Introduction by Elizabeth HardwickIllustrations by Rockwell KentFirst published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The...
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Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social...
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down...
Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now,...
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it...
Slovenské ľudové piesne a nápevy zo Záhoria, Zemplínu, Spiša, Podpoľania, Tekova, Vojvodiny, Novohradu, Hontu v úpravách Štefana Molotu vydané v edícii Zabudnuté piesne III. ...
Heartbreaking American masterpiece of the ",Roaring Twenties", based on Fitzgerald's own experience.It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a...
Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec,...
'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.' Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the...
",The best of American short fiction", Spanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving...
In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between...
'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are...
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater...
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