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The Drug and Other Stories (Second Edition)

The Descent of Man

In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our...

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 Forsyte Saga

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The Great Gatsby

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

The Hound of the Baskerviles

A. Conan Doyle

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" is the classic detective chiller. It features the world`s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast `with...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

V. Hugo

Set in 1482. "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" (Notre-Dame the Paris) is a compelling story of love and betrayal, brutal deeds and one of the most famous acts of revenge in world literature. Quasimodo, the hunchback of...

The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear

The Iliad and The Odyssey

Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector`s body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been...

The Idiot

Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately...

The Island of Doctor Moreau & Other Works

The idiot

Ф.И. Достоевский

Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately...

The Jungle Book: Including The Second Jungle Book

The Karamazov Brothers

Федор Михайлович Достоевский

As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and...

The Last of the Mohicans

J. Cooper

It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands...

The Lost World. Other Stories

A. Conan Doyle A.C. Doyle

The science fiction stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stand alongside those of Jules Verne and H.G.Wells. The protagonist, the `cave-man in a lounge suit`, is the maddening, irascible and fascinating Professor George...

The Lady Vanishes & The Spiral Staircase

The Little Prince

A. Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman`s discovery in the desert of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and...

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupery in 1943, only...

The Little Prince

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The Loved Dead

Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт

"I tried to turn away, but the shadows and the sounds and the stench were everywhere. Then I remembered something I used to do in half-conscious nightmares as a boy, and began to repeat to myself, `This is a dream!...

The Last Man

"The Last Man" is Mary Shelley`s apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable...