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71The Aeneid , Virgil (1995)
The Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic vision is… 203 руб72Bleak House , Charles Dickens (1993)
Bleak House is one of Dickens'finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully… 222 руб73The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde , Oscar Wilde (1998)
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry… 958 руб74Ethan Frome , Edith Wharton (2000)
On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin… 222 руб75Fathers and Sons , Ivan Turgenev (1996)
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal… 203 руб76Faust - A Tragedy in Two Parts and the Urfaust , Goethe (1999)
Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet… 373 руб77Life's Little Ironies , Thomas Hardy (1996)
The proverbial phrase‘life’s little ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description… 212 руб78The Mayor of Casterbridge , Thomas Hardy (1994)
None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the'partly real, partly dream country'he founded on his native… 203 руб79A Midsummer Night's Dream , William Shakespeare (1992)
Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night’s Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s works. The supernatural and the mundane… 212 руб80A Pair of Blue Eyes , Thomas Hardy (1995)
A Pair of Blue Eyes is celebrated for its central scene which shocked and stimulated Victorian readers. Forever after it caused Hardy to be embroiled in arguments concerning the sexual morality of… 219 руб
