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Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott. ‘They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.’ From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume of tales penned by the greatest horror writer of the 20th Century. Here are some of Lovecraft’s weirdest fl...

Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs. Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out. The House of the Dead is fiction, but based on his four years in a Siberian prison. An educated upper-class man is condemned to live among criminals and brutal guards, with arbitrary punishments, lousy food, di...

Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed the minds of many thinking pe...

Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet paradoxically unite them. Around...

Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and ...

Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies. The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's ‘Baker Street Dozen’, creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's ...

Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dosto...

Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies an...

The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane's charming line drawings....

Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. ...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and po...

Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estel...

Pozycja w języku angielskim. "Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist". Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised expla...

After walking through a portal in the Tower of the Swallow, thus narrowly escaping death, the Witcher girl, Ciri, finds herself in a completely different world... a world of the Elves. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist AND there are no obvious borders OR portals to cross back into her home world. But this is Ciri, the child of prophecy, AND she will not be defeated. She knows she must escape to finally rejoin the Witcher, Geralt, AND his companions ...

Powieść nagrodzona National Book Award. Książka, która zainspirowała Alfreda Hitchcocka i Stephena Kinga. Ten drugi otwarcie przyznaje, że to jedna z najważniejszych książek w jego życiu. Teraz w eleganckim wydaniu w twardej oprawie z obwolutą i złoceniami. Podczas wyprawy na Riwierę Francuską nieśmiała dziewczyna poznaje zamożnego wdowca, Maxima de Wintera, i po krótkiej znajomości zgadza się za niego wyjść. Szczęśliwe chwile kończą się, kiedy małżeństwo przyjeżdża do M...

Najgłośniejsza powieść Vladimira Nabokova, uznawana za arcydzieło literatury światowej. Humbert Humbert – uczony, esteta i romantyk – zakochuje się bez pamięci w Dolores Haze, dwunastoletniej dziewczynce o jedwabistej skórze, która jest córką jego gospodyni. Czterdziestolatek ogarnięty obsesją na punkcie dziewczynki zgadza się na poślubienie pani Haze tylko po to, żeby być blisko Lolity. Kiedy dziewczyna zaczyna szukać uwagi gdzie indziej, Humbert zabiera ją w podróż po kraju...

"Star Trek" boldly travelled through space and into the heart of the human condition. This anthology collects 45 classic episodes that aired in the series' first three seasons. Adapted by James Blish and J. A. Lawrence from scripts by Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and other leading science-fiction writers, they include: "Amok Time", "The Doomsday Machine", "The Trouble with Tribbles" and Hugo Award winners, "The City on the Edge of Forever" and "The Menagerie...

It is definitely a book for people who are aware of their being and meaning. We really hope, that most of the readers will be young people, up to 30 years of age. People who fit into that demographic tend to be interested in the truth and are not afraid of walking along completly new paths, being aware of their existence and the biological life that is attached to it. It is a book for people who are not afraid of the unknown. Because only people lite those are not afraid of t...

Does happiness have a colour and how does it taste? Why is waiting for someone not the same as missing someone? Can curiosity cause rumbling in your head? How bad can fear make things look, and what happens if they are really bad? Why is revenge always the worst counsellor? Can one weep with gratitude? A sensitive boy in various stages of his life experiences the twelve most important human emotions. He tries to express his feelings in his childish manner and most of al...

Hat Glück eine Farbe und wie schmeckt es? Warum ist Warten nicht das Gleiche wie Vermissen? Kann es vor Neugier im Kopf rumoren? Wie groß können die Augen der Angst sein und was passiert, wenn sie zu groß werden? Warum ist Rache immer der schlechteste Ratgeber? Kann man vor Dankbarkeit weinen? Ein sensibler Junge erlebt in verschiedenen Augenblicken seines Lebens die 12 wichtigsten Emotionen und versucht, auf seine kindliche Weise davon zu erzählen. Und vor allem: zu v...

2 new tough board books featuring everyone's favourite pig, who celebrates her 10th birthday in 2014. Both books have simple text and pictures and a focus on learning. Ages: 2+.

Szósty tom BIBLIOTEKI PRZEKŁADÓW ROSYJSKICH XVII–XVIII WIEKU Z LITERATURY STAROPOLSKIEJ został poświęcony nie zachowanemu do naszych czasów staropolskiemu romansowi o Henryku i Melendzie. Tłumaczenie rosyjskie z przełomu XVII i XVIII stulecia pozwoliło zrekonstruować fabułę zabytku. Interesująca okazała się również recepcja romansu na gruncie rosyjskim: doczekał się on kilku redakcji, a w latach 1720-tych, podobnie jak Historyja o Meluzynie i inne romanse tłumaczone z języka ...

Gli strani ospiti (A2, A2+) Ogni anno Paolo va a Ronchi, un piccolo paesino di montagna, per trascorrere le vacanze estive e ritrovarsi con i suoi amici. Quest'anno, pero, le loro vacanze saranno turbate da una scoperta che rischia di metterli in serio pericolo... Primiracconti per ragazzi e la collana di Edilingua di letture semplificate e didattizzate per studenti adolescenti. Gli strani ospiti, che tiene conto della progressione grammaticale e lessicale del secondo volume ...

Tickle Teddy's tummy and stroke Peppa's glittery golden boots in this gorgeous touch-and-feel book. The perfect gift for little piggies who love Peppa! Based on the hit preschool animation Peppa Pig, shown daily on Five's Milkshake and Nick Jnr.