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Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: When I received the script of The Voyage of the Discovery I was amazed. I had only to read a few pages to realise that it was literature, unique of its kind... Scott's mind was like wax to receive an impression and like marble to retain it. So wrote Leonard Huxley, and he was not alone in his opinion. When this account of Scott's first Antarctic expedition appeared in 1905 the reviewers…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: «Dracula Introduction and Notes» by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University — 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and mustache 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…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: «Rip van Winkle is an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect; a familiar figure about the village, he is loved by all except his wife. One autumn day he escapes her nagging to wander up into the mountains, and there after drinking some liquor offered to him by a band of very strange folk, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes up twenty years later and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 600 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 511) Аннотация: «The two American classics here together in one volume, «Little Men» and «Jo's Boys», are worthy sequels to «Little Women», one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, and its continuation, «Good Wives». In «Little Men», Louisa May Alcott takes up the story of the everyday dramas and exploits of the naughty but easy-going boys at Plumfield, now a boarding-school run by Professor Bhaer…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, «The Monk» is a violent tale of ambition, murder and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads to its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and the breaking of his vows, then to sexual obsession and rape, and finally to murder to conceal his guilt.»

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «When people use the adjective 'Kafkaesque', it is «The Trial» they have in mind – the nightmarish world of Joseph K., where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and any help there may be comes from unexpected sources. K. is never told what he is on trial for, and when he says he is innocent, he is immediately asked 'innocent of what?' Is he perhaps on trial for his innocence?…

Скачать книгу (размер 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 188) Аннотация: «In «Tom Sawyer Abroad», Tom, Huck and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon. Where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders. In «Tom Sawyer, Detective», Tom attempts to solve a murder.»

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: «This title includes an introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury. A year after the publication of «The Three Musketeers», Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In «Twenty Years After» the much beloved D'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. In the original novel they defeated Milady, a formidable…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The Wings of the Dove is a tale of desire and possession, of love and death. It is in essence a simple story, but one that opens up the great subject of art: life itself. To tackle this, James moves between fairytale storylines and the startlingly modern techniques of his testing late style. An unspeakable subtext lies beneath the silence. Distinct points of view and different centres of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 880 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 566) Аннотация: «Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his «Comedy» (the epithet «Divine» was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Scotland has a notoriously rich and diverse cultural tradition when it comes to the supernatural. Many of her greatest writers from Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg to Robert Louis Stevenson and John Buchan have explored the country's unique folkloric heritage to spine-chilling effect. From Highlands to Lowlands, from blasted heath or remote glen to wretched hovel or austere castle, the very…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs Officers. Unofficially adopted by Block, John comes to learn the reasons for the noises in the graveyard at night, of 'Blackbeard' Mohune's lost treasure and Elzevir Block's secret. This dashing tale of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: «Welcome to the breathtaking adventures of Sexton Blake! For the greater part of the 20th century, the countless escapades of super sleuth Sexton Blake kept millions of readers on the edge of their seats. Together with his faithful sidekick, the youthful Tinker, and his intelligent bloodhound, Pedro, he stood firm against an onslaught of crime and villainy, defeating his enemies with his…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «I thought I saw a human face, about the most terrible my fancy could have called up, looking fixedly into the room. The face gazed towards the bed, and in the imperfect light looked like a livid mask, with chalky eyes’. Master of the ghost story genre M.R. James commented that the, ‘final terrific murder-scene and escape can hardly be forgotten’ by those who have read «Uncle Silas». Neither does…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «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 collection of his tales and poems.»

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The hand was writhing in agonized contortions, squirming and wriggling upon the nail like a worm upon a hook. 'We'll keep it there until it dies', he said. 'May I burn in hell, if I ever open the door of that safe again'. The brilliant and scary The Beast with Five Fingers, is the first entry in this mammoth collection of strange and chilling short stories by W. F. Harvey, an unjustly neglected…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This book is introduced by Mark Valentine. Dr Nikola — Victorian master criminal. Elegant, ruthless, hypnotic: enter Dr Nikola and his black cat Apollyon. He was the world's first master villain, a Victorian forerunner of Dr Fu Manchu and the mad cat-stroking evil genius Blofeld in the James Bond books and films. Now Dr Nikola is back, wielding his sinister powers across the globe. In England,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This is a book that may have changed history — and still thrills today. One of the first and still one of the finest spy stories ever written, Erskine Childers' book introduced Edwardian readers to the idea of a 'secret service'. In an enthralling tale of a duel among the islands and sandbanks of the North Sea, two amateur investigators and yachtsmen discover sinister preparations off the German…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This book is selected & introduced by David Stuart Davies. Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 — 1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. While claiming not to believe in ghosts, paradoxically she did confess that she was…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the unexpurgated version of Pansies, and Nettles, adding to these volumes the contents of the two notebooks in which he was still writing poetry when he died in 1930. It…