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Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда. Уир Гермистон. Рассказы

Роберт Льюис Стивенсон

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"Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда" - психологическая повесть Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона. Есть ли связь между экспериментами доктора Джекила и чудовищными зл...

Prelude

Katherine Mansfield

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One of Katherine Mansfield's most important works, Prelude established her reputation as a master of short fiction. It is accompanied here by its continuation pieces At th...

Preface to Shakespeare

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson, was one of England's greatest literary figures: a poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer and a criti...

Look! We Have Come Through!

D.H. Lawrence

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Lawrence ... describes the poems in this first collection of his unrhymed poems] as "intended as an essential story, or history, or confession," the critical experience oc...

Новые тысяча и одна ночь

Роберт Стивенсон

3,8

(18)

Остроумные, блистательные, ироничные жемчужины "малых форм" прозы - повести и рассказы Стивенсона. Их сюжеты поражают отточенностью, их психологическая глубина и юмор восх...

Клуб самоубийц. Черная стрела

Роберт Льюис Стивенсон

4,2

(28)

Он внимательно прислушался, но не уловил звука человеческого дыхания. Превозмогая себя, он снова протянул дрожащие пальцы к тому месту, к которому только что прикоснулся. ...

Moby Dick

Herman Melville, Джон Эскотт

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Retold by John Escott for upper-intermediate students of English. Ishmael and his friend join the crew of the Pequod, a whaling ship, unaware that its captain, the mysteri...

Life's Little Ironies

Thomas Hardy

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Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury The proverbial phrase life s little ironies was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short...

The Mysterious Island: Level 2

Jules Verne, Jane Rollason

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One night, four men and a boy, who are prisoners of war, escape in a hot-air balloon. They travel for five days in a dangerous storm and then crash on a very strange islan...

The Canterville Ghost & Other Stories

Oscar Wilde, John Davage

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The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him! In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, w...

Shaun O'Day of Ireland

Без автора

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Brandeis, producer of motion pictures, traveled with her eight-year old Marie and Ref (her camera) across the ocean. This series of books about foreign children is the del...

Round the World in Eighty Days

Жюль Верн, E. H. Palmer

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Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The result is a crazy, exciting race against time across ...

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens, G. C. Thornley, A. Johnson

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This epic story is set in London and Paris against the background of the French Revolution. A Tale of Two Cities is a tale of tragedy and hope and is considered to be one ...

David Copperfield

Nigel Grimshaw, Charles Dickens

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David Copperfield's happy life suddenly changes when his mother marries again Her new husband is cruel to him and sends him away to school When David's mother dies. he is ...

The Black Cat and Other Stories

Эдгар Аллан По, David Wharry

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Are you brave enough to read four of Poe's famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don't read this book late at...

The Turn of Screw

Henry James, Cherry Gilchrist

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A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children It's her first job and she wants to do it well But she begins to see strange things - the ghosts of dead peo...

Остров Сокровищ. Повести. Рассказы

Роберт Льюис Стивенсон

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Английский писатель, поэт и литературный критик Роберт Льюис Стивенсон - автор произведений, пользующихся популярностью и поныне, среди которых "Черная стрела", "Алмаз Рад...

Ramona

Helen Hunt Jackson

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“If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what Uncle Tom’s Cabin did for the Negro,” wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, “I would be thankful the r...

Rip Van Winkle

Вашингтон Ирвинг, Margaret Murphy

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Two stories from the Catskill Mountains: one featuring a man who sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world and the other, a superstitious schoolmaster who en...

Something Childish and Other Stories

Кэтрин Мэнсфилд

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