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Sherlock. The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures. Volume 2 (BBC books)
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'The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes'
This second of two volumes of Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories featuring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes begins with Silver Blaze and ends with Sherlock's final appearance in The Adventure of The Dying Detective. Each tale of murder, suspense, cryptic clues and revenge is a ground-breaking combination of forensic science and bold storytelling.
The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a whole new generation of fans to Arthur Conan Doyle's work. With each story selected and introduced by Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, this collection welcomes readers inside the world of Sherlock Holmes and provides them with a curated masterclass in crime fiction.
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The Best of Frank O'Connor (Everyman)
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For the first time, a career-spanning omnibus edition of the works of Frank O’Connor, the writer Yeats dubbed ‘Ireland’s Chekhov’. Edited and introduced by Julian Barnes, The Best of Frank O’Connor gives us a generous selection of the author’s oeuvre, intriguingly divided into eight thematic sections. War includes the famous ‘Guests of the Nation’, set during the Irish Civil War; Childhood draws on autobiographical writings to present a revealing picture of the author as a boy, the only child of an alcoholic father and doting mother; Writers bears witness to his literary debt to Yeats and Joyce. The stories in Lonely Voices movingly demonstrate O’Connor’s theory that in this genre can be achieved ‘something we do not often find in the novel – an intense awareness of human loneliness’; yet they are complemented by his wonderfully polyphonic tales of family, friendship and rivalry in Better Quarrelling. In Ireland come poems, stories and articles inspired by the native land he loved but never sentimentalized, w ...
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Selected Stories (Everyman)
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During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including ‘Boule de Suif’, ‘The Necklace’, ‘The House of Madame Tellier’, ‘The Hand’, ‘The Horla’ and ‘Mademoiselle Fifi’. Marked by the psychological realism that he famously pioneered, the tales in this selection lead us on a tour of the human experience—lust and love, revenge and ridicule, terror and madness. Many take place in the author’s native Normandy, but the settings range farther abroad as well, from Brittany and Paris to Corsica and the Mediterranean coast, and even to North Africa and India. Maupassant’s remarkable range and ability to evoke an entire world in a few pages have ensured that his fiction has retained its power to entertain through generations of readers. Marjorie Laurie’s accomplished translations from the 1920s have similarly stood the test of time.
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Garden Stories (Everyman)
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Gardens have been fruitful settings for stories ever since Adam and Eve were ejected from Paradise. This delightfully wide-ranging collection brings together all sorts of tales of the tilled earth, featuring secret gardens, enchanted gardens, gardens public and private, grand and humble.
Spectacular gardens are viewed from the perspective of a snail in Virginia Woolf’s “Kew Gardens” and from that of a sheltered teenage girl in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden-Party.” The family in Doris Lessing’s “Flavours of Exile” hauls succulent vegetables and fruits from the rich African soil, and Colette in “Bygone Spring” luxuriates in extravagantly blooming flowers. Children discover their own peculiar paradises in Sandra Cisneros’s “The Monkey Garden” and Italo Calvino’s “The Enchanted Garden,” while adult gardeners find things that move and haunt them in William Maxwell’s “The French Scarecrow” and Jamaica Kincaid’s “The Garden I Have in Mind.”
Gardens of the imagination round out the anthology: the beautiful but
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Dog Stories (Everyman)
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This anthology rounds up a pack of vivid and colourful tales by a wide range of writers from Chekhov, Chesterton and Kafka to Patricia Highsmith and Doris Lessing. The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling’s heroically faithful ‘Garm’, Bret Harte’s irrepressible scoundrel of a ‘yaller dog’ and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull who lives in a block of flats for dogs in Jonathan Lethem’s ‘Ava’s Apartment’. Here are stories which touchingly illuminate the dog’s role in the emotional lives of humans, such as Tobias Wolff ’s ‘Her Dog’, where a widower shares his grief for his wife with her grieving pet. Here, too, are humorous glimpses of the canine point of view, from O. Henry’s tale of a dissatisfied lapdog’s escape to P. G. Wodehouse’s cheerfully naive watchdog who simply wants everybody to get along. These writers and others – Ray Bradbury, James Thurber and Penelope Lively among them – offer imaginative, lyrical and empathetic portraits of man and woman’s most faithful friend.
