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In Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorise true Englishman and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa.

Kommandant van Heerden, that great Anglophile, gropes his way towards attaining true 'Englishness' in the company of the eccentric Dornford Yates Club. But Luitenant Verkramp, whose hatred of all things English is surpassed only by his fear of sex, sets in motion an experiment in mass chastity (with the help of a lady psychiatrist), which has remarkable and quite unforeseen results.

In Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorise true Englishman and even…

Long, long ago, as he researched into the origin of species, Charles Darwin had been inspired by the creatures of the Galapagos. Now, a million years on, the new inhabitants of the islands - the human survivors of the "Nature Cruise of the Century" - have quietly evolved into sleek, furry creatures with flippers, and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, finally made redundant by their own inventions.
All that survives of their Big-Brain Culture is contained in Mandarax, a tiny electronic marvel which can recall any one of twenty thousand popular quotations from world literature, as well as translate among a thousand languages. Unfortunately, Mandarax doesn't understand Kanka-Bono, the language of the cannibals who have arrived to "look after" the new humanity...

Long, long ago, as he researched into the origin of species, Charles Darwin had been inspired by the creatures of the Galapagos. Now, a million years on, the new inhabitants of…

A new anthology of classic ghost stories—the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format.

The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body-Snatcher,” while visions of the dead come between the living in Henry James’s “The Friends of the Friends.” P. G. Wodehouse gives us a farcical take on the haunted house in “Honeysuckle Cottage,” and in L. P. Hartley’s “W.S.,” a writer is fatally stalked by his own aggrieved creation.

Here are ghosts of every stripe and intent in stories from writers as varied as Elizabeth Bowen and Jorge Luis Borges, Eudora Welty and Vladimir Nabokov, Ray Bradbury and Edith Wharton, among others. In the hands of these masters, the ghost story ranges far beyond mere horror to encompass comedy and tragedy, pathos and drama, and even a touch of poetry.

A new anthology of classic ghost stories—the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format.

The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a…

An utterly contemporary and deeply thought-provoking novel which addresses the profound unease of countless people in modern democracies around the world.
An eminent, seventy-two-year-old Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. It is a chance to air some urgent concerns. He writes short essays on the origins of the state, on Machiavelli, on anarchism, on Al-Qaida, on intelligent design, on music. What, he asks, is the origin of the state and the nature of the relationship between citizen and state? How should the citizen of a modern democracy react to the state's willingness to set aside moral considerations and civil liberties in its war on terror, a war that includes the use of torture? How does the state handle outsiders?
In the laundry-room of his apartment block he encounters an alluring young woman. When he discovers she is between jobs he claims failing eyesight and offers her work typing up his manuscript. Anya has no interest in politics but the job provides a distraction, as does the writer's evident and not unwelcome attraction toward her. Her boyfriend, Alan, an investment consultant who understands the world in harsh neo-liberal economic terms, has reservations about his trophy girlfriend spending time with this 1960s throwback. Taking a lively interest in his affairs, Alan begins to formulate a plan.
Diary of a Bad Year is an utterly contemporary work of fiction from one of our greatest writers and deepest thinkers. It addresses the profound unease of countless people in democracies across the world.

An utterly contemporary and deeply thought-provoking novel which addresses the profound unease of countless people in modern democracies around the world.
An eminent,…

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) tunnetaan Suomessa erityisesti teatterin uudistajana. Hänen tuotannostaan tärkeimpiä ovat kuitenkin novellit, joita hän kirjoitti 240 ja muokkasi yli puolet näytelmistäänkin niistä. Sitruunoita Sisiliassa -kokoelmassa on 20 novellia. Niiden aiheet ovat ajankohtaisia vielä tänäkin päivänä. Pirandello kirjoittaa muun muassa huostaan otettavasta alkoholistiperheen lapsesta, itsensä etsimisestä ja rahan vallasta. Pirandellon omaa elämää sävyttivät köyhyys ja suvussa ilmenneet mielenterveysongelmat, ja näitä aiheita hän on siirtänyt novelleihinsa. Novellit ovat usein dramaattisia, koomisiakin, ja jännitys sekä yllätyksellisyys säilyvät viimeisille riveille saakka. Näyttämönä on takapajuinen Sisilian maaseutu tai suurkaupunki: Pirandello syntyi Sisiliassa ja päätyi Saksan kautta Roomaan. Urho Kekkonen poimi Pirandellolta kuuluisan tokaisunsa "Niin on jos siltä näyttää".

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) tunnetaan Suomessa erityisesti teatterin uudistajana. Hänen tuotannostaan tärkeimpiä ovat kuitenkin novellit, joita hän kirjoitti 240 ja muokkasi yli…

Rento turkulaisdekkari Jussi Vares tekee luottamuksellisia tutkimuksia kenen laskuun tahansa ja pelaa suurilla panoksilla. Kapakka korvaa usein oik.yo. Vareksen työhuoneen. Sitäpaitsi kaikki säännöt ovat hänen mielestään niitä varten, joilla ei ole mielikuvitusta.Kaappausyrityksiä osakekaupoissa Helsingissä. Hermopeliä monialakonsernissa Turussa. Pornokustantaja rahan ja vallan kuvioissa. Kaunis nainen joka on nähnyt liikaa. Vares ei ole asialla vain rahasta: hänen on saatava tietää, minne katosi satakieli Ilona Salamander.

