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11Penguin Readers 5: Jane Eyre , Charlotte Bronte (2008)
Jane Eyre, a poor orphan, grows up in misery until she becomes the governess in the house of wealthy Mr Rochester and falls in love. But mysterious events take place in the house at night, and Mr… 542 руб12Oxford Bookworms Library 5: David Copperfield , Charles Dickens (2008)
'Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!'sobs David. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that… 493 руб13Crime and Punishment , Fyodor Dostoevsky (2008)
"Crime and Punishment" is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical, and… 485 руб14Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works , Alexander Pushkin (2009)
''The people are silent''So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain… 616 руб15Madame De Maintenon , Maud Cruttwell (1930)
1930. With sixteen illustrations in photogravure. The story of Madame de Maintenon who was born in a prison and raised to a Throne or next door to it. Freaks of fortune fantastic as a fairy-tale… 1315 руб16The Whirlpool , George Gissing (1911)
After a stare and a frown, Harvey woke the echoes with boisterous laughter. It was long since any passage in writing had so irresistibly tickled hissense of humour. Well, he must let Abbott know of… 1318 руб17Black Beauty , Anna Sewell (2010)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less… 242 руб18El Cantar de Mio Cid (+ Audio CD) , Anonimo (2008)
El Cantar de Mio Cid is the oldest-known text in Spanish literature and it narrates part of the life of Cid, an epic hero. Exiled unjustifiably by King Don Alfonso, Cid, with a group of followers… 982 руб19Jane Eyre (+ Audio CD) , Charlotte Bronte (2011)
Jane Eyre, a poor orphan, grows up in misery until she becomes the governess in the house of wealthy Mr. Rochester and falls in love. But mysterious events take place in the house at night, and Mr… 754 руб20Hard Times , Dickens Charles (1995)
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted… 222 руб
