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Calvino's masterpiece opens with a scene that's reassuringly commonplace: apparently. Indeed, it's taking place now. A reader goes into a bookshop to buy a book: not any b...
Paradise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it was written. This edition aims to bri...
Sadegh Hedayat's most famous work is a deeply haunting and disturbing gem of world literature, a classic tale that defies any attempt to tie it down to a single interpreta...
'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.' Isaac Babel
Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of th...
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on...
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordina...
Псевдобиографический сатирический роман английской писательницы Вирджинии Вулф "Орландо" - одна из вершин ее творчества.
Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
Classic / British English
Pip is a poor orphan whose life is changed forever by two very different meetings - one with an escaped convict and the other with an eccentr...
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysteriou...
Вирджиния Вулф (1882–1941) — английская писательница, издатель и литературный критик. Вулф признана одной из важнейших фигур модернизма: ее изысканный нелинейный стиль пов...
The story of the four March sisters and their loves, problems and adventures is sometimes sad, often funny but always charming. Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in 186...
There is a climate of secrecy and fear at the Paris Opera. People are dying and a beautiful, talented young singer has disappeared. Is this the work of the Opera ghost? Is...
Cixous is issuing her female readers an ultimatum of sorts: either they can read it and choose to stay trapped in their own bodies by a language that does not allow them t...
Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote more than 200 other short storie...