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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde, Оскар Уайльд

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to belief in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment,...

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Oscar Wilde, Оскар Уайльд

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Оскар Уайльд

The Picture of Dorian Gray

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!'Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray's sins and transgressions in its hideousness,...

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Оскар Уайльд

The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Оскар Уайльд

The Plays of Oscar Wilde

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.’Including some of Oscar Wilde’s most well-known and infamous plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this collection of the infamous writer’s works displays his brilliant, quick wit to its full glory. Wilde’s pithy...

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Оскар Уайльд

The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Оскар Уайльд

The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Immerse yourself in the world of Oscar Wilde with the collection: «The Plays of Oscar Wilde.» Containing all of Wilde’s plays, this collection is a must-have for every bookshelf. Oscar Wilde was born in mid-1800’s Dublin to highly intellectual parents. He found a niche in the growing trend of aestheticism and was mentored by Walter Pater and John Ruskin. Although he dabbled in short stories and poems at the beginning of his career, Wilde was taken seriously after his first novel «The Picture of...

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Оскар Уайльд

Chłopi tom 1

Władysław Reymont

Chłopi tom 1

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Władysław Reymont

Melancholia

Marek Bieńczyk

Melancholia

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Marek Bieńczyk

W 80 dni dookoła świata

Jules Verne

W 80 dni dookoła świata

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Jules Verne

Chłopi

Władysław Reymont

Chłopi

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Władysław Reymont

Książka o dworzaninie

Baltazar Castiglione

Książka o dworzaninie

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Baltazar Castiglione

Szaleństwo Almayera

Джозеф Конрад

Szaleństwo Almayera

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Джозеф Конрад

The Raven and Other Favorite Poems

Эдгар По

The Raven and Other Favorite Poems

One of the most famous poems in the English language, «The Raven» first appeared in the January 29, 1845, edition of the New York Evening Mirror. It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-30s and a well-known poet, critic, and short story writer, his first taste of celebrity on a grand scale. «The Raven» remains Poe's best-known work, yet it is only one of a dazzling series of poems and stories that won him an enduring place in world literature.This volume contains «The Raven» and 40...

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Эдгар По

The Raven and Other Selected Poems

Эдгар По

The Raven and Other Selected Poems

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘ “…Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.” ’This selection of Edgar Allan Poe’s poetical works includes some of his best-known pieces, including the triumphant, gleeful ‘The Bells’, the tragic ode ‘Annabel Lee’ and his famous gothic tour de force, ‘The Raven’. Some present powerful, nightmarish images of the macabre and bizarre, while others have at...

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The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.’Following one soldier’s journey from naive recruit to hardened survivor, The Red Badge of Courage is a vivid and powerfully psychological take on the American Civil War. Fighting for the Union army, Henry Fleming is thrown into a bloody war where the harsh realities and...

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Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane, Stephen Crane и др.

The Red Badge of Courage

The Red Badge of Courage is an 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane. It is considered one of the most influential works in American literature. The novel, a depiction on the cruelty of the American Civil War, features a young recruit who overcomes initial fears to become a hero on the battlefield. The book made Crane an international success. Although he was born after the war and had not at the time experienced battle firsthand, the novel is considered an example of Realism.

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Stephen Crane, Stephen Crane и др.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Instead of the cross, the AlbatrossAbout my neck was hung’When an albatross leads a stricken ship out of treacherous ice, a hapless mariner shoots the bird, arousing the wrath of spirits who pursue the ship. Haunted by Death, the crew begin to perish one by one, until only the cursed mariner remains to confront his guilt. As penance for his actions he is condemned to wander the earth, telling his tale to...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Собрание сочинений

Козьма Прутков

Собрание сочинений

Козьма Прутков – коллективный псевдоним – писатель, созданный фантазией А.К.Толстого и братьев Жемчужниковых (Алексея, Владимира и Александра Михайловичей) – уникальное явление в русской литературе. Глубокие и значительные сатирические стихи, басни, пьесы, афоризмы Козьмы Пруткова и его образ пережили свое время… Раздел 1. ДОСУГ И ПУХ И ПЕРЬЯ Предисловие Письмо известного Козьмы Пруткова к неизвестному фельетонисту «C.-Петербургских ведомостей» (1884 г.) по поводу статьи сего последнего ...

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Козьма Прутков

Tasuja

Эдуард Борнхёэ

Tasuja

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Эдуард Борнхёэ

The Man from the Sea: An Agatha Chr...

Агата Кристи

The Man from the Sea: An Agatha Christie Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.On the edge of a cliff Mr Satterthwaite meets a man who is determined to kill himself. The villa that sits on top of the cliff has always fascinated Satterthwaite, this time he cannot resist a peak and what he finds inside could even save a man’s life…

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Агата Кристи

The Scarlet Letter

Натаниель Готорн

The Scarlet Letter

HarperCollins is pround to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.'A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne's strength of character that resonates with the reader when her...

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Натаниель Готорн

The Scarlet Letter

Натаниель Готорн, Nathaniel Hawthorne и др.

The Scarlet Letter

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter ‘A’ stands for ‘Adultery’. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the...

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Натаниель Готорн, Nathaniel Hawthorne и др.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy и др.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

In the late 18th century, France was in the throes of the French Revolution. Of particular tumult during this conflict were the years known as the “Reign of Terror”, a time in which a revolutionary tribunal executed thousands of French citizens. It is during the “Reign of Terror” in which Baroness Emmuska Orczy’s “The Scarlet Pimpernel” is set. “The Scarlet Pimpernel” is the story of Sir Percy Blakeney, a chivalrous Englishman married to the beautiful French actress, Marguerite St. Just, with...

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Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy и др.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.“Vaguely she began to wonder … which of these worldly men round her was the mysterious ‘Scarlet Pimpernel,’ who held the threads of such daring plots, and the fate of valuable lives in his hands.”In the early days of the bloody French Revolution, fleeing aristocrats are being captured and sent to the guillotine. But the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel – along with his band of English gentlemen – is outwitting...

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Baroness Orczy

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and...

Robert Louis Stevenson, Роберт Стивенсон и др.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson, who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll and the evil Edward Hyde. The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often called «split...

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Robert Louis Stevenson, Роберт Стивенсон и др.

R is for Rocket

Рэй Брэдбери

R is for Rocket

One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.Science fiction, fantasy, small town life, and small town people are the materials from which Ray Bradbury weaves his unique and magical stories of the natural and supernatural, the past, the present , and the future.This book contains seventeen of Bradbury's most popular science fiction stories, from one of the genre's master storytellers.

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Рэй Брэдбери

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