Classic fiction: general and literary

It is the turn of the 20th century and Russia is changing rapidly - the serfs have been emancipated, a new middle class is arising and the aristocracy is struggling to come to terms with their reduced role in society.

Originally entitled The Saddest Story, this is a heartbreaking, yet darkly witty, tale of betrayal and conflict in the years before World War I.

It is 1840 in a fictional town called Cranford and change is in the air.

Set in the sultry, fictional South American country of Costaguana, Joseph Conrad's compelling tale is a story of greed, corruption and power struggles.

This Arcturus Classics edition presents two of Dostoevsky's shorter novels in one volume, Notes from the Underground and The Double.

George Orwell was perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture and one of our most significant political thinkers.

Jay Gatsby is a mystery to Nick.

"e;The first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs.

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In the twilight years of the British Empire in Burma, bigotry and corruption are the order of the day.

Gordon Comstock is a man in thrall to his principles.

One of the most celebrated works of modern literature, Animal Farm is George Orwell's satire on the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Stalin's subsequent rule.

Under the watchful eye of her overbearing father, Dorothy takes care of the practical side of running a parish, from organising church fetes, visiting parishioners, and managing the finances - even as her father risks everything in his search for the right investment.

Ce livre contient les ouvrages suivants classés par ordre alphabétique (noms de famille auteurs )Le Grand Meaulnes [Alain-Fournier]Alcools [Guillaume Apollinaire]Les Diaboliques [Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly]Les Fleurs du mal [Charles Baudelaire]Un crime d'amour [Paul Bourget]Jane Eyre ou Les Mémoires d'une institutrice [Charlotte Brontë]Les Hauts de Hurle-vent [Emily Brontë]Alice au Pays des Merveilles [Lewis Carroll]Mémoires d'Outre-tombe [François-René de Chateaubriand]Le Cid [Pierre Corneille]De l'Origine des espèces [Charles Darwin]Discours de la méthode [René Descartes]Cantique de Noël [Charles Dickens]Le Monde perdu [Arthur Conan Doyle]La Reine Margot [Alexandre Dumas]L'Éducation Sentimentale [Gustave Flaubert]Madame Bovary [Gustave Flaubert]Le journal d'un fou [Nikolai Gogol]L'Iliade et l'Odyssée [Homère]Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné [Victor Hugo]Cosette [Victor Hugo]L'Esclave amoureuse [Gustave Le Rouge]Le Fantôme de l'Opéra [Gaston Leroux]Le Mystère de la chambre jaune [Gaston Leroux]Justice de femme [Daniel Lesueur]Babbitt [Sinclair Lewis]L'Appel de la forêt [Jack London]Justine ou Les Malheurs de la vertu [Marquis de Sade]Bel-Ami [Guy de Maupassant]Le Chat noir par [Edgar Allan Poe]Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]Du côté de chez Swann [Marcel Proust]Cyrano de Bergerac [Edmond Rostand]Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [Jean-Jacques Rousseau]Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne [Mary Shelley]Le Rouge et le Noir [Stendhal]La Chartreuse de Parme [Stendhal]Dracula [Bram Stoker]L'art de la Guerre (Les Treize Articles) [Sun Tzu]Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer [Mark Twain]La bibliothèque de mon oncle [Rodolphe Töpffer]Le Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours [Jules Verne]Voyage au centre de la Terre [Jules Verne]Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Voltaire]L'Homme invisible [H.

This classic, award-winning novel and the basis for the animated Disney movie is "e;a masterpiece, it is tops in the field of animal books"e; (Omaha World-Herald).

Dieses eBook: "Faust" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Thomas Hardy and Animals looks at creatures in Hardy''s novels, examining human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities.

The first authoritative, scholarly edition of Henry James''s masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady (1881).

A fully annotated edition of Abbott''s classic Flatland, with notes and commentary putting it in its historical and mathematical context.

An overview of British fiction written between the mid-1760s and the early 1830s in its historical and cultural contexts.

An overview of British fiction written between the mid-1760s and the early 1830s in its historical and cultural contexts.

This is the first critical edition of Richardson''s sequel to Pamela, the most influential English novel of the eighteenth century.

The first edition of all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson.

Maria Edgeworth was a pioneer of realist children's literature.

The first critical edition of the beloved classics that established Edith Nesbit as a major children's writer provides extensive guidance to help today's reader navigate the enchanting world of the Bastable family.

An inspiring and gripping saga series, perfect for fans of Rosie Clarke, Pam Howes and Dilly Court!

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This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Dieses eBook: "Das Eulenhaus (Liebesroman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Dieses eBook: "Frau Salome" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world.

This book outlines Hemingway''s continued relevance in the twenty-first century, highlighting the latest critical trends in the field.

This collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.

This collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.

Brings together, for the first time, Kipling''s uncollected short stories, many unknown in the West, and some previously unpublished.

An examination of the significance of the bookstore in the cultural imagination through a survey of 260 bookstore novels.

A newly edited and richly annotated version of Joseph Conrad''s Heart of Darkness, now considered a classic of early modernism.

A newly edited and richly annotated version of Joseph Conrad''s Heart of Darkness, now considered a classic of early modernism.