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Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas. These stories are famed for their 'trick endings' or 'twists in the tail': repeatedly the plot twirls...
| Автор | O. Henry |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2012 |
Continuing the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of George R.R. Martin’s landmark series, this gorgeously illustrated special edition of A Clash of Kings features over twenty all-new illustrations from Lauren K. Cannon, both colour and black-and-white, and a special foreword by Bernard Cornwell.The Iron Throne once united the Sunset Lands, but King Robert is dead, his widow is a traitor to his memory, and his surviving brothers are set on a path of war amongst themselves. At King’s...
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| Год | 2019 |
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 Sir 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...
| Автор | Doyle A.C |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2001 |
This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The...
| Автор | Льюис Кэрролл, Lewis Carroll |
| Жанр | Детская литература |
| Год | 2001 |
Andersen's Fairy Tales. Издание на английском языке
| Автор | Ганс Христиан Андерсен |
| Жанр | Детская литература |
| Год | 2006 |
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making...
| Автор | Montgomery Lucy Maud, Люси Мод Монтгомери, Lucy Montgomery |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, frequenting cinemas and poring over the bad movies she appeared in. It's not that he blames Anne for having a past before they met, but...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2014 |
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 |
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 |
A burlesque epic in the tradition of THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK, CATCH-22 exposes the absurdity of war by applying its own demented logic to America's involvement in Korea. The 'catch' is that soldiers have to claim to be mad in order to get out of fighting - but being capable of making such a claim automatically proves them sane. With a cast of magnificently larger-than-life characters who are rushed along at a breathless pace, for once this really is a novel it's hard to put down. CATCH-22 was...
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 1994 |
Произведение на английском языке.....
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2006 |
`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 |
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 |
Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he’s innocent. Or at least sort of. The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he’s going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays?
| Автор | Kinney J |
| Год | 2013 |
The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. The hopes of Mr Dombey for the future of his shipping firm are centred on his delicate son Paul. Florence, his devoted daughter, is unloved and neglected. When the firm faces ruin, and Dombeys second marriage ends in disaster, only Florence has the strength and humanity to save her father from desolate solitude. This edition contains Dickenss prefaces, his working plans, and all the original...
| Автор | Dickens C |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2002 |
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 Ужасы |
| Год | 2000 |
There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature...
| Автор | Брэм Стокер, Bram Stoker |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2000 |
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 |