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The Sign of Four. Illustrated edition
The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Trotsenko provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.
Study in Scarlet. Illustrated edition
A Study in Scarlet is detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most famous characters in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Trotsenko provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.
The Canterville Ghost. Illustrated edition
The story is about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers. The home of the Canterville Ghost was the ancient Canterville Chase, which has all the accoutrements of a traditional haunted house. Descriptions of the wainscoting, the library panelled in black oak, and the armour in the hallway characterise the setting. Wilde mixes the macabre with comedy, juxtaposing devices from traditional English ghost stories such as creaking floorboards, clanking chains, and ancient prophecies. Illustrated by Vladislav Trotsenko.
Lord Jim. Illustrated edition
The novel "Lord Jim" is recognized as Joseph Conrad’s best work. But what does the author think? Here is a quote from his preface to one of the editions of the novel: " I have been asked at times whether this was not the book of mine I liked best. I am a great foe to favouritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. As a matter of principle I will have no favourites; but I don’t go so far as to feel grieved and annoyed by the preference some people give to my Lord Jim''. Pretty illustrations provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story. Illustrated by Vladislav Trotsenko.
De Profundis. Illustrated edition
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to "Bosie" (Lord Alfred Douglas). In its first half Wilde recounts their previous relationship and extravagant lifestyle which eventually led to Wilde's conviction and imprisonment for gross indecency. He indicts both Lord Alfred's vanity and his own weakness in acceding to those wishes. In the second half, Wilde charts his spiritual development in prison and identification with Jesus Christ, whom he characterises as a romantic, individualist artist. Illustrated by Vladislav Trotsenko.
Eugene Onegin. Illustrated edition
"Eugene Onegin" is a novel in the poems of Alexander Pushkin, one of the most significant works of russian literature. In the novel Pushkin shows the dramatic fate of the aristocratic intelligentsia on a wide background of Russian life. The plot of the novel is simple and well-known, a love story is in the center of it. In general, novel "Eugene Onegin" reflected the events of the first quarter of the XIX century. Pushkin has been working on this novel for more than seven years. Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Trotsenko provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.
Eugene Onegin
Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Trotsenko provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story. “Eugene Onegin” is a novel in the poems of Alexander Pushkin, one of the most significant works of russian literature. In the novel Pushkin shows the dramatic fate of the aristocratic intelligentsia on a wide background of Russian life. The plot of the novel is simple and well-known, a love story is in the center of it. In general, novel “Eugene Onegin” reflected the events of the first quarter of the XIX century. Pushkin has been working on this novel for more than seven years. Translated from the Russian by Lieut.-Col. Henry Spalding.
Moby Dick. Illustrated edition
The story of the novel created by the famous American writer Herman Melville, ‘Moby-Dick’, is largely based on a real case that happened to an American whaler. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the sailor Ishmael. Behind the giant white whale, nicknamed Moby Dick, is a desperate hunt. Who will win this battle: people or the lord of the ocean? Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Trotsenko provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.
Children of War
"... Gathered together all the surviving diaries written by Russian children during the Second World War that it has been possible to find, and now, for the first time in seventy years, the [sic] these diaries have been brought together in a single volume ... more than half of the thirty-five diaries included in this collection are published here for the first time"--Back cover.
