The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of "Twelfth Night" have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, but is further...
The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of `Twelfth Night` have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, but is further...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Professor Aronnax, his faithlul servant, Conseil. and the Canadian harpooner. Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the `monster` turns...
This title includes an introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury. A year after the publication of "The Three Musketeers", Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns...
Twilight of Idols / Antichrist / Ecce Homo
The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche`s last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of...
Complete and unabridged, this title comes with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce`s astonishing masterpiece, "Ulysses", tells of the diverse events...
May Sinclair was an innovator of modern fiction, a late Victorian who was also a precursor to Virginia Woolf. In her "Uncanny Stories" (1923), Sinclair combines the traditional ghost story with the discoveries of...
Uncle Tom`s Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe’s rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the...
I thought I saw a human face, about the most terrible my fancy could have called up, looking fixedly into the room. The face gazed towards the bed, and in the imperfect light looked like a livid mask, with chalky...
One of Thomas Hardy`s most greatly loved and gentlest books, `Under the Greenwood Tree` is an unashamed idyll and picturesque portrait of the long-vanished pastoral society of early Victorian England. It was the book...
Under the Greenwood Tree. Под деревом зеленым
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury.Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy`s most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural...
More`s `Utopia` is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous `description` of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are...
Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
Varney, the Vampyre (Tales of Mystery & Supernatural)
Tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom`s wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this novel,...
Velveteen Rabbit & Other Animal Adventures
This endearing edition proudly includes the original telling of the beloved tale, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. Together, we travel alongside the Velveteen Rabbit on his magical journey towards becoming...
Based on Charlotte Bronte`s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude. Rising above...
Vintage Mystery & Detective Stories (TPB)
A richly entertaining and exciting collection of mystery and detective stories from the golden age of crime fiction. This was a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth who only had his...
This title includes an introduction and notes by Jeff Wallace, University of Glamorgan. These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one exception written and published in...
Voodoo Tales: The Ghost Stories of Henry S. Whitehead
`And behind him, like a misshapen black frog, bounded the Thing, its red tongue lolling out of its gash of a mouth, its diminutive blubbery lips drawn back in a murderous snarl`. Let Henry S. Whitehead take you into...
Voyages of Captain Cook (Кук. Путешествия капитана Кука)
Cook`s three voyages of discovery, which took place between 1768 and 1779, are among the most remarkable achievements in the history of exploration. Cook charted vast areas of the globe with astonishing accuracy, and...
