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Life and Voyages of Christophor Columbus

Modern views of Columbus are overshadowed by guilt about past conquests. Credit for discovering the New World, we are told, belongs to its original inhabitants rather than any European, and Columbus gave those...

Life on the Mississippi

An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain`s inimitable portrait of `the great Father of Waters`. Part memoir, part...

Life`s Little Ironies. Selected Short Stories. Короткие рассказы

The proverbial phrase ‘life’s little ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal...

Life`s Little Ironies

The proverbial phrase ‘life’s little ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal...

Little Prince and other Classic Stories HB

The Little Prince is a modern parable for our time, of equal appeal to children and adults. This much loved story is joined by the following classic titles, to give a collection that has something for everyone,...

Little Dorrit. Dickens C

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Little Dorrit

C. Dickens

`Little Dorrit` is a classic Dickensian tale of imprisonment - both literal and symbolic - while Dickens` working title for the novel, `Nobody`s Fault`, emphasises its theme of personal responsibility in all areas of...

Little Men & Jos Boys

The two American classics here together in one volume, "Little Men" and "Jo`s Boys", are worthy sequels to "Little Women", one of the best-loved children`s stories of all time, and its continuation, "Good Wives". In...

Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer. His colourful work, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is, along with Tacitus, the...

Londons Labour and Londons Poor

London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of...

Lord Jim

First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and...

Love Poems of Ovid

The Roman poet Ovid (43BC-17AD) gives an ironic and parodic twist to love poetry in his highly original and entertaining explorations of sexual desire and its consequences. In his Amores (Loves, or Love Affairs) he...

Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems

Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800) constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject-matter and its anti-conventional language. Those volumes and Wordsworth`s and Coleridge`s other major poems...

M. R. James. Collected Ghost Stories

M. James

M.R.James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background...

Macbeth (Wordsworth Collector`s Editions)

Macbeth

W. Shakespeare

`Macbeth` is one of Shakespeare`s four great tragedies, encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions as well as high poetry, blended in such a way as to demonstrate the assured dramatic touch of...

Madame Bovary

G. Flaubert

Castigated for offending against public decency, `Madame Bovary` has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert`s contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist`s meticulous account of provincial manners....

Madam Crowls Ghost (Tales of Mystery & Supernatural)

In 1888 Henry James wrote "There was the customary novel by Mr. Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight". Madam Crowl`s Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from...

Maggie: Girl of Streets

Maggie is an astonishing novel of social realism, which parallels many of today`s ills. Set in the urban squalor of New York in the 1890s, it follows the careers of the innocent Maggie and her brother Jimmie, children...

Man in Iron Mask

Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas’ celebrated foursome of D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in...

Mansfield Park

J. Austen

Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to...

Martin Chuzzlewit

C. Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens` comic masterpiece about which his biographer. Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author`s development as he began to delve deeper into the `springs of...

Martin Chuzzlewit

Этот роман Чарльза Диккенса повествует о богатом старике Мартине Чезлвите и его сложных отношениях с его многочисленными и весьма корыстными родственниками. Скрытный, деспотичный и подозрительный, уставший от людского...

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Gaskell`s first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes...

Master and Margarita

Translated, with explanatory notes, by Michael Karpelson. Moscow, 1929: a city that has lost its way amid corruption and fear, inhabited by people who have abandoned their morals and forsaken spirituality. But when a...