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Sherlock Holmes (box) (количество томов: 6)
Автор: Doyle A.C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 2400 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20092006-06-25
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The boxed set contains the following volumes: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear; The Return of Sherlock Holmes and his Last Bow; A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four.
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A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of The Four
Автор: Doyle A.C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092007-05-18
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A Study in Scarlet introduced the great scientific detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, his friend and chronicler, to the reading public. This novel, a cornerstone in the annals of crime fiction, tells of their first meeting and how they set up in rooms together in Baker Street. It is not long before the charismatic sleuth and his faithful companion are plunged into a dramatic mystery which starts with the discovery of a corpse in a deserted house and the letters RACHE scrawled on the wall in blood. The Sign of the Four, the second Holmes novel, presents the detective with one of his greatest challenges — solving the theft of the great Agra treasure in India. In these two classic novels you have the foundation of the Sherlock Holmes legend. As well as his witty and illuminating Afterword to this edition, David Stuart Davies, the illustrious editor of Sherlock magazine, has provided a fascinating chronology of the Sherlock Holmes Stories.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Автор: Dickens C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20092008-08-27
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A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens's most exciting books, set against the backdrop of the French revolution, in which two generations struggle against the injustices of first a corrupt aristocracy and then the mindless rule of the mob.
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Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Автор: Poe Edgar Allan Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 474 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092007-04-29
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This companion volume to Tales of Mystery & Imagination contains Poe's best-known poetry and a selection of his very best stories, including some fine tales from the last decade of his tragically short life. Many of these stories and poems reflect familiar Poe themes of murder, obsession and love, but there are also tales of the fantastic, black comedies, parodies and hoaxes.
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Автор: Poe Edgar Allan Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 456 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20132012-07-14
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Some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written are to be found in this collection of Poe's work, ranging from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, and all with the quality of the grotesque that defined Poe's writing. 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are key works in the horror canon, while in the 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' we find the origins of modern detective fiction.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Автор: Hardy T. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 564 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092006-09-27
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Tess Durbeyfield, an innocent village girl, is seduced by a wealthy rake, Alec D'Urberville. Though he makes her pregnant she does not love him and leaves him to return to her home in disgrace. Some time after the baby's death Tess meets her true love Angel Clare, but they cannot escape the consequences of the past. An unforgettably powerful tragedy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the great classics of the late nineteenth century.
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Three Men in a Boat (ill: )
Автор: Jerome J.K. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20102009-03-24
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Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends, George and Harris, decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a T. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian clerking classes, it hilariously captured the spirit of its age.
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To the Lighthouse
Автор: Woolf V. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 248 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20132010-06-23
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To the Lighthouse, considered by many to be Virginia Woolf's finest novel, is a remarkably original work, showing the thoughts and actions of the members of a family and their guests on two separate occasions ten years apart. The setting is Mr and Mrs Ramsay's house on a Scottish island, where they traditionally take their summer holidays, overlooking a bay with a lighthouse. As a modernist author Woolf explored the ways in which fiction could represent reality, and To the Lighthouse can be seen as an experimental work that pushes the limits of what we know about the world and ourselves. It is one of the most beautifully crafted of all novels written in the English language.
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Tom Sawyer
Автор: Twain M. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 262 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20122011-05-18
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One of the most irrepressible and exuberant characters in the history of literature, Tom Sawyer explodes onto the page in a whirl of bad behaviour and incredible adventures. Whether he is heaving clods of earth at his brother, faking a gangrenous toe, or trying to convince the world that he is dead, Tom's infectious energy and good humor shine through. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain's joyful and nostalgic recollection of tall tales from his own boyhood by the Mississippi some 'thirty or forty years ago', an instant success on first publication in 1876 and a delight to children of all ages ever since.
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Treasure Island
Автор: Stevenson R.L. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20082008-03-12
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Treasure Island is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time but is a wonderful adventure story that can be enjoyed at any age.When Jim Hawkins finds a pirate's treasure map in an old sailor's sea trunk the local doctor and squire take him with them to find the island and the treasure. But Long John Silver, with his missing leg and talking parrot, has his own ideas about who should find the treasure.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Автор: Stowe H.B. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 644 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092006-05-12
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Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the conscience and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. In scenes of great dramatic power Harriet Beecher Stow shows us the human effects of an economic system in which slaves were property. Still controversial today, the novel is abrasive in its demand for change yet also brilliant in its deployment of dialogue, with great comic skill and powerful pathos.
