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Mystery of the Blue Train
Автор: Agatha Christie
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A millionaire strikes a deal on the seedier side of
Paris and a priceless cache of rubies becomes
destined for his beloved daughter Rachel. Two
days later Rachel is dead.
 
Mysterious Affair at Styles
Автор: Agatha Christie
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It is London in 1946. An actress is murdered, not
just on camera but in full view of a crowded film
set. Only six people had an opportunity to
administer the poison ...
 
Unlighted Lamps
Автор: Anderson Sherwood
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After learning from her father, Doctor Lester
Cochran, on the evening before that he is
suffering from a heart disease and might die at
any moment, 18 year old Mary Cochran takes ...
 
The New Englander
Автор: Anderson Sherwood
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Her name was Elsie Leander and her girlhood was
spent on her father's farm in Vermont. For several
generations the Leanders had all lived on the
same farm and had all married thin women ...
 
Return of Sherlock Holmes
Автор: Arthur Conan Doyle
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The one and only Sherlock Holmes is sensationally
back from the dead, and devoting his life once
more to examining the criminal complexities of the
capital.
 
Adventures of Sherlock
Автор: Arthur Conan Doyle
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From his rooms in Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes's
brooding figure emerges into the foggy streets of
Victorian London to grapple with the forces of
treachery, intrigue, and evil.
 
Little Dorrit
Автор: Charles Dickens
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When Arthur Clennam returns to England after
many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in
Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the
affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit ...
 
Oliver Twist
Автор: Charles Dickens
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The author poured his own youthful experience of
Victorian London's unspeakable squalor into this
realistic depiction of a spirited young innocent's
unwilling but recruitment into a gang of thieves.
 
Professor
Автор: Charlotte Bronte
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The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte
Bronte completed. Rejected by the publisher who
took on the work of her sisters in 1846--Anne's
Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights.
 
Robinson Crusoe
Автор: Daniel Defoe
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This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an
uninhabited island was an instant success when
first published in 1719 and has inspired countless
imitations. 
 
Women in Love
Автор: David Herbert Lawrence
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Women in Love examines the ill effects of
industrialization on the human psyche, resolving
that individual and collective rebirth is possible
only through human intensity and passion.
 
Secret Adversary
Автор: Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie's first Tommy and Tuppence
mystery adventure, reissued with a striking new
cover designed to appeal to the latest generation
of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
 
Winnie-The-Pooh and All
Автор: Alan Alexander Miln
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Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh
Bear or simply Pooh, and once referred to as
Edward Bear, is a fictional bear created by A. A.
Milne.
 
War
Автор: Anderson Sherwood
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The story came to me from a woman met on a
train. The car was crowded and I took the seat
beside her. There was a man in the offing who
belonged with her slender girlish figure of ...
 
The Man in the Brown Coat
Автор: Anderson Sherwood
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I am writing a history of the things men do. I have
written three such histories and I am but a young
man. Already I have written three hundred, four
hundred thousand words.
 
Memoirs of Sherlock
Автор:  Arthur Conan Doyle
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It’s elementary—there’s no more intriguing
detective than Sherlock , with his unequalled
powers of deduction, and no better mysteries
than the tricky ones that only he can solve.
 
Lost World
Автор: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Boys are mysterious creatures, with rich
imaginations and inner lives at which most can
only guess. Luckily, a few writers have the talent
to capture their fantasies.
 
Short Christmas Stories
Автор: Charles Dickens
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This edition brings together the complete
Christmas books and short stories of Charles
Dickens. While readers will be most familiar with
"The Christmas Carol".
 
Jane Eyre
Автор: Charlotte Bronte
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Early responses to Jane Eyre, first published in
1847, were mixed. Some held the book to be anti-
Christian, others were disturbed by a heroine so
proud, self-willed, and essentially unfeminine.
 
Villette
Автор: Charlotte Bronte
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'I am only just returned to a sense of the real
world about me, for I have been reading Villette,
a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.'
George Eliot Lucy Snowe.
 
Sons and Lovers
Автор: David Herbert Lawrence
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Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal
of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud,
became easily recognizable as the Oedipus
complex.
 
Aaron's Rod
Автор: David Herbert Lawrence
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Lawrence constructed a parallel between the
power that was miraculously manifested in the
blossoming rod wielded by the biblical figure Aaron
and the effect of the flute played by Aaron Sisson.