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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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. A rich, comic and illuminating portrait of life in a small town, Cranford has moved and entertained readers for generations. This edition features illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, and an introduction by Dr Josie Billington, a specialist in Victorian literature. The women of the small country town of Cranford live in genteel poverty, ... |
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В "Пет малки прасенца" Агата Кристи поставя пред Поаро необичайно предизвикателство - той няма достъп до местопрестъплението! - Човек не използва само мускулите си - отбеляза Поаро. - На мене не ми е нужно да превивам гръб и да измервам отпечатъци от обувки, да събирам фасове или да ровя из стъпканата трева. Достатъчно е да се отпусна в креслото си и да мисля. Ето това - и той потупа леко яйцевидната си глава, - това е, което функционира. Страстта на Еймиъс Крейл към рисуването и жените го прави известен. А смъртта му го опозорява. Неговата ревнива съпруга е обвинена в убийството му и е осъдена на доживотен ... |
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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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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... One of the first great spy novels, "The Riddle of the Sands" is set during the long, suspicious years leading up to the First World War. In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the boredom of his life in London. He accepts an invitation from a college friend, Davies, a shyly intrepid yachtsman, and joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic, and there, amidst the sunshine and bright blue seas, they discover a German plot to invade England... Like much contemporary British ... |
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Шедьоврите на световната литература са кариатидите, които крепят огромното и невидимото мироздание на човешкия дух. Във всяко време, когато са поставени на изпитание нравствените устои на отделната личност или цели нации, великата творба е като спасителна слънчева стълба в бездната на отчаянието, хаоса и неверието. Поредицата "Шедьовър" представя на българския читател образци на световната литература. В този том, драги читателю, ти предстои среща с един от великите романи на Фьодор Михайлович Достоевски - "Юноша". Творба, която преди повече от 100 години почти пророчески предсказа не само ... |
