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The Sigh of the Four and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes = Знак Четырех и Воспоминания Шерлока Холмса
Complete in five handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a definitive collection of the famous detective's adventures. No home library is complete without it. .Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, the magazine in which they were first published, this volume won even more popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Holmes is at...
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан |
| Жанр | Детектив Остросюжетный роман |
| Год | 2018 |
'Call me Ishmael.'.So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick, he finds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good and evil. More than just a novel of adventure, more than an paean to whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting social commentary, populated by some of the most enduring characters in literature..
| Автор | Герман Мелвилл |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
King Solomon's Mines tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre...
| Автор | Генри Райдер Хаггард |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Complete in five handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a definative collection of the famous detective's adventures. No home library is complete without it..Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, the magazine in which they were first published, this volume won even more popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson..Holmes is at...
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан |
| Жанр | Детектив Остросюжетный роман |
| Год | 2018 |
Wives and Daughters is far more than a nostalgic evocation of village life; it offers an ironic critique of mid-Victorian society. 'No nineteenth-century novel contains a more devastating rejection than this of the Victorian male assumption of moral authority', writes Pam Morris in her introduction to this new edition, in which she explores the novel's main themes - the role of women, Darwinism and the concept of Englishness - and its literary and social context..
| Автор | Элизабет Гаскелл |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. First person narration by Thomas Wingfl eld, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered, a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery as he searches for the Spanish villian who killed Thomas' mother. He is relating the...
| Автор | Генри Райдер Хаггард |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
A confessional narrative from a mad scientist Dr. Therne obsessed with one of the great issues of his day... in this case, vaccination against epidemic diseases like smallpox. His personal fears meet the tragic legacy of other doctors careless ignorance and spawn a malignant crusade against vaccination that will ultimately create many more victims. Henry Rider Haggard writes to alarm and educate his public, and creates a very engaging villain to carry his message.
| Автор | Генри Райдер Хаггард |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of this book, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucys struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontes strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her...
| Автор | Шарлотта Бронте, Bronte Charlotte |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Martin Chuzzlewit, or "the American one", as fans of Dickens often refer to it, is "The Inimitable"'s sixth novel, written and published in twenty monthly parts between January 1843 to July 1844, when its author was between 30 and 32. It is a typical Dickensian romp of a ride, with thrills, passion, savage mockery, suspense - and ?ashes of absurd humour amidst the despair. The novel lunges between hyperbole and whimsy, switching at a moment's notice, and it contains some of Dickens's most...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial and immoral circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man she admires. Only an elderly bachelor, Mr Longdon, is immune to this world of greed and scheming, and determines to rescue Nanda from its corrupting influences out of loyalty to the deep love...
| Автор | Генри Джеймс |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
When a black sailor with tuberculosis boards the Narcissus, the shadow of death falls across the ship and the lingering gloom brings out both the best and the worst in the crew. The harsh endurance test of survival at sea, magnified by the dying sailors condition, sends the crewmen through an emotional gamut, ranging from pity and selfless compassion to fear, resentment, and a profound hatred that boils perilously close to mutiny..Joseph Conrad drew upon his two decades of experience in the...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад, Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
The novel tells of the relationships of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, who live in a Midland colliery town in the years before the First World War. Ursula falls in love with Birkin (a thinly disguised portrait of Lawrence himself) and Gudrun has an intense but tragic affair with Gerald, the son of a local colliery owner..
| Автор | Лоуренс Дэвид Герберт |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
In Black Heart and White Heart, Henry Rider Haggard mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white. He rides, too, with all his old dexterity, and the story concerning Zulus, witches, battles, sacrifices, and traitors.
| Автор | Генри Райдер Хаггард |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
F. S.Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «Flappers and Philosophers» was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in «Bernice Bobs Her Hair» the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while «The Ice Palace» features a...
| Автор | Francis Fitzgerald, Фицджеральд Фрэнсис Скотт |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Sister Rose is a part of After Dark.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Sister Rose is a part of After Dark.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Cousin Phillis is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his (second) cousin Phillis Holman. This novel is also recognized as a fitting prelude for Gaskell's final and most widely acclaimed novel, Wives and Daughters.
| Автор | Элизабет Гаскелл |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters.
| Автор | Элизабет Гаскелл |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |