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George Orwell’s 1984, which tells us about the dangers of totalitarianism, has become one of the most famous dystopias of the 20th century, along with Mikhail Zamyatin’s Us, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. What would happen if the establishment became obsessed with ideas of fascism and dictatorship? What would society look like if the government demanded absolute submission from its citizens? What disaster could unfold in a world like this? The fable-parable Animal Farm is full of bitter sarcasm and political satire. Those living on the farm represent the worst human vices, and the farm itself becomes the symbol of totalitarian society. How will they survive - the animals, being prepared for...

Издательство: Эксмо
Дата выхода: май 2024

Sensual, dark and thrilling, Bram Stoker``s Dracula remains the seminal work of Gothic fiction, and in this elegant Macmillan Collector``s Library edition, which includes an illuminating afterword by Jonty Claypole, readers can experience the horror and excitement as never before. When Jonathan Harker is summoned to Transylvania to finalize a property deal for the mysterious Count Dracula, he stumbles upon an ancient evil he is unprepared to face. When that evil escapes to England, the entire nation is suddenly under threat and only an aged vampire hunter, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, can put a stop to the bloodshed.

Издательство: Эксмо
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2024

Jane Eyre’s childhood and youth, spent in a charity school for poor girls, were hard and full of sorrow. Life has not been kind to her. When she takes on a job as a governess, working in the mansion of the mysterious Mr. Rochester, she finally finds love. But a terrible and shocking secret stands in the way of her happiness. Jane Eyre is one of the most renowned British novels, one about deep feelings and staying true to one’s ideals, about ruined expectations, about mercy; it is a deeply touching story with a happy ending.

Издательство: Эксмо
Дата выхода: октябрь 2024

"Маленькие женщины" — феномен, повлиявший не только на американскую культуру, но и невероятно актуальная книга сегодня. Роман воспитания, семейные мемуары, сложная социальная хроника, а также один из первых образцов литературы young adult. Трогательная история о взрослении четырех сестер. Роман принес автору небывалую славу, коммерческий успех и любовь читателей. Проблемы, с которыми сталкиваются девушки,...

Издательство: Эксмо
Дата выхода: май 2024

Martin Eden is one of Jack London’s greatest works, a novel about a man of humble origin, a sailor who worked hard for his place under the sun. The novel shows his journey in finding success and his throes of creativity – and of love. The main character of this semi-autobiographical novel deals with though challenges and through hard work and bounds of energy he surpasses his teachers and turns his life around. Martin’s gift of creativity becomes his ticket to the life of high society. From now on, his dreams of being a famous writer and having the woman he loves are within his reach. But dreams can be unpredictable and treacherous – one can never know when they might come true, and if they even bring the long-awaited happiness...

Издательство: Эксмо
Дата выхода: июль 2024

``There was music from my neighbour``s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.`` Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisy``s affair deepens. Tragedy looms in F. Scott Fitzgerald``s masterpiece third novel, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century.

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2024

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce``s fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement." According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking." Ulysses chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer``s epic poem...

Издательство: Эксмо
Дата выхода: февраль 2025

Роман-загадка, опрокидывающий все привычные представления о добре и зле, любви и ненависти - "Грозовой перевал", одно из самых уникальных произведений мировой литературы. Эмили Бронте была вынуждена опубликовать его за свой счет и под мужским псевдонимом. Пока одни рецензенты восхищались оригинальностью автора, другие пришли в ужас от того, что происходит на вересковых пустошах Йоркшира, где бушуют...

Издательство: Эксмо
Дата выхода: июль 2024