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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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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` 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...
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...
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...
"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...
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,...
