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and throughout the wider world. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores how an independent Scottish nation...

Sea-wolf Ned

In The Sea-Wolf, London`s most gripping novel, Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued from the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay by a demonic sea captain and introduced to fates far worse that death. Through this story...

Secret Garden

After the death of her parents, the neglected and spoiled Mary Lennox is sent to her uncle`s large and lonely house on the Yorkshire Moors. There she discovers a secret garden and with the help of her strange,...

Selected Poems: With Parallel Spanish Text

`Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid moral code, individual desire at war with tradition`. Manuel Duran Federico Garcia Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated...

Selected Poetry

Wordsworth`s verse declares a belief in the power of poetry to teach by appealing to the imagination and to the `grand elementary principle of pleasure, by which man knows, and feels, and lives, and moves`. His unique...

Selected Stories

``I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of``. Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield`s work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen all...

Selected Poetry

Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a...

Selected Tales

The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. Grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their settings; and they are peopled by kings and...

Selected Poetry

Thomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birth, childhood,...

Selected Poems

`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language`. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside...

Selected Letters

`Little Matters they are to be sure, but highly important`. Letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen`s time and social position, and Austen`s letters have a freedom and familiarity...

Sense and Sensibility. Stage 5 (1800 headwords). Austen J

Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of...

Sense and Sensibility

In her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen presents us with the subtle portraits of two contrasting but equally compelling heroines. For sensible Elinor Dashwood and her impetuous younger sister...

Sentimental Journey & Other Writings

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories. Stage 2 (700 headwords) + CD. Conan Doyle A

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he...

Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories

No characters in English literature since those in the great Dickens gallery have taken so firm a hold upon the British and American imagination as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. They have indeed been elevated above...

Sister Carrie

"Sister Carrie" was first printed in 1900 but publication was effectively held up until 1912 because its realism and supposed immorality were judged likely to give offence. Theodore Dreiser intertwined his narrative...