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Fathers and Sons

Faust. Фауст

Goethe`s Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life`s work of Germany`s greatest poet. Beginning with an...

Felix Holt the Radical. Феликс Гольд, радикал

"Felix Holt" is set, like "Middlemarch" in the Midlands at the time of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. This novel brings social and political history vividly to life with its magnificent rendering of provincial England...

Finnegans Wake ***

Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce`s last great work, it is not...

First Men in the Moon, the and A Modern Utopia

Five Children and It. (Несбит. Пять детей)

Its eyes were on long horns like a snail`s it had ears like a bat`s ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider`s and covered with thick, soft and it had hands and feet like a monkey`s. `It` was the Psammead,...

Five Children and It

Its eyes were on long horns like a snail`s eyes... it had ears like a bat`s ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider`s and covered with thick, soft fur... and it had hands and feet like a monkey`s. `It` was...

Four Plays

Four Late Plays. Четыре поздних пьесы

The Shakespeare comedies collected in this text are frequently known as "the romances". It is argued that they conclude in a spirit of hope as the main characters are reunited in an aura of reconciliation, wrongs are...

Frances Burnett: The Secret Garden

Frances Burnett: The Secret Garden

Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it.But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her...

Frances Burnett: The Secret Garden

Frankenstein (бол., синяя)

Frankenstein

M. Shelley

Begun when the author was only eighteen and conceived from a nightmare, `Frankenstein` is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in...

Frankenstein

Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil

From the Earth to the Moon & Around the Moon

With an Introduction and Notes by Alex Dolby. Jules Verne was internationally famous as the author of novels based on extraordinary voyages. His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to...

George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan Pier

Germinal

"Germinal" (1885) is the thirteenth in Emile Zola`s cycle of twenty novels about the Rougon-Macquart dynasty. It tells the story of Etienne Lantier, from the illegitimate Macquart branch of the family, who arrives in...

Ghost Stories of Henry James

With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the...

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Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the...

Golden Age of Myth and Legend

For over a hundred years Thomas Bulfinch`s masterpiece on ancient myth and legend has been consulted by scholars and lay readers alike. The timeless stories of the gods and goddesses of Greece, Rome and Northern...

Golden Bowl

Henry James`s last completed novel. "The Golden Bowl" is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father. Adam, are changed and challenged by...

Golden Bough

Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) is rightly regarded as one of the founders of modern anthropology. The Golden Bough, his masterpiece, appeared in twelve volumes between 1890 and 1915. This volume is the author`s...

Good Soldier

The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and...