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Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American erotic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.[3][4][5] It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker..Dracula was greeted by a generally positive critical reception and was a box office hit, although Reeves' performance was subject to ridicule.[6][7] The film's score was composed by Wojciech...
| Автор | Брэм Стокер |
| Жанр | Мистика Фантастика Фэнтези |
| Год | 2000 |
Профессор. Шарлотта Бронте Полный неадаптированный текст.COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED.Written two years before lane Eyre, The Professor was Charlotte BrontSs first novel and was based on her experiences in Brussels, although it was not published until after her death.The story is one of love and doubt, as the hero, William Crimsworth, seeks his fortune as a teacher in Brussels and finds his love for the good Anglo-Swiss girl, Frances Henri, severely tested by the sensuously beguiling and manipulative...
| Автор | Шарлотта Бронте |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2008 |
This edition of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" contains the earliest cases of the greatest fictional detective of all time. It comprises "A Study in Scarlet", "The Sign of Four" and the complete "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", reprinted from...
| Автор | О. Генри, Дойль Артур-Конан |
| Жанр | Детектив Остросюжетный роман |
| Год | 2002 |
`Crime and Punishment` is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double...
| Автор | Достоевский Федор Михайлович, Dostoyevsky Fyodor |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2004 |
"The Best of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch-sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's 'Baker Street Dozen' creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most famous detective...Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection...
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан |
| Жанр | Детектив Остросюжетный роман |
| Год | 2005 |
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes. The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Arthur Conan Doyle s A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective s faithful chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of...
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан |
| Жанр | Детектив Остросюжетный роман |
| Год | 2005 |
Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity...Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a whole cultural crisis. The "progress" of the modern industrialized world had led to the carnage of the First World War. What, then, did it mean to call ourselves "human"? On what grounds could we...
| Автор | Лоуренс Дэвид Герберт |
| Жанр | Естественные науки Математика |
| Год | 2006 |
Kidnapped is a classic adventure story, as thrilling today as when it was first published. As he sets off into the world to seek his last remaining kinsman, Uncle Ebenezer, young David Balfour has no idea ....
| Автор | Роберт Льюис Стивенсон |
| Жанр | Детектив Остросюжетный роман |
| Год | 2008 |
`Fathers and Sons` is Turgenev`s most acclaimed and influential work, and is a story of universal significance through its depiction of contemporary Russian life.The novel concentrates on the conflict between generations, with the...
| Автор | Тургенев Иван Сергеевич |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2002 |
Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, the author's combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researched and meticulous evocation of the manners and style of the period, has delighted readers since the novel's first...
| Автор | Эдит Уортон |
| Жанр | |
| Год | 1999 |
Black Beauty is the classic horse story, a beautiful and touching tale told by the title character himself. Set in Victorian London, it follows Beauty's life and changing fortunes as he moves from owner to owner. As the horse encounters new experiences and new friends who reveal their own histories, the story quietly paints a fascinating portrait of how animals were treated during that era.
| Автор | Anna Sewell |
| Жанр | Детская литература |
| Год | 2002 |
Andersen's Fairy Tales. Издание на английском языке
| Автор | Ганс Христиан Андерсен |
| Жанр | Детская литература |
| Год | 2006 |
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long.Wharton charts the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider picture...
| Автор | Эдит Уортон |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2002 |
Ben-Hur is a story of a fictional hero named Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman who was falsely accused of an attempted assassination and enslaved by the Romans. He becomes a successful charioteer.The story's revenge plot becomes a story of compassion and forgiveness.Wallace writes with a freshness and immediacy that brings every action-packed scene to life and illuminates the geography, ethnology and customs of the ancient world..
| Автор | Wallace Lew |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2005 |
As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet paradoxically unite them. Around the writhings of this one dysfunctional family Dostoevsky weaves a dense network of social,...
| Автор | Достоевский Федор Михайлович |
| Жанр | Русская литература |
| Год | 2007 |
In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed the minds of many thinking people Russian society at the time.The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries, with their...
| Автор | Достоевский Федор Михайлович |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2010 |