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The King in Yellow
Автор: Robert W. Chambers Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20122014-03-16
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Offers a series of vaguely connected stories that is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. Dare you read it?
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The Little Prince and Other Stories
Автор: Various Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 1408 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20122013-02-19
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The Little Prince is a modern parable for our time, of equal appeal to children and adults. This much loved story is joined by the following classic titles, to give a collection that has something for everyone, whatever their age: Black Beauty Little Women Alice in Wonderland The Secret Garden Robin Hood The Wind in the Willows The Railway Children The Jungle Book Peter Pan.
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Автор: Gaston Leroux Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 212 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20142012-05-12
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Who could have tried to murder Mademoiselle Stangerson, beautiful daughter of a famous radium scientist? And how could they have entered and escaped from a completely locked and watched room? With the Surete's top sleuth vying against him, Rouletabille is determined to prove only he can solve the case.
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The Collector's Book of Westerns
Автор: Various Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 1408 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20122013-02-19
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Once they had settled the eastern seaboard, the founding fathers of the great North American continent encouraged others to follow them to the land of opportunity. So the refugees, the poor and the oppressed, the adventurous and the foolhardy packed their all, they left the old-world shadows and set out with their hopes and dreams.
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Sweeney Todd — The String of Pearls
Автор: James Malcolm Rymer Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
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The exploits of Sweeney Todd, 'The Demon Barber of Fleet Street', have been recounted many times in plays, films and musicals. One great mystery that has surrounded the book is who the author was — or was it possibly the work of more than one man? The author has established finally the identity of the creator of this legendary figure.
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The Drug and Other Stories
Автор: Aleister Crowley Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 1 Дата загрузки: 3 августа 20122012-07-4
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This title is edited with an introduction by William Breeze Foreword by David Tibet. This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Of the forty-nine stories in the present volume, only thirty were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear here for the first time. Like their author, Crowley's stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in places he had lived and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris, Edwardian London, pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the first World War. The title story The Drug stands as one of the first — if not the first-accounts of a psychedelic experience. His Black and Silver is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre. Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult fantasy, a dark satire that can stand with Samuel Butler's Erewhon. Frank Harris considered The Testament of Magdalen Blair the most terrifying tale ever written. Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.
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The Dead of Night: The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions
Автор: Oliver Onions Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 627 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20122013-02-23
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This title includes an introduction by David Stuart Davies. Oliver Onions is unique in the realms of ghost story writers in that his tales are so far ranging in their background and substance that they are not easily categorised. His stories are powerfully charged explorations of psychical violence, their effects heightened by detailed character studies graced with a powerful poetic elegance. In simple terms Oliver Onions goes for the cerebral rather than the jugular. However, make no mistake, his ghost stories achieve the desired effect. They draw you in, enmeshing you in their unnerving and disturbing narratives. This collection contains such masterpieces as The Rosewood Door, The Ascending Dream, The Painted Face, and The Beckoning Fair One, a story which both Algernon Blackwood and H. P. Lovecraft regarded as one of the most effective and subtle ghost stories in all literature. Long out of print, these classic tales are a treasure trove of nightmarish gems.
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In Ghostly Company
Автор: Amyas Northcote Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20122012-05-06
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This title features Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'A grey cloud formed on the summit of the altar, diminishing, thickening and turning into a Shape, a shape of evil and fear. The silent group by the fire once more broke forth into wild gesticulations and cries, Stella prostrated herself, the Form on the altar grew clearer and with a cry of horror Mr Fowke turned away and rushed madly across the moor'. Amyas Northcote's In Ghostly Company is a rare and splendid collection of strange and disturbing tales from the golden age of ghost stories. His style is akin to that of the master of the genre M.R. James: it is measured and insidiously suggestive, producing unnerving chills rather than shocks and gasps. Northcote's tales make the reader unsettled and uneasy. This is partly due to the fact that the hauntings or strange occurrences take place in natural or mundane surroundings — surroundings familiar to the reader but never before thought of as unusual or threatening. Long out of print, this book remains an enthralling and chilling read.
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The Casefiles of Mr: J. G. Reeder
Автор: Edgar Wallace Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20152013-02-26
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Despite his insignificant appearance, Reeder is a cold and ruthless detective who credits his success to his 'criminal mind' which allows him to solve a series of complex and audacious crimes and outwit the most cunning of villainous masterminds.
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The Good Soldier
Автор: Ford Madox Ford Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20122014-03-16
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The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe. They are 'playing the game' in style. That game has begun to unravel, however, and with compelling attention to the comic, as well as the tragic, results the American narrator reveals his growing awareness of the sexual intrigues and emotional betrayals that lie behind its facade.
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The Twenty-seventh City
Автор: Jonathan Franzen Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2007 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20092010-02-29
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The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, The Corrections. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, 'The Twenty-Seventh City' shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow
Автор: Conan Doyle Arthur Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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«This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories, reprinted from «The Strand Magazine». It contains «The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes», «The Valley of Fear», «His Last Bow» and the last 12 stories of «The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes». Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.»
