The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels ever written. It is also one of the world`s greatest historical adventure stories, and its heroes have become symbols for the spirit of youth,...
Three Men in a Boat / Three Men on Bummel
`Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable vivacity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it.`...
The profoundest book there is, born from the innermost richness of truth, an inexhaustible well into which no bucket descends without coming up with gold and goodness.``Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) was Nietzsche`s...
Tom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding`s greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the center of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose...
Tout va Bien! 1 CD(2) coll Лиц
Tout va bien est une methode de francais destinee aux debutants ou faux debutants. Ses objectifs respectent scrupuleusement les recommandations du Cadre europeen commun de reference pour les langues, comme en temoigne...
"Twenty Years After", the sequel to "The Three Musketeers", is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has...
"Typhoon", "Falk", "Amy Foster", "The Secret Sharer" The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad`s experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. `Typhoon` is the...
"Ulysses", one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements...
The story delicately balances the concerns of the Mellstock parish choir with a romance between the village schoolmistress and a member of the choir. Hardy thought well enough of the tale to place it among his Novels...
Vampyre & Other Tales of Macabre
John Polidori`s classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley`s "Frankenstein". Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori`s tales is a reaction to the
On a broad and colourful canvas, extending from urban and rural England to Waterloo and the continental haunts of exiles, Thackeray gives us one of the greatest social-satirical novels in the language-one of the most...
It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D`Artagnan,...
The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father`s ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage....
`If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.`Isaac Babel Tolstoy`s epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of...
First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day. Far more than a...
A unique anthology of Kipling`s war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War.
Ward Number Six & Other Stories
Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov - himself a country doctor - recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories collected here are a bleakly savage indictment of...
Washington Square. Third Edition
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build...
Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend. His suit is encouraged by...
In Wessex Tales, his first collection of short stories, Hardy recorded the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these Tales also portray the social...
