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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Catherine Carswell was one of the most loyal and dependable of D. H. Lawrence's friends. When he died in 1930, with the controversy over «Lady Chatterley's Lover» still raging, the abuse heaped on him prompted her into writing this warm and intimate account of his life. «The Savage Pilgrimage» traces Lawrence's troubled existence back to his working-class origins and gives a particularly moving…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: 'I have tried with an almost filial regard to render the vibration of life in the great world of waters, in the hearts of simple men who have traversed its solitudes, and also that something sentient which seems to dwell in ships — the creatures of their hands and the objects of their care' — Joseph Conrad on «The Mirror of the Sea». 'An imaginative and exact rendering of authentic memories may…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: This title comes with an Introduction by Dr Beau Riffenburgh, Scott Polar Research Institute. Ernest Shackleton led two Antarctic expeditions, and died shortly after the beginning of the third. His first expedition was not a total success (they did not reach the South Pole), and the second was, in some senses, a total failure (they never reached the Antarctic mainland at all). Yet it is the…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: 'He was very fat indeed, yet he walked with the light dainty step of a woman. His cheeks were as chubby as a baby's, his skin ivory tinted, his black hair close-cropped, his amber eyes slanting.' A family secret leads to murder in a house without locks... Someone is prepared to kill to procure a valuable set of pearls, and a parrot fluent in Chinese knows too much... A Scotland Yard Inspector is…

Скачать книгу (размер 6 277 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1232) Аннотация: Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, «Alice in Wonderland» and «Through the Looking-Glass», here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniel's much loved drawings. However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundrums, this eccentric and polymathical Englishman also wrote many other works of a humorous,…

Скачать книгу (размер 7 582 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1488) Аннотация: Presents tales of high adventure and low intrigue from masters of the genre like John Buchan and Robert Louis Stevenson, classics of crime and detection from veteran thriller writers like Edgar Wallace and Arthur Conan Doyle, and spine-chillers from the pens of Ambrose Bierce.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This work starts with an introduction by J.H. Stape, St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill. Written in 1930, Bernard Shaw: An Unauthorised Biography (1930) appeared shortly after Frank Harris' death. Shaw read the revised proofs, also making a few corrections and adding a short postscript. With the help of an American journalist and an anarchist of European reputation, Harris managed to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This work contains an Introduction by M.J. Elliot. The sixteenth-century Puritan Solomon Kane has a thirst for justice which surpasses common reason. Sombre of mood, clad in black and grey, he 'never sought to analyse his motives and he never wavered once his mind was made up. Though he always acted on impulse, he firmly believed that all his actions were governed by cold and logical…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Demobilised officer, finding peace incredibly tedious would welcome diversion. Legitimate if possible; but crime, of a comparatively humorous description, no objection. Excitement essential. Bulldog Drummond was the original daredevil adventurer who, with his various friends, made it their mission to fight all enemies of Britain in the uncertain years following the First World War. Fearless,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is best known today as one of the Victorian period's leading exponents of supernatural fiction, and was described by M R James as standing 'absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories.' The House by the Churchyard is perhaps his best novel in this genre. Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Arthur Conan Doyle is best remembered today as the creator of the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. But he was much more than that. Apart from being a popular and prolific author — his literary output included historical novels, science fiction and histories of the Boer War and the First World War — his passion for a wide range of subjects make him a colourful and fascinating…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Beowulf is the longest surviving poem of Anglo-Saxon England. Beowulf, a young warrior of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, king of the Danes, in his time of need. He first fights the hellish Grendel, then struggles with Grendel's no less fearsome mother in her hall beneath the cold waters of the mere. More than fifty years later Beowulf, now king of the Geats, must face his final…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori’s «The Vampyre» and James Malcolm Rymer’s «Varney the Vampyre», a tale which held readers in thrall when…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R. James, ‘Stories I Have Tried To Write’, which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are…

Скачать книгу (размер 6 521 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1280) Аннотация: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of «Hamlet», «King Lear», «Othello», and «Macbeth» as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as «A Midsummer Night's Dream», «The Taming of the Shrew» and «As You Like It» with their magical combination of humour,…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 624 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1104) Аннотация: Highly acclaimed for its competitive edge on other editions of its kind, the Wordsworth Concise English Dictionary is an authorative, user friendly and up-to-date lexicon of the world's most widely used language. It reflects the usage not just of the UK and the USA but also of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and all those parts of the world where English is the first language. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet paradoxically unite them.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: According to Mohammed, the one true religion was revealed to five great prophets before him – Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. But each time their message was ignored and people chose to worship false gods instead. As the last and greatest prophet of the one and only God, it was his task to abolish all idolatry. For many years his mission seemed hopeless. As long as he remained in Mecca, he…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Here together for the first time in one volume are the twenty five spooky stories created by Sir Andrew Caldecott in two collections the 1940s: Not Exactly Ghosts and Fires Burn Blue. Caldecott, who only turned to fiction after retiring from the civil service, allowed his lifelong fascination with the supernatural full reign in these simple yet remarkably disturbing stories. Taking his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Lafcadio Hearn’s fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental legends, and folktales. They are a potent blend of weird beauty and horror. Hearn, who referred to his narratives as ‘stories and studies of strange things’, believed that the spectral world was part of the oriental landscape. Lakes, mountains, ruined castles and terraced fields were the natural locale of…