классическая проза
Братья Карамазовы (с иллюстрациями)
Федор Достоевский
Критики считают, что роман Федора Достоевского «Братья Карамазовы» – последний крик души автора. Наверное, банально говорить, что этот шедевр русской и мировой литературы – произведение на все времена.
В первую очередь, это многоплановый...
Воскресение (с иллюстрациями)
Лев Толстой
«Воскресение» – это последний из романов Льва Толстого. После публикации он был переведен на основные европейские языки. Такой успех, скорее всего, был вызван остротой выбранной темы (судьба соблазненной и брошенной офицером девушки).
В романе...
Темное дело. Т. 1
Николай Вагнер
Мы рады представить отечественному и зарубежному читателю собрание сочинений последнего из остававшихся в забвении русских классиков – Николая Петровича Вагнера (1829–1907). Известный в наши дни лишь благодаря сборнику детских сказок,...
Босиком по жизни
Валерий Железнов
Эта книга представляет собой сборник избранной прозы, составленный из реалистических рассказов, миниатюр и публицистики. В реалистических рассказах и миниатюрах излагается о неординарных случаях из жизни как самого автора, так и его знакомых,...
На дне. Детство. Песня о Буревестнике. Макар Чудра
Максим Горький
В сборник вошли произведения Алексея Максимовича Горького, настоящая фамилия – Пешков (1868–1936), изучение которых входит в обязательную школьную программу: пьеса «На дне», повесть «Детство», стихотворения «Песня о Буревестнике» и «Песня о...
Шинель. Петербургские повести
Николай Гоголь
«Петербургские повести» Николая Васильевича Гоголя (1809–1852) описывают жизнь в Санкт-Петербурге 30–40-х годов XIX века. В сборник вошли: «Невский проспект», «Нос», «Портрет», «Шинель», «Коляска», «Записки сумасшедшего».
Герои «Петербургских...
Рождественские традиции. Рассказы, очерки, воспоминания
Коллектив авторов
Традиции празднования Рождества складывались и хранились веками. Дети славили Христа со звездою, молодежь устраивала колядки, помогали бедным, чтобы никто не остался без праздника и рождественских подарков. Традиции передаются от поколения к...
Обет молчания
Арсений Соломонов
Долго ли можно молчать? Будь у каждого такая возможность, люди бы не знали, что значит "пустое слово".
Покидая тысячелетие. Книга вторая
Виктор Балдоржиев
Мысль – это конечный продукт на данном этапе моего развития. Это говорит о том, что тот, кто вертит тобой или нами, неизмеримо дальше и выше нас. Мы можем осознавать его уровень развития, но достигнуть не можем. Его конечный продукт, то есть...
Дневник, написанный никем
Джордж и Уидон Гроссмит
Окунитесь в жизнь среднестатистического клерка из Лондона конца 19 века.Мистер Путер, осознавая себя незначительным человеком, в сущности, никем, не оставляет попытки приобрести вес в обществе. Комичные ситуации, в которые он и его окружение...
Няня из Москвы (сборник)
Иван Шмелёв
В этот сборник известного русского писателя Ивана Сергеевича Шмелева вошли рассказы, повести и роман «Няня из Москвы», созданные в эмиграции. После отъезда в 1922 г. из России И. С. Шмелев пытается восстановить в своих произведениях ее...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1
Adam Thirlwell
First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.J.G. Ballard is firmly established as one of Britain’s most highly regarded and influential novelists....
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 2
Adam Thirlwell
The second in a two volume collection of acclaimed short stories by the author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.JG Ballard is firmly established as one of Britain’s most highly regarded and influential novelists....
Grace Poole Her Testimony: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
Helen Dunmore
A short story by Helen Dunmore from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Grace Poole Her Testimony’, Grace Poole defends Bertha Mason and calls the general opinion of Jane Eyre into question.Edited by Tracy...
It’s a Man’s Life, Ladies: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
Jane Gardam
A short story by Jane Gardam from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘It’s a Man’s Life, Ladies’, a young woman tells the story of her grandmother’s memories of married life.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full...
