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Der Graf von Antwerpen (Ungekürzt)

Джованни Боккаччо

Der Graf von Antwerpen (Ungekürzt)

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The Tale of Genji

Murasaki Shikibu

The Tale of Genji

The Tale of Genji (源氏物語 Genji monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century. The original manuscript no longer exists. It was made in «concertina» or «orihon» style: several sheets of paper pasted together and folded alternately in one direction then the other, around the peak of the Heian period. The work is a unique depiction of the lifestyles of high courtiers during the Heian period,...

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Murasaki Shikibu

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (with a...

Anne Bronte

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (with an Introduction by Mary Augusta Ward)

Originally published in 1848, “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” is the second and final novel written by Anne Bronte. Considered one of the first feminist novels, it was both instantly successful and highly controversial. The story follows the relationship between Gilbert Markham, a prosperous farmer, and the mysterious widow Mrs. Helen Graham, who takes up residence with only her son and a servant in the nearby tumbledown mansion of Wildfell Hall. Told in a series of letters, Gilbert describes how...

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Anne Bronte

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Buchan John

The Thirty-Nine Steps

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard. 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running to his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as...

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Buchan John

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Buchan John

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Considered by many to be one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, “The Thirty-Nine Steps” is Scottish author John Buchan’s most successful work. Published in 1915 and set during the early days of the First World War, it is the first of Buchan’s stories of Richard Hannay, a brave and honorable yet unremarkable gentleman, who finds himself mixed up in extraordinary circumstances. In “The Thirty-Nine Steps” Hannay is unintentionally drawn into a deadly plot to undermine the British war...

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Buchan John

The Clue of the Twisted Candle (Una...

Edgar Wallace

The Clue of the Twisted Candle (Unabridged)

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Edgar Wallace

Die Sphinx (Ungekürzt)

Эдгар По

Die Sphinx (Ungekürzt)

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The Transition of Juan Romero (Unab...

H. P. Lovecraft

The Transition of Juan Romero (Unabridged)

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H. P. Lovecraft

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Buchan John

The Thirty-Nine Steps

In this fast-paced spy thriller, a self-described «ordinary fellow» stumbles upon a plot involving not only espionage and murder but also the future of Britain itself. Richard Hannay arrives in London on the eve of World War I, where he encounters an American agent seeking help in preventing a political assassination. Before long, Hannay finds himself in possession of a little black book that holds the key to the conspiracy — and on the run from both the police and members of a...

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Buchan John

The Three Musketeers

Александр Дюма

The Three Musketeers

Three musketeers. Two enemies. One major battle.’‘All for one and one for all!’Country boy d'Artagnan is desperate to join the King's elite band of bodyguards, the Musketeers. And when his fiery loyalties (which often get him into trouble) and incredible sword skill (which get him out again) manages to impress brash Porthos, foppish Aramis and melancholy Athos, the three musketeers and d'Artagnan become friends for life.When they discover that the King they protect is under threat, the...

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Александр Дюма

The Three Musketeers

Александр Дюма

The Three Musketeers

With its rousing cry of «One for all, and all for one,» Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure novel has captivated generations of readers since its initial publication in 1844. Action, intrigue, and romance abound in this swashbuckling epic, which traces a country lad's path to the French court of the early 1600s and the glorious fraternity of the king's men, the Musketeers.A son of impoverished nobility, D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to find the Musketeers disbanded by the...

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Александр Дюма

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

The Time Machine

One of the most loved science fiction novels of all time, H. G. Wells’s “The Time Machine” is a novel that crafts a vivid and haunting picture of an earth some 800,000 years into the future. First published in 1895, it was one of the first novels to deal with the concept of time travel and due to its popularity has come to be regarded as one of the most impactful works on the development of the science fiction genre. “The Time Machine” was written at the beginning of a period of great...

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unab...

Эдгар По

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged)

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Эдгар По

White Fang, Book 2 (Unabridged)

Jack London

White Fang, Book 2 (Unabridged)

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Jack London

A Visit from St. Nicholas (Unabridg...

Клемент Кларк Мур

A Visit from St. Nicholas (Unabridged)

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Клемент Кларк Мур

Emma, Vol. 2 (Unabridged)

Джейн Остин

Emma, Vol. 2 (Unabridged)

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Джейн Остин

The Shadow over Innsmouth (Unabridg...

H. P. Lovecraft

The Shadow over Innsmouth (Unabridged)

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H. P. Lovecraft

White Fang, Book 3 (Unabridged)

Jack London

White Fang, Book 3 (Unabridged)

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Jack London

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells и др.

The Time Machine

English novelist, historian and science writer Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) abandoned teaching and launched his literary career with a series of highly successful science-fiction novels. The Time Machine was the first of a number of these imaginative literary inventions. First published in 1895, the novel follows the adventures of a hypothetical Time Traveller who journeys into the future to find that humanity has evolved into two races: the peaceful Eloi — vegetarians...

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H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells и др.

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

"The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" begins with the act of a young slave girl exchanging her light-skinned child, fearing for its safety, for that of her master's. From this reversal of identities evolves a suspenseful murder mystery and courtroom drama. «The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson» is everything one would expect from a novel by Mark Twain. On the surface it is a witty and satirical tale but as one digs deeper a biting social commentary of racial inequality can be found.

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Mark Twain

The Trial

Franz Kafka

The Trial

"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term "«Kafkaesque.» Its darkly humorous narrative recounts a bank clerk's entrapment — based on an undisclosed charge — in a maze of nonsensical rules and bureaucratic roadblocks.Written in 1914 and published posthumously in 1925, Kafka's engrossing parable about the human...

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Franz Kafka

The Turn of the Screw

Генри Джеймс, Henry Foss James и др.

The Turn of the Screw

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills.’Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James’s The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece.When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sister...

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Генри Джеймс, Henry Foss James и др.