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Bleak House

Чарльз Диккенс

In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and...

Bleak House. Complete and Unabridged / Чарльз Диккенс. Холодный дом

In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and...

Book of Kings and Queens of Britain

An overview of British monarchs from Cerdic First King of Wessex to George VI, this guide provides a regal chronology of Britain and contains many insights into the foibles of one of the world`s constitutional...

Book of Humorous Quotations

From Oscar Wilde`s witty observation in Lady Windermere`s Fan that `I can resist everything except temptation`, to Zsa Zsa Gabor`s admission that `I know nothing about sex, because I was always married`, and by way of...

Book of Limericks

While no collection of limericks can claim to be ‘complete`, The Wordsworth Book of Limericks contains an astonishing collection of over 1,800 verses - all of them comical, and a great number so far from cleanliness...

Call of the Wild & White Fang

The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred...

Candide and Other Works

Canterbury Tales Ned

Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales tells the story of 30 pilgrims who meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, London, and journey together to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. To pass the time along the...

Casebook of Carnacki Ghost-Finder

Thomas Carnacki is a ghost finder, an Edwardian psychic detective, investigating a wide range of terrifying hauntings presented in the nine stories in this complete collection of his adventures. Encountering such...

Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, the & His Last Bow HB

‘Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are...

Casefiles of Mr. J.G. Reeder (Mystery & Supernatural)

Despite his insignificant appearance, Reeder is a cold and ruthless detective who credits his success to his `criminal mind` which allows him to solve a series of complex and audacious crimes and outwit the most...

Castle

Kafka’s final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions...

Castle of Otranto & Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & Supernatural)

"The Castle of Otranto" tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle and his family. "Nightmare Abbey" follows the fortunes of Christopher Glowry, a morose widower who lives with his only son Scythrop in his...

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens: Complete Ghost Stories

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Charlie Chan Omnibus (Tales of Mystery & Supernatural)

A family secret leads to murder in a house without locks; someone is prepared to kill to procure a valuable set of pearls and a parrot fluent in Chinese knows too much; a Scotland Yard Inspector is about to close his...

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Children's Garden of Verses

The 64 poems in A Child's Garden of Verses are a masterly evocation of childhood from the pen of the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They are full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of...

Childrens Classic Tales

Tales from Shakespeare, written by Charles and Mary Lamb as an `introduction to the study of Shakespeare`, are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare`s best-loved plays, comic and tragic, are retold in a...

Children of Night: Classic Vampire Stories

Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find...

Children of the New Forest (Марриатт. Дети нового леса)

Cavalier and Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war and provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans as they face adversity, survival in the forest, reconciliation...

Christmas Carol

Christmas Books, Ghost Stories & Other Tales HB ullustr

Somehow, Christmas and ghost stories go well together, and here too Dickens was a master of the art. This title presents a collection of his supernatural tales, including such classics as "The Signalman" and "The...