Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"

Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his...

Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British...

Nellie March and Jill Banford manage an ailing Berkshire farm at the time of the First World War, a task which is made all the...

In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they...

First published in 1797, The Italian, with its archetypal villain Schedoni, its intense romance and its sublime depiction of...

Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to...

Set against the beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, Lenz tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz’s...

Fully annotated edition with over 300 notes.

In the Midwestern city of Zenith, the middle-aged real-estate agent George F....

Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his...

Compiled and published after Fitzgerald’s death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a...

When the orphaned William refuses his uncles' proposal to become a clergyman and angrily leaves his job in the counting-house of...

In Thomas More’s hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy...

Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand...

Contains the original 1928 illustrations, notes and an updated extra material.
Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen...

When the ambitious but inept clerk Frans Laarmans is offered a job managing an Edam distribution company in Antwerp, he jumps at...

On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told...

The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up...

When Paul d'Aspremont travels to Naples to join Alicia Ward, his beautiful fiancee, he is surprised to see her grow pale under...

Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth...

Having frittered away his family’s fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of...

Эта книга представляет собой облеченные в художественную форму воспоминания о детстве шотландского писателя Кеннета Грэма,...

The Great Gatsby (1925) is probably the most popular American novel of the twentieth century. This new edition incorporates the...

The Good Soldier is Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, a riveting story and one of the most compelling examples of early Modernism: a...

Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's last novel, and in her own opinion it was `more quintessential' than any of her others. Set...

Dickens' second historical novel, which he considered "the best story I have written," provides a highly-charged examination of...

Oscar Wilde's dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his great literary achievements. His talent was...

This collection of twenty-six tales features reproductions of the original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich,...

Nine intriguing tales.

One unequalled storyteller.

An unknown wounded man in a church. A fatal riding accident. A corpse...

'This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few...

Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of...