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Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard" is a collection of wonderful historical stories about Brigadier Gerard, an officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars, the bravest soldier, and one of the most gallant lovers in France

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "The Sign of the Four" is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes. The novel has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts

Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Eustace Diamonds" is the third of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels," also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The plot of the novel centres on the fabulous necklace owned by the Eustace family, which the beautiful but ruthless opportunist Lizzie, claims as her own after she marries Sir Florian Eustace for his money and becomes his widow after only a few months

The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford • Here in one volume are all eight of Nancy Mitford's sparklingly astute, hilarious and completely unputdownable novels: Highland Fling, Christmas Pudding, Wigs on the Green, Pigeon Pie, The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing and Don't Tell Alfred • Published over a period of 30 years, they provide a wonderful glimpse of the bright young things of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties in the city and in the shires; firmly ensconced at home or making a go of it abroad; and what the upper classes really got up to in peace and in war

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "Kenelm Chillingly" is one of Bulwer's most popular novels of English life. Kenelm is the long-desired heir of an old family, who leaves home in search of adventures as an unknown pedestrian with a few pounds in his pocket, but he does not expect, that adventures will change him cardinally

Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved, Raven's world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush, shriek, laugh out loud and always read on • Volume 2: The Judas Boy, Places Where they Sing, Sound the Retreat and Come Like Shadows

Три великолепных романа нобелевского лауреата Нагиба Махфуза, впервые опубликованные общим изданием, представляют собой древнеегипетский аналог его знаменитой Каирской трилогии. Махфуз уходит корнями на тысячи лет назад, чтобы донести до нас рассказы о величественной ранней истории своей родины – рассказы о египетской знати и войнах, несчастливой любви и божественном правлении фараонов • В "Мудрости Хуфу", легендарный монарх Четвертой династии сталкивается с осзнанием грядущего конца своего правления и пониманием, что его дочь влюбилась в человека, который станет его преемником • "Радопис из Нубии" - это трагическая история харизматичного молодого фараона Меренры II и восхитительной куртизанки Радопис, чья любовная связь вызывает зависть всего египетского общества

The complete novels of one of the greatest German writers of all time, collected together in one literary masterpiece • Kafka’s characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by authoritarian power. Filled with claustrophobic description and existential profundity, Kafka has been compared to a literary Woody Allen • In The Trial Joseph K is relentlessly hunted for a crime that remains nameless • The Castle follows K in his ceaseless attempts to enter the castle and to belong somewhere • In Amerika Karl Rossmann also finds himself isolated and confused when he is 'packed off to America by his parents'. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it seems

В пяти романах величайшего ирландского писателя-комика мы можем исследовать весь спектр его изобретений, от многослойного безумия "Двух зайцев вплавь" до пронзительного реализма "Тяжелой жизни" и сюрреалистической логики "Третьего полицейского". Это мир, где велосипеды прислушиваются к разговорам, изобретатели ищут способы "разбавления" воды, а персонажи прогуливают занятия, пока романисты спят; мир, где злобные феи сеют хаос, а герои из легенд забредают в пригородные гостиные. Это узнаваемая Ирландия Джойса и Беккета - шумная, энергичная, поочередно чувственная и интеллектуальная - преображенная уникальным видением О`Брайена • Книга на английском языке • In the five novels by Ireland's greatest comic writer we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of At Swim-Two Birds to the piercing realism of The Hard Life and the surreal logic of The Third Policeman

The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy underworld populated by unsavoury beggars, corrupt priests, eccentrics, whores and criminals. Both Lazarillo de Tormesand Pablos the swindler are determined to attain the trappings of the gentleman, but have little time for the gentlemanly ideals of religion, justice, honour and nobility