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Белый клык - приключенческая повесть Джека Лондона, главным героем которой является волк по кличке Белый Клык. Впервые произведение было опубликовано в нескольких номерах журнала The Outing Magazine с мая по октябрь 1906 года.

После долгих лет напряженной работы, в 1950 году, после десятилетнего перерыва, увидел свет роман Эрнеста Хемингуэя "За рекой в тени деревьев". Критика назвала роман неудачным, слишком сентиментальным, манерным.

Увлекательная история о приключениях человека, чудом выжившего после кораблекрушения и волею судьбы оказавшегося на острове, который он посчитал необитаемым, появилась на свет в 1719 году. Эта книга стала первым романом шестидесятилетнего публициста и коммерсанта Даниэля Дефо.

Тарзан - вымышленный персонаж, созданный писателем Эдгаром Райсом Берроузом и впервые появившийся в книге "Тарзан, приёмыш обезьян". Журнальная публикация романа состоялась в 1912 году, а в 1914 г. он вышел отдельной книгой. Тарзана называют самым узнаваемым литературным персонажем в мире.

Роман "Великий Гэтсби" был опубликован в апреле 1925 г. Определенное влияние на развитие замысла книги оказало получившее в 1923 г. широкую огласку дело некоего Фуллера-Макги.

Впервые роман был опубликован в 1883 году в журнале "Young Folks" под псевдонимом капитан Джордж Норс. Отдельной книгой издан лишь спустя пять лет, в 1888 году. Действие романа происходит в Англии во второй половине XV в., во время войны Алой и Белой Розы. Англия горит в огне междоусобных войн.

A House of Pomegranates (1891) is a collection of four fairy tales by Oscar Wilde: "The Young King," "The Birthday of the Infanta," "The Fisherman and His Soul," and "The Star Child." These magical, beautiful, tragic, and cynical tales will charm listeners of any age. Narrated by Noel Badrian, and performed by a full cast.

La colección Arlequín reúne los cuentos clásicos de siempre en 24 libros de formato muy práctico para los pequeños de la casa, con textos sencillos que ayudarán a los primeros lectores a disfrutar de sus historias preferidas: Bambi, Aladino, Pinocho, Alicia, Ricitos de Oro, La Bella y la Bestia, La ratita presumida, y así hasta 24 títulos.

mendeko Londresen, industria iraultza betean girotutako eleberri honetan, Charles Dickens bere biografian oinarritu zen egoerak eta pertsonaiak sortzeko. 11 urterekin, aita zorren ondorioz espetxean sartu zutenean, fabrika batean lanean hasi zen, familiarekin egiten zuen lo bertan, ez baitzuten etxerik.

Descubre la adaptación de Cuento de Navidad de Charles Dickens. La adaptación ha sido realizada por Kathleen Hershner y está concebida para que la comprensión auditiva se adapte a un nivel intermedio, de esta forma puedes seguir la historia y mejorar tu inglés al mismo tiempo.

En Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe mostra com lésser humà és capaç de superar les dificultats amb esforç, paciència i enginy, alhora que fa veure la necessitat de comunicar-se i dintegrar-se en la societat.

First love. First heartbreak. First snow. First Snow is a stand-alone single mum reverse harem romance from international best-selling author, Hanleigh Bradley. Three brothers. One childhood sweetheart. There's only two things the Stedman brothers have in common; Lexie O'Neill and their pact to avoid her. It's been almost 10 years since Kendall, Fletcher and Bailey last spoke to Lexie and a lot of things have changed in that time. But this Christmas, the pact might just get broken, but can the Stedman brothers reignite Lexie's belief in the magic of the first snow.

Clover has grown up with rockstars for parents. They expect her to follow in their footsteps. But Clover doesn't want to be famous, she just wants to create the music she loves. Will that change when her twin brother needs her to take his place in the pop band Saving Creed? Her crazy mother puts a wig on her head, bandages up her boobs and throws her onto the stage at the London o2. Suddenly, she finds herself living with four hot men. The only problem? They all think she's her twin brother, Creed!

101 Famous Poems, compiled by Roy J. Cook and first published in 1916, is a collection of one familiar poem each by the best-known poets in the English language, including Alfred Tennyson, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Milton, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson and William Wordsworth. The anthology is indexed by title, author and first line.

In The Celtic Twilight, Yeats explores the world of fairies, ghosts and spirits. The title refers to the pre-dawn hours when the Druids performed their rituals. The work comprises tales recounted to the poet by his friends, acquaintances and various country folk.

The novel is the story of a scientist who, through the study of optics finds a way to make things invisible. In a desire for recognition, fame, and the advantages of being invisible, he subjects himself to the process. But being unseen isn't as positive as he had hoped, and he soon finds himself regretting his condition, and his mind also becomes warped. He becomes mentally unhinged. Later, he embraces his invisibility and begins to spiral into a lust for power and control, and he reveals a plan he has hatched to unleash his personal "terror" on the world.

Listed in the BBC's "100 Novels That Shaped Our World", Psmith, Journalist takes Wodehouse's immaculate hero to the apparently dull city of New York, where he takes command of twee family periodical Cosy Moments, converts it to the yellowest of yellow journals, and embarks upon a crusade to unmask the owner of the notorious Pleasant Street tenements. But soon the staff of Cosy Moments find themselves dodging ambushes and assassination attempts, as the mysterious tenement owner tries to put them out of business - permanently; and war breaks out among New York's notorious street gangs.

C'est l'été indien, la nature sauvage à perte de vue mais l'homme se blesse et voit s'éloigner son compagnon de route inexorablement. Déboussolé par la douleur et bientôt la faim, l'homme s'accroche à la vie.

Londra, anni Sessanta. Sono trascorsi vent'anni dalla morte di Julius, ma il suo ultimo gesto eroico ha lasciato un segno indelebile nelle vite dei suoi cari. Emma, la figlia minore, lavora nella casa editrice di famiglia e rifugge spaventata dagli uomini. Al contrario, Cressida, la maggiore, cerca di placare la sua brama d'amore con una girandola di uomini sposati. Nel frattempo Esme, la vedova di Julius, ancora attraente alla soglia dei sessant'anni, vive sprofondata nella routine domestica della sua bellissima casa color rosa pesca.

The late 16th-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on this historical juncture at which debt litigation was not merely an aspect of society but seemed to engulf it completely, Of Bondage examines a culture that understood money and the body of the borrower as comparable forms of property that impinged on one another at the moment of default.