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Àííîòàöèÿ: One of Dickens's best-loved and most personal novels, David Copperfield is the embodiment of Dickens's own boyhood experience recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse. This edition, which has the accurate Clarendon text, includes Dickens's trial titles and working notes, and eight original illustrations by "Phiz."

Àííîòàöèÿ: This collection contains works by such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Gaskell, Dickens and M. R. James, alongside that of anonymous authors from Britain to America. It brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales.

Àííîòàöèÿ: This is a richly entertaining collection of stories from the golden age of crime fiction - a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth with only his own intelligence to rely on. Within these pages you will find G.K. Chesterton's Mr. Pond, Ernest Bramah's blind detective, Max Carrados, Craifg Kennedy, 'the American Sherlock Holmes' and further tales by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Rudyard Kipling and A.C. Doyle.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Dickens' final novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870, is a mystery story much influenced by the "Sensation Novel" as written by his friend Wilkie Collins. The action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in Victorian London. Drugs, disappearances, sexual obsession, disguise and a possible murder are among the themes and motifs. A sombre and menacing atmosphere, a fascinating range of characters and Dickens' usual command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalising story. Also included in this volume are a number of unjustly neglected stories and sketches, with subjects as different as murder, guilt and childhood romance

Àííîòàöèÿ: ...it is an universal phenomenon of our nature that the mournful, the fearful, even the horrible, allures with irresistible enchantment. - Chaucer Burr, Memoir, 1850. The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories is a superb collection of some of the greatest tales of the genre, many are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of the supernatural

Àííîòàöèÿ: Following the life of David Copperfield through sufferings and adversity, this book helps reader find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction`s stars including Mr Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, and the Peggoty family

Àííîòàöèÿ: Õðåñòîìàòèÿ ñîäåðæèò îòðûâêè èç ïðîèçâåäåíèé àíãëèéñêèõ è àìåðèêàíñêèõ ïèñàòåëåé ñ äðåâíåéøèõ âðåìåí äî íàøèõ äíåé.  íåé äàíû òàêæå áèîãðàôèè ïèñàòåëåé, ïðèâîäÿòñÿ êðàòêèå ñîäåðæàíèÿ èõ ñàìûõ èçâåñòíûõ è ïîïóëÿðíûõ ïðîèçâåäåíèé. Êðîìå òðàäèöèîííîãî ïåðå÷íÿ àíãëîÿçû÷íûõ àâòîðîâ â õðåñòîìàòèè ïðåäñòàâëåíû òàêèå ïèñàòåëè, êàê Ëîðåíñ Ñòåðí, Ãåíðè Äæåéìñ, Äæåðîì Ê. Äæåðîì, Àðòóð Êîíàí Äîéë, Î. Ãåíðè, Ðè÷àðä Áàõ, Äæîàí Ðîóëèíã è ìíîãèå äðóãèå, ÷üå òâîð÷åñòâî íå îñâåùàëîñü ðàíåå â ïîäîáíûõ ó÷åáíûõ ïîñîáèÿõ.  êîíöå êàæäîãî ðàçäåëà êíèãè ñîäåðæàòñÿ êîíòðîëüíûå âîïðîñû è çàäàíèÿ, ìíîãèå èç êîòîðûõ âûïîëíåíû â ôîðìàòå ÅÃÝ. Äëÿ ó÷àùèõñÿ ñðåäíèõ øêîë, ëèöååâ, ãèìíàçèé, ñòóäåíòîâ ãóìàíèòàðíûõ âóçîâ, ïðåïîäàâàòåëåé, à òàêæå äëÿ âñåõ èíòåðåñóþùèõñÿ àíãëîÿçû÷íîé ëèòåðàòóðîé.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Short Stores from the 19th Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of the great storytellers presenting evocative snapshots from that bygone era while at the same time providing engaging entertainment and stimulation for the modern reader. All emotions are catered for in these offerings by Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Mrs Gaskell, O Henry, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Charlotte Perkins Gillman and Charles Lamb. Through their words the rich pageant of yesterday springs to vibrant life. Each story has its own introduction and there is a set of informative notes. This volume is ideal reading for the student as well as those who relish a good tale well told.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Short Stores from the 19th Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of thegreat storytellers presenting evocative snapshots from that bygone era while at the same time providing engaging entertainment and stimulation for the modern reader.All emotions are catered for in these offerings by Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Mrs Gaskell, O Henry, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Charlotte Perkins Gillman and Charles Lamb. Through their words the rich pageant of yesterday springs to vibrant life. Each story has its own introduction and there is a set of informative notes. This volume is ideal reading for the student as well as those who relish a good tale well told.

Àííîòàöèÿ: `The Pickwick Papers` is Dickens` first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40 000 by the final number. In the century and a half since its first appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general, and the works of Dickens in particular.

Àííîòàöèÿ: This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting new selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings.Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.

Àííîòàöèÿ: This is a book to be read by a blazing fire of a winter's evening, with the curtains drawn and the doors locked. The unquiet souls of the dead roam the pages of this haunting new selection by Rex Collings of ghost stories both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions. Some of these stories are classics and others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era for tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - Fisher's Ghost by John Lang is set in Australia and A Ghostly Manifestation by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. Sir Walter Scott keeps company in this selection with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens—s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author—s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens—s —genius . . . is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence the most capacious and elastic and versatile kind of novel that could be, one big enough for his vast sentimental yearnings and for every impulse and fear and hesitation in him that countervailed those yearnings too. Never parsimonious and frequently contradictory, he always gives us everything he can, everything he—s planned to give, and then more.—

Àííîòàöèÿ: David Copperfield relates the story of his life - transmuting many of the early experiences of his creator - right from his birth to his attainment of settled maturity and successful authorship. On his journey, David encounters a gallery of memorable characters, kind, cruel or grotesque: Mr.Micawber, Uriah Heep and Steerforth are among the many who shape his development. By turns absorbingly comic, dramatic, ironic and tender, the novel brings into energetic life the society and preoccupations of the mid-Victorian world.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage to America. It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin, but also for his grandfather and his grandfather's servant, Mary Graham with whom young Martin is in love. The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time. This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens' mastery of crime where characters such as the criminal Jonas Chuzzlewit, the old nurse Mrs Gamp, and the arch-hypocrite Seth Pecksniff are the equal to any in his other great novels. Generations of readers have also delighted in Dickens' wonderful description of the London boarding-house - 'Todgers'

Àííîòàöèÿ: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette

Àííîòàöèÿ: A classic tale of mischance and mischief based on the original adventures. Poor Oliver... Starved and mistreated as a workhouse orphan, he runs away to London, hoping to find a better life. But twists and turns - and some rather odd characters - await him and shape his tale. Oliver's fate is in the hands of villains and thieves, one kind old gentleman, one woman with a change of heart, and a twisted man who follows his every move—

Àííîòàöèÿ: Unusually for Dickens, "Hard Times" is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment.