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11Selected Stories , Anton Chekhov (1996)
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the… 222 руб12Tristram Shandy , Laurence Sterne (1996)
Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous… 222 руб13The Winter's Tale , William Shakespeare (1995)
"The Winter's Tale", one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and… 203 руб14The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays , Oscar Wilde (2008)
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of… 493 руб15A Midsummer Night's Dream , William Shakespeare (2011)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'My Oberon! what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass'. When four young lovers flee from Athens… 232 руб16Twelfth Night , William Shakespeare (2011)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die'… 216 руб17Understand Mussolini's Italy , Evans David (2012)
Mussolini's Italy is a compelling introduction to this infamous fascist dictator and his extraordinary rule. Though sometimes regarded as a farcical ruler, Mussolini's'brutal friendship'with Hitler… 1684 руб18Queen Camilla , Townsend Sue (2012)
What if being Royal was a crime? The UK has come over all republican. The Royal Family exiled to an Exclusion Zone with the other villains and spongers. And to cap it all, the Queen has threatened to… 621 руб19The Comedy of Errors , Shakespeare William (2004)
The Comedy of Errors has been popular on the stage during the last three centuries and has proved itself admirably suited to adaptation as pure farce and musical spectacle. For this updated edition… 1139 руб20Selected Stories , Chekhov Anton (2002)
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the… 401 руб
