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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,...

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

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 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 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 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...

Gothic Short Stories

This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the...

Great Comedies & Tragedies

These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare`s plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably,...

Gripping Yarns (Adventure and Ghost Stories) TPB

Presents tales of high adventure and low intrigue from masters of the genre like John Buchan and Robert Louis Stevenson, classics of crime and detection from veteran thriller writers like Edgar Wallace and Arthur...

Gulliver`s Travels

Gulliver`s Travels

J. Swift

Jonathan Swift`s classic satirical fable was first published following the `South Sea Bubble` and other financial and commercial scandals which sadly strike a chord in our own times. It introduced many fictional lands...

Hamlet

W. Shakespeare

`Hamlet` is not only one of Shakespeare`s greatest plays but also the most fascinatingly problematic tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this is a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich...

Hamlet (Wordsworth Collector`s Editions)

Hard Times

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the...