Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is perhaps the greatest collection of detective stories ever written. From his residence at 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes solves a series of baffling and bizarre cases, including those of a man terrified by the arrival of an envelope containing orange pips, and a woman whose fiancé disappeared on his way to their wedding. Each story showcases the great detective's inimitable and extraordinary deductive powers, recounted to us by his faithful friend and colleague, Dr Watson. This "Macmillan ... |
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In Kafka 's powerful and disturbing novel, an innocent man is arrested and repeatedly interrogated for a crime that is never ever explained. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library , a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is translated from German by Douglas Scott and Chris Waller, and features an afterword by David Stuart Davies. On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, a young bank official named Joseph K is arrested although he has done nothing wrong and is ... |
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The Greatest Short Stories - Vol. 2 (Adapted Books), is a selection from the best of classic short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters in the genres of adventure, fantasy, horror, thriller mystery, romance, and realist fiction. Readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry , An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce , A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin , and The Return of a Private by Hamlin Garland. The book has approximately three thousand headwords and is appropriate for upper intermediate to advanced learners. The text ... |
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Adapted Book. This remarkable collection features short stories by great nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. Beginning with Washington Irving's masterpieces - The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow and The Devil and Tom Walker, the volume also includes humorous short stories by Mark Twain (The Celebrated Jumping Frog) and Ellis Parker Butler (Pigs Is Pigs); fantastic and dark tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Rappaccini's Daughter) and Fitz-James O'Brien (The Diamond Lens); realistic stories by Herman Melville (Bartleby) and the Pulitzer-winner Willa Cather (Paul's Case); a crime story by Edgar ... |
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След дебютния си роман Глина , спечелил любовта и признанието на десетки хиляди читатели у нас, Виктория Бешлийска за втори път заравя пръсти в българската история и замесва роман, който храни душата с надежда и светлина. Сърце е история за онова, което държи всичките ни цели и пулсира с ритъма на отминалото време, за да остави своя отпечатък в настоящето. Годината е 1243. Високо горе на каменния зид в крепостта Червен два зара политат към черното небе, за да преобърнат пет живота. За Витол залогът е ясен. Предложил го е сам - загуби ли, спечелил е смъртта си. А тя повлича в бездната след него съдбите на жена му ... |
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На върха на творческите постижения на Франц Кафка , наред с неговите разкази и новелата Метаморфозата , се нарежда романът от 1925 година Процесът. Главният герой Йозеф К. е банков чиновник на 30-годишна възраст. В деня на своя рожден ден той е обвинен в престъпление, но не получава никаква информация в какво се изразява то. Йозеф К. не е отведен в ареста, но му е наредено да очаква следващи инструкции относно предстоящата процедура. Макар да получава спорадично информация за своя процес, нищо не се изяснява и животът на героя става все по-непоносим и объркан и Йозеф К. се озовава по средата на безкрайния водовъртеж ... |
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В нито една своя творба Франц Кафка не разкрива себе си така, както чрез писмата си: до любимите си Фелице Бауер и Милена Йесенска, до близките си приятели, до баща си. Откровени, прями, дълбоко емоционални, тези текстове са неповторимо свидетелство за изключителната му чувствителност, сложен гений и още по-сложен характер. С Роден съм да живея в самота съпреживяваме съкровените любови на австрийския писател, неговите страстни копнежи, пронизващите му мисли за живота, изкуството, смъртта, гнетящите го страхове. Писмата са единственото оръжие, с което Кафка, през най-мрачните страни от личността си, се опитва да ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. One of the great Victorian novels, "The Moonstone" has engrossed, entertained and enraptured readers since its first publication in 1868. This edition features an introduction by the renowned historian, journalist and author, Judith Flanders. Lady Verinder's uncle gives her the Moonstone - a magnificent diamond as large as an egg - ... |
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Книгата е част от поредицата "Магика" на издателство "Изток - Запад". ... Въпреки че днес е по-известен с "Изгубеният свят" и историите си за "Шерлок Холмс", Артър Конан Дойл (1859 - 1930) е смятал, че най-доброто му произведение е "Белият отряд" (1891). Действието в този исторически приключенски роман се развива по време на Стогодишната война в Англия, Франция и Испания през 1366 - 1367 г., и ни връща в славните времена на романтична любов, трубадури и рицарски турнири, приятелство, саможертва и подвизи. За основа на романа са послужили и реално съществували личности, ... |
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"What I wanted was to be one with her, with nothing coming between us." You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin, Ted Goosen and Philip Gabriel. ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Set in the South of France in the decade after the First World War, "Tender is the Night" explores the new world of moneyed leisure found by the first generation of idle-rich Americans to take refuge in the French Riviera, bracketed between the horrors of the Great War and the Great Depression to come. It is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question "howdunnit?" Featuring well-known sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story the reader is invited to play detective and is presented with a challenge: can you solve the mystery before the solution is revealed? Locked-room mysteries reached their height of popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; this collection, ... |
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