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Persuasion

J. Austen

What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen`s quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She...

Persuasion

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Peter Pan

J.M. Barrie

The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves,...

Peter Pan

The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves,...

Phantom of Opera Ned

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies ‘… the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death’s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with Satan…’ Erik,...

Phoenix and Carpet

The Phoenix and the Carpet is E. Nesbit`s second fantasy novel and is the sequel to Five Children and It. From Robert, Anthea, Jane and Cyril`s new nursery carpet there falls a mysterious egg which is hatched in the...

Picture of Dorian Gray

Picture of Dorian Gray

With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham.Wilde`s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of...

Pinocchio

Translated by Mary Alice Murray. The story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children`s tales of all time. Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even...

Pinocchio

C. Collodi

The story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children`s tales of all time. Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose, which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. And...

Plato: Symposium and The Death of Socrates

Plays

А. П. Чехов

Anton Chekhov`s popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, calling for actors...

Plays. Пьесы

The plays collected in this text provide the reader with a clear picture of Marlowe as a radical theatrical poet of great linguistic and dramatic daring, whose characters constantly strive to break out of the social,...

Poems and Sonnets (Shakespeare)

Shakespeare`s sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive...

Poetical Works. Поэзия

John Milton has a strong claim to be considered the greatest English poet after Skakespeare. His early poems, collected and published in 1645, include the much loved pair L`Allegro and Il Penseroso (`the cheerful man...

Poetical Works

Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into...

Poetical Works. Поэзия

William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin,...

Poetical Works (Россетти. Поэзия)

Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular...

Poetical Works

Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were...

Poetical Works. (Гарди. Поэзия)

Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary...

Poetical Works (Байрон. Поэзия)

`I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be`. wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece "Don Juan", which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe and near East which Byron...

Poetical Works

Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to...

Poetical Works (Теннисон. Поэзия)

Although Tennyson has often been characterized as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre,...

Poetical Works. (Уитман. Поэзия)

This collection contains the poetic works of Walt Whitman. These poems reflect the vitality of a new nation and the vastness of its lands. They combine autobiographical, sociological and religious themes but did not...

Poetical Works

This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the...