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A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters - the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn b

One of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt and revenge. Prompted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and goaded by his ambitious wife, the Scottish thane Macbeth murders Duncan, King o

This is a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 1846 and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Bronte sisters adopted masculine first names.

Mix and match the split pages of this ingenious board book to make your own amazing farmyard creatures!
Mary Murphy's brilliant split page board book is perfect for helping little ones learn to mix and match. What do you call a cross between a lamb and a

The Bravo was inspired by a James Fenimore Cooper's trip to Europe where he traveled through much of Italy. This novel set in Venice and it is the first of Cooper's three novels to be set in Europe, The book largely focuses on political themes, especially

В предлагаемый сборник вошли мистические новеллы Эдгара Аллана По (1809-1849), повествующие о самых темных и загадочных сторонах человеческой натуры. Рассказы адаптированы (без упрощения текста оригинала) по методу Ильи Франка. Уникальность метода заключа

F. S. Fitzgerald (1896—1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «This Side of Paradise» was an immediate, spectacular success

F. S. Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. 'The Last Tycoon' is a magnificient story of doomed love set

Behind the Mask
The intrigue, drama, and covert messages hidden in the faces of powerful men and women
Byzantine empresses, French revolutionaries, and Spanish generals: history's most impressive figures stare boldly out of the canvases in this collect

'Another hour gone. But I'm not afraid. There's only one thing I regret: that I've lived for so many years without knowing where human happiness is to be found'
In these stories, four writers - all exiles from revolutionary Russia - explore four deaths

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. 'Smoke Bellew'

Jack London (1876—1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. The book 'The Pe

Jane Austen is one of the most enduring and skilled English novelists. This volume contains two of her most famous stories: Persuasion and Northanger Abbey. Persuasion is a story of twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot, Austen's most adult heroine. Eight yea

Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. Jane Eyre, is a novel by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847 under the

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Twice-Told Tales is a volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic folktales. These ironic tales i

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame story being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these

Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. 'Diary of a Pilgrimage' is a story of a journey to see the famous Passion Play at Oberammergau, which has been performed every ten years since 1634. The book is a witty account of this journey, par

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Partially based on the autho

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. The Star Rover tells the sto

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. The Kempton-Wace Letters is