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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kate Sheriff, a young American woman, knew without a shadow of a doubt what her calling was. She was to move to India where she would dedicate herself to improving the condition of Indian women. In her ensuing struggle to lay aside her favoured Western lifestyle, and her adjustments to life in the Indian subcontinent, Kipling presents east and west side by side and reveals the complex, often tangled nature of the two. Наличные, б/н, visa, qiwi, webmoney, я.деньги.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer This volume includes such amazing three amazing stories "Fanshawe", "The SnowImage" and "The New Adam and Eve"...
The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Charles Dickens, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog such as thedelusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastroattempts at putting on a public show and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which the town is overrun by illustrioscientists and professors conducting ostensibly pointless research...
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O Henry, was an American short story writer His stories are known for their surprise endings This volume includes such wonderful stories like "The Voice of the City", "The Complete Life of John Hopkins", "A Lickpenny Lover", "Dougherty's EyeOpener" and many others...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The Portrait of a Lady" is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism Roderick Hudson, egotistical, beautiful and an exceptionally gifted sculptor...
Dickens' genifor creating eccentric yet entirely captivating characters found its fullest expression in his third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, published in 1839 The narrative follows Nicholas as he escapes from the influence of his villainouncle and the wicked schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, stumbles into a theatrical career, and pursues his fortune through numeroadventures...
Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of bestloved, essential classics.'Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.'Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuohistory of the Highlands in his classic adventure novel Rob Roy...
Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet "The TrumpetMajor" is one of Hardy's most underrated and unpredictable works Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill, has three suitors : the squire's nephew Festand the miller's two sons, Robert and John...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions...
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O Henry, was an American short story writer His stories are known for their surprise endings This is collection of great stories includes "Strictly Business", "The Gold That Glittered", "Babes In The Jungle", "The Day Resurgent", "The Fifth Wheel" and many others...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The Portrait of a Lady" is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer...
Worldfamofor his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing In 1919 Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer...
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings and the suspicion that his jealouncle John Jasper, madly in love with Rosa, is the killer...
Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America...
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O Henry, was an American short story writer His stories are known for their surprise endings This volume includes amazing stories like "The Rose of Dixie", "The Third Ingredient", "The Hiding of Black Bill", "Schools and Schools" and many others...
Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer "Mosses from an Old Manse" is Nathaniel Hawthorne's interesting story collection, which the was named in honor of The Old Manse, where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage...
The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18yearold undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage girl could still be delivered by the hand of a discreet manservant, and the residents of Piccadilly kept their horses stabled close by so that they could gallop down to Richmond for fresh air...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions...
Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet In the novel "Two On A Tower" Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful Swithin St Cleeve...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The Tragic Muse" is wide, cheerful panorama of English life follows the fortunes of two wouldbe artists : Nick Dormer, who throws over a political career in his efforts to become a painter, and Miriam Rooth, an actress striving for artistic and commercial success...
Notes and Introduction by Mark G Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (16321704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth century, and Locke's works are often ? rightly ? presented as foundations of the Age of Enlightenment...
Dickens' genifor creating eccentric yet entirely captivating characters found its fullest expression in his third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, published in 1839 The narrative follows Nicholas as he escapes from the influence of his villainouncle and the wicked schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, stumbles into a theatrical career, and pursues his fortune through numeroadventures...