Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are famous for their comic talents and numerous television and film appearances. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, they made a wonderful pairing as...
A young woman’s secret love affair leads to a violent and tragic act in one of Elizabeth Bowen’s most acclaimed novels. To the North centers on two young women in 1920s Lo...
Dark Laughter (1925) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to establish himself as a professional writer,...
'...We were sitting on the porch, tutti-frutti melting on our plates, when suddenly, just as we were wishing that something would happen, something did; for out of the red...
This Library of America volume is the second of three volumes that contain the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir N...
`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd women - no making a pair with them.'
The idea of the superfluity of unma...
A young Dutch geologist, Alfred Issendorf, is determined to win fame for making a great discovery. To this end he joins a small geological expedition to the far north of N...
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.
Accessible language ...
A fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty in Oscar Wilde’s fascinating gothic tale.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s only full-length...
'Do you still love him?' Every second of every minute of every hour of every day...Alice is18 and about to start university while Joe's life is seemingly going n...
A choral novel on the hopes, disillusionments and betrayals of family life in Mexico. A rich Catholic rancher wants his four sons to become priests, while the boys themsel...
The first of Roussel’s two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in...
Librairie D'Education A. Hatier, переплет: твердый, формат: уменьшенный.
A concise account of the life and ways of the English, with special reference to London. Supplyin...
Cecy Duncan returns from boarding school and in spite of Carol's protests she decides to be a working girl during her vacation. Cecy applies for a job as a companion to an...
So writes Graham Greene, describing his childhood love of reading and how it grew into a passion for writing. Collected Essays contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and o...
This classic 1949 novella about the violent expulsion of Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army has long been considered a high point in Hebrew literature, as it has al...
This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-century’s great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the individual conscience.
An unnamed ...
M. R. James was a prolific and hugely successful author, now credited with having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic cl...
