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Everyman5504 ₽
The Portrait Of A Lady | Described by F. R. Leavis as one of the two most brilliant novels in the language, The Portrait of a Lady marks the evolution of Henry James from talented American writer to w...
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Everyman5875 ₽
Sanditon And Other Stories | A dazzling collection of early stories and later fragments which throw an entirely new light on Jane Austen. In particular, they reveal a precociously brilliant genius wit...
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Everyman5586 ₽
The Audubon Reader | John James Audubon (1785-1851) was for half a century America's dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, is still a standard w...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Money for Nothing | When Chimp Twist, the dodgy proprietor of Healthward Ho health farm in Worcestershire, joins forces with partners in crime Dolly and Soapy Molloy, the result is bound to be trouble...
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Everyman4113 ₽
The Girl in Blue | This charming novel is one of Wodehouse’s best late works. The vintage plot concerns a Gainsborough miniature, a mouldering country house, an overweight solicitor, a fortune-hunter,...
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Everyman4036 ₽
Shaken and Stirred. Intoxicating Stories | In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London...
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Everyman5587 ₽
Far from the Madding Crowd | Regarded by many as Hardy's prose masterpiece, Far From the Madding Crowd is the tragi-comic story of a woman and three men. Bathsheba Everdene is courted by the brilliant...
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Everyman5218 ₽
The Steppe and Other Stories | Anton Chekhov widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels-here brought together in one volume for ...
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Everyman4251 ₽
The Mating Season | When Bertie Wooster visits Deverill Hall pretending to be Gussie Fink-Nottle he finds himself in trouble. To begin with, there is the case of Esmond Haddock, JP, the squire of King...
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Everyman5871 ₽
The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins’ novel took the fashionable world by storm on its appearance in 1860 when everything from dances to dresses was named after the ‘woman in white’. Its continuing pow...
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Everyman4486 ₽
Rebellion | At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded veteran is satisf...
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Everyman7446 ₽
Collected Shorter Fiction. Volume 1 | Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy’s enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Volume ...
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Everyman4774 ₽
The Age Of Innocence | Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newlan...
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Everyman4490 ₽
French Leave | Three American sisters leave their chicken farm on Long Island for a holiday in Europe. In France they encounter the charming but penniless Marquis de Maufringneuse, his writer son Jeff...
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Everyman4710 ₽
Something Fresh | The first of the Blandings Castle novels, introducing Lord Emsworth, his family, his secretary – the Efficient Baxter – and the mandatory Wodehouse cast of butlers, aunts, younger so...
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Everyman5586 ₽
The Return Of The Native | In The Return of the Native Hardy once more treats his favourite theme of the mismatched couple with masterly pathos and understatement. Eustacia Vye longs to escape from Eg...
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Everyman5508 ₽
The Lover. Wartime Notebooks. Practicalities | Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after he...
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Everyman6242 ₽
Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness | Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Wh...
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Everyman3722 ₽
Jill the Reckless | When Jill Mariner is arrested for fighting over a parrot and then loses all her money on the same day, she is abandoned by her pompous fiance and goes to stay with her rich relatio...
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Everyman4770 ₽
Candide and Other Stories | The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period and the crowning achievement of that caustic, brilliantly learned age was Voltaire’s Candide,...
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Everyman4590 ₽
The Great Gatsby | Scott Fitzgerald was called the laureate of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby (1926) is a cynical celebration of the post-Great War Long Island/ New York world of get-rich-quick. The n...
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Everyman4770 ₽
Animal Farm | A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, Animal Farm is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire after the same writ...
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Everyman4039 ₽
Washington Square | When Catherine Sloper falls for Maurice Townsend, her father, a wealthy New York doctor, believes that Townsend is a fortune hunter after his daughter's inheritance. He forbids the...
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Everyman4862 ₽
Detective Stories | If every fiction is at heart a mystery, then the detective story is fiction distilled to its purest essence, combining the intellectual appeal of puzzles with the psychological fas...
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Everyman4842 ₽
First Love And Other Stories | This volume contains two of the world's great love stories - First Love, and Spring Torrents, which show Turgenev at his very best. Simple, direct and tender, they recor...
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Everyman4039 ₽
Hip Hops. Poems about Beer | From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle'; from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John Barleycorn' (no, you are not seeing double...
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Everyman5508 ₽
The Duke's Children | Lord Silverbridge has just been sent down from Oxford, his brother Gerald is an idler, both are constantly in debt and in trouble; even their sister, the sensible and spirited La...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Wedding Stories | The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month of May," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal Party," Joy...
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Everyman4862 ₽
The Maples Stories | These eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updi...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Bill the Conqueror | When Bill West of New York falls in love with the statuesque Alice Coker, his promise to look after her dissipated brother Judson has unexpected results. With Judson under his win...
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Everyman4710 ₽
Nothing Serious | A collection of ten stories in which many old friends reappear in deliciously absurd situations. Two lovers are united by their hatred of cricket. Bingo Little, editor of Wee Tots an...
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Everyman4862 ₽
Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests | Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened b...
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Everyman5508 ₽
Thank You, Jeeves | While pursuing the love of his life, American heiress Pauline Stoker, Lord 'Chuffy' Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves, the perfect gentleman's gentleman. But when Chuffy fin...
