War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of ..

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Kniha War of the Worlds autora H. G. Wells vydaná v nakladatelství Harper Collins Publishers v roce 2020, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 272, ISBN-13: 9780008400453, zařazení do kategorie: Anglie.

„Es war eine wundervolle Nacht, eine solche Nacht, wie sie vielleicht nur vorkommen kann, wenn wir jung sind, lieber Leser.“ Mit diesem Satz eröffnet Dostojewski seine Geschichte einer beginnenden Liebe, die aus der zufälligen Begegnung zwischen dem ..

Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversi ..

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‚Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on…‘ Set in the frozen forests of the Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, 'White Fa ..

‚My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?‘ A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the ..

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

Inspired by Anderson's Midwestern boyhood and his observations in early 20th-century Chicago, the loosely connected stories in „Winesburg, Ohio“ gave birth to the American story cycle, for which Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and later writers were forever indebted. Reissue.

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its core are family relationships – father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter – a ..

Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels ..

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‚„Come along, Toto,“ she said. „We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.“‘ Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dor ..