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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into ...
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...
This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is...
В своем творчестве Джордж Мередит (1828-1909) продолжает реалистические традиции в английской литературе.
Роман "Испытание Ричарда Феверела" (1859) посвящен проблеме стан...
First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, roma...
In "American Pastoral", Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domest...
At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell's third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely relat...
In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time . . . T...
Английский писатель и журналист Даниель Дефо создал за свою жизнь более трехсот пятидесяти произведений самых разных жанров, но в историю мировой литературы вошел как авто...
Novel tracing Jude Fawley's life from his aspirations of intellectual freedom to his early death.
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fa...
Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrato...
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world in...
Some journeys are best left unmade.
Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness ...