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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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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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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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Everyman4406 ₽Leonard Cohen Poems | This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm ...
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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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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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Everyman4114 ₽The Swoop! and The Military Invasion of America | Clarence Chugwater is not a Boy Scout for nothing. It is summer 1909 and everyone is too interested in the Test Match to notice that England has been ...
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Everyman6609 ₽The Good Soldier Svejk | An attack on war which broadens into a satire on the Ancien Regime of the Austro-Hungarian empire, The Good Soldier Svejk recreates the age-old figure of the simple soldier wh...
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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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Everyman5664 ₽Love in a Cold Climate. The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced...
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Everyman2361 ₽The Gold Bat | When O’Hara and Moriarty, two boys at Wrykyn School, tar and feather the statue of a pompous local MP, O’Hara mislays at the scene of their crime a tiny gold bat borrowed from Trevor, c...
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Everyman6334 ₽The Collected Stories | The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkin's prose fiction contains all his mature work. In addition to 'The Captain's Daughter' and 'The Tales of Belkin', the volume now inc...
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Everyman4710 ₽New York Stories | Writers have always been uniquely inspired by New York City, and the classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the metropolis in all its grittiness and glamou...
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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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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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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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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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Everyman4490 ₽Money in the Bank | When George, Viscount Uffenham turns the entire family fortune into diamonds and squirrels them away, naturally he forgets where he has hidden the loot and finds himself compelled ...
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Everyman5508 ₽Victory | Set in the Malay Archipelago, where Conrad spent much of his youth as an officer in the British Merchant Navy, Victory is a sombre yet brilliant study of good and evil in Conrad's mature man...
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Everyman5587 ₽Jude The Obscure | Hardy’s last novel is the story of a young working man destroyed by the partial fulfilment of his dreams. Torn between his desires for the life of the body and the life of the mind,...
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Everyman4114 ₽Something Fishy | Set in the Elysian suburb of Valley Fields where the sixth Viscount Uffenham is lodging with his former butler while his ancestral mansion is let to an American millionaire, Somethin...
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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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Everyman5508 ₽The Rainbow | This novel renews the Victorian family saga in a modern setting, tracing the history of the Brangwens through several generations. The book was banned when it first appeared in 1915 for ...
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Everyman4490 ₽Piccadilly Jim | This sparkling story of transatlantic manners follows the fortunes of playboy Jimmy Crocker in England and America. When Jimmy falls for a girl in London and vows to reform himself as...
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Everyman4114 ₽Mike at Wrykyn | In this charming story of the Jackson cricketing dynasty at boarding school, Wodehouse evokes the peaceful, prosperous world of middle-class England before the Great War, a place wher...
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Everyman3160 ₽Emma | Emma Woodhouse ‘had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her’, but during the course of this, the wisest and most disturbing of Jane Austen’s novels, s...
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Everyman4774 ₽Much Obliged, Jeeves | While staying with his Aunt Dahlia to help out in the election at Market Snodsbury, Bertie Wooster comes up against the familiar horrors of Florence Craye, his former fiancee, a...
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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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Everyman11015 ₽The Cairo Trilogy. Palace Walk. Palace of Desire. Sugar Street | Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize-winning writ...
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Everyman5141 ₽The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men: Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of...
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Everyman4842 ₽The Mill On The Floss | In The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot recreates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoilt, selfish brother. Though tragic in its o...
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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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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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Everyman6886 ₽Life and Fate | Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikov...
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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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Everyman2362 ₽The Luck Stone | Published under a pseudonym in the weekly magazine Chums, The Luck Stone was written very early in Wodehouse's career when he was still trying to establish himself as a write by tryin...
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Everyman4406 ₽Leave it to Psmith | It all starts with an umbrella, the best to be found in the Drones Club. From such an innocent beginning Wodehouse weaves a comic tale of suspense and romance involving one of his...
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Everyman4862 ₽Selected Stories | During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including ‘Boule de Suif’, ‘The Necklace’, ‘The House of Madame Tellier’, ‘The Hand’, ‘The Horl...
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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 ...
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Everyman4843 ₽The Periodic Table | An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fi...
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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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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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Everyman4039 ₽Stories of Fatherhood | This wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror...
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Everyman4490 ₽The Clicking of Cuthbert | Who but P.G. Wodehouse could have extraced high comedy from the most noble and ancient game of golf? And who else could have combined this comedy with a real appreciation of...
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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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Everyman4598 ₽Bedtime Stories | As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller’s art, with its ancient roots in ...
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Everyman5141 ₽Wuthering Heights | Published in 1847, the year before Emily Bronte’s death at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights has proved to be one of the nineteenth century’s most popular yet disturbing masterp...
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Everyman5508 ₽Stories of Motherhood | Stories of Motherhood gathers together more than a century of short fiction from a wide variety of authors in a literary celebration of the most elemental of human relationship...
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Everyman4490 ₽Service with a Smile | With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury, mischievous Church Lads camping in his park, his sister Constance bossing him unmercifully, and Laven...
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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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Everyman5503 ₽The Castle | Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employ...
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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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Everyman4769 ₽Treasure Island | Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! When young Jim Hawkins discovers a map showing the way to Captain Flint's treasure, he and Squire Trelawney set sai...
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Everyman6973 ₽Annals and Histories | Tacitus was the greatest historian of the Roman empire. Born in about AD 55, he served as administrator and leading senator. This career gave him an intimate view of the empire ...
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Everyman4774 ₽The General in His Labyrinth | Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most political novel tells the tragic story of General Simon Bolivar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolivar, who drove the Spanish fro...
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Everyman4862 ₽London Fields | Amis’s powers of comic invention are formidable in this dark tale of disaster, sex, love, murder - and darts. Set in a pre-millennial, pre-apocalyptic London, the novel follows femme f...
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Everyman5871 ₽All Quiet on the Western Front | In 1914 Paul Baumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few w...
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Everyman3738 ₽The Art of Angling. Poems About Fishing | The Art of Angling offers a bountiful catch of poems from around the world and through the ages on every aspect of the popular sport. Fishing has inspired a w...
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Everyman4114 ₽Ukridge | If Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge had a fiver for every dodgy scheme he has ever floated, he would be a rich man indeed. In these ten stories he tries every way of making money, from writ...
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Everyman6723 ₽Anna Karenina | A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent hero...
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Everyman4838 ₽Fairy Tales | 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Rumpelstiltskin', 'Rapunzel' and 'Snow White' are among the jewels we owe to the brothers Grimm, who began in the first decade of the nineteenth century to seek out...
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Everyman4490 ₽The Coming of Bill | The nearest Wodehouse ever came to a serious story, The Coming of Bill is a fascinating blend of social comment and light comedy. It concerns the offspring of Ruth, a spoilt heire...
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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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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...