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41The Dead Secret , Wilkie Collins (2008)
Porthgenna Tower on the remote western Cornish coast. Moments before her death, Mrs Treverton dictates a secret to her maid, never to be passed to her husband as she had instructed. Fifteen years… 467 руб42Tales of Mystery and Imagination , Edgar Allan Poe (2002)
Edgar Allan Poe, the father of the detective story'and a master of horror, is one of the greatest American short story writers. In these stories we meet people struggling with fear, revenge, mental… 602 руб43Slaughterhouse Heart , Afsaneh Knight (2009)
What makes a father violent? It takes a brave man to find out... As a volunteer at St Margaret’s Hospice, eager and helpful Meryl is looking for a role in life. The arrival of Jamie, the son of a… 709 руб44Cancer Ward , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2003)
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the'cancerous'Soviet… 978 руб45The Complete Short Novels , Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (2005)
Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novelshere brought together in one volume for the first time, in a… 1229 руб46Forget to Remember. Level 5. Upper-intermediate , Alan Maley (2011)
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's… 534 руб47Volpone , Jonson Ben (1994)
Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The plot concerns a wealthy, lecherous old man who feigns a mortal illness in order to solicit bribes… 317 руб48La Muerte De Artemio Cruz , Fuentes Carlos (2005)
After collapsing from an illness while attending a business meeting, a dying Artemio Cruz, a rich and powerful land owner in modern Mexico, is driven by conscience to recall his corrupt life 1150 руб49Isaak Levitan: Lyrical Landscape , King Averil (2011)
This is the only western study of the renowned Russian landscape painter, Isaak Levitan (1860-1900). This third, expanded edition is further enhanced by new images and extra chapters about his… 3629 руб50Oracle Night , Auster Paul (2011)
Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr… 570 руб
