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Dubliners
Автор: Joyce James Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 264 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20092010-08-21
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Dubliners was first published in 1914. The book depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century. The topics related in the opening stories include the disappointments of childhood, the frustrations of adolescence, and the importance of sexual awakening. Joyce was 25 years old when he wrote this miscellaneous collection of short stories, among which The Dead is probably the most famous. Considered at the time as a literary experiment, they are refreshingly original and as surprising at the beginning of this century as they were at the beginning of the last.
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Emma
Автор: Austen Jane Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 590 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20092006-04-24
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When Emma Woodhouse sets out on a career of match-making in the little town of Highbury she manages to cause confusion at every step. Jane Austen was particularly proud of Emma, in which she takes apart the desires and foibles of small-town society with unnerving accuracy.
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Father Brown: Selected Stories
Автор: Chesterton G.K. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20092008-08-27
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Father Brown, a small, round Catholic priest with a remarkable understanding of the criminal mind, is one of literature's most unusual and endearing detectives, able to solve the strangest crimes in a most fascinating manner. This collection draws from all five Father Brown books, and within their remarkable range these stories contain as much wisdom as they do wonder.
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Frankenstein
Автор: Shelley M. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 280 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092009-08-11
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Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark Faustian parable of science misused that was an immediate success on its publication in 1818. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh and then, horrified at what he has done, abandons his creation. The creature, an outcast because of his appearance, learns language and becomes civilized, but when rejected by society seeks revenge on his creator. So begins a cycle of destruction in which Frankenstein and his 'monster' lose all vestiges of their humanity in monomaniacal hatred.
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Great Expectations
Автор: Dickens C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 628 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20092005-07-21
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One of Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his humble origins and finds himself unexpectedly given the opportunity to live a life of wealth and respectability. Over the course of the tale, in which Pip encounters such famous characters as Miss Havisham, Herbert Pocket and Joe Gargery, he comes to realise that his money is tainted and the girl he loves will not return his affections; happiness must be found in the things he gave up in pursuit of a more sophisticated life.
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The «Great Gatsby» and «The Diamond as Big as the Ritz»
Автор: Fitzgerald F.S. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20122010-12-30
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The Great Gatsby has long been celebrated as the archetypal American novel, and its influence on later writers from J.D. Salinger to John OHara cannot be overestimated. Fitzgerald looks deeply into himself and his milieu to create the story of James Gatz, a self-educated nobody from Kentucky who has amassed a fortune and adopted the persona of Jay Gatsby, an Oxford-educated man about town, for the sole purpose of winning back the heart of Daisy, the woman he loved in his youth. Daisy is now married to Tom Buchanan a brutal, ignorant racist who embodies the corruption that can come with unlimited wealth. As Gatsby, Daisy and Tom play out the drama in a small Long Island town, Fitzgerald makes it clear that life is meaningless when it is based on money and glamour at the expense of the solid American values of self-reliance and hard work.
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
Автор: Br. Grimm Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 392 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092006-05-26
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Grimms' Fairy Tales have entertained children and adults for the past two centuries, and have become part of our common heritage. These stories about Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin and the Frog Prince stimulate the imagination and the heart and linger at the back of our minds for a lifetime. They are funny, disturbing, wise and compassionate; they speak of joy and terror, happiness and revenge, love and violence. They remind us of how it felt the first time an adult voice read them to us as we fell asleep and dreamed magical dreams.
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Gulliver's Travels
Автор: Swift Jonathan Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20092006-10-30
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Jonathan Swift's masterpiece is the finest satire in the English language. Lemuel Gulliver's adventures with the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput and the giants of Brobdingnag are familiar from modern abridged adaptations, but the scientists and philosophers of Laputa, the intelligent, horselike Houyhnhnms and the bestial Yahoos provide further opportunities for Swift to satirise society in a manner just as relevant today as it was in the eighteenth century.
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Heart of Darkness and Other Stories
Автор: Conrad Joseph Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20102009-09-30
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Heart of Darkness is a short and vividly brutal account of colonial enterprise that has as much in common with the jaded Evelyn Waugh of Black Mischief as it does with any of Conrad's direct contemporaries in late 19th and early 20th century. It has managed to retain the fascination of readers and scholars to a far greater extent than his other fine works, such as the more conventionally novelistic tale of South American political chicanery and greed in Nostromo and the substantially more page-turning thriller The Secret Agent. It is accompanied in this volume by the tales with which it has been published since 1902: the autobiographical short story Youth, and the less personal but more substantial tale of an old man's fall from fortune, The End of the Tether. Though these stories differ considerably in style and content from his later novels, much of his reputation rests upon the words contained in this volume.
