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Автор: Dickens Charles
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2009
ISBN: 978-1-85326-734-5
Серия: Classics
Год: 2009
Описание: Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and...
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Автор: Dickens Charles
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2000
ISBN: 978-1-85326-012-4
Серия: Classics
Год: 2000
Описание: Dickens had already achieved renown with "The Pickwick Papers". With "Oliver Twist" his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian t...
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Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2005
ISBN: 978-1-84022-099-5
Серия: Classics
Год: 2005
Описание: With an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs, translation by Constance Garnett. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent re...
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Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 1996
ISBN: 978-1-85326-175-6
Серия: Classics
Год: 1996
Описание: Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ult...
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Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84022-629-4
Серия: Classics
Год: 2010
Описание: Translated by Constance Garnett.
With an introduction by A. Briggs.
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Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84022-186-2
Серия: Classics
Год: 2011
Описание: Translated by Constance Garnett.
With an introduction by A. D. P. Briggs.
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Автор: Doyle Arthur Conan
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2009
ISBN: 978-1-85326-748-2
Серия: Classics
Год: 2009
Описание: "The Best of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch-sleuth. Basing his selection ar...
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Автор: Fitzgerald F.Scott
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2001
ISBN: 978-1-85326-041-4
Серия: Classics
Год: 2001
Описание: Generally considered to be F.Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, "The Great Gatsby" is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties" and a devastating expose of the &a...
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Автор: Fitzgerald F.Scott
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84022-663-8
Серия: Classics
Год: 2011
Описание: "Tender is the Night" is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the 'Roaring Twenties'. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick D...
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Автор: Gaskell Elizabeth
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2003
ISBN: 978-1-84022-416-0
Серия: Classics
Год: 2003
Описание: Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mothe...
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Автор: Hardy Thomas
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2000
ISBN: 978-1-85326-005-6
Серия: Classics
Год: 2000
Описание: Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first publis...
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Автор: James Henry
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 1999
ISBN: 978-1-85326-177-0
Год: 1999
Описание: Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, b...
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Автор: Jerome K. Jerome
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2008
ISBN: 978-1-85326-051-3
Серия: Classics
Год: 2008
Описание: There are four of them - George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, .Montmorency - all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The difficulties and vicissitudes heaped upon these innocents dev...
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Автор: Joyce James
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2001
ISBN: 978-1-85326-048-3
Год: 2001
Описание: Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in "Dubliners" show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, c...
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Автор: Shakespeare William
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2004
ISBN: 978-1-85326-095-7
Серия: Classics
Год: 2004
Описание: 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 sequence of Will...
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Автор: Stoker Bram
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2000
ISBN: 978-1-85326-086-5
Серия: Classics
Год: 2000
Описание: There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redd...
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Автор: Tolstoy Leo
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2004
ISBN: 978-1-84022-453-5
Год: 2004
Описание: Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volu...
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Автор: Twain Mark
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84022-636-2
Год: 2010
Описание: 'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Ilolv Land in June 1S67.
His ...
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Автор: Twain Mark
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84022-183-1
Год: 2009
Описание: Following on from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Tom Sawyer Abroad became one of Mark Twain's most popular books. Again we meet ...
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Автор: Verne Jules
Издатели: Wordsworth, год выпуска 2002
ISBN: 978-1-85326-090-2
Серия: Classics
Год: 2002
Описание: Jules Verne (1828-1905) possessed that rare storyteller`s gift of being able to present the far-fetched and the downright unbelievable in such a way as effortlessly to inspire his reader`s allegiance and trust....
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