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Moby Dick (Collector’s Edition)

Aleksandr Malyshev — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:21:23 +0000

Книга «Moby Dick (Collector’s Edition)». Издательство: Wordsworth Editions. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 604. Автор: Melville Herman. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

The Complete Bronte Collection

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 09:30:55 +0000

The perfect gift for any Bronte Sisters lover for only GBP19.99.Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the Bronte Sisters’ best and much-loved works.Beautifully packaged in a ridged, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork.

Study in Scarlet, a & The Sign of the Four (HB)

Fri, 31 May 2024 22:27:08 +0000

Аннотация к книге «A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four» Doyle A. C.:Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes’s — The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective’s faithful chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the burning plains of Utah. The Sign of the Four, the second Holmes novel, presents the detective with one of his greatest challenges. The theft of the Agna treasure in India forms a catalyst for treachery, deceit and murder. With these two classic novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, you have the brilliant foundation of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Reading pleasure rarely comes any finer. Читать дальше…

Return of Sherlock Holmes, the (HB)

Fri, 31 May 2024 17:56:09 +0000

Аннотация к книге «The Return of Sherlock Holmes» Doyle A. C.:The Return of Sherlock Holmes… once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents. Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death in the swirling torrent of the Reichenbach Falls locked in the arms of his arch enemy Professor Moriarty, Arthur Conan Doyle agreed to pen further adventures featuring his brilliant detective. In the first story, x27The Empty Housex27, Holmes returns to Baker Street and his good friend Watson, explaining how he escaped from his watery grave. In creating this collection of tales, Doyle had lost none of cunning or panache, providing Holmes with a sparkling set of mysteries to solve and a challenging set of adversaries to defeat. The potent mixture includes murder, abduction, baffling cryptograms and robbery. We are also introduced to the one of the cruelest villains in the Holmes canon, the despicable Charles Augustus Milverton. As before, Watson is the superb narrator and the magic remains unchanged and undimmed. Читать дальше…

Pride and Prejudice (HB)

Fri, 31 May 2024 12:53:08 +0000

Аннотация к книге «Pride and Prejudice» Austen J.:Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Austen’s most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. Page 2 of a letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra (11 June 1799) in which she first mentions Pride and Prejudice, using its working title First Impressions. Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet’s five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth. Though Austen set the story at the turn of the 19th century, it retains a fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of most loved books. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature, selling over 20 million copies, and receives considerable attention from literary scholars. Modern interest in the book has resulted in a number of dramatic adaptations and an abundance of novels and stories imitating Austen’s memorable characters or themes. A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf! Читать дальше…

Anne of Green Gables (HB)

Wed, 29 May 2024 16:42:07 +0000

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne’s influence in some way. We see her grow from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making her mistakes, and not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her own red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the true meaning of love. Part Tom Sawyer, part Jane Eyre, by the end of Anne of Green Gables, Anne has become the heroine of her own story.Энн Ширли — одиннадцатилетняя сирота, которая, несмотря на свои ранние лишения, решительно сохранила оптимистичный настрой и необузданно творческое воображение. Она врывается в жизнь стареющих брата и сестры Мэтью и Мариллы Катберт, девочки вместо мальчика, за которым они посылали. Так начинается история преображения всех троих; действительно, вся сельская община Эйвонли в какой-то мере подпадает под влияние Энн. Мы видим, как она превращается из девочки в молодую шестнадцатилетнюю женщину, совершая свои ошибки и не всегда учась на них. Умная, вспыльчивая, как ее собственные рыжие волосы, не желающая воспринимать моральную истину как прочитанную, пока не разберется в ней сама, она также должна встретиться лицом к лицу с горем и потерей и познать истинное значение любви. Отчасти Том Сойер, отчасти Джейн Эйр, к концу «Анны из зеленых мезонинов» Энн стала героиней своей собственной истории.Книга на английском языке.

Sense and Sensibility (HB)

Wed, 29 May 2024 04:31:08 +0000

Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor’s character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival.

The Descent of Man

Sun, 19 May 2024 20:35:03 +0000

In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans. Most importantly, he accounts for what Victorians called the ‘races’ of mankind by means of what he calls sexual selection. This book presents a full explanation of Darwin’s ideas about sexual selection, including his belief that many important characteristics of human beings and animals have emerged in response to competition for mates.This was a controversial work. Yet Darwin tried hard to avoid being branded as a radical revolutionary. He is steeped in Victorian sensibilities regarding gender and cultural differences: he sees human civilization as a move from barbarous savagery to modern gentlefolk, and women as more emotional and less intellectual than men, thus providing a biological basis for the social assumptions and prejudices of the day. The Descent of Man played a major role in the emergence of social Darwinism.This complete version of the first edition gives the modern reader an unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with Darwin’s proposals, launched in the midst of continuing controversy over On the Origin of Species.Janet Browne is the author of the prize-winning biography, Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place.

Capital: Volumes One and Two

Sun, 19 May 2024 20:35:03 +0000

Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation. Of central importance then and later was his book Das Kapital, or, as it is known to English readers, simply Capital. Volume One of Capital was published in Paris in 1867. This was the only volume published during Marx’s lifetime and the only to have come directly from his pen. Volume Two, published in 1884, was based on notes Marx left, but written by his friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels (1820-1895). Readers from the nineteenth century to the present have been captivated by the unmistakable power and urgency of this classic of world literature. Marx’s critique of the capitalist system is rife with big themes: his theory of ‘surplus value’, his discussion of the exploitation of the working class, and his forecast of class conflict on a grand scale. Marx wrote with purpose. As he famously put it, ‘Philosophers have previously tried to explain the world, our task is to change it.’

To the Lighthouse. Complete and Unabridged / Вулф. К маяку

Sat, 18 May 2024 13:12:03 +0000

«To the Lighthouse» is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War.Издание на английском языке.