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The first English translation of an Argentinean classic.Argentina, 1839. A young man dies for his political beliefs when attacked by a mob in a slaughteryard used to butcher cattle.The story takes …

Harper Collins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.’The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense …

Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country’s …

On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him …

This edition contains a wealth of material about the author’s life and works, extensive notes and a bibliographic section. A novel of high romance and great intensity, Jane Eyre has enjoyed popular …

This volume, first published in 1856, includes three of the tales widely considered to be among Melville’s masterpieces. In ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’, a Wall Street lawyer hires a melancholy young …

The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the …

In his most famous and perhaps most typical work, Robbe-Grillet explores his principle preoccupation: the meaning of reality. The novel is set on a tropical banana plantation, and the action is seen …

Arkadij Timofeevich Averchenko (1881-1925) – prozaik dramaturg zhurnalist i kritik avtor mnozhestva yumoristicheskih rasskazov.Smeh Averchenko ne iskorenyaet iskonnyh chelovecheskih slabostej i …

The plot of Jane Eyre contains many elements that we now regard as conventional. The heroine is an orphaned child, equally ill-treated by her relatives and the school to which she is sent, whose life …