Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Lily Bart is twenty-nine, beautiful and charming. She has expensive tastes, loves to gamble and socializes with the wealthy upper-class families of New York. But her meagre finances are dwindling and her place in society is slipping away from her. Her only hope of security is to find a suitable husband. However, Lily has an independence of spirit that stands in the way of her committing to the suitors available to her. As her options diminish, her friends become her enemies and her situation grows increasing perilous. In "The House of Mirth", ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When Jonathan Harker is summoned to Transylvania to finalize a property deal for the mysterious Count Dracula, he stumbles upon an ancient evil he is unprepared to face. When that evil escapes to England, the entire nation is suddenly under threat and only an aged vampire hunter, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, can put a stop to the bloodshed. Sensual, dark and thrilling, Bram Stoker's "Dracula" remains the seminal work of Gothic fiction, and in this elegant "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition, which includes an ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Shooting stars tear across the night sky, then a gigantic artificial cylinder descends from Mars to land near London. Inquisitive locals gather round, only to be struck down by a murderous Heat-Ray. Giant destructive machines disgorge from the cylinder, destroying everything in their path on a merciless march towards the capital. Can humanity survive this Martian onslaught? A gripping adventure written in semi-documentary style, "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells is the seminal man versus machine adventure which has inspired countless ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Frankenstein" is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark parable of science misused. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh. Horrified at what he has done, he abandons his creation. The hideous creature learns language and becomes civilized but society rejects him. Spurned, he seeks vengeance on his creator. So begins a cycle of destruction, with Frankenstein and his "monster" pursuing each other to the extremes of nature until all vestiges of their humanity are lost. In 1831, Mary ... |
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В Преспанските камбани разказва за нарушеното спокойствие на историята. Демонът на борбата е придобил глас. Променили са се Лазар Глаушев, Райко Вардарски, техните последователи. Талевото разбиране за народа освободител се отразява върху личната човешка характеристика. Тя става зависима от борческите добродетели, от личния героизъм. В тази човешка гама звучи повествованието на Преспанските камбани. Творбата не продължава семейно-жанровата тоналност, а решава и нови жанрови и композиционни задачи. В тетралогията на Талев се включва по-особено втората книга - Преспанските камбани. Докато в Железният светилник доминират ... |
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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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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Ned Halley. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "The Beautiful and Damned", F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune. Anthony and his wife Gloria are young and gorgeous, rich and leisured, and dedicate their lives to the reckless pursuit of happiness. But this intimate story turns tragic, as their marriage disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness. Fitzgerald skilfully portrays the east-coast elite as the Jazz Age ... |
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В това издание са включени пет от най-известните новели на Томас Ман (1875 - 1955) - един от най-големите германски писатели и носител на Нобелова награда за литература: Дребният господин Фридеман (1897), Тристан (1903), Тонио Крьогер (1903), Смърт във Венеция (1911), определяно като най-доброто произведение, написано на немски език, и Марио и фокусникът (1930). И петте произведения се отличават с размисли за противоречивия и мъчителен процес на творчеството, както и с финия анализ на чувствата, с дълбок до болезненост психологизъм, с разсъждения за желанието за смърт и за смъртта като безсмъртие. С тези новели, подбрани ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", one of the best-known and best-loved poems in the English language, a grizzled old sailor stops a man on his way to a wedding and tells a terrifying story. He speaks of how he doomed the crew of his ship by shooting dead an albatross, awakened the wrath of ocean spirits, met Death himself, and must now walk the earth for ever and share his tragic tale of sin, guilt and - ultimately - redemption. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s longest major poem features ... |
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Jonty Claypole. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable mysteries. "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are key works in the horror canon, while in the "The Murders ... |
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"Когато една сутрин след неспокойни сънища Грегор Замза се събуди в леглото си, установи, че се е превърнал в гигантско насекомо." Така започва знаменитата новела на Франц Кафка Метаморфозата, в която преобразеният герой става, поради своята различност, бреме и обект на срам и отвращение дори за най-близките си, чужденец в собственият си дом. Ужасяваща и абсурдна картина на отхвърлеността и вината, Метаморфоза се нарежда сред най-четените и с най-мощно влияние белетристични творби, въплътили страховете и кошмарите на XX век. "Кафка умееше да открои скритата яркост. При него сякаш се разбулва море от ... |
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Роман за избора между справедливостта и безчестието. Началото на XIII век Вратите на Царевец се отварят и ставаме свидетели на време, когато един цар е безсилен да осъзнае, че не може да бележи летописа на отечеството със свой знак, защото е недостоен. Един цар, който гони богомилите като беззаконници, а сам изпада в беззакония. Цар Борил - узурпаторът, който иска да укрепи царството, опирайки се не на своя народ, а на неговите врагове. Време, когато трябва да се избира между честта и безчестието, когато трябва да се отстояват принципи и идеали, да се воюва за справедливост и хармония на човешките отношения. Време на ... |