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Книги серии «Evergreens»

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Dead Men Tell No Tales and Other Stories Zola E.
Dead Men Tell No Tales and Other Stories
In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola’s short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people....
2190 руб.
The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories Zola E.
The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories
Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume....
2190 руб.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Sterne L.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne’s novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters – such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman – take centre stage, at the expense of the actual l...
1458 руб.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Ghostly Tales Irving W.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Ghostly Tales
Ichabod Crane is a young schoolmaster from Connecticut now living in Sleepy Hollow, a settlement in New York State notorious for rumours of ghostly visitations, especially from the infamous Headless Horseman....
1947 руб.
Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories Hawthorne N.
Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories
Described by Herman Melville as being “as deep as Dante”, ‘Young Goodman Brown’ is set during the Salem witch trials and features the sort of narrative ambiguities and troubling uncertainties over the reality of events that Hawthorne was known for, leading readers to ponder what they have read long after the last page has been turned....
1947 руб.
Silas Marner Eliot G.
Silas Marner
Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives alone in the village of Raveloe, hoarding the precious wealth he earns....
1701 руб.
The Art of Sinking in Poetry Pope A.
The Art of Sinking in Poetry
Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope’s contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club – a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning prevalent in the arts and sciences of their day....
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The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter Bierce A.
The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter
Arriving at a rural monastery, the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl called Benedicta, shunned by the local community for being the daughter of the local hangman. Ambrosius is drawn into a dangerous friendship with her and, in defiance of the community and his superiors, he starts spending time alone with her....
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings de Q.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings
In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on “subtle and mighty opium”....
1947 руб.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Smollett T.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Presented through an ingeniously overlapping and intertwining series of letters written by six very different characters, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is the story of Squire Matthew Bramble and his family\"s journey across England and Scotland....
1701 руб.
Pygmalion Shaw G.
Pygmalion
Unique edition presented in its definitive 1941 version with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment wi...
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The Portrait of Mr W.H. Wilde O.
The Portrait of Mr W.H.
During a conversation about literary forgeries, Erskine tells his young guest that he has received - as a legacy from a friend, the Cambridge scholar Cyril Graham - what is purported to be an Elizabethan portrait....
1947 руб.
The Mill on the Floss Eliot G.
The Mill on the Floss
Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents....
1701 руб.
The Last of the Mohicans Cooper J.
The Last of the Mohicans
After doubts are raised concerning the trustworthiness of Magua, Cora and Alice Munro’s Native American guide, the warrior slips away into the wilderness, and the vulnerable sisters turn to the scout Hawk-eye and the Mohicans Chingachgook and Uncas to lead them to Fort William Henry, where their father is in command....
1462 руб.
On the Origin of Species Darwin C.
On the Origin of Species
When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that the relationships between all life forms, both present and extinct, were more complex than the Christian version of the world’s creation purported them to be....
1462 руб.
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