Classics

Great Gatsby, the

Hard Times

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the...

Heart of Darkness & Other Stories

Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals...

Heart of Darkness

Heidi: Lessons at Home and Abroad

Herman Melville: Moby Dick

When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master’s obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a...

In the Twilight - В сумерках

Ivanhoe. Айвенго

Вальтер Скотт

Издание на английском языке.

James Barrie: Peter Pan

The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, Wolves,...

John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps

Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval power. The resourceful victim of a manhunt, he is pursued by both the police and the...

Joseph Conrad: The Lingard Trilogy

Almayer`s Folly was Conrad`s outstanding debut novel: as well as exploring the culture of a part of the world previously unknown to English fiction, it showed immense sophistication in its handling of narrative,...

Julius Caesar

In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of...

Kate Chopin: The Awakening and Selected Stories

Kidnapped

Lenz

Life`s Little Ironies

The proverbial phrase ‘life’s little ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal...

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Women/Маленькие женщины

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Gaskell`s first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes...

Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita

Russia`s literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the...

Mozart’s Journey to Prague

Persuasion

Peter Schlemihl

Phoenix and the Carpet, the