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House of Mirth

"The House of Mirth" tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her...

House of the Dead & Gambler

Translated by Constance Garnett. With an introduction by A. Briggs.

How I Found Livingstone

Henry Morton Stanley`s greeting to the Scottish medical missionary David Livingstone - Dr Livingstone, I presume? - is to exploration what Holmes` Elementary, my dear Watson is to detective fiction. It took place in a...

Howard Lovecraft: The Lurking Fear. Collected Short Stories Volume Four

Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil

"Human, All Too Human" (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic...

Humphry Clinker. Хамфри Клинкер

Hussar General

This is the first English biography of the man who saved the Iron Duke and his army at this most famous battle. Without the timely arrival of the brave seventy-two-year old Blucher at the head of his Prussian army,...

Iliad

The product of more than a decade`s continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman`s translation of Homer`s great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman...

In a Glass Darkly (Tales of Mystery & Supernatural)

Sheridan Le Fanu, wrote fellow author; , "stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". A best-selling author from 1860 to I 880, Le Fanu is feted today as a master of his art. In a Glass Darkly...

In Ghostly Company (Mystery & Supernatural)

This title features Introduction by David Stuart Davies. `A grey cloud formed on the summit of the altar, diminishing, thickening and turning into a Shape, a shape of evil and fear. The silent group by the fire once...

Inferno

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet `Divine` was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he...

Innocents Abroad

`Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party`? So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The...

Interpretation of Dreams. Толкование снов

Sigmund Freud`s audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900. Freud is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis, the key to...

Interpretation of Dreams. Толкование снов

Translated by A.A. Brill With an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. Sigmund Freud`s audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900. Freud is...

Irish Ghost Stories

With a word of warning to those of nervous a disposition, Wordsworth presents this spellbinding collection of chilling Celtic tales of the macabre, all drawn from the rich and varied literary tradition of a culture...

Irish Fairy Tales

Irish Fairy Tales

J. Jacobs

Издание на английском языке.

Irish Ghost Stories (Mystery & Supernatural)

This title is selected by Rosemary Gray. When you think of Irish writers of supernatural tales, then the names Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker will figure prominently, but this does no more than scratch the surface...

Island of Sheep. Остров овцы

In this, his final adventure, Buchan`s hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the tormented Valdemar Haraldsen, and a third decides...

Italian (Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural)

With an Introduction by Kathryn White. `He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging...

Ivanhoe. Айвенго

Вальтер Скотт

Издание на английском языке.

Jack the Ripper

Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They never succeeded...

James Barrie: Peter Pan

The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, Wolves,...

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good...

Jane Austen: Persuasion

What does Persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen`s quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She...