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"It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the...

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'
The...

In The Portrait of a Lady. (1881), spirited young Isabel Archer travels from her home in Albany, New York, eager to discover what...

'l am half agony, half hope.'
Anne Elliot lost the love of her life eight years earlier and the sorrow lingers on. Yet the...

"Please, sir, I want some more."
Oliver Twist sent out shock waves when it appeared in 1838. With a half-starved orphan for a...

Northanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girl's first excursion into fashionable society. Catherine Morland is...

Arcturus Crime Classics showcase unjustly neglected works by great writers from the 1930s - the so-called golden age of crime...

"Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power,...

The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with its belching chimneys, purple-dyed river...

A shipwreck brings Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput, where he finds himself in a kingdom of tiny people. This experience is later...

Originally entitled Children's and Household Tales, Grimm's Fairy
Tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm...

"…losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse."
Victorian London is...

Rodion Raskolnikov is a handsome, yet impoverished student. Morally conflicted, he believes that extraordinary men who contribute...

Not for those of a nervous disposition! This chilling collection contains some of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known stories, including...

'Private misfortunes make up the general good, so that the more private misfortunes there are, the greater is the general...

Arcturus Crime Classics bring back into print great stories by great writers. Alongside names that will be familiar to crime...

First published in 1879, A Doll's House rewrote the rules of drama. Henrik Ibsen's biographer, Halvdan Koht, wrote that the play...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the most popular Holmes story, and rated by Sherlockians as his best. Written some eight years...

In an attempt to create a perfect new being, scientist Victor Frankenstein secretly assembles a collection of body parts and...

Jane Austen's novels concern the gentle, rural English middle class existence and conventions of the early 18th-century. The...

The Great Gatsby (1925) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the Jazz Age and one of the greatest works of the twentieth...

When H. P. Lovecraft died in March 1937, he left a legacy of work that has since influenced countless generations of writers and...

Originally entitled Childrens and Household Tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm...

Когда Генриетте Хоуэл пришлось ради спасения друга проявить свою уникальную силу - способность управлять пламенем, - ей могла...

Историко-приключенческий роман "Дикое поле" посвящен истории зарождения российской разведки. Середина XVII века. Тайная...

Борис Унбегаун, профессор славистики Оксфордского университета, исследует этимологию и морфологические особенности русских...

Монография посвящена сравнительному анализу российского и зарубежного конституционализма, а также основных направлений эволюции...

Данное пособие полностью соответствует федеральному государственному образовательному стандарту (второго поколения) для начальной...

Пособие предназначено для проверки знаний учеников, формируемых в течение учебного года. Зачётные работы охватывают весь курс...

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Является первой частью учебного пособия, предназначенного для развития навыков чтения и смыслового восприятия письменного текста...