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Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"
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Writers have always been uniquely inspired by New York City, and the classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic...
A collection of ten stories in which many old friends reappear in deliciously absurd situations. Two lovers are united by their...
The first of the Blandings Castle novels, introducing Lord Emsworth, his family, his secretary – the Efficient Baxter – and the...
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he...
The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical...
Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and...
Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to...
The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and...
Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic...
Celebrated for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day and The Death of the Heart, Bowen established herself in...
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it...
A brand new omnibus of 55 short stories, presented for the first time in chronological order.
Described by her friend Dolly...
This complex tale of self-discovery - considered by the author to be his best work - traces the path of an aging idealist,...
The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco,...
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a...
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In...
Little Women is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, based on the author’s own youthful experiences. It...
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky...
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the “roaring...
This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a...
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar...
Philip Hensher’s selection of stories reflects the ‘desperate modernity’ of Berlin as it make and remakes itself over a period of...
As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence...
M. M. Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions, sweeps her readers back to the vast, glittering, sunbaked continent of India. Shadow of...
Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly...
Les Miserables is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the street children,...
Scott Fitzgerald was called the laureate of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby (1926) is a cynical celebration of the post-Great War...
Agatha Christie's world-famous serial killer mystery, coming to BBC TV and reissued in a beautiful new classic hardcover edition...
In The Pickwick Papers we are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language, but to some of...
A breathtaking classic of psychological suspense by the inventor of the detective novel, Wilkie Collins, with an afterword by...
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