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Ulysses

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...

Uncanny Stories

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 Toms Cabin

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...

Uncle Silas

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...

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...

Under the Greenwood Tree

T. Hardy

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...

Utopia

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...

Utopia. Утопия

Vanity Fair

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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...

Villette

C. Bronte

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...

Villette

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...

Virgin & Gipsy

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...

Voyage of the Beagle. Путешеств.на корабле "Бигль"

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...

Wagner The Werewolf

In the midst of a wood of evergreens on the banks of the Arno, a man - young, handsome, and splendidly attired - has thrown himself upon the ground, where he writhes like a stricken serpent. He is the prey of a...

Walden & Civil Disobedience

No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations - the illusory nature of much of what we call `progress`, the proper symbiotic relationship between...

War and Peace

L. Tolstoy

`War and Peace` is a vast epic centred on Napoleon`s war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy`s view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over...

War and Peace

Washington Square

"Washington Square" marks the culmination of James’s apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and...

Water-Babies. Дети воды

Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villanous 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...

Waves. Волны

`I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot`, Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, "The Waves". Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with...