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Tess of the d` Urbervilles

T. Hardy

Set in Hardy`s Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title. `A Pure Woman`, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral...

Tess of the dUrbervilles`

Set in Hardy`s Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral...

The Age of Innocence. Wharton E

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A. Conan Doyle

This edition of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" contains the earliest cases of the greatest fictional detective of all time. It comprises "A Study in Scarlet", "The Sign of Four" and the complete "Adventures of...

The Best of Sherlock Holmes

A. Conan Doyle

"The Best of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch-sleuth. Basing his selection around the author`s own twelve...

The Beetle

`I saw him take a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies fell about there issued out of them a monstrous creature of the beetle ` From out of the dark and mystic Egypt come The Beetle, a creature of...

The Casebook of Sexton Blake

Welcome to the breathtaking adventures of Sexton Blake! For the greater part of the 20th century, the countless escapades of super sleuth Sexton Blake kept millions of readers on the edge of their seats. Together with...

The Complete Four Just Men

`We shall have no other course to pursue but to fulfil our promise. You will die at Eight in the Evening - The Four Just Men` Criminals and malefactors beware! There is no escape from the sword of justice wielded by...

The Complete Father Brown Stories

"Father Brown" one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from english detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of "Father Brown" in 1911. that first collection of stories...

The Complete Poems of John Keats

J. Keats

`What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth`. So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the...

The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in...

The Cossacks and Other Early Stories

Leo Tolstoy`s War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the greatest novels ever written, did not emerge from a vacuum. They were preceded by at least twenty prose works of different kinds, some of them masterpieces in their...

The Complete Stories of Oz

When Uncle Henry and Aunt Em`s grey, grim Kansas farmhouse was picked up by the great summer cyclone, a wondrous adventure had begun. The whole house whirled around two or three times then rose slowly through the air...

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

A. Conan Doyle

This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories reprinted from `The Strand Magazine` It contains the short series `Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes`, `The Valley of Fear`, - a sinister...

The Collected Short Stories of Saki. Selected Stories. Рассказы

The Collected Short Stories of Saki

Hector Munro

Saki (H.H.Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekov and O.Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of...

The Complete Fairy Tales

Jacob Grimm and his brother Wilhelm were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of...

The Complete Mapp & Lucia Volume 1

The Coral Island

R.M. Ballantyne

`The Coral Island` -`A Tale of the Pacific Ocean` opens with the shipwreck on a Pacific island of the young friends Ralph Rover, Jack Martin and Peterkin Gay. Despite the pleasurable presence on their island of...

The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence

Lawrence`s reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctioned, his Collected...

The Drama of the Scharnhorst

While the epic of the final battle forms the core of his narrative, Fritz-Otto Busch also depicts life aboard the 32,000-ton warship and records her short, eventful history from her launching in 1939 to her fateful...

The Drug and Other Stories (Second Edition)

The Great Gatsby

F. Fitzgerald

Generally considered to be F.Scott Fitzgerald`s finest novel, `The Great Gatsby` is a consummate summary of the `roaring twenties` and a devastating expose of the `Jazz Age`. Through the narration of Nick Carraway,...

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Mon

The Government Inspector and Other Works