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Silver Chair, The The

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Silver Chair, The The

In The Silver Chair, Eustace Scrubb returns to Narnia with his schoolmate Jill Pole only to find his friend King Caspian an old man. Caspian's dying wish is to find his son, Prince Rilian who has been kidnapped by an evil witch. With the help of Aslan and a Marsh-wiggle named Puddleglum, Eustace and Jill embark on a harrowing quest to find Rilian that takes them on a journey through the city of giants and the Underworld. The fourth book of the Chronicles of Narnia, it was first published in...

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Twenty Years After

Alexandre Dumas

Twenty Years After

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Alexandre Dumas

Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Scarlet Letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fox, The Captain's Doll & The L...

D. H. Lawrence

Fox, The Captain's Doll & The Ladybird

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D. H. Lawrence

Am Fuß des Kamels

Klaus Merz

Am Fuß des Kamels

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Klaus Merz

Dracula's Guest, The Chain of Desti...

Bram Stoker

Dracula's Guest, The Chain of Destiny, A Star Trap & Other Stories

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Bram Stoker

Last Battle, The The

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Last Battle, The The

In The Last Battle, an evil ape tricks a donkey into wearing a lion's skin and makes the people of Narnia believe it is Aslan. Teaming up with the base Calormenes to the south, the ape enslaves the inhabitants of Narnia and sets its very destruction in motion. King Rilian's fervent appeal for help effects the return of Eustace and Jill. But will the others return as well? Will Aslan save Narnia in its darkest hour? The sixth book of the Chronicles of Narnia, it was first published in...

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Scarlet Letter, The The

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Scarlet Letter, The The

In 1642, a pregnant Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery, shunned by her neighbors, and forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' on her dress. Meanwhile, Hester's husband – long thought to be lost at sea – has returned to Boston under the assumed name 'Roger Chillingworth' and plots to uncover her lover's identity. After her daughter Pearl is born, Hester is frequently visited by both Reverend Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, but always refuses to name her lover. As...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Horse and His Boy, The The

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Horse and His Boy, The The

In The Horse and His Boy, two children of Calormene: Shasta, a slave boy and Aravis a rich girl, join up with two talking horses of Narnia in a bid to escape their lives in Calormene. Set during the reign of King Peter, Shasta and Aravis cross paths with Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy and quickly become mixed up in a war between Narnia and Calormene. With the fearsome aid of Aslan, will the children save Susan from a marriage to the cruel Prince Rabadash of Calormene? The fifth book of the...

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The Jane Austen Collection: Pride a...

Джейн Остин

The Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma and Northanger Abbey

Collins Classics brings you a selection of the best-loved novels by Jane Austen, including ‘Pride and Prejudice’ which, in 2013, celebrates the 200th anniversary of its publication.Complete with a Life & Times section, which offers insight into the author, her works and the time of publication, and a handy glossary adapted from the Collins English Dictionary, this Collins Classics Collection will enhance your reading experience of Jane Austen’s novels.PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Austen's best-loved...

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Джейн Остин

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Томас Харди

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

HarperCollins is pround to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!'Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess of the D'Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background, seeking wealth by claiming connection with the aristocratic...

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Томас Харди

Passage to India

E. M. Forster

Passage to India

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E. M. Forster

Tale of Genji, Volume 1

Murasaki Shikibu

Tale of Genji, Volume 1

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Murasaki Shikibu

Pride & Prejudice

Джейн Остин

Pride & Prejudice

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Джейн Остин

Trzy pstre tygrysy

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Trzy pstre tygrysy

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Madman's Diary, and Other Stories

Lu Xun

Madman's Diary, and Other Stories

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Lu Xun

Gulliver’s Travels

Джонатан Свифт

Gulliver’s Travels

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour – the giants...

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Джонатан Свифт

The Sign of the Four

Артур Конан Дойл

The Sign of the Four

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world…’In London, 1888, the razor-sharp detective skills of Sherlock Holmes are to be put to the test. Mary Morstan reports two seemingly unconnected and inexplicable events: the disappearance of her father, a British Indian Army...

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Артур Конан Дойл

Selected Short Stories

Rabindranath Tagore

Selected Short Stories

In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day.These short stories, written mostly in the 1890s, vividly portray Bengali life and culture. Tagore’s treatment of caste culture, bureaucracy and poverty paint a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century India, and all are interwoven with Tagore’s perceptive eye for detail, strong sense of humanity and deep affinity for the...

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Jo’s Boys

Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Jo’s Boys

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Set ten years after ‘Little Men’, ‘Jo’s Boys’ is the final novel in the unofficial series that follows the ups and downs of the March family.The Plumfield boys – including rebellious Dan, sailor Emil and promising musician Nat – are now grown up, and finding their places in the world. As they deal with the challenges of growing up, finding careers and falling in love, Jo remains at the heart of the family,...

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Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars…First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over thirty years, ‘Leaves of Grass’ has become one of the most celebrated poetry collections in the history of American literature. A master of free verse, Walt Whitman captures the true spirit of his homeland and its people through his poetry. He explores a wide range of themes,...

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Walt Whitman