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A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of The Four
Автор: Doyle A.C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092007-05-18
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A Study in Scarlet introduced the great scientific detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, his friend and chronicler, to the reading public. This novel, a cornerstone in the annals of crime fiction, tells of their first meeting and how they set up in rooms together in Baker Street. It is not long before the charismatic sleuth and his faithful companion are plunged into a dramatic mystery which starts with the discovery of a corpse in a deserted house and the letters RACHE scrawled on the wall in blood. The Sign of the Four, the second Holmes novel, presents the detective with one of his greatest challenges — solving the theft of the great Agra treasure in India. In these two classic novels you have the foundation of the Sherlock Holmes legend. As well as his witty and illuminating Afterword to this edition, David Stuart Davies, the illustrious editor of Sherlock magazine, has provided a fascinating chronology of the Sherlock Holmes Stories.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Автор: Dickens C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20092008-08-27
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A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens's most exciting books, set against the backdrop of the French revolution, in which two generations struggle against the injustices of first a corrupt aristocracy and then the mindless rule of the mob.
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Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Автор: Poe Edgar Allan Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 474 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092007-04-29
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This companion volume to Tales of Mystery & Imagination contains Poe's best-known poetry and a selection of his very best stories, including some fine tales from the last decade of his tragically short life. Many of these stories and poems reflect familiar Poe themes of murder, obsession and love, but there are also tales of the fantastic, black comedies, parodies and hoaxes.
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Автор: Poe Edgar Allan Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 456 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20132012-07-14
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Some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written are to be found in this collection of Poe's work, ranging from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, and all with the quality of the grotesque that defined Poe's writing. 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are key works in the horror canon, while in the 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' we find the origins of modern detective fiction.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Автор: Hardy T. Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 564 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092006-09-27
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Tess Durbeyfield, an innocent village girl, is seduced by a wealthy rake, Alec D'Urberville. Though he makes her pregnant she does not love him and leaves him to return to her home in disgrace. Some time after the baby's death Tess meets her true love Angel Clare, but they cannot escape the consequences of the past. An unforgettably powerful tragedy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the great classics of the late nineteenth century.
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Three Men in a Boat (ill: )
Автор: Jerome J.K. Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20102009-03-24
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Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends, George and Harris, decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a T. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian clerking classes, it hilariously captured the spirit of its age.
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To the Lighthouse
Автор: Woolf V. Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 248 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20132010-06-23
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To the Lighthouse, considered by many to be Virginia Woolf's finest novel, is a remarkably original work, showing the thoughts and actions of the members of a family and their guests on two separate occasions ten years apart. The setting is Mr and Mrs Ramsay's house on a Scottish island, where they traditionally take their summer holidays, overlooking a bay with a lighthouse. As a modernist author Woolf explored the ways in which fiction could represent reality, and To the Lighthouse can be seen as an experimental work that pushes the limits of what we know about the world and ourselves. It is one of the most beautifully crafted of all novels written in the English language.
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Tom Sawyer
Автор: Twain M. Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 262 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20122011-05-18
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One of the most irrepressible and exuberant characters in the history of literature, Tom Sawyer explodes onto the page in a whirl of bad behaviour and incredible adventures. Whether he is heaving clods of earth at his brother, faking a gangrenous toe, or trying to convince the world that he is dead, Tom's infectious energy and good humor shine through. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain's joyful and nostalgic recollection of tall tales from his own boyhood by the Mississippi some 'thirty or forty years ago', an instant success on first publication in 1876 and a delight to children of all ages ever since.
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Treasure Island
Автор: Stevenson R.L. Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20082008-03-12
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Treasure Island is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time but is a wonderful adventure story that can be enjoyed at any age.When Jim Hawkins finds a pirate's treasure map in an old sailor's sea trunk the local doctor and squire take him with them to find the island and the treasure. But Long John Silver, with his missing leg and talking parrot, has his own ideas about who should find the treasure.
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Walden
Автор: Thoreau H.D. Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 360 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092005-06-28
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Henry Thoreau's Walden is one of the most influential books in early American literature. It recounts the author's experiences living in a small house in the woods around Walden Pond in Massachusetts in the 1840s. His attempt to live independently and away from society produced a work that blends natural history with philosophical insights, and which raises questions that are still relevant today.
