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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...

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...

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...

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....

Orlando

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

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...

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...

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...

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. 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,...

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...

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...