No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this.These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora G...
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396 книг
English
This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling author Katherine Paterson is a modern classic of friendship and loss.
Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he c...
Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loya...
With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Christchurch University College. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, lo...
Bleak House is one of Dickens's finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a com...
For a Nebraska farmer, the turning point come when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead.
A cozy mystery writer plots a savage revenge after a brutal encoun...
Millennium ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surfa...
"Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?" This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and...
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their...
Предлагаем вниманию читателей один из самых известных романов английской писательницы Вирджинии Вульф, ведущей фигуры модернистской литературы первой половины XX века. Ее ...
"An American Tragedy" is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who spends his life in the desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, it is the masterful portr...
Главному герою романа "Пересадочная станция" (1963) - ветерану Гражданской войны в США между штатами Севера и Юга, живущему особняком, удается войти в контакт с представит...
Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orches...
In 1950, Norton Perina, a young American doctor, joins an anthropological expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters...
Everyone who is nobody knows him. Anyone who is anybody doesnt.
He used to know his future; it involved a lot of brick-lined tunnels and plenty of filth. But when he re...
Meet Maggie Fortenberry. Her life seems pretty much perfect - she's beautiful, charming and successful, just as you'd expect of a former Miss Alabama. But in fact, Maggie ...
Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN!' But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance cons...
'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew his own sword; it made an almost silken sound - 'and of course you can'...
An aura of mean-minded resentfulness is thick in the streets of Ankh-Morpork. Insurrection is in the air. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again. The...






















