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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

Чарльз Диккенс

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...

Bhagavad Gita. Бхагават Гита

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...

Billy Budd & Other Stories

Герман Мелвилл

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 Beauty

Anna Sewell

`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...

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

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...

Bronte, Бронте, Бронте: The Complete Bronte Collection

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

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...

Canterbury Tales Ned

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: A Christmas Carol