Three Sea Stories. Typhoon. Falk. The Shadow - Line
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events `that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge...
Following the end of the First World War Richard Hannay, the hero of "The Thirty-Nine Steps", "Greenmantle" and "Mr Standfast", has retired to the Cotswolds with his wife and young son. There, news comes to him of...
Thus Spake Zarathustra. Так говорил Заратуштра
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche`s thought. `God is dead`, he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind...
To Devil a Daughter (Tales of Mystery & Supernatural)
Why did the solitary girl leave her rented house on the French Riviera only for short walks at night? Why was she so frightened? Why did animals shrink away from her? The girl herself didn’t know, and was certainly...
"To the Lighthouse" is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant...
"To the Lighthouse" is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant...
Tom Brown`s Schooldays and Tom Brown at Oxford
Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding (in Tom Jones) and Alec Waugh (in The Loom of Youth). The...
Tom Brown`s Schooldays. Школьные будни Тома Брауна
Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding (in Tom Jones) and Alec Waugh (in The Loom of Youth). The...
`Tom Jones` is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset...
Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer, Detective
Following on from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Tom Sawyer Abroad became one of Mark Twain's most popular books. Again we meet his world famous characters: Tom Sawyer, Nigger...
Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his-Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures,...
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Travels of Robert Louis Stevenson
This title includes an introduction and notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. The author of dozens of adventure novels and fantastical tales, Robert Louis Stevenson was also an enthusiast of travel, whether wandering on...
Travels. Путешествия Марко Поло
Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo`s...
"Fifteen men on the dead man`s chest - Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!" Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written. When young...
Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose...
When people use the adjective `Kafkaesque`, it is "The Trial" they have in mind – the nightmarish world of Joseph K., where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and any help there may be comes from...
Laurence Sterne`s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman took fiction into unknown realms, combining an entirely new concept in form with an idiosyncratic type of sentimental comedy. The publication of the first two of...
Thomas Hardy`s only historical novel, "The Trumpet Major" is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the impact of historical events on the...
Turn of the Screw & Aspern Papers
"The Turn of the Screw" is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural. "The Aspern Papers" is a tale of Americans in Europe, cleverly...
