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Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"
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Hardy’s last novel is the story of a young working man destroyed by the partial fulfilment of his dreams. Torn between his...
In The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot recreates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her...
The most swiftly-moving and unified of Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is famous for its re-creation of the London...
By 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens's magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided,...
Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and...
The doppelganger, the ghostly double infecting the soul, was a popular fictional subject for late nineteenth-century writers, and...
The exhilaration that comes from reading Adam Bede owes its existence to the fact that on every page George Eliot seems absorbed...
Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers –...
Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and...
Alone in the great social whirl of New York high society, with little but her wit and beauty to support her, Lily Bart pays the...
Hardy's account of a pure woman betrayed by love is his most powerful and moving novel. Set in the sometimes bleak but always...
An immaculate success on its publication in 1726, Gulliver's Travels has since had an odd double life as both a classic...
Despite the grimness of his subject and the accuracy of his description, Zola tells an irresistible tale of life above and below...
Regarded by many as Hardy's prose masterpiece, Far From the Madding Crowd is the tragi-comic story of a woman and three men....
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Wilkie Collins’ novel took the fashionable world by storm on its appearance in 1860 when everything from dances to dresses was...
Now a classic feminist text, Jane Eyre was the first of Charlotte Bronte’s novels to be published, in 1847. Like her sister...
Great Expectations will form the centrepiece of the Dickens season this Christmas.
Part thriller, part mystery, with a...
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of...
Philip Hensher’s selection of stories reflects the ‘desperate modernity’ of Berlin as it make and remakes itself over a period of...
The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers an array of dazzling...
The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month...
In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents...
In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and...
These autobiographical stories about growing up in small-town Pennsylvania are among John Updike’s best, and were the closest to...
Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the...
Horse Stories corrals two centuries of short fiction about the most majestic of domesticated animals. From writers old and new...
Stories of Motherhood gathers together more than a century of short fiction from a wide variety of authors in a literary...
As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence...
If every fiction is at heart a mystery, then the detective story is fiction distilled to its purest essence, combining the...
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