Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare`s greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial power and the...
Antony and Cleopatra (Шекспир. Антоний и Клеопатра)
"Antony and Cleopatra" is one of Shakespeare`s greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of Imperial power and the...
Art of War & The Book of Lord Shang. Искусство войны
The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli`s The Prince by nearly...
Arthur Doyle: A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four
`Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes` - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science...
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare`s finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in...
Australian Ghost Stories (Tales of Mystery & Supernatural)
Murderous ghosts, horrific curses and monstrous beings haunt an unforgiving landscape into which travellers stray at their peril. Journey through the dark byways of Australia`s Gothic past in the rare stories gathered...
The Aylmer Vance stories date from the Edwardian period, and there are echoes in them of the Sherlock Holmes adventures which had proved so popular in the preceding decade. The friendship between Aylmer Vance and...
Dickens`s first historical novel is set against the infamous `No Popery` riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised London for days. Prejudice, intolerance, misplaced religious and...
Beatrix Potter Collection vol.1
All your favourite Beatrix Potter stories in two volumes.
Bell in the Fog & Other Stories
Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco in 1857, and died in 1948. She eloped at the age of nineteen, took up writing against her husband`s wishes, and after his death became a protegee of Ambrose Bierce, whose...
An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom`s...
Beowulf is the longest surviving poem of Anglo-Saxon England. Beowulf, a young warrior of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, king of the Danes, in his time of need. He first fights the hellish Grendel, then...
Best Short Stories (Мопассан. Лучшие рассказы)
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in...
Best Ghost Stories = Рассказы о привидениях
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to...
Arguably India`s greatest gift to the world, The Bhagavadgita (`The Song of the Blessed`) forms an episode in the sixth book of the Hindu epic The Mahabharata and is the supreme work of that religion. The Gita...
Melville`s short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the...
Black Veil & Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths
The Gateway of the Monster… The Red Hand… The Ghost Hunter To Sherlock Holmes the supernatural was a closed book: but other great detectives have always been ready to do battle with the dark instead. This volume...
`Black Beauty` had a fine, soft black coat, one white foot and silver star on his forehead. This story of a horse`s adventures, disappointments and joys is perhaps the most famous animal story of all time. Tens of...
