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Mansfield Park
Автор: Austen Jane Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 584 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092007-09-24
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Mansfield Park is a novel about town and country, surface dazzle and lasting values. Fanny Price, a poor relation, is brought up at the wealthy Bertrams' country house and fallls for Edmund, the younger son. Their lives are disrupted, however, by the arrival of the worldly Mary Crawford and her brother Henry. With her usual psychological insight and attention to detail, Jane Austen paints an irresistibly lifelike portrait of shifting values and split loyalties.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Автор: Hardy T. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20092007-03-08
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Drunk and bitter at the world, the young Michael Henchard sells his wife to a sailor at Weydon Priors fair. The next morning he vows to give up drink and mend his terrible ways. Twenty years later he is mayor of Casterbridge, a rich and important figure who little suspects the past is about to rear up and attack him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a masterpiece of Victorian literature, bringing the classical forms of tragedy into the modern world with striking force, showing a proud and noble man overwhelmed by his past and the forces of fate.
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Moby Dick
Автор: Melville H Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20092007-09-27
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On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by a crazed captain hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Melville transforms the little world of the whale-ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate. Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary, compressed intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a most profoundly imaginative literary creation.
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Mrs Dalloway
Автор: Woolf V. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092005-05-28
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On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway fashionable, worldly, wealthy, an accomplished hostess sets off to buy flowers for the party she is to give that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her interior monologue emerge the people who have touched her life. On the same day Septimus Warren Smith, a shellshocked survivor of the Great War, commits suicide, and casual mention of his death at the party provokes in Clarissa thoughts of her own isolation and loneliness. Bold and experimental, Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better with each reading.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Автор: Dickens C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 1224 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092005-12-30
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Nicholas Nickleby is one of Dickens's early novels, a popular melodrama with a rich list of characters. When his father dies penniless, Nicholas Nickleby, his mother and his sister Kate are thrown on the mercy of his corrupt uncle Ralph Nickleby. Sent away to teach at the infamous Dotheboys Hall, run by the sadistic Wackford Squeers, Nicholas eventually absconds, but not before rescuing the poor abused Smike. He returns home just in time to save his sister from the unwanted attentions of Sir Mulberry Hawk, and eventually his family's fortunes are restored.
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Northanger Abbey
Автор: Austen Jane Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 302 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20092005-12-30
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Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Morland, a naive young woman whose perceptions of the world around her are greatly influenced by the romantic gothic novels to which she is addicted. When she moves to Bath she sees mystery and intrigue all around her. This is one of Austen's early works, a broad comedy about learning to distinguish between fiction and reality.
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The Odyssey
Автор: Homer Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 407 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20092007-09-30
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The Odyssey can claim to be Western literature's first adventure story, and describes the ten-year wanderings of Odysseus in his quest to return home after the Trojan war. He encounters giants, sorceresses and sea-monsters before he can get home and then must remain in disguise while seeking a way to rid his home of the suitors who, believing him dead, have besieged his wife. Both an enchanting fairy tale and a gripping drama, The Odyssey is eminently readable, not least for the rich complexity and magnetism of its hero.
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Oliver Twist
Автор: Dickens C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20112014-08-14
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Oliver Twist is one of Dickens's most popular novels, with many famous film, television and musical adaptations. It is a classic story of good against evil, packed with humour and pathos, drama and suspense, in which the orphaned Oliver is brought up in a harsh workhouse, and then taken in and exploited by the criminal Fagin, before being eventually rescued and taken in by a loving family.
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The Origin Of Species
Автор: Darwin Charles Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20092006-05-12
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In The Origin of Species Darwin outlined his theory of evolution, which proposed that species had been evolving and differentiating over time under the influence of natural selection. On its publication it became hugely influential, bringing about a seismic shift in the scientific view of humanitys place in the world that is still controversial today. It is both a brilliant work of science and also a clear, vivid and at times even moving piece of writing that reflects both Darwins genius and his boundless enthusiasm for the natural world.
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Persuasion
Автор: Austen Jane Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 312 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20092006-07-24
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Jane Austen's final novel, her most mature and wickedly satirical, is the story of Anne Elliott, a woman who gets a second chance at love. To achieve happiness she must learn to trust her own feelings and resist the social pressures of family and friends.
