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Decline & Fall of Roman Empire

Gibbon`s "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", published between 1776 and 1788, is generally acknowledged to be a masterpiece of English historical writing. Gibbon takes the reader through the...

Deerslayer

"The Deerslayer" is the first of James Fenimore Cooper`s "Leatherstocking Tales", and it introduces Natty Bumppo, the Deerslayer of the title, and the Mohican Chief Chingachgook. The action takes place in upstate New...

Democracy in America (Abridged)

Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides...

Desperate Remedies

The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a `sensation novel` in the mode of Wilkie Collins....

Devils Ned

With an Introduction by Briggs, translation by Constance Garnett. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries,...

Devils #ост./не издается#

In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this...

Diamond as Big as Ritz & Other Stories

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that the very existence of this domain has to remain a...

Diary of a Nobody

The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life and...

Diary of a Nobody. Ничей дневник

"The Diary of a Nobody" is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life and...

Dict of Synonyms and Antonyms

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Synonyms & Antonyms will enable readers to find the most appropriate word to use on a wide range of occasions. It is designed in particular for students, those writing reports, letters and...

Dict of Phrase and Fable

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase & Fable explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial, and embracing archaeology, history,...

Dictionary of Dreams

Dreams have variously inspired and haunted kings, poets, inventors, artists, musicians, statesmen and others since the dawn of recorded experience. Custavus Hindman Miller`s Dictionary of Dreams first appeared in...

Dictionary of Idioms

Dictionary of Quotations

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations is an essential work of reference for every writer, journalist and speech-maker, as well as being a treasure trove for the browser and the simply curious. There is a wide...

Dictionary of Proverbs

Dictionary of Modern English Grammar

Dictionary Thesaurus

Do you know the difference between "stubborn" and "obstinate", between "cackle" and "chortle"? Learners of English often find it difficult to know which word to use. Or you may have used a particular word several...

Dictionary of Homonyms

Many of us don’t know what a homonym is, yet we use them every day. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Homonyms, the first of its type published in Britain, will bring enlightenment. Do you get confused between ‘to’, ‘too’...

Dictionary of Abbreviations & Acronyms

Dictionary of English Spelling

"The Wordsworth Dictionary of English Spelling" is the only spelling dictionary to give concise meanings throughout, and the only full-size spelling dictionary to have boxed features on spelling rules. Quicker,...

Dictionary of Proverbs

Doctor Thorne

Dombey and Son

Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing love for...

Dombey and Son. Домби и сын

Don Quixote