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The Woman in White
Автор: Collins Wilkie Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 656 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20092009-09-30
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Wilkie Collins' classic story, The Woman in White, is one of the great mystery thrillers of the nineteenth century and beyond. It is a wonderful combination of rich characterisation and cunning melodrama which ensnares the reader from its opening pages. The novel features one of the strongest heroines of the Victorian Age, Marian Halcombe, who was a revelation for the readers of the time. Although not conventionally attractive, she is a tough, determined and feisty soul, well equipped to travel down the dark and dangerous pathway fate has decreed for her. Also featured is one of the great villains of all literature, the sly, smooth and corpulent Count Fosco, whose eccentric habits both chill and amuse. Since its publication, The Woman in White has never been out of print and has been the subject of numerous theatrical, film and television adaptations, including most recently a musical version by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Wuthering Heights
Автор: Bronte Emily Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092004-12-20
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Wuthering Heights tells the story of a romance between two youngsters: Catherine Earnshaw and an orphan boy, Heathcliff. After she rejects him for a boy from a better background he develops a lust for revenge that takes over his life. In attempting to win her back and destroy those he blames for his loss Heathcliff creates a living hell for those who live at Wuthering Heights. This tale of hauntings, passion and greed remains unsurpassed in its depiction of the dark side of love.
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Around the World in 80 Days
Автор: Jules Verne Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 280 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20082010-08-11
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Around the World in Eighty Days (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a classic. The story starts in London on 2 October 1872. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy, solitary man with regular habits, who fires his former butler for getting wrong the temperature of his shaving water. He hires Passepartout as a replacement. Later that day he gets involved in an argument over an article in the Daily Telegraph, stating that with the opening of a new railway in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in eighty days. The exciting, if now dated, adventure of Fogg and Passepartout will entertain modern readers as much as it did the Victorians.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 310 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092007-05-22
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Sherlock Holmes is back on the case in this collection of sparkling short stories. Not only does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective investigate a fascinating series of crimes and misdemeanours in The Memoirs, but we also learn about Holmes' early days as a sleuth hound and encounter the detective's brilliant brother, Mycroft, who is a member of the Diogenes Club, one of the strangest establishments in London. And, of course, in The Final Problem Holmes come face to face with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, The Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure. As well as his witty and illuminating Afterword to this edition, David Stuart Davies, the illustrious editor of Sherlock magazine, has provided a fascinating chronology of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20112010-12-20
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Ten years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Arthur Conan Doyle was to bow to popular pressure and the large fees offered by publishers to revive the detective's career. To the astonishment of Dr Watson and the delight of his readers Holmes returns to Baker Street, explains how he escaped death at the Falls and is ready to commence detective work once more. Doyle provided a rich and fascinating set of mysteries to challenge his sleuth in this collection. As before, Watson is the superb narrator and his magic remains unchanged and undimmed. In His Last Bow, the final story of this collection, we are told how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to help the Government fight the German threat at the approach of the First World War. It is the last time that Holmes and Watson work together. As well as his witty and illuminating Afterword to this edition, David Stuart Davies, the illustrious editor of Sherlock magazine, has provided a fascinating chronology of the Sherlock Holmes Stories.
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The Secret Agent
Автор: Joseph Conrad Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092006-12-26
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An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair. Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be a simple tale proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. This new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a monstrous town, a place of idiocy, madness, criminality and butchery.
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The Waves
Автор: Virginia Woolf Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 264 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20092010-08-21
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The Waves traces the lives and interactions of seven friends in an exploratory and sensuous narrative. The Waves was conceived and written during a highly political phase in Woolfs career, when she was speaking on issues of gender and of class. This was also the period when her love affair with Vita Sackville-West was at its most intense. The work is often described as if it were the product of a secluded, disembodied sensibility. Yet its writing is supremely engaged and engaging, providing an experience which the reader is unlikely to forget.
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Complete Ghost Stories
Автор: Montague Rhodes James Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20092009-10-11
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«Each volume in the «Collector's Library» series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this first collected edition of M. R. James's «Complete Ghost Stories» is by the well-known crime writer and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies. This is the only complete edition in print and it contains three further stories written after publication of M. R. James's «Collected Ghost Stories»: «The Experiment», «The Malice of Inanimate Objects» and «A Vignette».»
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A Little Princess
Автор: Frances Hodgson Burnett Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20102008-12-23
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«Part of the «Collector's Library» series, this title includes an Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list.»
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The Moonstone
Автор: Wilkie Collins Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 688 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20112012-04-12
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«Part of the «Collector's Library» series, this title includes an Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list.»
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