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Robert Graves`s marvellously candid self-portrait of his childhood and his experiences as a young officer in the First World War. Graves entered the war in 1914 and he describes in vivid, raw detail life in the...
When Benjamin Braddock graduates from a small Eastern college and moves home to his parents` house, everyone wants to know what he`s going to do with his life. Embittered by the emptiness of his college education and...
Grand Inquisitor (Penguin Great Ideas)
Vividly imagining the second coming and capture of Christ during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, this parable recounted in The Brothers Karamazov is a profound, nuanced exploration of faith, suffering, human...
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck`s Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant...
Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. The parties at Gatsby's Long Island mansion were legendarily glamorous affairs. Yet amid the throng of guests, starlets and...
Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. The parties at Gatsby's Long Island mansion were legendarily glamorous affairs. Yet amid the throng of guests, starlets and...
Day and night Jay Gatsby`s mansion on West Egg buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd,...
There the orphan Pip is disturbed to meet an escaped convict, Magwitch, but gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their lives. How Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor, snobbishly abandons...
"Great Expectations" opens unforgettably in a twilit and overgrown churchyard on the eerie Kent marshes. There the orphan Pip is disturbed to meet an escaped convict, Magwitch, but gives him food, in an encounter that...
Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
In bringing to life a host of unforgettable characters such as Tom Thumb, the Frog-Prince and Ashputtel, the Brothers Grimm created a feast of stories to stimulate the mind and emotions of readers of all ages. Some of...
Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (A)
Monday November 29 My mother’s gone right off me since Rosie was born. She was never a particularly attentive mother – I always had to clean my own shoes. But just lately I have been feeling emotionally deprived. If I...
A wonderfully warm love story set in contemporary Kenya - timeless, funny, clever and utterly charming, starring the reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn`t notice him in a Nairobi street - except, perhaps, to...
The Gulag was Russia’s forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive. Here, for the first time, is the full, moving story...
Lemuel Gulliver, ship`s surgeon and castaway, has awoken in Lilliput, where the size of the tiny inhabitants makes their concerns and quarrels seem ridiculous. A second journey takes him to the kingdom of giants,...
Learning that his father has been killed by Claudius, his uncle, Hamlet`s only honourable course of action is revenge. But Hamlet`s nature tends not towards action but reflection and in his incapacity to act lies the...
"O, what a noble mind is here o\'erthrown!" Probably the most famous play in the English language, Hamlet transcends the revenge tradition and explores the nature of man. Learning that his father has been killed by...
Urbane, dandyish, sardonic - the popular image of Oscar Wilde does not immediately conjure up a writer of enchanting fairy tales. Yet, as this collection admirably shows, he was also a poet, dreamer and, above all,...
