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Crimson Blind & Other Ghost Stories

Mrs Everett was the last in a long line of gifted Victorian novelists who knew how to grip the reader through the invasion of everyday life by the abnormal and dramatic, leaving the facts to produce their special...

Crystal Egg, the and Other Stories

D.H. Lawrence (Savage Pilgrimage)

Catherine Carswell was one of the most loyal and dependable of D. H. Lawrence`s friends. When he died in 1930, with the controversy over "Lady Chatterley`s Lover" still raging, the abuse heaped on him prompted her...

Daisy Miller

Henry James` short novel `Daisy Miller` enjoyed a great succes do scandale when it was first published in 1879, dealing as it does with the contrast between old and new world values. American Daisy Miller visits...

Dangerous Liaisons #дата изд.15.05.14#

Daniel Deronda

Gwendolene Harleth marries for money and power rather than love, but finds marriage a trap and her husband`s sadistic use of power constricting. The upper-class Victorian society in which she moves is juxtaposed with...

Daniel Deronda

David Copperfield

C. Dickens Ch. Dickens

Dickens wrote of `David Copperfield`: `Of all my books I like this the best`. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author`s own enthusiasm for this greatly loved...

David Copperfield. Дэвид Копперфилд

De Profundis. (Уайльд. Де Профундис)

De Profundis is Wilde`s eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde`s literary executor. The Ballad...

De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

Dead Souls

Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy...

Dead of Night: Ghost Stories (Mystery & Supernatural)

This title includes an introduction by David Stuart Davies. Oliver Onions is unique in the realms of ghost story writers in that his tales are so far ranging in their background and substance that they are not easily...

Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume...

Decameron

1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they...

Decline & Fall of Roman Empire

Gibbon`s "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", published between 1776 and 1788, is generally acknowledged to be a masterpiece of English historical writing. Gibbon takes the reader through the...

Deerslayer

"The Deerslayer" is the first of James Fenimore Cooper`s "Leatherstocking Tales", and it introduces Natty Bumppo, the Deerslayer of the title, and the Mohican Chief Chingachgook. The action takes place in upstate New...

Democracy in America (Abridged)

Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides...

Desperate Remedies

The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a `sensation novel` in the mode of Wilkie Collins....

Devils #ост./не издается#

In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this...

Devils Ned

With an Introduction by Briggs, translation by Constance Garnett. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries,...

Diamond as Big as Ritz & Other Stories

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that the very existence of this domain has to remain a...

Diary of a Nobody. Ничей дневник

"The Diary of a Nobody" is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life and...

Diary of a Nobody

The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life and...

Dict of Phrase and Fable

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase & Fable explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial, and embracing archaeology, history,...