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Scotts Last Expedition

The final letters and diary entries of Robert Falcon Scott - written in his last days, while hopelessly trapped in a tiny tent by a raging blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier - are among the most poignant and haunting...

Scottish Ghost Stories

Scotland has a notoriously rich and diverse cultural tradition when it comes to the supernatural. Many of her greatest writers from Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg to Robert Louis Stevenson and John Buchan have...

Sea Wolf, the

Selected Works of Joseph Conrad (TPB)

Lord Jim, first published in 1900, confirmed Conrad`s place in literature as one of the first `modernists` of English letters. Set in the Malay Archipelago, not only does the novel provide a gripping account of...

Selected Stories (Chekhov)

Selected Works of Virginia Woolf (HB)

The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf`s novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and...

Selected Short Stories

J. Conrad

This specially commissioned selection of Conrad`s matchless short stories includes such favourites as `Youth`, a modern epic of the sea; `The Secret Sharer`, a thrilling psychological drama; `An Outpost of Progress`,...

Selected Works of G.K.Chesterton (TPB)

G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul`s School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from that beginning went on...

Selected Works of Virginia Woolf (TPB)

The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf`s novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and...

Selected Works (Lawrence) TPB

Selected Lives

Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great storytellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter. The heroes of his "Lives" were the great men of...

Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Contains: A Room of One`s Own, To the Lighthouse, Between the Acts, Three Guineas, Mrs Dalloway, Jacob`s Room, The Waves, The Years, Orlando. Mrs Dalloway, the society hostess Clarissa, is giving a party and her...

Selected Stories from the 19th Century

Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies, featuring tales by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, RL Stevenson,...

Selected Works of the Bronte Sisters (TPB)

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Although Charlotte Bronte`s heroine is outwardly plain, she possesses an indomitable spirit, and great courage. Forced to battle...

Selected Stories

A. Chekhov

Chekhov is truly the grand-master of the short story. With supreme delicacy he constructs stories where the action and drama are often Implied rather than described, and which rely on the intelligence and imagination...

Selected Poems of Byron

Джордж Гордон Байрон

`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 knew...

Selected Poems (Rosetti)

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...

Selected Novels of George Eliot TPB

"Adam Bede" was George Eliot`s first full-length novel. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book tells a story of seduction, and is also a pioneering...

Selected Works of H.G. Wells (TPB)

Sense and Sensibility

J. Austen Джейн Остин

"Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security". Jane Austen`s sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy...

Sentimental Education

"Sentimental Education" has been described both as the first modern novel and as a novel to end all novels. Weaving a poignant love story into his account of the 1848 revolution, Flaubert shows a society in the grip...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Семь столпов мудрости

As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, `Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War`. Lawrence`s younger brothers, Frank and Will,...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Семь столпов мудрости

As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War`. Lawrence`s younger brothers, Frank and Will,...

Shadow on Blind (Tales of Mystery & Supernatural)

The late Victorians had an insatiable appetite for the macabre and sensational: stories of murder and suspense, ghosts, the supernatural and the inexplicable were the stuff of life to them. The two writers in this...

Shadows of Sherlock Holmes / Тени Шерлока Холмса