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Complete Prophecies/ Нострадамус. Предсказания

Who was Nostradamus, and what faith should we place in his predictions? This book gives objective answers. It reveals that Michel de Nostredame, a 16th-century French doctor, was more Renaissance man than arcane...

Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll (TPB)

Книга полностью на английском языке. Lewis Carroll is famed for his magical stories, "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass", both of which are included in this volume illustrated throughout by Sir John...

Complete Fairy Tales (Grimm Br.) HB

The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales. Together with their well-known tales of "Rapunzel", "The Goose Girl", "Sleeping Beauty", "Hansel and Gretel" there are darker tales which deserve to be better...

Complete Nonsense

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear`s crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years.This edition, illustrated by the author,...

Complete Nonsense

E. Lear

`The Owl and the Pussy-Cat`, `Calico Pie` and `The Pobble Who Has No Toes`, together with Edward Lear`s crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the...

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 Richard Hannay Stories

Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the...

Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll HB

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniel`s much loved drawings....

Complete Fairy Stories (TPB)

Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known...

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...

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

T. Quincey

`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...

Confessions (Руссо. Опыты)

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...

Couching at the Door

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...

Cranford & Cousin Phillis

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 - short stories

"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

F. Dostoevsky

`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...

Crystal Egg, the and Other Stories

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...

Daisy Miller

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...

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Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda

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...