Svetovna klasika

Presented in a brand new translation, this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales will enchant readers for their raw beauty and constant ability to surprise and excite.Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following

A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained ..

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart – one of the indivisible primary faculties, ..

In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged'. Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her p ..

This work reproduces ‚Tales of the Jazz Age‘ in full, along with several uncollected stories from the early 1920s. It offers an account of the textual history of the stories and reconstructs Fitzgerald's decisions about which stories to include.

„The Curious Case of Benjamin Button“ sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, ..

Dentro del controvertido siglo XVIII, y entre el conjunto deescritores críticos de la ilustración, la figura del padre Feijooquizá sea una de las más estudiadas y reivindicadas. En la granvariedad de asuntos tratados en su obra, siempre alienta un mi ..

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for these tales by the master prose writer.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'We are such stuffAs dreams are made on; and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.’Magical and dreamlike in its tone, Shakespeare’s The Tempest begins wit ..

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious ‚tenant‘ of the title, and her diss ..

Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of ..

Kniha Tenant of Wildfell Hall vydaná v nakladatelství Chiltern Publishing v roce 2021, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, ISBN-13: 9781912714933, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.