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Серия "Classics"
Серия "Classics"
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The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the...
In order to repay a small debt, the young student Mitya is persuaded by a friend to falsify a bank bond and cash it in. Little...
Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from...
One of Tolstoy’s last published works of fiction, The Devil revolves around the young landowner Yevgeny’s irrepressible lust for...
Dmitry Rudin, a high-minded gentleman of reduced means, arrives at the estate of Darya Mikhailovna, where his intelligence,...
This collection of lesser-known early short fiction - ranging from absurd humorous sketches to psychological dramas and tragic...
On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a...
On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one...
Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka,...
On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading...
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the...
Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of...
The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century...
Ivan Bunin's first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at...
What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and...
The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and...
When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in...
Having lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle...
For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with...
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star...
The boy who wouldn't grow up, Peter Pan has the power of flight and lives on a magical island. But he is fascinated by Mary...
"After a while, with the parrot's help, the Doctor got to learn the language of the animals so well that he could talk to them...
After the death of his father, the seventeen-year-old orphan David Balfour discovers the existence of an uncle, and sets off in...
Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was...
When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother start exploring a gravel pit not far from their new countryside home,...
Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the Little Prince and tells...
This edition contains all the stories originally published under this collection and it's illustrated by David Mackintosh.
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The four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth – live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father...
A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of...
Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their...
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