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Based on the life of flamboyant financier C.T.Yerkes, Dreiser's portrayal of the unscrupulous magnate Cowperwood embodies the idea that behind every great fortune there is...
One dollar and eighty-seven cents is all the money Della has in the world to buy her beloved a Christmas present. She has nothing to sell except her only treasure--her lon...
В издание вошли две пьесы автора. Одна из них - "Пигмалион" (1914) - повествует о простой цветочнице, ставшей настоящей леди. Другая - "Цезарь и Клеопатра" (1899), в котор...
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“ALL THE WHILE SHE WONDERED IF ANY STRANGE GOOD THING MIGHT COME TO HER BEING IN HER ANCESTRAL LAND; AND SOME SPIRIT WITHIN HER ROSE AUTOMATICALLY AS THE SAP...
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle. "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terr...
Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, "The Time Machine" sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffe...
The Collector's Library presents the great works of literature in a handsome, hardback format. The books are sumptuously produced, enduring editions to own, to collect and...
The Moonstone, a large, beautiful yet fated diamond, was stolen from an Indian shrine. It is given to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday and, that same night, stol...
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Charles Dickens's tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Christmas has had, along with Dickens's other Christmas writings...
Including Poe's most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the infamous author's macabre works. ...
В предлагаемом сборнике собраны малоизвестные российскому читателю произведения, в которых блестяще проявляется замечательный талант Твена-рассказчика, его неиссякаемый пр...
A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate chi...
On board the whaling ship "Pequod" a crew of wise men and fools, renegades, and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by a crazed captain hell-bent on huntin...
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep ...
Washington Irving's story of a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains and awakens to find a changed world has been a classic of American Literature. Thi...
Предлагаем вниманию читателей сборник новелл Вашингтона Ирвинга, первого американского писателя, ставшего известным в Европе. В книгу вошли новеллы "Легенда о Сонной Лощин...
One of Sir Walter Scott's most celebrated novels, "Rob Roy" is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first Jacobite rising of ...