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The Ultimate Children's Classic Collection (7 Books) | The perfect gift for any book-lover, this box set contains eight of the best children's classics ever written Beautifully packaged in a ridged, m...

Aesop's Fables | Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the ...

English Fairy Tales | This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such us Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick W...

Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most ...

The Little Prince | The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery in the desert of a small boy from another planet -...

Henry IV. Parts 1 & 2 | In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard II was successful, but now he himself is beset by rebels, led by the charismatic Har...

Animal Farm | In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin’s brutal regime was either censored...

King Lear | This book is edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequ...

Mrs Dalloway | This title includes an introduction and notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolfs singular techn...

Frankenstein | Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. None. Категория: Книги/Книги на иностранных языках/Книги на английском языке/Художественная литература на английском языке/Классическая зару...

Oliver Twist | Dickens had already achieved renown with "The Pickwick Papers". With "Oliver Twist" his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - gri...

Leviathan | Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. ...

The Lost World & Other Stories | Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells) are linke...

Little Women | Little Women is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, based on the author’s own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small...

Capital. Volumes 1 & 2 | 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,...

The House of the Dead & The Gambler | Translated by Constance Garnett. With an introduction by A. Briggs. None. Категория: Книги/Книги на иностранных языках/Книги на английском языке/Художественная ли...

The Origin of Species | 'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought...

Our Mutual Friend | Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values e...

Kidnapped & Catriona | Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped remains one of the most exciting stories ever written. Young David Balfour, orphaned then betrayed by his Uncle Ebenezer, his so-called guardi...

Hard Times | Unusually tor Dickens. Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and poll...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom | As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Law...

Robin Hood | Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time. In this beautifully illustrated edition, Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest - Robin himself, Little...

Lady Audley's Secret | The flaxen-haired beauty of the child-like Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon's classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine ...

Nineteen Eighty-Four | The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to ...

Nicholas Nickleby. The Life and Adventures | Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and...

Robinson Crusoe | Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind ...

The Secret Garden | Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to ...

The Whisperer in Darkness | Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface ...

Democracy in America | Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues ...

Wuthering Heights | With an Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is the wild, passionate story of intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnsh...

The Last Man | With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, The Godolphin and Latymer School, formerly of Royal Holloway, University of London. The Last Man is Man' Shelley's apocalyptic fanta...

The Awakening and Selected Stories | This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin's extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two coll...

The Iliad and the Odyssey | Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls ...

Little Women & Good Wives | Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters...

Key Philosophical Writings | Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his genius lies at the core of our contemporary in...

Iliad | The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad. In muscular, onward-ro...

Sense and Sensibility | 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...

The Waves | 'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms o...

Henry V | The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing endeavours to take acco...

The Drug and Other Stories | This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the f...

The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories | This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The star attraction is the no...

Anna Karenina | Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richn...

Grimm's Fairy Tales | The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous ...

The Little Prince | The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first b...

Women in Love | Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, crities could only ...

The picture of Dorian Gray | With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham. Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to teas...

The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes | It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, begin...

Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea | When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert apply to an orphanage for a boy to help on their farm, Green Gables, they are astonished when a loquacious little girl steps ...

Peter Pan. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens | The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear | The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challengin...

Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan Pier | George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a...

Trumpet Major | With an Introduction and Notes by Charles P.C. Pettit Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet Major is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us i...

The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his moth...

The Island of Doctor Moreau & Other Works | Moreau's highly controversial methods and ambitions conflict with the religious, moral and scientific norms of his day and Wells later called The Island of ...

Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories | This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dea...

Moby Dick | With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review' Moby Dick is the story of...

Ethan Frome | With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the ey...

Ivanhoe | Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and equally memorable characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard...

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario. John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His ...

Robinson Crusoe | From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subj...

The Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Collection (6 Books) | The perfect gift for any Sherlock Holmes fan. Boxset contains six books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the notorious d...

Jane Eyre | Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomi...

Gothic Short Stories | Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which ...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | By the time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had completed the twelve stories for The Strand magazine that are gathered together in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, he was alr...