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Полный вариант заголовка: «Comedy of errors / by Will. Shakspere ; printed complete from the text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last editions».

At age 19 Anne Brontë left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience as a governess. Bronte depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can affect a y…

Emily Brontë's only novel is famous the world over and is the favorite classic of many readers. It is easy to see why, with hardship, insanity, cruelty, frustrated love, and ghosts.

"The American Claimant" is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches―fertile and familiar Mark Twain territory. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by Ame…

"Eureka" (1848) is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) which he subtitled «A Prose Poem», though it has also been subtitled as «An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe». Adapted from a lecture he had pres…

Полный вариант заголовка: «The poetical works of James Hogg : Vol. 2 : in 4 volumes».

One of the most renowned public speakers of his day, Mark Twain was often asked to give speeches to mark public holidays or important anniversaries, for school graduations, at banquets for distinguished visitors, and at events sponsored by charitable…

A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during thirteen quite amazing years.

Чтение оригинальных произведений – простой и действенный способ погрузиться в языковую среду и совершенствоваться в иностранном языке. Серия «Бестселлер на все времена» – это возможность улучшить свой английский, читая лучшие произведения англоязычны…

The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untrammeled by literary conventions.

Bringing together 38 tales and sketches, «The 30 000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories» provides a rare long view of Twain's work, covering virtually his entire career, from «Advice to Young Girls» (a spoof that appeared in 1865, just months before he…

Mark Twain began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of "Chapters from my Autobiography". He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but realized, once he’d passed his 70th year, that a lot of the…

Полный вариант заголовка: «The life of Catharine II., Empress of Russia : Vol. 1 : with 11 elegant portraits, a view of the fortrees of Schlusselburg, and a correct map of the Russian Empire : in 3 volumes».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The life of Catharine II., Empress of Russia : Vol. 2 : with 11 elegant portraits, a view of the fortrees of Schlusselburg, and a correct map of the Russian Empire : in 3 volumes».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The life of Catharine II., Empress of Russia : Vol. 3 : with 11 elegant portraits, a view of the fortrees of Schlusselburg, and a correct map of the Russian Empire : in 3 volumes».

FROM THE PUBLISHER Martin Eden, Jack London's semiautobiographical novel about a struggling young writer, is considered by many to be the author's most mature work. Personifying London's own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in Sa…

Полный вариант заголовка: «Letters concerning the present state of Poland : together with the manifesto of the courts of Vienna, Petersburgh, and Berlin, and the letters patent of the King of Prussia».