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Жанр "Художественная литература на английском языке"
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The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She...
Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters is a story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful, gossiping...
Elizabeth Gaskell's only historical novel, Sylvia's Lovers, is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where...
Shamela is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances...
'Sets out the London of the 1830s before you, streets, people, pleasures, low life, prisons' Claire Tomalin
Charles Dickens's...
Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to...
Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent...
Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction and...
The hero of Charlotte Bronte's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in...
Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the...
Anthony Trollope's The Warden is the first of his well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, edited with an introduction and notes by...
Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in influential...
After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the...
Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate...
A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting...
Originally published in 1823, The Pioneers is the first of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates...
Meet Stanley Williams: Single, in his thirties, grieving the death of his Jamaican father and wondering if there is more to life...
A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and...
Bee Beahorn had it all - a successful music career, fabulous friends, and a glamorous celebrity lifestyle.
At least, that's...
An electrifying modern classic - Kneale's sweeping adventure story vividly brings a past age to life
In 1857 when Captain...
The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and...
When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter...
After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor
In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely...
A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew...
The Quincunx is an epic Dickensian-like mystery novel set in 19th century England, and concerns the varying fortunes of young...
With this novel Sharon Penman moves to a new set of characters and to 12th Century England and the early civil war between...
Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing...
The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search...
Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...
Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons...
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