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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 story collection includes "The World and the Door", "The Theory and the Hound", "The Hypotheses of Failure", "Calloway's Code", "A Matter of Mean Elevation" and others. Наличные, б/н, visa, qiwi, webmoney, я.деньги.
Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable source of social and economic history...
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...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright One of his notable works is the novel "Beyond" Together with his heroes the author goes to spheres of unrestrained feelings...
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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...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "Confidence" is a great novel which centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angela Vivian...
The "Genius" is Theodore Dreiser's autobiographical novel about the turnofthecentury art scene It explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality...
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...
An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffiths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success The novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's tawdry ambitions and seal his fate : It is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American Dream...
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 This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America...
The novel Wyandotte arrived at a time when a patriotic mythology about the American Revolution was developing, and Cooper's somber tale of the sufferings of an isolated family in upstate New York during the Revolution was not congruent with the celebratory stories then being told...
Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice andagency...
Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright "Love moves the world." And this statement was reflected on the pages of the novel "Freeland" And no matter where the love storyset in bright living room or in a solitary mansion feelings and experiences of Galsworthy characters are equally deep and sincere...
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...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre.This is an extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings...
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century.His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature.The Oak Openings; or, The Bee Hunter focuses on the activities of professional honeyhunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed "Ben Buzz"...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright "The Burning Spear" is a work that reveals to the reader a completely different Galsworthy a sarcastic and witty cynic, a true master of British ironic prose...
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...
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history His view is that of an 18thcentury Presbyterian he blames the Devil for the Crusades and sees him as close to Europe's Catholic powers...
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"...