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'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscien...
Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recog...
Now he found out a new thing -- namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
An idyllic snap...
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her...
Серия "Магистраль. Дети" для любимых детей, а также их родителей: яркие сюжетные зарисовки на обложке при сохранении общего стиля серии "Магистраль". В серии — знаковая де...
В книге собраны все рассказы и сказки Оскара Уайльда, среди которых знаменитые "Кентервильское привидение", "Счастливый принц", "Мальчик-звезда" и "Соловей и роза". Расска...
Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuade...
This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two dist...
Страшитесь непроходимых джунглей английского? Вам на помощь придет "Книга джунглей"! Знакомые с детства тексты без труда читаются даже в оригинале.
Редьярд Киплинг - пи...
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful ...
Charles Dickens's second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal un...
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beau...
In Thomas Hardy’s first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest esta...
When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's ...
Intelligent, beautiful and vivacious, Isabel Archer fascinates and intimidates the elite society of Albany, New York. Fiercely protective of her independence, she travels ...
The red letter "A" on her dress marks young mother Hester Prynne among her Puritan neighbors, who demand to know who fathered her child. Rumors swirl, but the shunned and ...
Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe's sentimental and moral tale of slaves...
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Томас Гарди - английский писатель-романист XIX-XX вв. Его романы "Тэсс из рода д’Эрбервиллей", "В...
One of Dickens's finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterious benefactor with the l...
Эмма Вудхауc – богатая, остроумная и уверенная в себе красавица. Она обожает устраивать любовную жизнь людей из своего окружения, но сама даже не думает искать вторую поло...