Reader, She Married Me: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
Salley Vickers
A short story by Salley Vickers from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Reader, She Married Me’ Mr Rochester reveals a long-kept secret.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him,...
To Hold: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
Joanna Briscoe
A short story by Joanna Briscoe from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘To Hold’, a woman looks back on her life, which has been defined by three marriages.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection,...
A Book of Common Prayer
Joan Didion
An engrossing novel about political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking.Set in the ruined Central American nation of Boca Grande, A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two...
Book Lover
Karen Mack
One woman’s passion for books and search for romance lie at the heart of this touching and funny novel about literature and longing in Los Angeles.‘Women do different things when they’re depressed. Some smoke, others drink, some call their...
Holiday in a Coma & Love Lasts Three Years: two novels by Fr?d?ric Beigbeder
Fr?d?ric Beigbeder
One night in a Parisian nightclub and the aftermath of a marriage provide the stories for these two novels by Frederic Beigbeder, award-winning author of ‘Windows on the World’.In ‘Holiday in a Coma’, Marc Marronnier, a shallow, superficial,...
Oscar Wilde’s Stories for All Ages
Оскар Уайльд
One of the world’s best loved presenters meets one of the world’s greatest authors in this beautiful selection of timeless, haunting stories. Vividly brought to life through abundant illustrations and Stephen’s masterly introductions, Oscar...
The Atrocity Exhibition
Hari Kunzru
First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’.The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject...
Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather
Gao Xingjian
From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite book of fictions, none of which has ever been published before in English.A young couple on honeymoon visit a beautiful temple up in the mountains, and spend the...
After the Break
Penny Smith
The brilliant second novel from GMTV’s Penny Smith. A sequel to ‘Coming Up Next’, Katie Fisher’s back in front of the cameras, but not exactly on the sofa.Katie Fisher, one-time presenter of breakfast TV show Hello Britain!, nearly has her life...
Always and Forever
Cathy Kelly
A Cathy Kelly classic – full of her trademark warmth and wit from the No. 1 bestselling author.Fairy godmothers do exist, even in the tranquil hills of Ireland…Once upon a time, in the beautiful town of Carrickwell, lived three women whose lives...
And Sons
David Gilbert
Who is A. N. Dyer? & Sons is a literary masterwork for readers of ‘The Art of Fielding’, ‘The Emperor’s Children’, and ‘Wonder Boys’ – the panoramic, deeply affecting story of an iconic novelist, two interconnected families, and the...
Bad Haircut
Tom Perrotta
The literary debut from the author of ‘Little Children’, ‘Election’ and ‘The Abstinence Teacher’.Tom Perrotta's first novel takes readers to semi-fictional 'Cranwood', in small-town New Jersey. Set between fall 1969 and the summer of 1980, ‘Bad...
Beyond Black
Hilary Mantel
An hilarious and sinister tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England from the critically-acclaimed author of 'Giving Up the Ghost'.Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her, and she talks back. With her flat-eyed,...
Birthday
Alan Sillitoe
The sequel to ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’.‘Birthday’ is the sequel to Alan Sillitoe’s classic novel of the 1950s, ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’.Four decades on from the novel which was at the forefront of the new wave of British...
Darkmans
Nicola Barker
This is a rowdy, riotous tale, a tale in which the medieval past takes on a face, name, and occupation and roams around the humdrum town of Ashford, bringing chaos to the lives of those it picks on. No one is safe: not upstanding Beede and his...
An Irresponsible Age
Lavinia Greenlaw
A powerful, involving new novel, following on from the author’s much-praised debut novel ‘Mary George of Allnorthover’.‘An Irresponsible Age’, Lavinia Greenlaw's extraordinary new novel, is set in London in 1990, with Thatcher still in power but...
Daniel Isn’t Talking
Marti Leimbach
A powerful novel exploring the effects of autism on a young family from Marti Leimbach, author of the international bestseller ‘Dying Young’, who has experienced and dealt with the condition within her immediate family.My husband saw me at a...
