Merchant of Venice. Веницианский купец
"The Merchant of Venice" is one of Shakespeare`s most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. The text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature....
This selection of Kafka`s shorter prose writings includes one of the few works published during his lifetime: the harrowing story of Gregor Samsa`s overnight transformation into a verminous insect, his record of the...
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town is set during the time of social unrest prior to the...
Midsummer Night's Dream. (Шекспир. Сон в летнюю ночь)
Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night’s Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the...
The Mill on the Floss, based on George Eliot`s own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie...
Mill on the Floss, the. Мельница на Флоссе
Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.This novel, based on George Eliot`s own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected...
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of `Poetry Review` Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab`s quest to...
Издание на английском языке.
Monk (Tales of Mystery & Supernatural)
Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, "The Monk" is a violent tale of ambition, murder and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads to...
Издание полностью на английском языке. When 15-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs...
The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring and influential stories in world literature. Its themes - love, war, religion, treachery and family loyalty - are timeless, as...
Mother Goose. Old Nursery Rhymes
Traditional rhymes and stories have been collected under the wing of Mother Goose for centuries, and this collection of favourite nursery rhymes has been put together by the masterly illustrator Arthur Rackham. It is...
Virginia Woolf`s singular technique in `Mrs. Dalloway` heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence....
`Much Ado About Nothing` is unusual among Shakespeare`s plays in that it was written almost entirely in prose. It is a story of the reluctant love and sexual confrontation between Beatrice and Benedick and of the...
Mystery of Yellow Room (Mystery & Supernatural)
Who could have tried to murder Mademoiselle Stangerson, beautiful daughter of a famous radium scientist? And how could they have entered and escaped from a completely locked and watched room? With the Surete`s top...
With an Introduction by Alex Dolby Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided...
William Tyndale is the finest English translator of the Bible, and his "New Testament" one of the most influential works in English Literature. As a young man in pre-Reformation England, where unauthorised translation...
Following the success of `Pickwick Papers` and `Oliver Twist`, `Nicholas Nickleby` was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a `literary gentleman`. It has a full supporting cast of delectable...
