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...
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...
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,...
`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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
"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 #ост./не издается#
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