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Vanity Fair
Автор: Thackeray W. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 832 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20122014-08-24
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Vanity Fair is among the richest and most entertaining of novels, a sparkling and witty story of English society during the Napoleonic Wars. A piercing satire of the Victorian middle classes, it was hugely popular from the moment of its first publication in 1847. The narrative follows two contrasting young women, the flighty and enterprising Becky Sharp and her more upright counterpart Amelia Sedley. Their adventures take them from Miss Pinkerton's Academy in Chiswick to the glamour of high society in both London and Paris. Along the way, Thackeray treats the reader to 'a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting' together with 'cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling'. The result is one of the true classics of nineteenth-century literature.
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Walden
Автор: Thoreau H.D. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 360 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092005-06-28
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Henry Thoreau's Walden is one of the most influential books in early American literature. It recounts the author's experiences living in a small house in the woods around Walden Pond in Massachusetts in the 1840s. His attempt to live independently and away from society produced a work that blends natural history with philosophical insights, and which raises questions that are still relevant today.
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War and Peace (Box) (количество томов: 3)
Автор: Tolstoy Leo Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 1632 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20092007-04-29
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Widely regarded as the greatest novel in any language, War and Peace is primarily concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families particularly the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys and the Rostovs who are portrayed against a vivid background of Russian social life during the wars against Napoleon (1805-14). The theme of war, however, is subordinate to the story of family existence, which involves Tolstoy's optimistic belief in the life-asserting pattern of human existence. The novel also sets forth a theory of history, concluding that there is a minimum of free choice; all else is ruled by an inexorable historical determinism.
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The Wind in Willows (ill: )
Автор: Grahame K. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 264 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20112010-06-21
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When Mole tires of spring-cleaning his home, he takes a stroll to the riverbank. There he meets a new friend, Ratty, who introduces him to the delightful world of the river and all its residents. Beyond the river, which has now lured Mole away from home, lies the Wild Wood, where the reclusive Badger has made his home. The three animals become firm friends that winter when Ratty and Mole take refuge from the snow in Badgers house. Together they have many thrilling adventures with the irrepressible Mr Toad, who, try as he might, simply cannot help getting into trouble.
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The Woman in White
Автор: Collins Wilkie Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 656 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20092009-09-30
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Wilkie Collins' classic story, The Woman in White, is one of the great mystery thrillers of the nineteenth century and beyond. It is a wonderful combination of rich characterisation and cunning melodrama which ensnares the reader from its opening pages. The novel features one of the strongest heroines of the Victorian Age, Marian Halcombe, who was a revelation for the readers of the time. Although not conventionally attractive, she is a tough, determined and feisty soul, well equipped to travel down the dark and dangerous pathway fate has decreed for her. Also featured is one of the great villains of all literature, the sly, smooth and corpulent Count Fosco, whose eccentric habits both chill and amuse. Since its publication, The Woman in White has never been out of print and has been the subject of numerous theatrical, film and television adaptations, including most recently a musical version by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Wuthering Heights
Автор: Bronte Emily Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092004-12-20
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Wuthering Heights tells the story of a romance between two youngsters: Catherine Earnshaw and an orphan boy, Heathcliff. After she rejects him for a boy from a better background he develops a lust for revenge that takes over his life. In attempting to win her back and destroy those he blames for his loss Heathcliff creates a living hell for those who live at Wuthering Heights. This tale of hauntings, passion and greed remains unsurpassed in its depiction of the dark side of love.
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Around the World in 80 Days
Автор: Jules Verne Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 280 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20082010-08-11
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Around the World in Eighty Days (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a classic. The story starts in London on 2 October 1872. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy, solitary man with regular habits, who fires his former butler for getting wrong the temperature of his shaving water. He hires Passepartout as a replacement. Later that day he gets involved in an argument over an article in the Daily Telegraph, stating that with the opening of a new railway in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in eighty days. The exciting, if now dated, adventure of Fogg and Passepartout will entertain modern readers as much as it did the Victorians.
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The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories
Автор: Rudyard Kipling Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20082008-02-13
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This anthology of Kiplings greatest short stories contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he was an undisputed master. The Man who would be King is a classic tale of adventure as the opportunistic, renegade and vagabond pair of Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan attempt to establish themselves as god and king of the primitive mountain kingdom of Kafiristan. Other stories included are The Phantom Rickshaw, The Finest Story in the World, With the Night Mail, As Easy as ABC, Cold Iron, The House Surgeon, Wee Willie Winkie and The Recrudescence of Imray.
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The Melancholy Hussar and other stories
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20082008-02-13
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This is a selection of the finest Hardy stories, including from Lifes Little Ironies The Sons Veto, A Tragedy of Two Ambitions, To Please His Wife and The Fiddler of the Reels; from Wessex Tales An Imaginative Woman, The Melancholy Hussar and The Distracted Preacher; and from A Group of Noble Dames The First Countess of Wessex. Hardys wonderfully evocative tales tell of a rural world that is lost, but whose verities still engage the reader today.
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