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From Collins Classics and the author of ‘The Great Gatsby’ comes this razor-sharp satire on the excesses of the Jazz Age
From the author of The Great Gatsby, a tale of ...
Наряду с романами "Ночь нежна", "Великий Гэтсби", "Последний магнат" Ф.С.Фицджеральд известен своими рассказами, которые вошли в золотой фонд американской новеллистики.
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Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian th...
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-...
Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Illustrated by F.Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in Londo...
Saki (H.H.Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekov and O.Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabr...
"The Pickwick Papers" is Dickens first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it...
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man wit...
Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey a...
Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, `Heart of Darkness` is a chilling tale of horror, which, as the author intended, is capable of many...
Роман С.Моэма "Пироги и пиво", широко известный во всем мире, продолжает знакомить читателя с лучшими образцами английской прозы XX века.
В центре романа - судьба талантл...
Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine Perry - based on Fitzgerald himself and a c...
Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring...
Mary Lennox was horrid, selfish and spoilt, and was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the entrance to a secret garden a change ove...
All your favourite Beatrix Potter stories in two volumes: The books in Volume Two: The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin The Tailor of Gloucester The Tale o...
Книга включает вступительную статью С.Батурина о литературном творчестве Т.Драйзера, отрывки из романа "Сестра Керри", статьи Драйзера, охватывающие процессы и явления аме...
В романе "Дженни Герхард" описан глубоко интимный мир чувств. Роман посвящен любви, осложненной социальными препонами и преградами. Когда Драйзера упрекали в "сгущении кра...