Rento turkulaisdekkari Jussi Vares tekee luottamuksellisia tutkimuksia kenen laskuun tahansa ja pelaa suurilla panoksilla. Kapakka korvaa usein oik.yo. Vareksen työhuoneen.…

We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.
Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian Mountains. Through notes and diary entries, Harker keeps track of the horrors and terrors that beset him at the castle, telling his fiance Mina of the Count's supernatural powers and his own imprisonment. Although Harker eventually manages to escape and reunite with Mina, his experiences have led to a mental breakdown of sorts. Meanwhile in England, Mina's friend Lucy has been bitten and begins to turn into a vampire. With the help of Professor Van Helsing, a previous suitor of Lucy's, Seward, and Lucy's fiance Holmwood attempt to thwart Count Dracula and his attempts on Lucy and consequently Mina's life. Arguably the most enduring Gothic novel of the 19th Century, Bram Stoker's Dracula is as chilling today in its depiction of the vampire world and its exploration of Victorian values as it was at its time of publication.

We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.
Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker…

With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away.

With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old…

When All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one of our few national galleries of character." Diana Trilling, reviewing it for the Nation, wrote, "For sheer virtuosity, for the sustained drive of its prose, for the speed and the evenness of its pacing, for its precision of language...I doubt indeed whether it can be matched in American fiction." The Washington Post declared, "If the game of naming the Great American Novel is still being played anywhere, Warren's All the King's Men would easily make the final rounds." Set in the 1930s, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional character who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success and caught between dreams of service and an insatiable lust for power. As relevant today as it was more than fifty years ago, All the King's Men is one of the classics of American literature.

When All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one of our few national galleries of character." Diana Trilling, reviewing…

So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past the beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten...her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant- the sinister Mrs. Danvers-still loyal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca...
for the secrets of Manderley.

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So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past the beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the…

Told in the first person and based on his own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa and in America, where he worked for while at the Ford factory in Detroit, and later as a young doctor in a working class suburb in Paris, it gives a picture of those years as seen by an underdog. Celine's disgust with human folly, malice and greed comes over in superb portraits of mainly ordinary human beings coping with their lives as best they can, caught in their poverty or their obsessions, hindered by ignorance and prejudice from evading traps of their own making.

Told in the first person and based on his own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa and in America, where he worked for while at the Ford factory in…

Роман на английском языке "Улица Ангела" о трудностях послевоенного времени, обусловленных острыми социальными противоречиями английского общества.

Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.

But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding Fifty Shades.

While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her, and make the most important decision of her life.

Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new…

Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст юмористической повести П.Г.Вудхауза "Любовь среди кур" (1906). Издание рассчитано па лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.

Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст юмористической повести П.Г.Вудхауза "Любовь среди кур" (1906). Издание рассчитано па лиц, владеющих основами…

"Тропик Рака" - наиболее известный роман знаменитого американского писателя Генри Миллера. В откровенном произведении отражаются воспоминания писателя о своей жизни в Париже.
В книге представлен неадаптированный текст на языке ориганала.

"Тропик Рака" - наиболее известный роман знаменитого американского писателя Генри Миллера. В откровенном произведении отражаются воспоминания писателя о своей жизни в Париже.
В…

Торнтон Уайлдер - знаменитый американский писатель, автор таких романов, как "Мартовские Иды", "Мост короля Людовика Святого", "День восьмой", "Каббала".
"Теофил Норт" - частично автобиографический роман о молодом человеке, окончившем Йельский университет, который пробует пробиться в мире, устраиваясь на случайные работы в Ньюпорте - городе, где он когда-то проходил военную службу. Постепенно он становится вовлеченным в жизнь каждого из своих работодателей и помогает каждому из них пережить какой-либо жизненный кризис.
Неадаптированный текст романа снабжен подробным комментарием и словарем. Книга адресована студентам языковых вузов и всех любителей англоязычной литературы.

Торнтон Уайлдер - знаменитый американский писатель, автор таких романов, как "Мартовские Иды", "Мост короля Людовика Святого", "День восьмой", "Каббала".
"Теофил Норт" - частично…

In nineteenth-century England young women were expected to follow the advice of their families when choosing a husband, but Anne Elliot is not lucky in her family. Her mother is dead, and her father, Sir Walter Elliot, is a vain, silly man, who cares more about social rank than the happiness of his daughters. Anne's sister Elizabeth is cold and selfish, and her married sister Mary is always worrying about her imaginary illnesses and complaining about other people.
Only Lady Russell, a close friend of Anne's dead mother, has Anne's interests at heart. Persuasion from Lady Russell has a powerful effect on Anne when she is nineteen, and in love with a young naval officer with neither money nor social rank. Eight years later Anne knows she made a mistake, and she wishes she had accepted Frederick Wentworth's offer of marriage.
And when he returns, wealthy and successful, she realizes that her love for him is unchanged. But Captain Wentworth's love for her has clearly died, and Anne must hide the feelings in her heart. . .

In nineteenth-century England young women were expected to follow the advice of their families when choosing a husband, but Anne Elliot is not lucky in her family. Her mother is…