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"Золотой жук" и другие мистические истории
Эдгар Аллан По
Американский поэт, прозаик, журналист Эдгар По (1809-1849) — основоположник детективного жанра, автор мистических и научно-фантастических рассказов.
До сих пор обстоятельства и причина смерти гениальн
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
Charles Dickens
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?'
Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostl
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Carmen
Prosper Merimee
Carmen, sauvage et corrompue, passionnée sans tendresse, irrésistible et impitoyable fille de la nature, ne sait ni attendre quand elle désire, ni résister quand on lui plaît; Carmen, qui craint, qui
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Cinq Semaines en ballon
Jules Verne
Tenter de traverser l’Afrique d’est en ouest par la voie des airs, prétendre survoler dans sa plus grande largeur le dangereux continent noir à bord d’une fragile nacelle livrée à tous les caprices de
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Dickens wrote of "David Copperfield": 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this
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Emma
Jane Austen
'I wonder what will become of her!'
So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that
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Ghost Stories of Henry James
Henry James
With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His storie
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Hamlet
Shakespeare William
Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent sc
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In a Glass Darkly
Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 – 1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story.
"In a Glass Darkly" (1872),
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La Maison Tellier
Guy De Maupassant
«Fermé pour cause de première communion»: un tel avis, sur la porte d'une maison close, n'est pas chose courante, et les habitués de la maison Tellier, de Fécamp, n'en reviennent pas. Pendant ce temps
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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. Tome II
Alexandre Dumas
1838. Un seigneur étranger, le comte de Monte-Cristo, intrigue le grand monde parisien par son faste extraordinaire, ses manières, raffinées et fantasques, la jeune femme orientale qui vit dans son om
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Le Spleen de Paris: Petits poemes en prose
Charles Baudelaire
Lorsqu'il commence à publier ses petits poèmes en prose dans des revues et des journaux, Baudelaire a beau les qualifier modestement de «bagatelles», il a pleinement conscience de ce qu'ils ont de sin
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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. Tome I
Alexandre Dumas
1815. Louis XVIII rétabli sur le trône se heurte à une opposition dont l'Empereur, relégué à l'île d'Elbe, songe déjà à profiter. Dans Marseille livrée à la discorde civile, le moment est propice aux
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville
This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
Jane Austen
'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty'
"Northanger Abbey" is about the misadventures of
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Oscar Wilde (Authors in Context)
John Sloan
Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insigh
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Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College.
Illustrated by Marcus Stone.
"Our Mutual Friend", Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating ac
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Persuasion
Austen Jane
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What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, b
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Persuasion
Jane Austen
'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.'
Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has
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Romeo fnd Juliet
Shakespeare William
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Love, sex and death are the components of Shakespeare's classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and conve
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe
This book features an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well
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Tales of Mystery and the Macabre
Elizabeth Gaskell
‘In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged…
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
This title includes introduction and notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, "Tess" is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double
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The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe received scant recognition for his efforts, until the publication of "The Raven" in 1845. The poem's popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles. This title presents a col
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", published between 1776 and 1788, is generally acknowledged to be a masterpiece of English historical writing. Gibbon takes the reade
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The Complete Stalky & Co
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the stories is the question 'What happened to these fifteen-year-old b
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The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believab
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