`Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...`Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot`s first...
The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and...
Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy
`Hello, I`m Raggedy Ann. Welcome to my world. I`m going to tell you about myself and this book. Some grown-ups think I`m just another rag doll with floppy arms and legs who has been nibbled by the mice but they are...
Aesop`s celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of individual fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the...
Age of Innocence = Возраст невинности
Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton`s greatest achievements, "The Age of Innocence" is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the "eternal...
`Agnes Grey` is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal...
Over half a century before the rise of the great ‘Queens of Crime’, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, Amelia B. Edwards was an expert practitioner of crime fiction and murder mysteries, of which the best dozen...
This title includes an Introduction and Notes by John Lester, formerly Head of English at Havering College of Further and Higher Education. From the rain forests of Almayer`s Folly to the Mediterranean coast of "The...
Enter Arsene Lupin, Gentleman - Cambrioleur, the `Prince of Thieves`, one of the most daring and dashing individuals who ever lifted a diamond necklace from under the noses of the authorities. Young and handsome,...
Animal Farm / Оруэлл Дж. Скотный двор
In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin’s brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case,...
Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at...
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...
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...
