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Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For 150 years his stories have been delighting both adults and children. Packed with a light-hearted whimsy combined with a mature wisdom they are as entrancing as ever. Here are all of Andersen`s 168 tales, and among the favourites are `The Red Shoes`, `The Mermaid`, `The Real Princess`, `The Emperor`s New Clothes`, The Tinder Box` and of course `The Ugly Duckling`.

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For 150 years, the tales of Hans Christian Andersen have been delighting both adults and children. This edition contains all of Andersen`s 168 tales, and among the favourites are "The Red Shoes", "The Mermaid", "The Emperor`s New Clothes", and "The Ugly Duckling".

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"The Jungle Book" introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear. How did the Leopard get his spots? How did the Elephant get his trunk? In Just So Stories Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions. "Puck of Pook`s Hill" relates how Dan and Una`s magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and And later, in "Rewards and Fairies", the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to `Good Queen Bess` and Sir Francis Drake. In Kipling`s rattling school yarn "Stalky & Co", Stalky, M`Turk and the Beetle are a trio of...

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Who was Nostradamus, and what faith should we place in his predictions? This book gives objective answers. It reveals that Michel de Nostredame, a 16th-century French doctor, was more Renaissance man than arcane magician - and that his prognostications can be compellingly astute. In this edition all of the cryptic short verses of Nostradamus`s "Centuries" appear in the original French, with new translations. Uncanny prophecies such as those of the French Revolution and the rise of Hitler are examined in detail. Here too are interpretations of the many verses believed to augur future events. Editor Ned Halley works in fields of journalism as diverse as medicine, wine and business. He takes a Plain English approach to `a subject far too...

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Walter Skeat (1835-1912) was one of the greatest investigators of the roots of the English language, and his remarkable scholarship was instrumental in the revival of the great works of early English Literature. His astonishing detective work into the origins and development of the world`s most widely used language provides an unsurpassed guide to its flexibility and richness.

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The World Literature series reproduces the greatest books the world over with only the highest production standards. History, philosophy, psychology, political theory, fiction, and ancient texts are now accessible to everyone at an extremely affordable price.

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`Confessions of an English Opium-Eater` (1821) relates Thomas De Quincey`s early life and experiences of opium addiction at a time when that drug was widely used for the relief of pain, and before its addictive qualities were properly understood. It is awork which encompasses amusement with nightmare as the author experiences in turn the marvels of opium-induced dreams and the equally vivid nightmares which are their counterpoint.

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Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems - `The Second of September 1792` is a fine example - and finding full expression in the stories she wrote after she had become a highly successful novelist. Sometimes - as in "The Window" or "The Pestering", or "All Soul`s Day" - these are what we might call `explainable` ghost stories: apparitions or hauntings whose origin is to be found in some violent or unjust action in the past. Other stories, "Couching at the Door" and "From the Abyss", have little or no explanation, even in supernatural terms. Add to these an elegant reworking of the "Persephone" myth, "The Taste of Pomegranates", the...

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell`s shorter fiction is new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of her art. As diverse in setting as in subject matter, these tales move from the gentle comedy of life in a small English country town in "Dr Harrison`s Confessions", to atmospheric horror in far north-west Wales with "The Doom of the Griffiths". The story of "Cousin Phillis", her masterly tale of love and loss, is a subtle, complex and perceptive analysis of changes in English national life during an industrial age, while the gripping "Lois the Witch" recreates the terrors of the Salem witchcraft trials in seventeenth-century...

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"Crime Scenes" is a sparkling collection of short stories written by modern masters and mistresses of the crime fiction genre. Within these pages you will find tales of murder, mystery and mayhem in a great variety of styles and tones from the time-honoured whodunnit to the psychological chiller to the history mystery to the crime procedural to the noir thriller to the gangster epic and the darkly humorous narrative. This volume demonstrates clearly how the crime story has developed and matured over the last two hundred years or so into the exciting, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining form of fiction it is today. The impressive cast of contributors includes well-respected and well-established names such as Peter Lovesey,...

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`Crime and Punishment` is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of selfloathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence:...

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Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.From that moment on. we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of his terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime.The result is a tragic novel built from a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence:...

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Mrs Everett was the last in a long line of gifted Victorian novelists who knew how to grip the reader through the invasion of everyday life by the abnormal and dramatic, leaving the facts to produce their special thrills without piling on the agony. `I always know`, says one of her characters, `how to distinguish a true ghost story from a faked one. The true ghost story never has any point and the faked one dare not leave it out.` From the chilling horror of "The Death Mask" to the shocking violence of "The Crimson Blind", from the creeping menace of Parson Clench to the mounting suspense of "The Pipers of Mallory", these thrilling stories were enthusiastically received by readers and critics when they first appeared, and are sure to...

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Catherine Carswell was one of the most loyal and dependable of D. H. Lawrence`s friends. When he died in 1930, with the controversy over "Lady Chatterley`s Lover" still raging, the abuse heaped on him prompted her into writing this warm and intimate account of his life. "The Savage Pilgrimage" traces Lawrence`s troubled existence back to his working-class origins and gives a particularly moving and intimate description of his life during the First World War after "The Rainbow" had been banned, no-one would publish his work, and he became desperately poor. This is an essential book for anyone interested in the life of one of Britain`s greatest and most controversial writers and includes details of Lawrence`s everyday behaviour, and...

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Henry James` short novel `Daisy Miller` enjoyed a great succes do scandale when it was first published in 1879, dealing as it does with the contrast between old and new world values. American Daisy Miller visits Europe with her mother and finds that her freshness and innocence are misinterpreted as immodesty and forwardness. This brings her into conflict with the differences in the two cultural traditions, inviting shock and disaster.

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Дата выхода: январь 2001

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Gwendolene Harleth marries for money and power rather than love, but finds marriage a trap and her husband`s sadistic use of power constricting. The upper-class Victorian society in which she moves is juxtaposed with that of the hero, Daniel Deronda, whose influence is a redemptive force.

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Dickens wrote of `David Copperfield`: `Of all my books I like this the best`. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author`s own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form. Following the life of David through many sufferings and great adversity, the reader will also find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction`s greatest stars including Mr. Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, and the Peggotty family. Few readers, arriving at the end of `David Copperfield`, will not wish to echo Thackeray`s famous praise, having read the first monthly part - `Bravo Dickens`.

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De Profundis is Wilde`s eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde`s literary executor. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898. This collection also includes the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism and two of his Platonic dialogues, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.

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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...

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Дата выхода: июль 2011