Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: With an Introduction by Kathryn White. 'He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes... turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging her to the grave...' Ann Radcliffe, author of The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho, is the high priestess of the gothic novel. In The Italian, first…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Translated, with explanatory notes, by Michael Karpelson. Moscow, 1929: a city that has lost its way amid corruption and fear, inhabited by people who have abandoned their morals and forsaken spirituality. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town with a bizarre entourage that includes a giant talking cat and a fanged assassin, all hell breaks loose. Among those caught up in the strange and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 008 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 591) Аннотация: This title is selected and introduced by M.J. Elliott. 'They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax'. From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume of tales penned…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This title includes an introduction and notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. The author of dozens of adventure novels and fantastical tales, Robert Louis Stevenson was also an enthusiast of travel, whether wandering on foot through France in the company of a donkey, crossing the plains of North America in a train crammed with emigrants, or cruising under sail with his wife in the waters of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 430 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 870) 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 patricide? 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 2 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 431) Аннотация: With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Here are two great, neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, together in one volume for the first time. It is a double treat for lovers of blood-curdling fantasy fiction.The Lady of the Shroud, published here in its full and unabridged form, is a fascinating and engrossing concoction of a vampire tale, Ruritanian adventure story and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 003 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 394) Аннотация: A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyrannies which have ruled large parts of the globe in his name. Indeed, he would have been appalled if he had witnessed them. But his analysis…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Murderous ghosts, horrific curses and monstrous beings haunt an unforgiving landscape into which travellers stray at their peril. Journey through the dark byways of Australia's Gothic past in the rare stories gathered in this memorable new collection. Work by acclaimed Australian writers such as Marcus Clarke, Henry Lawson and Edward Dyson appears alongside many lesser-known authors such as…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: This title includes an introduction by A.D.P. Briggs and translated by Constance Garnett. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of «Devils», a title that refers the young…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: This is translated by Constance Garnett, with an introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: With an Introduction by Alex Dolby Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his 'extraordinary voyages' was a key factor in the rise of modern science fiction. In «The…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Two of Sherlock Holmes' most exciting, dangerous and challenging adventures are here in one volume. In «The Shadow of the Rat», a body is found floating in the river — a body that has been deliberately infected with the plague virus. Holmes and Watson find themselves seeking answers at The Bridge of Dreams, a club where a person's darkest wish can be granted — for a price. Holmes falls under the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Complete and unabridged, this title comes with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, «Ulysses», tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W B Yeats, T S Eliot and Ernest Hemingway.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: David Rothwell takes on the challenge of summarising the entire body of English Literature, from its earliest origins to the current day within the confines of a standard paperback. His whistle-stop through the best (and less favoured) of English writing is witty, opinionated and entertaining.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Offers a collection of stories in which: a wax museum in London boasts an exhibit, which no man has seen and remained sane; a businessman is trapped in a train carriage with a madman who claims to have created a new and efficient method of capital punishment; and, a doctor plans a horrible revenge, using an insect as his murder weapon.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Alexey Ivanovitch is a young tutor in the household of a general. He is both observer and actor in the tempest which surrounds his impoverished employer. Everyone is waiting for the death of Granny, the general's rich aunt, but so far from dying, she turns up alive and well, and makes her way to the casino...
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Henry Morton Stanley's greeting to the Scottish medical missionary David Livingstone — Dr Livingstone, I presume? — is to exploration what Holmes' Elementary, my dear Watson is to detective fiction. It took place in a remote African settlement when a travelling correspondent for the «New York Herald» successfully concluded an assignment to find the renowned explorer. But the meeting, and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: 'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party'? So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. He was making his first responses to the Old World — to Paris, Milan,…