Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"

Peter, Phyllis and Roberta’s lives change overnight when their father is taken away by two strangers. They move from the comfort...

James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a powerful, trailblazing novel that exposes the intricate...

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved...

A special edition from Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any...

"Новые тысяча и одна ночь" - сборник рассказов шотландского писателя Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона, впервые опубликованный в 1882...

Muriell Gilman left her father at the breakfast table while she cooked seconds of sausage and eggs. When she returned, he had...

'It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young...

'Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy...

'"Holmes!" I cried. "Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of...

'He is the Napoleon of Crime... He is the organiser of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great...

'Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than...

'I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.'

Scandal, treachery and...

'About to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably...

A bloody curse fells four before Miss Silver investigates in this classic crime mystery.

Judy Elliot, meeting an old friend,...

Mildred Pierce is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, by hard work and...

First published in 1962 as 'La Placa del Diamant', this is considered the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new...

In the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader...

In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader...

Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with...

In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society...

Poor Pongo Twistleton must endure his sixty-year-old Uncle Fred once a year. But this year, mischievous Uncle Fred has gone too...

The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he lyrically describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of...

Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and...

One of the most celebrated works of classic literature for children, The Wind in the Willows follows Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger...

Two strangers meet on a bus along a dusty road in rural France. Tati is a tough, work-worn widow, who runs the farm her late...

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a...

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then...

The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart,...

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred...

Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great...