Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"

It is 1840 in a fictional town called Cranford and change is in the air. The Industrial Revolution is just around the corner and...

Jim was first mate on the Patna, when the ship and passengers were abandoned by the crew in the Red Sea. Accused of cowardice,...

Desperate to escape her unhappy past, Lucy Snowe leaves England for the Continent and takes up the post of English teacher at a...

On the bleak streets of Dublin, a young boy grieves over the death of an irreligious priest, a woman elopes with her lover, and a...

The Professor was Charlotte Bronte's first novel, completed as early as 1846. The central character is the reserved William...

Edith Whartons novella Ethan Frome (1911) is a classic of American literature. Mattie Silver, a young and guileless girl, is...

Since its first appearance in 1871-2, Middlemarch has been hailed by successive generations of writers and readers for its...

This stylish jacketed hardback presents one of the greatest works of modern literature, The Great Gatsby, featuring a...

This deluxe hardback edition presents one of the most celebrated American novels of all time, The Great Gatsby, with silver...

A woman receives two severed ears in a cardboard box, a government-worker is found dead on the London Underground, and two men go...

Eighty short tales of the ghostly, arcane and terrifying make up this collection by five horror writers of the 19th and early...

Published in 1907, Conrad's compelling tale of anarchy, espionage and violence is set in the seedy back streets of Victorian...

Silas Marner (1861) is Eliot's classic tale of an outsider. A weaver who comes to live and work alone in the Midlands village of...

Mary Lennox is an unhappy and unloved little girl. After being orphaned, she is sent from India to live at her uncle's gloomy...

The Invisible Man tells the tale of a scientist who finds a way to make himself invisible, but to his dismay is unable to reverse...

In the village of Iping, a strange man arrives at a local inn wrapped in bandages. He refuses to leave his room where he is...

In the sordid streets of 17th century London, its sink or swim, and Moll Flanders is struggling to stay afloat.

Born in...

Women in Love is D.H. Lawrence's masterful sequel to The Rainbow, revolving round the lives and loves of Gudrun and Ursula...

Everyone looks upon shy, self-effacing Fanny Price as the poor relation among her four spoiled cousins at Mansfield...

In Around the Moon, Verne describes how the gravitational force of a large asteroid can change the course of a space ship, and...

This collection brings together the unique stories from H. P. Lovecraft's formative years, ranging from the petrifying 'Dagon'...

'But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.'

Written between 1591 and 1595,...

Cosy up for a festive reading bonanza with these heart-warming seasonal tales of Christmas by Charles Dickens. As well as the...

'I fail to see', writes suburban bank clerk Charles Pooter '- because I do not happen to be a "Somebody" - why my diary should...

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness - I am nothing. - Virginia Woolf

First...

HG Wells' thrilling 'scientific romance' about the Martian landings in Woking and the terrifying alien conquest of London has...

For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.

In...

A study of conflict between father and daughter, this is the story of Catherine, the plain, obedient daughter of Dr August Sloper...

Selected from the work of soldiers killed in action - starting with Rupert Brooke in 1915 and ending with the tragic loss of...

'We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be...