After the tumultuous events of last winter, Kate, Michael, and Emma long to continue the hunt for their missing parents. But they themselves are now in great danger, and s...
This is the first thrilling book in the most exciting children's fantasy series since Harry Potter. They were taken from their beds one frozen night, when the world was co...
Благородный лорд Гленарван и его жена Элен, рассеянный географ Паганель, отважный моряк Джон Мангле, майор Мак-Наббс, дети капитана Гранта - Мэри и Роберт - путешествуют н...
Это один из самых знаменитых романов Александра Дюма, давно уже ставших классикой историко-приключенческой литературы. Франция, шестнадцатый век, эпоха жестокой борьбы меж...
Arthur's final test of courage is upon him ...Arthur has crushed Lancelot's rebellion, but at a cost. Guinevere's betrayal has left him reeling, and his Saxon enemies seek...
Following a hard-fought victory, Arthur appears to have at last won the unity of the British kingdoms. He turns his attention towards the invading Saxons, while Merlin beg...
In the dark ages, a legendary warrior struggles to unite Britain...
Uther, the High King of Britain, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, t...
"Around the World in Eighty Days" (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a classic. The story starts in London on 2 October 1872. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy, solitary ...
Dickens' last novel is a mystery built around a presumed crime - the murder of a nephew by his uncle. Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolve...
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens. '"I may grow rich!" repeated Nicholas, with a mournful smile, "ay, and I may grow ...
In The Pickwick Papers we are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language, but to some of fiction's most endearing and memorable characters,...
One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his humble origins and finds ...
Dickens's first historical novel is set against the infamous "No Popery" riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised London for days. Prejudic...
Gentle Nell Trent lives a simple, if solitary life with her doting grandfather in his curiosity shop. Her parents died in poverty and unbeknownst to Nell her grandfather i...
Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old man with no friends or family to love him - he's just so miserable and bitter! One freezing cold Christmas Eve, Marley's Ghost pays Scrooge ...
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Dombey and Son" by Charles Dickens. "The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to...
Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and...
The Haunted House
Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Hesba Stretton, George Augustus Sala, Adelaide Anne Procter
0
(0)Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator—undaunted by the warnings of the locals—sets before a group of friends the task of driving the ghosts out of the...
Предлагаем вниманию читателей повесть классика английской и мировой литературы Ч.Диккенса "Колокола".
Рассыльный Тоби Векк и его красавица дочь живут бедно, но весело. О...
The story of Dickens's life told through his relationship with the city that fired his imagination. Five Dickens's essays about London adopted by the writer Michael Eaton.