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Picture of Dorian Gray

With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham.Wilde`s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of...



Pinocchio

Translated by Mary Alice Murray. The story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children`s tales of all time. Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even...


Poems and Sonnets (Shakespeare)

Shakespeare`s sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive...


Pride and Prejudice

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Return of Sherlock Holmes, the (HB)

`…once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.`.Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back!...


Robinson Crusoe

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Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli`s parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub...




Scarlet Letter. Алая буква

Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate...


Secret Garden

Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes over her and...



Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor’s character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of...


Study in Scarlet & Sign of Four

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Tales from Shakespeare

The Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb were written to be an `introduction to the study of Shakespeare`, but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare`s best-loved tales, comic and tragic,...


Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Эдгар По

This book features an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. This collection of Poe`s best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic...


Tales of Mystery and the Macabre

‘In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged…’ Elizabeth...


Tender is the Night

"Tender is the Night" is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the 'Roaring Twenties'. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The...


The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

With an Introduction by Dr. Julian Wolfreys, this edition of "The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" contains the earliest cases of the greatest fictional detective of all time. It comprises the complete...


The Best Short Stories

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...