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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 Railway Children

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...

The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent

J. Conrad

`Then vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town... a cruel devourer of the world`s light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for tiny passion, variety enough there for...

The Selected Poems of William Blake

William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin,...

The Scarlet Letter

N. Hawthorne

This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However,...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious...

The Thirty - nine Steps

When Richard Hannay returns from a long stay in Africa, he becomes caught up in a sensational plot to precipitate a pan-European war. After the discovery of a corpse in his flat, Hannay flees the attentions of both...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

A. Bronte

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious...

The Three Musketeers

A. Dumas

One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, "The Three Musketeers" tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D`Artagnan, and his three friends from the...

The Wordsworth Collection of Classic Romances

Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen constructed Pride & Prejudice, with wit, social precision and an irresistible heroine. Beginning with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, it is a perfect ironic novel...

The Wizard of Oz

L.Frank Baum

When a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they...

The Water Babies

Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Including Glinda of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Glinda of Oz

In the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she...

The White Company

A. Conan Doyle

`The White Company` is a motley group of English mercenaries, led by Sir Nigel Loring whose youthful adventures are recounted in `Sir Nigel`, also published as a Wordsworth Classic. With assiduous attention to...

The Wings of the Dove

The Woman in White. Женщина в белом

W. Collins

Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and "The Woman in White" is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and...

This Side of Paradise & Beautiful and Damned

This title includes an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly. This Side of Paradise was Fitzgerald`s first novel, and its instant success made him famous. The Beautiful and the Damned was Fitzgerald`s second novel,...

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan

Three Sea Stories. Typhoon. Falk. The Shadow - Line

J. Conrad

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...

Three Sea Stories. Три морские истории

Three Hostages

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...