Wordsworth classics


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100 Selected Stories

Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. This selection of a hundred of O. Henry`s succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly...


Alices Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Look

This selection of Carroll`s works includes Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel. Through die Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have...




Dracula

This book includes introduction and notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. "There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks...


Lady Chatterley`s Lover

Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс

With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, "Lady Chatterley`s Lover" is the novel with which D.H.Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928,...


Little Women & Good Wives

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community,...




Moby-Dick

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of `Poetry Review` Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab`s quest to...


 

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Oliver Twist

Dickens had already achieved renown with "The Pickwick Papers". With "Oliver Twist" his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation,...



Secret Garden

Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes over her and...


The Complete Father Brown Stories

Издание полностью на английском языке.Father Brown, one of the most quirky genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in "The Innocence of Father Brown" in 1911....


The Forsyte Saga

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The Great Gatsby

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald`s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway,...


The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Set in 1482, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a compelling story of love and betrayal, brutal deeds and one of the most famous acts of revenge in world literature....


The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupery in 1943, only...


Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on a Bummel

There are four of them - George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, .Montmorency - all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The difficulties and vicissitudes heaped upon these innocents develop to...


Twelfth Night

The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of "Twelfth Night" have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, but is further...


Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns...


Vanity Fair

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