A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens Charles After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney
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No Name II. Collins Wilkie Magdalen Vanstone and Norah - her sister learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the discovery that their parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited
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The Dark Flowers. Galsworthy John The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18-year-old undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage girlcould still be delivered by the hand of a
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Gryll Grange. Peacock Thomas Love Thomas Love Peacock (1785—1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. The final novel of Thomas Love Peacock followed the others after a silence of 30 years, its typical Peacockian format intact an idyllic, country
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The Strength of the Strong. London Jack Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "The
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Отель. Upper-Intermediate. Хейли А. Романы Артура Хейли признаны классикой мировой беллетристики. «Отель» знакомит читателей с миром роскошного отеля в Новом Орлеане.
The Outsider and Other Stories. Lovecraft Howard P. Howard Lovecraft (1890—1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in
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Pausanias, the Spartan. Bulwer-Lytton Edward Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "Pausanias, the Spartan" is his unfinished historical novel about a life of
Kidnapped. Stevenson Robert Louis Исторический приключенческий роман Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона. Главный герой - семнадцатилетний Дэвид Бэлфур. Его родители погибли,
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Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw George Bernard События легендарной пьесы великого Бернарда Шоу разворачиваются в 48-47 годах до н.э. в Египте, в Александрии, куда Юлий Цезарь прибыл в
Kim. Kipling Rudyard Two men — a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama — are at the center of the novel. A quest faces them both. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism,
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Nada the Lily. Haggard Henry Rider Nada the Lily is the thrilling story of the brave Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and his love for the most beautiful of Zulu women, Nada the Lily. Young Umslopogaas, son of the bloodthirsty Zulu king Chaka, is forced to flee when Chaka orders his death.
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The Man in the Iron Mask. Dumas Alexandre Александр Дюма - один из значимых классиков французской литературы. Его произведения продолжают покорять сердца читателей по всему
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Under the Lilacs. Alcott Louisa May Луиза Мэй Олкотт - известная американская писательница XIX века чьи романы читаемы и любимы до сих пор.
«Дом под сиренями» - это
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The Shadow-Line. Conrad Joseph Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise, who brought a
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Captain Singleton. Volume 10. Defoe Daniel Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Captain Singleton recounts the tale of Bob Singleton, a man
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The comedies. Комедии. Шекспир У. В книге представлены четыре комедии величайшего английского писателя Уильяма Шекспира: «Сон в летнюю ночь», «Много шума из ничего»,
The Moonstone. Collins Wilkie The Moonstone, generally recognized as the first detective novel is not only a work of historical importance but also a work that transcends the genre it created, in the artfulness of its plotting, in its compassionate depiction of servants, and in
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Вино из одуванчиков. Брэдбери Р. Вниманию читателя предлагается роман Рэя Брэдбери "Вино из одуванчиков", который можно назвать одним из самых "летних" произведений
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The Treasure of the Lake. Haggard Henry Rider Treasure and the occult are vividly blended in this stirring tale of Africa. Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future events.
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Armadale III. Collins Wilkie When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and
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Captains Courageous. Kipling Rudyard Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.Kate Sheriff, a young American woman, knew without a shadow of a doubt what her calling was. She was to move to India where she would dedicate herself to
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Stalky & Co. Kipling Rudyard Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. «Stalky & Co» is a great novel about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose juvenile protagonists
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They and I. Jerome K.Jerome Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 —1927) was an English writer and humourist. A charming story in which fiction is intertwined with autobiographical motifs, and humor goes side by side with delicate lyricism. How true to an English gentleman, burdened
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The Rover. Volume 13. Conrad Joseph Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The Rover is a novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his
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At the Mountains of Madness. Lovecraft Howard P. Howard Lovecraft was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "At
Обломов. Гончаров И.А. Вашему вниманию предлагается роман Ивана Александровича Гончарова «Обломов» (1859), который является вершиной критического реализма в
The plays. Пьесы. Уайльд О.. В книге представлены пьесы Оскара Уайльда «Вера, или Нигилисты» (1880), «Герцогиня Падуанская» (1883), «Веер леди Уиндермир» (1892), «Женщина, не
The Waves. Woolf Virginia Вирджиния Вулф - легендарная британская писательница первой половины XX века. Её прозу отличает изысканный язык, яркие персонажи и
Allan and the Ice-Gods. A Tale of Beginnigs. Haggard Henry Rider This novel is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki drug, as he did in previous novels, and he finds himself reliving as Wi, an civilized man living in the barbaric ice age as part of a
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Sketches by Boz II. Dickens Charles This richly varied collection of observation, fancy and fiction shows the London he knew so intimately at its best and worst - its streets, theatres, inns, pawnshops, law courts, prisons, omnibuses and the river Thames — in honest and visionary
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Confidence. James Henry Henry James (1843—1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. «Confidence» is a great novel which centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the