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Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis of our times. The South Sea Bubble, Witch...

Fables (Illus. Rackham)

Aesop`s celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the...

Fairy Tales

The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection...

Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen`s most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl,...

Fairy Tales

Eight of the twelve tales in this book are from the master hand of Charles Perrault (1628-1703). Although Perrault enjoyed much distinction in the French literary circle of the late seventeenth century, his fame today...

Fathers and Sons

Fathers and Sons

I. Turgenev

`Fathers and Sons` is Turgenev`s most acclaimed and influential work, and is a story of universal significance through its depiction of contemporary Russian life. The novel concentrates on the conflict between...

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

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...

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...