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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 310 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092007-05-22
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Sherlock Holmes is back on the case in this collection of sparkling short stories. Not only does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective investigate a fascinating series of crimes and misdemeanours in The Memoirs, but we also learn about Holmes' early days as a sleuth hound and encounter the detective's brilliant brother, Mycroft, who is a member of the Diogenes Club, one of the strangest establishments in London. And, of course, in The Final Problem Holmes come face to face with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, The Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure. 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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The Rainbow
Автор: D.H. Lawrence Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 648 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112011-10-20
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In The Rainbow (1915) Lawrence challenges the customary limitations of language and convention to carry into the structure of his prose the fascination with boundaries and space that characterise the entire novel. Condemned and suppressed on its first publication for its open treatment of sexuality and its 'unpatriotic' spirit, the novel chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than 60 years, setting them against the emergence of modern England. The central figure of Ursula becomes the focus of Lawrence's examination of relationships and the conflicts they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the spiritual. Suffused with biblical imagery, The Rainbow addresses searching human issues in a setting of precise and vivid detail.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20112010-12-20
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Ten years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Arthur Conan Doyle was to bow to popular pressure and the large fees offered by publishers to revive the detective's career. To the astonishment of Dr Watson and the delight of his readers Holmes returns to Baker Street, explains how he escaped death at the Falls and is ready to commence detective work once more. Doyle provided a rich and fascinating set of mysteries to challenge his sleuth in this collection. As before, Watson is the superb narrator and his magic remains unchanged and undimmed. In His Last Bow, the final story of this collection, we are told how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to help the Government fight the German threat at the approach of the First World War. It is the last time that Holmes and Watson work together. 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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The Secret Agent
Автор: Joseph Conrad Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092006-12-26
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An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair. Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be a simple tale proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. This new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a monstrous town, a place of idiocy, madness, criminality and butchery.
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The Waves
Автор: Virginia Woolf Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 264 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20092010-08-21
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The Waves traces the lives and interactions of seven friends in an exploratory and sensuous narrative. The Waves was conceived and written during a highly political phase in Woolfs career, when she was speaking on issues of gender and of class. This was also the period when her love affair with Vita Sackville-West was at its most intense. The work is often described as if it were the product of a secluded, disembodied sensibility. Yet its writing is supremely engaged and engaging, providing an experience which the reader is unlikely to forget.
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Complete Ghost Stories
Автор: Montague Rhodes James Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20092009-10-11
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Each volume in the «Collector's Library» series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this first collected edition of M. R. James's «Complete Ghost Stories» is by the well-known crime writer and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies. This is the only complete edition in print and it contains three further stories written after publication of M. R. James's «Collected Ghost Stories»: «The Experiment», «The Malice of Inanimate Objects» and «A Vignette».
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A Little Princess
Автор: Frances Hodgson Burnett Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20102008-12-23
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Part of the «Collector's Library» series, this title includes an Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list.
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The Moonstone
Автор: Wilkie Collins Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 688 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20112012-04-12
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Part of the «Collector's Library» series, this title includes an Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list.
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The Railway Children
Автор: E. Nesbit Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 280 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20122008-06-11
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Part of the «Collector's Library» series, this book's Afterword is by the experienced book editor and well-known writer, Anna South. It features a brief biography of the author and a reading list.
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Robinson Crusoe
Автор: Daniel Defoe Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20102012-08-31
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Part of the «Collector's Library» series, this title includes an Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Автор: Anne Bronte Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112011-07-28
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Each volume in the «Collector's Library» series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of «The Tenant of Wildfell Hall» is by Kathryn White, an established expert on the Bronte family and former Librarian of The Bronte Parsonage Museum at Haworth on the Yorkshire Moors.
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Tom Jones
Автор: Henry Fielding Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 928 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20112012-04-24
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Part of the «Collector's Library» series, this book's Afterword is by the well-known author, writer and journalist, Ned Halley. It features a brief biography of the author and a reading list.
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Fables
Автор: Aesop Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20082010-03-28
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Containing an afterword, each volume in the Collector's Library series includes a biography of the author, and a further reading list.
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20132012-02-19
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Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by David Stuart Davies.These fifteen short stories, chosen by David Stuart Davies, former Editor of Sherlock magazine, show the master detective Sherlock Holmes at his most ingenious. Faithfully supported by his chronicler, Dr Watson, Holmes pits his wits against 'the Napoleon of Crime', Professor Moriarty, assists European royalty threatened by disgrace, the mysterious death of a young woman due to be married and other intrigues that defeat the detectives of Scotland Yard.
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The Best Short Stories of Saki
Автор: Saki Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 408 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20112009-12-07
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.
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The Complete Novels
Автор: Jane Austen Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 792 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20122011-05-24
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This title includes more than two hundred full colour illustrations by Hugh Thomson. All Jane Austen's novels are presented in one volume. It features Jane Austen's romantic world captured by her finest illustrator, Hugh Thomson. It also includes Thomson's beautiful and evocative illustrations hand-coloured by Barbara Frith, one of Britain's finest colourists. Barbara Frith's renderings of Hugh Thomson's illustrations have won the approval and commendation of both Jane Austen's House Museum at Chawton and The Jane Austen Centre in Bath. This title contains extended biographical note and accompanying bibliography. It is presented in page size 270mm X 210mm; 720 pages; printed laminated case and dustjacket.
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Don Quixote
Автор: Miguel de Cervantes Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 1040 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20092007-06-28
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, biography of the author, and a further reading list.
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Fanny Hill
Автор: John Cleland Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092006-12-07
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Forced by the death of her parents to seek her furtune in London, Fanny Hill is duped into prostitution by an old procuress. In Mrs Brown's bawdy-house the naive young woman begins her sexual initiation and soon embarks on her own path in pursuit of pleasure, until she at last finds true love.
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Ghost Stories
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20112013-03-16
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by David Stuart Davies.Charles Dickens' fascination with ghosts and the macabre is traced to his childhood, to the grim and ghoulish stories told him by his nursemaid, Mary Weller, whom he referred to as Mercy, 'though she had none on me.' Along with the horrors of the 'penny dreadful' magazine, The Terrific Register — a publication which made Dickens 'unspeakably miserable and frightened the very wits out of my head' — the stories recounted by Weller were so powerful as to color Dickens' imagination and shape much of the enduring fiction he created. Here are chilling histories of coincidence, insanity and revenge.
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Charles Dickens: Great Illustrated Novels
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 860 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20112012-04-24
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David Copperfield was Dickens' 'favourite child', and is a novel of personal development with richly comic as well as deeply poignant moments. Great Expectations also traces the progress of a young man through life but, as a novel of the author's maturity, is expressed in subtler shades of nuance. Oliver Twist is more black-and-white than either, highlighting the incorruptibility of young Oliver as he battles with the evil of Fagin and Bill Sikes. A Christmas Carol is both a ghost story and a moral tale which defined the pattern of Christmas celebrations. The four books in one volume represent much of Dickens' finest writing. This elegant edition is quarter bound in bonded leather, with head and tail bands, a ribbon marker, gilt top edge, and illustrated front and back boards.
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