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Pride and Prejudice
Автор: Austen Jane Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2007 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20102008-12-23
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«The garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim — that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this, she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. This is an ironic novel of manners. «Pride and Prejudice», which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it, the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim — that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this, she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, «Pride and Prejudice» has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.»
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Автор: Lawrence D.H. Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2005 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20102009-03-24
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Lawrence's uncompromisingly candid novel deals in poetic and sexually explicit language with the passionate relationship between Lady Constance Chatterly and her husband's forthright and powerfully masculine gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband's return from the trenches of the First World War, partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes the chance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her forever.
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The Italian
Автор: Ann Radcliffe Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2011 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20132013-10-21
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With an Introduction by Kathryn White. 'He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes... turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging her to the grave...' Ann Radcliffe, author of The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho, is the high priestess of the gothic novel. In The Italian, first published in 1797, she creates a chilling, atmospheric concoction of thwarted lovers, ruined abbeys, imprisonment and dark passages, with an undercurrent of seething sexuality and presents us with a cunning villain in the sinister monk Schedoni. A contemporary review commented on, 'Radcliffe's uncommon talent for exhibiting, with picturesque touches of genius, the vague and horrid shapes which imagination bodies forth...' Radcliffe's work was hugely influential and H.P. Lovecraft, early twentieth century master of the uncanny, was impressed by the, 'eerie touch of setting and action contributing artistically to the impression of illimitable frightfulness which she wished to convey.' The novel remains a fascinating, engrossing and unnerving masterpiece of gothic fiction.
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Twas the Night Before Christmas
Автор: Various Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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Here is a book no Christmas stocking should be without, a book that positively distils the spirit of the season. The title poem, familiar to children and adults the world over, introduces a collection of stories and verse with a Christmas theme, guaranteed to engage and amuse readers young and old. Likely to provoke laughter and sometimes to bring a sentimental tear to the driest eye, this festive treasure trove is ideal for reading aloud or curling up with in a comfy corner. Scrooge himself would have found it difficult to resist distributing copies on Christmas morning!
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The Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
Автор: Virginia Woolf Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2007 Страниц: 1024 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20092009-05-16
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The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Orlando, 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. 'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', said Woolf of The Waves. Regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time.
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Almayer's Folly and The Rover
Автор: Joseph Conrad Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2011 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20142014-04-24
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«This title includes an Introduction and Notes by John Lester, formerly Head of English at Havering College of Further and Higher Education. From the rain forests of Almayer's Folly to the Mediterranean coast of «The Rover», Conrad's first and final completed novels are played out against contrasting backgrounds. Almayer, in Borneo, is hopelessly obsessed by his deluded dreams for himself and his daughter, which take no account of her falling in love with a handsome Balinese prince. Peyrol, the rover, returns to a France at war and finds the actions of those around him still overborne by memories of revolutionary terror. For the orphaned Lieutenant Real and Arlette love offers release but their romance seems doomed by the demands of his naval duties. Conrad's acute understanding of human psychology and its application across racial and ideological divides is the life-force of both stories. Publication date: 15 July 2011.»
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The Collected Novels of the Bronte Sisters
Автор: Bronte Sisters Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2008 Страниц: 1396 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20102009-12-20
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«Jane Eyre» ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Although Charlotte Bronte's heroine is outwardly plain, she possesses an indomitable spirit, and great courage. Forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order which circumscribes her life when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic Mr Rochester. «Villette» is based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings and cruel circumstances borne with heroic fortitude. Rising above the confinement of a rigid social order, it is also a story of a woman's right to love and be loved.»Wuthering Heights» is Emily Bronte's wild, passionate tale of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and, wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, he leaves Wuthering heights. When he returns years later as a wealthy man, he proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.» Agnes Grey», Ann Bronte's deeply personal novel, is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. «The Tenant of Wildfell Hall» shows Ann Bronte's bold, naturalistic and passionate style. It is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious 'tenant' of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband.»
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The Collected Works of F: Scott Fitzgerald
Автор: F. Scott Fitzgerald Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2011 Страниц: 1456 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20132012-06-11
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«This title features collected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Few American novelists of the twentieth century have stayed as modern as F. Scott Fitzgerald. He gave a name to his age, 'the Jazz Age', but his reputation has outlived it. Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he wrote between 1922 and his death in 1940. «This Side of Paradise» catapulted him to fame, its expose of the manners and morals of a post-war generation becoming a cause celebre. «The Beautiful and Damned», a semi-autobiographical moral parable of a doomed marriage, affirmed Fitzgerald's status as the spokesman for the generation of the 1920s. His third novel, «The Great Gatsby», remains for many readers the definitive American novel of the twentieth century, its eponymous hero a complex fictional portrayal of a romantic imagination at the mercy of a corrupt reality. «Tender is the Night» is an American Vanity Fair set on the French Riviera in the 1920s. Fitzgerald was working on «The Last Tycoon» at his death in 1940, and many critics rank his account of Hollywood at the height of the studio system, even in its unfinished state, as comparable to the achievement of «The Great Gatsby».»
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