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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 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

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 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...

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 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 Lady Vanishes & The Spiral Staircase

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 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 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 Man Who would be King & Other Stories

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 Merchant of Venice

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 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 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 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...