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Horse Stories (Everyman)
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Horse Stories corrals two centuries of short fiction about the most majestic of domesticated animals. From writers old and new come stories of magnificent stallions, broken-down old nags, racehorses, ponies, cowboy's steeds, workhorses and beloved companions in a wide variety of literary styles. Rudyard Kipling transports us to the polo fields of India, Bret Harte to the ranches of the Wild West. Arthur Conan Doyle makes a famous thoroughbred disappear (or does he?), while Saki spins an amusing yarn about a notorious bolter. Isaac Babel tells of the horrors of war; Raymond Carver has a vision of runaway horses in the mist; Ted Hughes, Margaret Atwood and Jane Smiley explore the human passions horses can unleash. From the rollicking racetrack humour of Damon Runyon to the poignant lyricism of John Steinbeck, these stories testify to our varied and timeless fascination with the noble beast.
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David Golder. The Ball. Snow in Autumn. The Courilof Affair (Everyman)
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Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irene Nemirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Francaise. But Suite Francaise was only a coda to the brief yet prolific career of this remarkable novelist, for years nearly forgotten. Here in one volume are four of Nemirovsky’s other novels – all of them newly translated by the award-winning Sandra Smith, and all, except David Golder, available in English for the first time. David Golder is the book that established Nemirovsky’s reputation in France in 1929 when she was twenty-six. It is a novel about greed and loneliness, the story of an ageing Russian Jewish businessman, an exile in France, learning to confront death and the knowledge that wealth has not brought him happiness. The Ball is both a sensitive exploration of adolescence and a merciless exposure of bourgeois social pretension. Snow in Autumn is an evocative tale of White Russian emigres in Paris, while in The Courilof Affair a retired Russian revolutionary recalls an
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The Siege of Krishnapur. Troubles (Everyman)
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Two very different Booker-Prizewinning novels about the end of empire by Anglo-Irish writer J. G. Farrell are juxtaposed in this volume. Witty, shocking, exciting and vividly realistic, The Siege of Krishnapur is set in the fictional town of that name where a British garrison withstands a four-month siege by a sepoy army during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Undergoing terrible privations, the characters find their ideals tested and their smug assumptions of military and moral superiority severely shaken. In the elegiac tragicomedy Troubles, Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland in the aftermath of World War I in order to meet his fiancee Angela in a remote seaside hotel owned by her father. Though events take an unexpected turn, Archer lingers in Kilnalough, captivated by the Majestic and its inhabitants, and seemingly unaware of the approaching political storm as Ireland dissolves into revolt and civil war. Introducer John Sutherland describes Farrell, who died at the early age of 44 in 1979, as 'one of
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Voss (Everyman)
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A towering classic of Australian literature - by the only writer from that continent to win the Nobel Prize - Voss recounts an epic physical and spiritual journey across the outback. The character of Johann Voss is based on a real nineteenth-century explorer, Ludwig Leichhardt, who set out to cross the entire continent of Australia from east to west in 1848 but disappeared in the attempt. With visionary intensity, Patrick White imagines his obsessed protagonist's last journey across the desert and the waterlogged plains of central Australia. This magisterial novel is also a love story, for throughout his ordeal Voss sustains a deep connection to an orphaned young woman named Laura Trevelyan, whose inner life, like his own, is at odds with the world. In language poetic and passionate yet grounded in shrewd, often comic, social observations and naturalistic portrayals of a range of characters including farmers, convicts, employers, servants, and aborigines, White creates both a spellbinding adventure and a ...
