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Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind
What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many...
Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
This selection of Carroll`s works includes `Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland` and its sequel, `Through the Looking Class`, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children...
Around the World in Eighty Days and Five Weeks in a Balloon
Jules Verne (1828-1905) possessed that rare storyteller`s gift of being able to present the far-fetched and the downright unbelievable in such a way as effortlessly to inspire his reader`s allegiance and trust. This...
9:04 , 1 September, 2004: a boy is standing with his classmates in the playground of School No 1 in Beslan, in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. Looking around, he notices an oddly dressed man in combat fatigues...
There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than...
Considered by many to be Dickens` finest novel, "Great Expectations" traces the growth of the book`s narrator, the orphan Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its...
"Jane Eyre" ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit...
`Moby-Dick` is the story of Captain Ahab`s quest to avenge the whale that `reaped` his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to...
"The Pickwick Papers" is Dickens first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with...
Издание на английском языке.
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight, and one...
The Phanton of the Opera. Призрак оперы
Издание на английском языке.
Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Thackeray`s upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the...
When "The Forsyte Saga" was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family`s troubled story and adapted its activities to suit the...
Юпитер.W.Count of Monte Cristo
The story of Edmond Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of...
"Little Women" is one of the best-loved children`s stories of all time, based on the author`s own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community....