Northanger Abbey
Джейн Остин
To coincide with the launch of The Austen Project an ebook collection of Jane Austen’s timeless novels.‘Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.’Considered the most...
Freedom
Джонатан Франзен
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and...
Grievance
Marguerite Alexander
A moving novel about the relationships within families and between friends, told through the touching story of a young woman starting out on a new life in London, on a quest to escape the claustrophobia of her small hometown.Nora Doyle, a young...
Invisible
Jonathan Buckley
A lyrical and beautifully realised novel about a blind man's experiences of the world around him, from the acclaimed author of Ghost MacIndoe.Edward Morton, a blind translator, arrives at the Oak, an ailing spa hotel in the west of England,...
Ostrich Country
David Nobbs
David Nobbs’ classic is now available in ebook format.' « A change of environment will bring you new business and personal interests,» said Cousin Percy. Pegasus was glad to hear this.' Whether Pegasus Baines would have been so glad had he...
The Heights: A dark story of obsession and revenge
Juliet Bell
#2 in Yorkshire Post’s ‘Pick of the Best Books’The searchers took several hours to find the body, even though they knew roughly where to look. The whole hillside had collapsed, and there was water running off the moors and over the slick black...
The Mirror: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
Francine Prose
A short story by Francine Prose from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.‘The Mirror’ boldly imagines Jane Eyre’s married life after the novel ends.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married...
The Other Wife: A sweeping historical romantic drama tinged with obsession and suspense
Juliet Bell
Don’t miss this sweeping historical epic, perfect for fans of Gill Paul and Dinah Jeffries.Outback Australia, 1981After a terrible childhood, Jane comes to Thornfield as nanny to the adorable Adele, watched over by the handsome and enigmatic...
The Golden Notebook
Дорис Лессинг
The landmark novel of the Sixties – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer’s block. Divorced...
The Dog
Joseph O’Neill
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTIONThe first novel from Joseph O’Neill since NETHERLAND.‘O’Neill, in this book, has come of age as a novelist … a comic masterpiece … as...
Trespassing
Uzma Aslam Khan
A world-class tale of love and deceit, rivalry and destiny from the Lahore-based writer Uzma Aslam Khan.'Standing in a room with eight thousand tiny creatures, witnessing them perform a dance that few humans even knew occurred; this was life....
The Ancient Ship
Zhang Wei
The classic bestselling Chinese novel spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, translated into English for the first time.Originally published in 1987, two years before the Tiananmen Square protests, The...
The Diaries of Jane Somers
Дорис Лессинг
First published in 1984, under a pseudonym, as ‘The Diary of a Good Neighbour’ and ‘If the Old Could …’, and now published as ‘The Diaries of Jane Somers’, this is in many ways classic Lessing.The diaries introduce us to Jane, an intelligent and...
The Itinerant Lodger
David Nobbs
David Nobbs classic is now available in ebook format.One wintry afternoon a lodger named Wilson arrives at 38, Trebisall Avenue, filled with hope. As he crosses the threshold of Mrs Pollard's house, with its «aura of impending stew» he becomes a...
The Naqib’s Daughter
Samia Serageldin
A passionate tale, woven from personal stories of heroic betrayal and love, The Naqib’s Daughter is based on historical characters, and set during Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt.Lady Nafisa, aristocrat, philanthropist and wife of Mamluke leader...
The Other Side of You
Salley Vickers
The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of ‘Mr Golightly's Holiday’ and ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’.'There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw. As a young child he...
The Stone Book Quartet
Alan Garner
A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain’s greatest children’s novelists.Through four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that has now disappeared, Alan Garner vividly brings to life a landscape situated on...
The Widow’s Children
Paula Fox
A classic American novel from the author of ‘Borrowed Finery’.On the eve of their trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, sit in a New York City hotel room, drinking scotch-and-sodas and awaiting the arrival of three...