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Florence Stories (Everyman)
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Florence’s world-famous Renaissance is brought to life in this anthology through the eyes of its most illustrious chroniclers. Beginning with Dante’s vision of Inferno, teeming with his Florentine enemies, to the artist Cellini’s swashbuckling adventures in High Renaissance Italy, and including the pioneering writings of Boccaccio, Ficino, Guicciardini and Vasari, this selection shows that in literature, as in art, Florence was a trailblazer.
The city’s long tradition of mesmerizing foreigners is celebrated in selections from Tobias Smollet, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence and Stendhal (whose rapturous impressions gave name to ‘Stendhal syndrome’), while indigenous writers such as Curzio Malaparte and Vasco Pratolini paint a far grittier portrait of Florence under the looming cloud of Fascism and World War II. Salman Rushdie’s dazzling novel The Enchantress of Florence takes inspiration from the city’s gilded Renaissance past, while Mary McCarthy’s masterful travelogue captures a bustling 20th centu ...
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Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests (Everyman)
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Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to Austen and from Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest (via Thomas Love Peacock's Maid Marian) to Washington Irving's 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'. Here are forest-haunted fairy tales both classic (the Brothers Grimm) and inventively retold (Angela Carter). There is room in these woods for comedy as well as terror, in Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm, and Alexander McCall Smith's 'Head Tree'. Notable writers from around the world contribute arboreal fiction-from South Africa, Finland, France, Zimbabwe, Russia, Martinique, and India, as well as Britain, Ireland, Canada and America. From Daphne du Maurier's 'The Apple Tree' to R. K. Narayan's 'Under the Banyan Tree', the sheer rang ...
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Lucky Per (Everyman)
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An unjustly neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably 'the great Danish novel' – but is only newly available in English.
Social realism and fairy tale combine in Lucky Per, a bildungsromanabout the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees a restricted life in rural Jutland for Denmark's capital city. Per is a gifted young man who firmly believes that 'you had to hunt down luck as if it were a wild creature, a crooked-fanged beast ... and capture and bind it'. He falls in with Copenhagen's Jewish community, and falls for Jakobe Salomon, a wealthy heiress, who is not only the strongest character in the book but among the great Jewish heroines of European literature.
Per becomes obsessed with a grand engineering scheme that he believes will both reshape Denmark's landscape and correct its minor position in the world. Eventually personal and his career ambitions alike come to grief. At the h ...
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Fishing Stories (Everyman)
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Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the comedy of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art’ and Jerome K. Jerome’s ‘Fishy’ to the rural gothic of Annie Proulx’s ‘The Wer-Trout’ and the haunting elegy of Norman Maclean’s ‘A River Runs Through It’.
Many of these tales celebrate human bonds forged over a rod, including Guy de Maupassant’s ‘Two Friends’, Jimmy Carter’s ‘Fishing with My Daddy’ and Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden. Some deal in reverence and romance, as in Roland Pertwee’s ‘The River God’, and some in adventure and the stuff of legend, as in Zane Grey’s ‘The First Thousand-Pounder’ and Ron Rash’s ‘Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes’. There are narratives that confront the heartbreaks and frustrations of the sport, from Thomas McGuane’s ‘The Longest Silence’, a meditation on long spells of inaction as the essence of fishing, to Raymond Carver’s masterpiece about a boy’s deflated triumph in ‘Nobody Said
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Обломов (Новое Небо)
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В 1859 году в России впервые услышали про "обломовщину" - жизненную идеологию, основанную на пассивности, апатии безделье и ленивом созерцании жизни вокруг. Прообразом и идейным вдохновителем этого термина стал главный герой романа Гончарова "Обломов".
Через жизненный путь Ильи Ильича Обломова автор отразил русскую жизнь первой половины ХIХ столетия. Скучающий молодой дворянин, почти все время лежащий на диване в иллюзорных мечтах и планах, стал объектом миллионов споров и теорий.
И спустя полтора века роман Гончарова остается выдающимся произведением русской классики, входит в обязательную школьную программу и по-прежнему заставляет читателей задаваться вопросами о русском менталитете и культуре, а также задумываться о смысле собственной жизни.