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The Hound of The Baskervilles / The Valley of Fear
Автор: Doyle A.C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 424 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092007-04-22
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of Doyle's best-known Holmes novels, frequently adapted for film and television, which is not surprising given the highly dramatic scenes of mist-wrapped moors echoing to the horrific howls of a supernatural hound. Is this a genuinely devilish apparition or is there a cunning murderer at work? Only Sherlock Holmes can solve the mystery. This volume also contains The Valley of Fear, a dark, powerful tale in which Holmes confronts the evil Professor Moriarty once more.
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Huckleberry Finn
Автор: Twain M. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 359 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092006-10-27
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn began life as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer but is now seen in its own right as one of the most important of all American novels. Rather than be 'sivilized' by the Widow Douglas, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, an escaped slave, set off to find freedom on the Mississippi. Their adventures teach them much about the society in which they live, and the book combines an exuberant sense of nostalgia with subtle undertones of adult melancholy.
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The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame
Автор: Hugo Victor Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 664 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20082006-07-24
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A tremendous, emotionally stirring tragedy, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame features one of literature's most striking creations Quasimodo, the hideously deformed bellringer of Notre-Dame de Paris during the turbulent final years of the fifteenth century. Rejected by all but the priest Claude Frollo, Quasimodo rescues the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned for a crime she did not commit, and brings her to the sanctuary of the cathedral. But Frollo has been corrupted by his lust for the girl. Only Quasimodo can hope to save her.
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The Iliad
Автор: Homer Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 542 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20082007-04-29
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The Iliad narrates the events of the siege of Troy, prompted by Greek outrage at the abduction by Paris of Helen from her Greek husband. It describes the anger of Achilles which results in the death of Patroclus, and Achilles' quest for brutal vengeance on Hector. Even though it was composed more than two thousand years ago The Iliad remains both powerful and enthralling.
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Ivanhoe
Автор: Scott Walter Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 680 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20092006-07-23
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Ivanhoe, first published in 1819, is a spellbinding tale of adventure, chivalry and romance set in twelfth-century England where the Saxons are in conflict with the occupying Normans. Young Wilfred of Ivanhoe, disinherited by his father for wanting to marry his father's ward Rowena, is wounded in a tournament and nursed back to health by the beautiful Rebeccca, who is later accused of being a witch. With the help of Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood, Ivanhoe is able to save Rebecca, establish peace between Saxon and Norman, and gain the hand of the fair Rowena.
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Jane Eyre
Автор: Bronte C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20092004-06-11
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The orphaned Jane Eyre suffers under cruel guardians, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. But her plain appearance belies her indomitable spirit, sharp wit and great courage. When she goes to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for the mysterious Mr Rochester the stage is set for one of literature's great romances.
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Just So Stories
Автор: Kipling Rudyard Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 174 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092006-05-22
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These twelve magical tales tell, among other things, how the camel got his hump, the leopard his spots, the elephant his trunk, how the alphabet was made and how a butterfly caused mayhem at the court of King Solomon when he stamped. The Just So Stories are one of the enduring classics of children's literature, not only for their wit, enchantment and language but also for Kipling's own illustrations.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Автор: Lawrence D.H. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092007-05-18
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Connie's unhappy marriage to Clifford Chatterley is one scarred by mutual frustration and alienation. Crippled from wartime action, Clifford is confined to a wheelchair, while Connie's solitary, sterile existence is contained within the narrow parameters of the Chatterley ancestral home, Wragby. She seizes her chance at happiness and freedom when she embarks on a passionate affair with the estate's gamekeeper, Mellors, discovering a world of sexual opportunity and pleasure she'd thought lost to her. The explosive passion of Connie and Mellors' relationship — and the searing candour with which it is described — marked a watershed in twentieth century fiction, garnering Lady Chatterley's Lover a wide and enduring readership and lasting notoriety.
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The Last Of The Mohicans
Автор: Cooper J.F. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 527 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20092006-10-21
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This epic tale of American frontier life is set in the period when the French and the British fought for control of the continent and while native American tribes still had considerable power and influence. En route to their father's fort, Cora and Alice Munro are betrayed by their Iroquois guide. Their companion Duncan Heyward enlists the support of the scout Hawkeye and his friends, who attempt to rescue the party. This wonderful story of adventure has captivated successive generations of readers both in America and abroad.
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Little Women
Автор: Alcott L.M. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 327 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20092005-12-13
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One of the best loved classic children's stories, Little Women is a robust evocation of family life whose appeal transcends boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with younger readers.
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Madame Bovary
Автор: Flaubert G. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20112012-04-07
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Madame Bovary is the story of a beautiful young woman who marries a luckless country doctor. She tries to escape the narrow confines of her life through a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find in other men the romantic ideal she always dreamed about. Flaubert's daring description of adultery and sinfulness caused a national scandal when it was first published, and this masterpiece of realist literature has lost none of its impact today.
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