РИПОЛ Классик
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Enjoying the comforts of his well-kept home, country doctor William Harrison is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the «wooing and winning» of women’s affections. Lured to rural Duncombe by the promise of a partnership in a country practice, William fi nds himself trapped in claustrophobic provincial life where society is apparently presided over by the scheming of a set of under-occupied middle-aged women. Afterwards, the hapless young physician fi nds himself betrothed to three women – none of whom is the beautiful Sophy, the woman he truly desires.
Mary of Marion Isle
When the ship that Andrew and Clara are on, en route to Oceania, founders after striking an iceberg in the south Indian Ocean, and Andrew fetches up, with his manservant, on the desolate Marion Island, around 1,500 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope. It is there that Andrew finds the true love of his life, Mary, who had been shipwrecked on the island some 15 years before and who had been living there alone.
Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain
The youthful Allan Quatermain is bound for strange adventures, in the company of the ill-fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission, on an embassy to the Zulu despot, Dingaan. Yet he is bound, too, for one of the deepest romances of his life – for in Marie he tells of his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Marie Marais.
Mad Monkton
Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity. His odd behaviour certainly points that way. Alfred is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, Ada Elmslie. But at the very moment when various obstacles to the match are overcome, Alfred suddenly departs for Italy, seeking the corpse of his disreputable uncle, who is believed to have been killed in a duel. What could have driven Alfred to do this?
Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr
Ernst Theodor Amadeus (E. T. A.) Hoffmann – berühmter deutscher Schriftsteller, in dessen Werken gehen die Geisterwelt, Kriminalgeschichten und ungewöhnliche Abenteuer unvermittelt ineinander über. „Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr“ ist der letzte, am meisten autobiographische Roman des großen deutschen Schriftstellers. Der ungewöhnliche, mehrschichtige Roman beinhaltet die Notizen des gelehrten Katers, Pragmatikers und Epikureers Murr, zudem anscheinend zufällig in das Manuskript gelangte Blätter aus der Biographie des „wunderlichen Kapellmeisters“ Kreisler, eines unverbesserlichen Romantikers und des Alter ego von Hoffmann selbst.
La confession d'un enfant du siècle
Alfred de Musset est un poète et dramaturge français du XIXe siècle qui a sa place au Panthéon des romantiques. «La Confession d’un enfant du siècle» est une de ses œuvres les plus connues; il y parle des maux de sa génération, blasée et mélancolique. Ce sont ces deux vices qui empêchent le héros principal de goûter au bonheur avec l’élue de son cœur.
John Jago’s Ghost
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). Collins’s works were classified at the time as «sensation novels», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.
Joan Haste
The author of adventures as King Solomon’s Mines and She turns to domestic drama in this romance. Joan is a shop girl of illegitimate birth a single mother at the same time. Torn from the love of country-dwelling Captain Henry Graves, Joan endures exile with a Dickensian London family, and pursuit by a Victorian-era stalker.
Eureka & The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
Родоначальник “литературы ужасов”, известнейший американский автор мистических детективов, Эдгар Аллан По широко известен именно своими короткими рассказами, в которых проявилась вся многогранность его таланта. Увлекающие, ужасающие и неповторимые истории ждут вас на страницах этой книги! Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
Elissa: or The Doom of Zimbabwe
In Elissa Henry Rider Haggard takes his readers to the Phoenician city in South Central Africa the mysterious ruins of which have been the subject of so much speculation and research in the recent past. A trading town, protected by vast fortifications and adorned with many temples dedicated to the gods of the Sidonians, was built by civilized men in the heart of Africa may not be accurately known, but there is ample room for speculation as to the life of the ancient city, and in this romance the author has tried to picture incidents such as might have accompanied the first extinction of Zimbabwe.