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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, on ..

One of the worlds most popular classics. Thoroughly edited and extensively annotated.

Discover „perhaps the funniest novel ever written“ (The Guardian ), now beautifully reissued"The classic comic novel of the First World War." –The

„Oh, good God,“ he kept saying with great relish. „Good God…“ ‚Gooseberries‘ is accompanied here by ‚The Kiss‘ and ‚The Two Volodyas‘ – three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-century Russia by Chekhov, the great master of the sho ..

Kniha Gothic Classics: The Castle of Otranto and The Old English Baron autora Clara Reeve,Leslie Klinger vydaná v nakladatelství Sourcebooks, Inc v roce 2022, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 320, ISBN-13: 9781464215377, zařazení do

This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost-and horror-story. Some of the ..

A new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping novel set in an insular fishing community, book eight in the new Penguin Maigret series. It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face was completely hidden, scribbled all over in red i ..

It so happens that the right teacher can take the form of a book. Gray's Anatomy is one of those few titles that practically everybody has heard of, and with good reason – it is a scientific and artistic triumph. Not just a dry index of parts and n ..

Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish m ..

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Pip, a young orphan, has his life altered by a strange chain of events – a terrifying graveside encounter with an escaped prisoner; a visit to a black-hearted old woman and a beautiful girl; an unexpected fortune from a secret donor. Escaping his poo ..

‚It was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me‘ A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bi ..

Part of „Penguin's“ beautiful hardback „Clothbound Classics“ series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. ..

Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations is a powerful and moving novel suffused with the author's memories of the past and its grip on the present. This edition includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

'He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.'Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach … Everybody who is anybody is ..

Regarded as Fitzgeralds masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the Jazz Age, as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream.

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright youn ..

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky b ..

Kniha Great Gatsby autora Francis Scott Fitzgerald vydaná v nakladatelství Book Sales Inc v roce 2022, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 168, ISBN-13: 9780785839996, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the Jazz Age

Kniha Great Gatsby vydaná v nakladatelství Sterling Juvenile v roce 2022, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 152, ISBN-13: 9781435172470, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

„Includes detailed explanatory notes, an overview of key themes, and more“–Cover.

They are the stories we've known since we were children. „Rapunzel.“ „Hansel and Gretel.“ „Cinderella.“ „Sleeping Beauty.“ But the works originally collected by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s are not necessarily the versions we heard before be ..

Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales collects more than two hundred tales set down by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early decades of the nineteenth century, among them some of the best-loved and most famous fairy tales in all literature. This edition featur ..