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Серия "Everyman`s Library Classics"
Серия "Everyman`s Library Classics"
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When James Boswell persuaded Samuel Johnson to embark on a tour of Boswell’s native Scotland in 1773, the adventure resulted in...
Tacitus was the greatest historian of the Roman empire. Born in about AD 55, he served as administrator and leading senator. This...
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds...
The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period and the crowning achievement of that caustic,...
The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun...
With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative...
Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. If This is a Man describes his deportation to...
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the...
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious)...
In 1849 the young Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years' hard labour in a Siberian prison camp for advocating socialism....
At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the...
Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation....
During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including ‘Boule de Suif’, ‘The Necklace’,...
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) is one of the towering figures of world culture, a universal man whose extraordinary...
First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the...
Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the...
Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and...
Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of...
The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge...
A magnificent new translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece, which when first published in 1991 was described by the Times as 'a...
Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time.
The Nobel...
Describing his collection of Essays as ‘a book consubstantial with its author’, Montaigne identified both the power and the charm...
On the day of his wedding, Edmond Dantes, master mariner, is arrested in Marseille on trumped-up charges and spirited away to the...
Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men: Archdeacon Frollo,...
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not...
Possibly the most colourful figure in the history of Western music, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was certainly the most eloquent....
Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but...
Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament and the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop for...
The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he lyrically describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of...
Marco Polo set off on his travels from Venice as a young man in 1271, and returned home in 1295 after spending 24 years away, 17...
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