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Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical...

Night and Day & Jacobs Room ***

Virginia Woolf`s second novel, Night and Day (1919), portrays the gradual changes in a society, the patterns and conventions of which are slowly disintegrating; where the representatives of the younger generation...

Night Shivers

‘Moving, his candle was instantly extinguished, and in the very moment of being left in the darkness he saw, standing in the doorway, a woman, resembling her who had haunted his dream overnight. He rushed with...

Northanger Abbey

J. Austen

`Northanger Abbey` tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1 790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the...

North and South

Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author`s first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine`s movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but...

Northanger Abbey

Nostromo

J. Conrad

Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental Province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his...

Not Exactly Ghosts / Fires Burn Blue

Here together for the first time in one volume are the twenty five spooky stories created by Sir Andrew Caldecott in two collections the 1940s: Not Exactly Ghosts and Fires Burn Blue. Caldecott, who only turned to...

Notes From Underground & Other Stories

With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehe...

Odyssey

Homer`s great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love...

Old Curiosity Shop

C. Dickens Чарльз Диккенс

"The "Old Curiosity Shop" (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the...

Oliver Twist

C. Dickens

Dickens had already achieved renown with `The Pickwick Papers`. With `Oliver Twis`t his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation,...

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Dickens had already achieved renown with "The Pickwick Papers". With "Oliver Twist" his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation,...

On War (Abridged)

Oriental Ghost Stories

Lafcadio Hearn’s fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental legends, and folktales. They are a potent blend of weird beauty and horror. Hearn, who referred to his narratives as...

Original Illustrated Strand Sherlock Holmes (TPB)

It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in "A Study in Scarlet". From 1891, beginning with "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", the now...

Origin of Species. Происхождение видов

`A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall `. Darwin`s theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been...

Orlando

Orlando

V. Woolf

Virginia Woolf`s Orlando, "the longest and most charming love letter in literature", playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf`s close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West....

Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

Written in 1910 and first privately published in New York in 1916, Frank Harris` "Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions" gained almost instant notoriety. Attacked by critics for its extravagant inventions, vigorously...

Othello

Othello

W. Shakespeare

`Othello` has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare`s tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona`s love for Othello, the Moor, transcends...

Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

C. Dickens

"Our Mutual Friend", Dickens` last novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central...