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Cranford

Gaskell

Crime and Punishment

Crimea TPB

The Crimean War was the denning conflict of the nineteenth century and one of the fiercest battles in Russia`s history: pitting its empire against an alliance of Britain, France and Turkey, killing at least 800,000...

Crime and Punishment

"Crime and Punishment" is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably...

Crime and Punishment

Dostoyevsky

Raskolnikov, a former student who is morbidly self-obsessed, murders an old woman money-lender with a borrowed hatchet in a desperate attempt to free himself from poverty. From the opening pages Dostoyevsky attaches...

Crucible: Play in Four Acts

Set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, a community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recriminations that develops, men denounce their neighbours and truth is perverted by superstition.

Cruel As the Grave

This is the second medieval mystery from Sharon Penman, following Justin de Quincy, knight in the service of Queen Eleanor. His duty is clear: to restrain his brother Prince John in his relentless quest for the...

D-Day

As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement. (Giles Foden, Guardian ). The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved...

Daisy Miller

H. James

In the stultified air of the wealthy European holiday resorts, Americans cling to their old ways and traditions. Daisy Miller, with her outspoken honesty and innocence of mind, is anathema to them. Even to...

Daisy Miller

In the stultified air of the wealthy European holiday resorts, Americans cling to their old ways and traditions. Daisy Miller, with her outspoken honesty and innocence of mind, is anathema to them. Even to...

Dance Macbre

S. King

Dangerous Liaisons

Dark Half

S. King

Bestselling author Thad Beaumont would like to say he has nothing to do with the evil that has committed a series of monstrous murders. But he can`t. He created it.

David Copperfield

C. Dickens Ch. Dickens

"Of my books, I like this the best" Charles Dickens David Copperfield relates the story of his life - transmuting many of the early experiences of his creator — right from his birth to his attainment of settled...

David Copperfield

David Copperfield relates the story of his life - transmuting many of the early experiences of his creator - right from his birth to his attainment of settled maturity and successful authorship. On his journey, David...

David Wallace: The Pale King

Day of the Triffids

The triffids are a monstrous species of stinging plant; they walk, they talk, they dominate the world. The narrator of this novel wakes up in hospital to find that, by missing the end of the world, he has survived to...

Dead Souls (B)

Dead Souls. Мертвые души

Deaf Sentence (OM)

Retired Professor of Linguistics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It`s a bother for his wife who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed with his aging...

Death of a Salesman

In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a...

Death in Holy Orders

When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglian coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh...

Decline and Fall

Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits,...

Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

Defending the Guilty