Complete Works of W. Shakespeare (Шекспир. Полное собр. соч.)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of "Hamlet", "King Lear", "Othello" and...
Complete Fairy Tales (Andersen) HB
For 150 years, the tales of Hans Christian Andersen have been delighting both adults and children. This edition contains all of Andersen`s 168 tales, and among the favourites are "The Red Shoes", "The Mermaid", "The...
Complete Childrens Stories (TPB)
"The Jungle Book" introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear. How did the Leopard get his spots? How did the...
It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now...
Complete Novels of Jane Austen HB
Jane Austen is without question, one of England`s most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature`s most charismatic and believable heroines, she...
Complete Novels of Jane Austen (TPB)
Книга полностью на английском языке. Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's...
This edition contains "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass". It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of...
Complete Works of William Shakespeare HB
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of "Hamlet", "King Lear", "Othello", and...
Complete Novels of James Joyce ***
This collection comprises of Joyce`s three novels, plus the short story collection Dubliners. Dubliners, about Joyce`s native city, is faithful to his country, seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent...
Concise Dictionary of English Etymology
Walter Skeat (1835-1912) was one of the greatest investigators of the roots of the English language, and his remarkable scholarship was instrumental in the revival of the great works of early English Literature. His...
Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Признания опиумиста
`Confessions of an English Opium-Eater` (1821) relates Thomas De Quincey`s early life and experiences of opium addiction at a time when that drug was widely used for the relief of pain, and before its addictive...
The World Literature series reproduces the greatest books the world over with only the highest production standards. History, philosophy, psychology, political theory, fiction, and ancient texts are now accessible to...
Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems - `The Second of September 1792` is a fine example - and finding...
The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell`s shorter fiction is new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of...
"Crime Scenes" is a sparkling collection of short stories written by modern masters and mistresses of the crime fiction genre. Within these pages you will find tales of murder, mystery and mayhem in a great variety of...
`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...
Crimson Blind & Other Ghost Stories
Mrs Everett was the last in a long line of gifted Victorian novelists who knew how to grip the reader through the invasion of everyday life by the abnormal and dramatic, leaving the facts to produce their special...
D.H. Lawrence (Savage Pilgrimage)
Catherine Carswell was one of the most loyal and dependable of D. H. Lawrence`s friends. When he died in 1930, with the controversy over "Lady Chatterley`s Lover" still raging, the abuse heaped on him prompted her...
Henry James` short novel `Daisy Miller` enjoyed a great succes do scandale when it was first published in 1879, dealing as it does with the contrast between old and new world values. American Daisy Miller visits...
Gwendolene Harleth marries for money and power rather than love, but finds marriage a trap and her husband`s sadistic use of power constricting. The upper-class Victorian society in which she moves is juxtaposed with...
Dickens wrote of `David Copperfield`: `Of all my books I like this the best`. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author`s own enthusiasm for this greatly loved...
