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Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre has been enjoyed by readers around the world for over 160 years. The eldest of the Brontë sisters, this is Charlotte's most famous and influential novel. Written as a fictitious 'autobiography', it follows the stor…

The Professor is Charlotte Brontës first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a l…

Written at the end of Twain's career, Extracts from Adam's Diary was first published in 1897. Twain's Adam was based on himself.

Typical Mark Twain slightly caustic, complex humor. Six of Mark Twain's recollections his early experiences in newspaper work on topics such as his first editorship at age 13, the weaponry needed to edit a newspaper in Tennessee, a character study, a…

The story projects Twain’s lifelong struggles with his conscience. Here the conscience admits to being the “most pitiless enemy” of its host, whom it is supposed to “improve” but only tyrannizes with gusto while refusing to praise the host for anythi…

A great writing by Mark Twain based on the short story of classic humour.

"In Defense of Harriet Shelley" is an excellent literary classic for all ages. Twain took much of his ideas and inspiration for his stories and tall tales from real experiences as a river boat pilot, his world travels, friendships, well known people,…

"On the Decay of the Art of Lyingis" a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1885 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. In the essay, Twain laments the dour ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man'…

Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda.

Полный вариант заголовка: «The select works of the minor British poets : Vol. 3 : in 5 volumes / collated with the best editions by Thomas Park».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The busy body : a comedy : adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden / by Mrs. Centlivre».

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

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».

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