Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism ..

Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and a ..

Kniha Blue Castle autora MONTGOMERY L M vydaná v nakladatelství Arcturus Publishing Ltd v roce 2020, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 240, ISBN-13: 9781839403705, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

Gustave Flaubert, né

Kniha Bridge of San Luis Rey autora Thornton Wilder vydaná v nakladatelství Dover Publications Inc. v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 112, ISBN-13: 9780486850351, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

Dostoyevskys masterpiece introduces a world filled with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues, as three brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their own father. This edition features an Afterword by bestselling author Sara Peretsky. Revised reissue.

Jack London's two most beloved tales of survival in Gold Rush Alaska, Call of the Wild and White Fang, are presented here in a striking package. Jack London based these two novels on his experiences in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush and both ..

Calligrammes est un recueil de poésie exceptionnel.Par les circonstances de sa composition : en pleine Première Guerre mondiale et, pour partie, sur le front même.Par l'intensité émotionnelle qui s'en dégage : du désespoir le plus profond au plus vib ..

With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout hi ..

Dem arglosen jungen Candide erscheint das westfälische Schlösschen, auf dem er seine Kindheit verlebt hat, als paradiesisch-vollkommen, als bester aller möglichen Wohnorte. Leider begeht er – in aller Unschuld – das Verbrechen, Kunigunde, die appetit ..

An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed…

Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.' In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the dark ..