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Everyman4114 ₽
The Girl on the Boat | When Sam Marlowe falls in love with his cousin's sparky ex-fiancee he finds himself up against stiff opposition from her millionaire father, her father's best friend and the bes...
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Everyman4769 ₽
The English Patient | Hana, a Canadian nurse, exhausted by death, and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent, Caravaggio; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper - ...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Company for Henry | Everyone in Company for Henry wants to escape from something. Hard-up Henry Paradene would like to unload his hideous country house on his millionaire American cousin, J. Wendell S...
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Everyman5875 ₽
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz | Possibly the most colourful figure in the history of Western music, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was certainly the most eloquent. His autobiography is among the greatest ...
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Everyman4098 ₽
The Cossacks | "Tolstoy's lavish and always graphic use of detail," wrote John Bayley, "together of course with its romance and exotic setting . . . has made The Cossacks the most popular of all his w...
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Everyman6238 ₽
Agnes Grey. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famou...
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Everyman4770 ₽
The Railway Children | Although E. Nesbit regarded her poetry as her most important work, it is her children's books (written 'to keep the house going') that ensured her lasting fame and which are sti...
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Everyman4114 ₽
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories | This substantial collection of early stories displays a variety of tone, style and setting which may surprise readers familiar only with the author's later light c...
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Everyman4710 ₽
Silas Marner | When the weaver Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he becomes a miser and vows to turn his back upon the world. But an extraordinary sequence of e...
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Everyman4039 ₽
Rome Stories | During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the spiritual core of a great world religion. For writers from antiquity to the ...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Sunset at Blandings | In Wodehouse's final novel, unfinished at his death, the author returns to his favourite part of England. In a classic plot, Vicky Underwood is parted from her fiance, Jeff Benni...
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Everyman5141 ₽
The Bridge on the Drina | The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed--until 1914 when tensions i...
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Everyman4842 ₽
The Awkward Age | The story of young Nanda Brookenham's struggle to preserve her honesty in the brilliant but corrupt world of her parents is a drama of innocence betrayed yet preserved. Written when ...
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Selected Writings | Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, s...
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Everyman5218 ₽
The House Of Mirth | Alone in the great social whirl of New York high society, with little but her wit and beauty to support her, Lily Bart pays the ultimate price for defying convention and the hoste...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Love Among the Chickens | This is the tale of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, one of Wodehouse’s favourite protagonists, and his fraught attempt to establish a business farming chickens on the coas...
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Everyman4113 ₽
Venice Stories | The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers an array of dazzling stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne Du Ma...
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Everyman3985 ₽
Olinger Stories | These autobiographical stories about growing up in small-town Pennsylvania are among John Updike’s best, and were the closest to his heart. Selected by the author from his first eigh...
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Everyman4113 ₽
Ice in the Bedroom | Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly Molloy want to get their hands on a cache of stole...
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Everyman4114 ₽
The Little Nugget | The Little Nugget is one of the novels in which Wodehouse found his feet, a comic thriller set in an English prep school for the children of the nobility and gentry. Into their mid...
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Everyman4114 ₽
The Pothunters | When someone breaks into the cricket pavilion and steals two silver cups, the whole school is agog. Could it possibly be an inside job? Nothing less than the honour of St Austin’s is ...
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Everyman3741 ₽
Villanelles | A comprehensive collection of the best of the villanelle – the first anthology of its kind. The highly structured villanelle is a nineteen-line poem arranged in five tercets and one quat...
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Everyman4406 ₽
Heavy Weather | There is trouble afoot at Blandings Castle, with publishing magnate Lord Tilbury after Galahad Threepwood's sensational memoirs, and Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe in pursuit of Lord Emsw...
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Utopia | First published in 1516, during a period of astonishing political and technological change, Sir Thomas More’s Utopia depicts an imaginary society free of private property and religious intole...
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Everyman4774 ₽
Notes from a Dead House | In 1849 the young Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years' hard labour in a Siberian prison camp for advocating socialism. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated...
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Everyman5307 ₽
The House Of The Spirits | We begin - at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country - in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmother of the clan, Clara de...
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Everyman6609 ₽
The Best of Wodehouse. An Anthology | P. G. Wodehouse was, by common consent, the most brilliant writer of English comedy in the twentieth century, equally celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. He...
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Everyman4836 ₽
Peter Pan | Barrie's classic tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up. It started life as a series of stories made up for the five Llewelyn Davies boys, who were virtually adopted by Barrie after being or...
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Everyman4770 ₽
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves | Bertie Wooster vows that nothing will induce him to return to Totleigh Towers, lair of former magistrate Sir Watkyn Bassett. Apart from Sir Watkyn himself, the place is infes...
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Everyman4598 ₽
Berlin Stories | Philip Hensher’s selection of stories reflects the ‘desperate modernity’ of Berlin as it make and remakes itself over a period of more than a hundred turbulent years. Theodore Fontane...
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Everyman6372 ₽
The Complete Novels | In the five novels by Ireland's greatest comic writer we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of At Swim-Two Birds to the piercing realism ...