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Шуаны, или Бретань в 1799 году (Т8)
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Действие "Шуанов" происходит в конце 1799 года. То были последние месяцы правления так называемой Директории и первые недели Консульства, возглавлявшегося Наполеоном Бонапартом. Власть в стране находилась в это время в руках крупной буржуазии, которая воспользовалась в своих интересах победой буржуазной революции во Франции.
В основе романа лежит один из эпизодов борьбы республиканских войск с игуанами, во главе которых стояли дворяне-роялисты и католические священники. Восстание шуанов 1799 года в западных провинциях страны - Бретани и Вандее - было последней серьёзной вспышкой роялистского мятежа, который охватил в 1793 году всю северо-западную Францию. Мятеж этот вдохновлялся из-за рубежа - из Англии, снабжавшей восставших оружием и деньгами.
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Полное собрание сочинений и писем в 23-х томах. Том 7. Художественные произведения. 1908-1910 (Наука)
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Художественные произведения. 1904-1905. Рассказы и повести: Призраки; Красный смех; Вор; Бен-Товит; Марсельеза; Христиане; Губернатор; Так было. Пьеса: К звездам. Неопубликованное: В поезде; Из глубины веков; Старухи Незаконченное. Наброски: "Две сестры"; Народ (к революции).
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Повести Белкина (Издательский дом Мещерякова)
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В 1830 году Россию захватила вспышка холеры. Дорога к Москве была перекрыта из-за карантина, и Александр Сергеевич Пушкин оказался в вынужденном затворничестве в имении Большое Болдино.
"Болдинская осень" войдёт в историю как самый продуктивный творческий период писателя. За три месяца он создал около пятидесяти произведений, в том числе и "Повести Белкина".
Книгу составляют предисловие "От издателя" и пять повестей: "Выстрел", "Метель", "Гробовщик", "Станционный смотритель" и "Барышня-крестьянка".
Издание выполнено с тиснением на обложке, содержит ляссе (ленточку-закладку).
Для среднего школьного возраста.
Книга издана в серии "101 книга" с иллюстрациями Владимира Милашевского, классика книжной иллюстрации.
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Мартин Иден (Речь)
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"Мартин Иден" - центральное, главное произведение в творчестве Джека Лондона. Роман очень скоро вышел за рамки авторского замысла. Частная история писателя стала символом, образом писательской судьбы, в которой лишений больше, чем наград; в которой общество отторгает творца, если его работа не выражается в денежном эквиваленте; и в которой даже признание не приносит долгожданного счастья.
Роман имеет автобиографическую основу и потому обладает особой проникновенностью и трагичностью. Это сам Джек Лондон боролся с издателями, получал отказ за отказом, требовал выплаты гонораров. Это он голодал, отдавая все силы искусству. Это он зарабатывал деньги тяжелым трудом в море и в паровой прачечной. Шел наперекор всем обстоятельствам и наконец обрел славу и признание. Но какова цена этой победы?..
Иллюстрации петербургского художника Николая Лаврухина подготовлены специально для этого издания и публикуются впервые. Созданные в лучших традициях реалистического рисунка, они добавляют тексту дополни ...
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Полное собрание сочинений в одном томе (Альфа-книга)
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Полное собрание сочинений в одном томе включает все произведения классика русской литературы Николая Васильевича Гоголя (1809-1852) - художественные, критические, исторические, публицистические. Исключение составляют варианты, редакции, письма и коллективные стихотворения. Настоящее издание приурочено к 200-летию со дня рождения писателя.
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0 - Куприн А. И. Избранное в 3-х тт
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Т. 1. Рассказы; Сказки; Легенды; Приложения. – 512 с. Т. 2. Впотьмах; Олеся; Молох; Поединок; Суламифь; Гранатовый браслет; Приложения. – 560 с. Т. 3. Яма; На переломе (Кадеты); Юнкера; Приложения. – 624 с.
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