Роман о византийских евреях Х века.

«Замечательный английский писатель Лоренс Стерн вошел в историю мировой литературы как автор двух произведений, прославивших его имя — «Жизнь и мнения Тристрама Шенди, джентльмена» и «ентиментальное путешествие по Франции и Италии». В эту книгу, помимо «Сентиментального путешествия», включены воспоминания Стерна, его письма и «Дневник для Элизы».»

«Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including «The Tell-Tale Heart», «The Murders in the Rue Morgue», «The Fall of the House of Usher», «The Pit and the Pendulum», «William Wilson», «The Black Cat», «The Cask of Amontillado» and «Eleonora». Here too is a major selection of what Poe characterized as the passion of his life, his poems — «The Raven», «Annabel Lee», «Ulalume», «Lenore», «The Bells» and more, plus his glorious prose poem «Silence — A Fable» and only full-length novel, «The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym».»

«Собрание сочинений в 30 томах. «Королева Марго» — один из самых знаменитых романов Александра Дюма, давно уже ставших классикой историко-приключенческой литературы. Франция, шестнадцатый век, эпоха жестокой борьбы между протестантами и католиками, изощренных придворных интриг и трагической любви королевы Марго, поневоле ставшей участницей чужих политических игр… “Королева Марго”, “Графиня де Монсоро”, “Сорок пять” — своеобразная трилогия, посвященная борьбе Генриха Наваррского за французский престол. Иллюстрации французского художника XIX века Д. Ланселота.»

«Серафита» — главное произведение Оноре де Бальзака в жанре, который можно условно назвать мистическим романом, — не вошла ни в одно собрание сочинений писателя. Настоящее издание позволит ознакомиться с философским и романтическим кредо французского классика.»

«Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and finding the treasure that Joe had buried. «Huckleberry Finn» recounts the further adventures of Huck, who runs away from a drunken and brutal father, and meets up with the escaped slave Jim. They float down the Mississippi on a raft, participating in the lives of the characters they meet, witnessing corruption, moral decay and intellectual impoverishment. Sharing so much in background and character, these two stories, the best of Twain, indisputably belong together in one volume. Though originally written as adventure stories for young people, the vivid writing provides a profound commentary on provincial American life in the mid-nineteenth century and the institution of slavery.»

«Отвергнутые послания» более всего прославили братьев Смит и подарили их именам долгую жизнь.»

Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. What does persuasion mean — a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society.

Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays but also the most fascinatingly problematic tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this is a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with humor, and its subtlety with spectacle. The Prince, Hamlet himself, is depicted as a complex, divided, introspective character. His reflections on death, morality and the very status of human beings make him 'the first modern man'.

«Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that «reaped» his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his 'mighty theme' — not only the whale but all things sublime — Melville breathes in the world's great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.»

«У подданных деспота нет родины. Мысль о ней вытеснена корыстью, честолюбием, раболепством». Перед вами — величайшее из произведений Жана де Лабрюйера о человеческих нравах, характерах и достоинствах. О власти, вольнодумстве и даже... о моде. Трактат? Собрание афоризмов? Легкие, изысканные, тонкие «заметки о тщете всего сущего»? Или, может быть, — квинтэссенция всего вышеперечисленного, совмещенного в нечто НОВОЕ — И НЕСТАРЕЮЩЕЕ?!»