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111Butler School (2008)
In the past, it was popular for rich people in England to have servants, or people to help manage their homes. The most important servant was the butler. Today, there are fewer butlers, but the job… 149 руб112Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , Verne Jules (2010)
When ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What - or who - is attacking these ships? Aronnax, Conseil, and the… 493 руб113Around the World in Eighty Days , Verne Jules (2013)
Today you can go round the world in eighty days, says Phileas Fogg. Do it, and I pay you 20, 000 pounds, says his friend Stuart. This is the beginning of one of Jules Verne's most exciting stories… 481 руб114Queen Victoria. A Life , Lytton Strachey (2012)
Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of Queen Victoria revolutionised the art of biography by using elements of romantic fiction and melodrama to create a warm, humorous and very human portrait of… 1619 руб115Kafka , Robertson Ritchie (2005)
When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect... So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka… 493 руб116A Little Princess , Burnett Frances Hodgson (2014)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Whatever comes,'she said,'cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess… 270 руб117Number 99 , Cave Patrick (2002)
Kez is a traveller girl, living with her mum in an old Bedford bus, enjoying life on the open road. Then one day disaster strikes - Kez's mum goes missing, the police raid the site, and before she… 229 руб118Effi Briest , Fontane Theodor (2001)
In 1919 Thomas Mann hailed Effi Briest (1895) as one of the six most significant novels ever written. Set in Bismarck's Germany, Fontane's luminous tale of a socially suitable but emotionally… 805 руб119The Dark Side of the Sun , Pratchett Terry (1988)
As heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on… 532 руб120Blood&Fire , Scott Dan (2013)
Blood and Fire is the second title in Gladiator School, a series of novels set in ancient Rome. A distinguished senator has gone into hiding after being accused of treachery, leaving his family to… 895 руб
