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Living in Ancient Greece in the 5th Century BC, Aesop was said to be a slave and story-teller. His much-loved, enduring fables are revered the world over and remain popular as moral tales for children. With infamous vignettes, such as the race between the hare and the tortoise, the vain jackdaw, and the wolf in sheep's clothing, the themes of the fables remain as fresh today as when they were first told and give an insight into the Ancient Greek world.
| Автор | Эзоп |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2011 |
Edited with an Introduction by Claude Rawson and Notes by Ian Higgins. "Thus, Gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth". ...
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| Автор | Джонатан Свифт |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2010 |
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 f ...
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| Автор | Брэм Стокер |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2011 |
Книга для чтения на английском языке.
| Автор | Луиза Мэй Олкотт, Alcott Louisa May, Alcott L |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2010 |
A prince, therefore, is not to regard the scandal of being cruel, if thereby he keeps his subjects in their allegiance and united... Considered one of the first works of modern philosophy, Machiavelli's The Prince is an intense study on the nature of power and the course it should take when ruling a country. The story is a manual of amoral and underhand instruction on how a prince might go about ascending to a position of prominence, using any means at his disposal - including flattery,...
| Автор | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2011 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Welcome to Utopia.When Mr. Barnstaple, an Earthling, is accidentally transported to Utopia with a group of others, he begins an adventure that will change how he views the world forever.Utopia has no government. Utopia has no religion. People are governed only by their own conscience and desires, and Barnstaple is drawn into what he sees as a perfect society. But when a disease brought by the Earthlings...
| Автор | H. Wells |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2021 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics."For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive."When a strange, meteor-like object lands in the heart of England, the inhabitants of Earth find themselves victims of a terrible attack. A ruthless race of Martians, armed with heat rays and poisonous smoke, is intent on destroying everything that stands in its way. As the unnamed hero...
| Автор | H. Wells |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2021 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.' Autobiographical in tone, Joyce's tale of Stephen Dedalus' journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development of an artist as he struggles to overcome the ingrained Catholic consciousness of his childhood -- a family...
| Автор | Joyce J |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2011 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'Let there be spaces in your togetherness,And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.'A prophet waits to board a ship after 12 years away from his homeland. His journey is interrupted by a group of people who ask him to impart his wisdom before he leaves forever. What follows are 26 short chapters on everything from love, marriage and children, to freedom, reason, talking, time and death.A guide to...
| Автор | Gibran K |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2021 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world...'In London, 1888, the razor-sharp detective skills of Sherlock Holmes are to be put to the test. Mary Morstan reports two seemingly unconnected and inexplicable events: the disappearance of her father, a British Indian Army...
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2021 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Originally published in 1903-1904, The Return of Sherlock Holmes is the thirteen-story collection of one of the greatest-ever fictional detectives. Three years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes and his archenemy Professor Moriarty in the torrent of Reichenbach Falls, Holmes makes a disguised reappearance to Baker Street and his good friend Dr Watson. Featuring one of Holmes' greatest...
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан, Doyle Arthur Conan |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2013 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.'I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.'Humble and lowly, a young Fanny Price goes to live with her wealthy Aunt and Uncle at their grand house, Mansfield Park. Growing up with her privileged and spoilt cousins, the Bertrams, she lives in the shadows of their glamorous...
| Автор | Austen Jane |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2021 |
Dating from around 1400 and composed by an anonymous writer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first translated and published almost 200 years ago. Its epic nature has not been dimmed by time: the classic story of a knight on a green steed challenging Sir Gawain to a monumental wager, it is a strange tale full of decapitations, seduction and magic.Soon to be brought to the big screen, Sir Gawain is one of the earliest great stories of English literature.
| Автор | Weston J |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2021 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics."That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities far worse than any definite fear."Edward Prendick, the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the South Pacific, is set ashore on an island where he meets the mysterious Doctor Moreau. Horrified by the discovery that Moreau is performing vivisection on...
| Автор | H. Wells |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2021 |
Jane Austen is remembered for her six masterpieces of the Regency era: from the heroines of Elizabeth Bennett and Emma Woodhouse, to the villains of Mrs. Norris and John Willoughby. But these characters were not born overnight. They sprung from Austen's experiences as a young girl, and many early iterations can be found in the earliest of her writing: her Juvenilia.Austen was only a teenager when she wrote her Juvenilia. In the 'History of England', Austen champions (and laments) the great kings...
| Автор | Austen Jane |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2020 |