Bleak House II. Dickens Charles Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of larndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther
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Mad Monkton. Collins Wilkie Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity.
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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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Ветер в ивах. Грэм К. Всемирную известность Кеннету Грэму (1859–1932) принесла сказка «Ветер в ивах» (1908). Благодаря ей автор по праву входит в число классиков
Kidnapped. Stevenson Robert Louis Исторический приключенческий роман Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона. Главный герой - семнадцатилетний Дэвид Бэлфур. Его родители погибли,
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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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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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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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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Checkmate. Fanu Joseph Sheridan Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 —1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Combining detective with gothic romance, "Checkmate" tells the story of a rich man Walter
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Part 4. Jerome Klapka Jerome Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous and entertaining essays. These are amusing thoughts on all aspects of life, from love to poverty, vanity to ambition, babies to cats
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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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Palliser novels. Phineas Redux. Part 1. Trollope Anthony Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Phineas
Memoirs of a Geisha. Голден Артур Роман Мемуары гейши был написан американским писателем и специалистом в области японской истории, искусства и культуры. Действие
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
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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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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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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
The comedies. Комедии. Шекспир У. В книге представлены четыре комедии величайшего английского писателя Уильяма Шекспира: «Сон в летнюю ночь», «Много шума из ничего»,
The House by the Churchyard. Fanu Joseph Sheridan The House by the Churchyard is a novel by
Sheridan Le Fanu published in 1863 that combines
elements of the mystery novel and the historical
novel. Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin,
in the 1760s the story opens with the
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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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Bleak House I. Dickens Charles Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther
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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 Misadventures of John Nicholson. Stevenson Robert Louis Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most
A Set of Six. Conrad Joseph Книга «Шесть повестей» - результат трёхлетней работы одного из самых известных классиков английской литературы - писателя Джозефа
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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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
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Tanglewood Tales. Hawthorne Nathaniel Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He also wrote great stories for children based on Greek myth and legend. They are incomparable retellings of themes which the Greek dramatists used in
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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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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