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The Phantom Of The Opera
Автор: Gaston Leroux Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 312 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20092006-07-24
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A skeleton in dinner dress is wreaking havoc among singers and staff at the Paris Opera House and when new owners take over the terror escalates. Who is the mysterious figures stalking the stage at night? How can he be everywhere at once and leave locked rooms at will? What is his connection to the beautiful young musician Christine? Stage and screen adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera have maintained the book's popularity, but the novel outdoes them all in Gothic tension and horror.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Автор: Wilde O. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092005-05-26
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On its first publication The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its depiction of fin-de-sicle decadence. In this updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henry Wotton, who lives selfishly for amoral pleasure; Dorian's good angel is the portrait painter Basil Hallward, whom Dorian murders. The book highlights the tension between the polished surface of high society and the life of secret vice. Although sin is punished in the end the book has a flavour of the elegantly perverse.
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The Portrait Of A Lady
Автор: Henry James Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 800 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20092009-08-23
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In The Portrait of a Lady Henry James tells the story of one of his most enchanting heroines, Isabel Archer, a young New York woman whose life is changed when she is visited by her aunt Mrs Touchett following the death of her father (her mother having died long before). Isabel is invited to accompany her aunt back to Europe, and fascinates everyone with her beauty, intelligence and vivacity. When she inherits money from her uncle this turns out to have unexpected and undesired consequences.
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A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man
Автор: Joyce James Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20082008-02-13
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This is one of the most significant literary works of the 20th century, and one of the most innovative. Young Irish Catholic, Stephen Dedalus, rejects religion and national ties to develop unfettered as an artist. Strongly autobiographical, the novel is one of the founding texts of Modernism and the precursor of Ulysses. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916, who found its treating of the minutiae of daily life indecorous, and its central character unappealing.
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Pride and Prejudice
Автор: Austen Jane Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20112010-06-23
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A tour de force of wit and sparkling dialogue, Pride and Prejudice shows how the headstrong Elizabeth Bennett and the aristocratic Mr Darcy must have their pride humbled and their prejudices dissolved before they can acknowledge their love for each other.
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The Prince and The Art Of War
Автор: Machiavelli N. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 440 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20092007-04-12
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Written in the sixteenth century and almost immediately a subject of controversy, The Prince presents Machiavelli's advice to a ruler who would seek to maintain his power most effectively. Pragmatism and expediency are seen to be more important considerations than ethical ones, and a ruler must be prepared to take actions in the interest of public order that might conflict with purely private ethical concerns. A good ruler must avoid being hated by his subjects however. In The Art of War Machiavelli examines ancient military practices for their relevence to modern political issues, and asserts that military power is at the base of all civil order.
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The Red Badge of Courage
Автор: Crane S. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 197 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092007-04-22
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Regarded by many as one of the finest American novels, The Red Badge of Courage tells the story of one soldiers experience in the American Civil War, presenting war in a direct, impressionistic way that was innovative at the time and is still influential today. Henry Fleming enlists in the Union Army with dreams of military glory, and discovers real warfare is very different from its fictional portrayal.
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The Scarlet Letter
Автор: Hawthorne N. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20102010-12-07
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The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the Puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover's identity and is condemned to wear a scarlet letter 'A' sewn on to her clothes. Roger resolves to discover the man's identity, and over the next seven years the participants in the love triangle suffer the consequences of betrayal, cowardice and humiliation, before moving towards redemption at the novel's climax.
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The Secret Garden
Автор: Burnett F.H. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 286 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20092007-02-19
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Mary Lennox is sent from an India as an orphan to live at Misselthwaite Manor. She arrives as a sour-faced, sickly and ill-tempered little madam but becomes friends with local lad Dickon and her poorly cousin Colin. In their restoration of a secret garden all their lives are changed for the better.
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Sense and Sensibility
Автор: Austen Jane Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092006-09-14
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Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, the epitome of sense, desires a man who is promised to another woman. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the epitome of sensibility, loses her heart to a scoundrel who jilts her. True love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility.
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