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31The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield , Katherine Mansfield (2006)
This title comes with an introduction and notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University. Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short… 222 руб32Devils , Dostoevsky Fyodor (2010)
This title includes an introduction by A. D. P. Briggs and translated by Constance Garnett. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to… 222 руб33Look at the Birdie , Kurt Vonnegut (2010)
Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and… 746 руб34The Age of Innocence , Wharton Edith (1994)
Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of… 222 руб35Little Dorrit , Dickens Charles (1996)
Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens'working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in… 212 руб36Gulliver's Travels , Swift Jonathan (1992)
Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it… 203 руб37Number Ten , Townsend Sue (2012)
Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well. Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going… 621 руб38Vanity Fair , William Makepeace Thackeray (2012)
Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the… 847 руб39Hard Times , Dickens Charles (2012)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but… 216 руб40Little Dorrit , Dickens Charles (2004)
Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens1 working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in… 254 руб
