Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains three famous novels by Haggard. The Mahatma and the Hare is the story of the selfcalled mahatma - a spiritual man who is able, when asleep, to view "The Great White Road" on which the souls of those recently departed enter heaven. Barbara Who Came Back is the story of Septimus Walrond, who was returning from a professional visit to a distant cottage upon the coast of East Anglia. His errand had been sad, to baptise the dying infant of a fisherman. And The Witch`s Head is the second novel by Haggard, which he wrote just prior to King Solomon`s Mines. Zulu magic comes to the British...
ISBN: 978-5-521-07740-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. This volume contains three famous novels by Gaskell. The "Moorland Cottage" is a story of Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman who is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward. "Lois the Witch" is a story set against the backdrop of the Salem witch hunts, where recently orphaned Lois is forced to leave the English parsonage and sail to America. And "Mr. Harrison`s Confessions" is a story of country doctor William Harrison who is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the "wooing and winning" of women`s affections.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07718-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains three famous novels by Haggard. The Wizard is a book about adventures and the nature of miracles that could be enjoyed by both adults and children alike. In Elissa Haggard takes his readers to the Phoenician city in South Central Africa, a trading town that was built by civilized men. And in Black Heart and White Heart, the author mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07732-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Book two of the trilogy recounts Darcy s activities during the "silent time" in Jane Austen s original novel. With a nod to Austen s "Northanger Abby, Duty and Desire" takes Darcy on a "gothic" trip into the other side of Regency society.
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Can You Forgive Her?" is the first of six novels in another famous series, the Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three strong women: Alice Vavasor, her cousin Glencora Palliser, and her aunt Arabella Greenow.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08319-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Phineas Finn" is the second of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels", also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented but naive doctor`s son from Ireland.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08321-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Eustace Diamonds" is the third of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels," also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The plot of the novel centres on the fabulous necklace owned by the Eustace family, which the beautiful but ruthless opportunist Lizzie, claims as her own after she marries Sir Florian Eustace for his money and becomes his widow after only a few months.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08365-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Duke`s Children" is the sixth and final novel in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels," also known as the Parliamentary Novels. Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08368-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Phineas Finn" is the second of six novels in another famous series, "The Pallis-er Novels", also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented but naive doctor`s son from Ireland.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08322-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2019
Jane Austen is without question, one of England`s most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature`s most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey"; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in "Mansfield Park"; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in "Sense and Sensibility"; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in "Persuasion" succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-556-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Prime Minister" is the fifth of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels", also known as the Parliamentary Novels. It is a wonderfully subtle portrait of a marriage, political expediency, and misplaced love.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08326-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Phinea-s Redux" is the fourth of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels," also known as the Parliamentary Novels. After the death of his Irish wife, Phineas Finn returns to London and to the House of Commons.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08324-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2019
