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Serie: Everyman's library classics
GebondenEngels9781857151053
17-12-1992
While in the service of India's Nizam of Hyderbad, Marmaduke Pickthall converted to Islam, and, with the help of Muslim theologians and linguists, produced this English interpretation of the Holy Koran. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857151107
8-10-1992
Dickens' celebrated novel of innocence betrayed and then triumphant. It recreates the London underworld populated by such characters as Fagin, Bill Sikes, Nancy and the Artful Dodger, who are contrasted with the friends and family of the orphaned Oliver. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857151671
15-9-1994
One of Dicken's great middle period novels, in which fairy tale, melodrama and realism mingle with halluncinatory power, DOMBEY AND SON weaves together a number of stories which centre upon the family of the self-important merchant, Paul Dombey, and his children Paul and Florence. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857152586
25-9-2003
When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857152609
4-3-2004
One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, this is one of the great tragedies of all time. The three plays portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857152708
16-10-2003
Nineteen-year-old Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate son of a landowner, has difficulty establishing his personal identity amid the political and social upheavals of nineteenth-century Russia. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857152906
5-10-2006
In Moscow and London, Berlin and Constantinople, he met the famous men and women of the time - Catherine the Great, Voltaire, Louis XV, Rousseau - and recorded his encounters for the memoirs he wrote in retirement at the end of his life. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857150568
19-3-1992
An unknown benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857150582
23-4-1992
Set in mid-19th-century Russia, this book tells the story of a married woman's passion for a young officer and of her tragic fate. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857150605
19-3-1992
A translation of Homer's great epic poem. Fitzgerald has also translated Homer's "The Odyssey" and Virgil's "Aeneid". Meer
GebondenEngels9781857150629
19-3-1992
Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experiments with alchemy and science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857150957
16-9-1993
Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical scholarship and remains a remarkable fresh and powerful contribution to the interpretation of Roman history more than two hundred years after its first appearance. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857151121
26-11-1992
From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857151169
8-10-1992
Wild passion leads to tragedy as love is perverted by marriage. But the concerns of mortals are belittled by the sombre, immemorial presence of Egdon Heath, perhaps Hardy's finest evocation of his native landscape. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857151220
26-11-1992
The moonstone is a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty brought from India and given to Rachel Verrinder as an eighteenth birthday present, but the fabled diamond carries with it a terrible curse. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857150285
26-9-1991
Henry Fielding's 18th century classic regales the story of Tom Jones and his longing for Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighbouring squire. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857150322
26-9-1991
This is the spirited story of a survivor whose racy anecdotes and shady dealings only underline her essential warmth and goodness. But there is nothing sentimental about Moll, who presents herself warts and all. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857157581
26-10-2001
Readers of The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Sergius, Master and Man and Hadji Murad will recognize the brilliant younger novelist, now transfigured by his passionate quest for salvation and forgiveness. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857157857
28-1-2000
Volume 1 Covers the period from 1866 to 1891, the years in which James was evolving and perfecting his art as a storyteller. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857150278
26-9-1991
Coleridge is the most complex and brilliant, yet the most elusive and intense of the great Romantic writers. It also reveals that behind the glittering surface of familiar masterpieces – The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, the Biographia – there is a great but unknown poet still waiting to be discovered. Meer