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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...
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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...
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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...
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`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...
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"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...
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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...
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`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 the...
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`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...
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Way We Live Now. Как мы теперь живем?
The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope`s Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of...
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The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope`s Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of...
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First published in...
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"The Well-Beloved" completes the cycle of Hardy`s great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man`s eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated...
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The wolf has always been a creature of legend and romance, while kings, sorcerers and outlaws have been proud to be called by the name of the wolf, it’s no wonder, then, that tales of transformation between man and...
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"Wessex Tales" was the first collection of Hardy`s short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting...
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What Katy Did at School & What Katy Did Next
"What Katy Did at School and What Katy Did Next" continue the story of the high-spirited and rebellious American girl, Katy Carr, and her family, who first appeared in "What Katy Did". "What Katy Did at Schoo"l is a...
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What Katy Did. Что делала Катя
For more than 100 years "What Katy Did" has been one of the best-loved stories for children. Katy Carr is untidy, tall and gangling and lives with her brothers and sisters planning for the day when she will be...
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What Katy Did at School & What Katy Did Next
What Katy Did at School and What Katy Did Next continue the story of the high-spirited and rebellious American girl, Katy Carr, and her family, who first appeared in What Katy Did. What Katy Did at School is a...
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The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. For all its sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupted adult...
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Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame`s classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his `Poop-poop-poop` road-hogging new...
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Wind in the Willows (Грэхем. Ветер в ивах)
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame`s classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his `Poop-poop-poop` road-hogging new...
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"The Winter`s Tale", one of Shakespeare`s later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and,...
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Witch of Prague & Other Stories
‘As I fell the thing sprang across me and seemed to throw itself upon the captain. When I last saw him on his feet his face was white and his lips set. It seemed to me that he struck a violent blow at the dead being,...
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Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father...
