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The Man Who would be King & Other Stories

The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories

R. Kipling

This anthology of Rudyard Kipling`s greatest short stories contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he was an undisputed master. `The Man Who Would be King` is a classic tale of...

The Merchant of Venice

The Moonstone

W. Collins

The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Complete and Unabridged

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Dickens`s final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

C. Dickens

Dickens`s final novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870, is a mystery story much influenced by the `Sensation Novel` as written by his friend Wilkie Collins. The action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and...

The Origin of Species

`A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...`.Darwin`s theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been...

The Old Curiosity Shop

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phis) and George Cattermole.The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the...

The Plumed Serpent

D.H. Lawrence

In this disturbing late novel. Lawrence`s pagan side finds full expression. Kate Leslie, an Irish widow visiting Mexico, finds herself equally repelled and fascinated by what she sees as the primitive cruelty of the...

The Professor

C. Bronte

Written two years before `Jane Eyre`, ` The Professor` was Charlotte Bronte`s first novel and was based on her own experiences in Brussels, although it was not published until after her own death. The story is one of...

The Prince

Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century. Widely quoted...

The Plays of Oskard Wilde

Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, "Lady Windermere`s Fan". The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here...

The Pickwick Papers

Издание на английском языке.Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.The Pickwick Papers is Dickens first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in...

The Peninsular War

The Peninsular War was a war of contrasts; a war fought in the icy passes of the high Pyrenees and on the burning wastes of the Sierra Morena; a war of infinite cruelty yet remarkable courtesy; a war in which debonair...

The Princess and the Goblin: The Princess and Curdie

When Princess Irene and her nursemaid stay out too late one night and are chased home by goblins, a young miner boy called Curdie comes to their rescue. So begins a fantastic adventure in which Irene and Curdie must...

The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere`s Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here...

The Poems of Robert Browning

Robert Browning (1812-1889) represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and Tennyson. His poetry demonstrates how a poet must be a sharp...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

O. Wilde

Wilde`s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its...

The Professor

The Rainbow

D.H. Lawrence

"The Rainbow" is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within this historical framework Lawrence`s essential concern is with the...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

This edition presents the classic free translation by Edward Fitzgerald of the great Persian poem by the 12th century astronomer and poet - Omar Khayyám. Fitzgerald`s masterful translation was first published as...

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

The Railway Children

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

А.-К. Дойль

After Sherlock Holmes` apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in "The Adventure of the Empty...

The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes

Edited Stuart

"The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes" is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was ensconced in his...