A brilliant social satire by Nobel Prize-winning author John Galsworthy, this monumental trilogy chronicles the lives of three generations of an upper-middle-class London ...
Похожие книги
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Jane Rollason
'The Man Who Would be King' is the story of two British vagabonds who set off to establish a small kingdom among primitive tribesmen in Afghanistan. Only one of the men re...
This is the most complete reader's guide available on Japan's highly revered novel, the eleventh-century classic, The Tale of Genji , by Murasaki Shikibu, referred to by N...
One of the most distinctive literary voices of the 20th century, D.H.Lawrence wrote novels prized for their psychological and poetic insights, among them The Rainbow, Wome...
The first novel in the beloved Fairacre series, Village School introduces the remarkable schoolmistress Miss Read and her lovable group of children, who, with a mixture of...
Well, she was married to him. And what was more she loved him. Not the Stanley whom everyone saw, not the everyday one; but a timid, sensitive, innocent Stanley who knelt ...
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...
Women readers everywhere will be entranced by bestselling Sheila O'Flanagan's unputdownable new novel of friendship, love and sweet revenge.
Darcey and Nieve were the ...
Julia Martin is at the end of her rope in Paris. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after leaving her last lover, she is running out of luck and chances. A ...
Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, final...
[Penguin Readers Level 2]
Classic / British English D'Artagnan wants to be a musketeer. He wants to fight for his king and his country. But the Queen has a problem with...
Dr John Silence, widely respected and admired, is known as a 'psychic doctor'. The cases that his special powers are called upon to deal with are out of the ordinary, inta...
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (born June 24, 1842; died sometime after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short storywriter, fabulist, and satirist. To...
This account of life on the streets of Johannesburg won the Sir Percy Fitzpatrick Award in 1988. His seven older brothers have all left home, and now there's just Johnny, ...
The Second E.F. Benson Megapack collects 11 more short stories and 11 novels by E.F. Benson, spanning horror, mystery, suspense, and historical subjects, including such cl...
"Lord Jim", first published in 1900, confirmed Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English letters. Set in the Malay Archipelago, not only doe...
Excerpt from Modeste Mignon: And Other Stories
"Modeste Mignon" occupies a very peculiar place in Balzac's works - a place indeed, which, though for the form's sake more ...
First published in 1901, this was Hardy's second collection of poetry and contains some of most-loved poems. such as 'The Drummer' (Drummer Hodge), 'Shelley's Skylark', 'A...
What should one do if one encounters a ghost? Speak to it, suggests John Broughton, new owner of Thurnley Abbey. During a Mediterranean crossing, Broughton's friend Alista...
