Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Charles Dickens and Others

Edited by David Stuart Davies

The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was ensconced in his rooms at 221 В Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery, suspense and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining and in them you will meet The Crime Doctor, Professor Augustus S.F.X.Van Dusen - The Thinking Machine, Max Carrados - the incredible blind detective, the repulsive but brilliant Skin o' My Teeth, and the natty, ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont. On the other side of the law, there are gentlemen crooks Raffles and Simon Cam - the Prince of Swindlers. The stories include: The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Рое, The Stolen Cigar Case (a parody of Sherlock Holmes) by Bret Harte, The Swedish Match by Anton Chekhov, Nine Points of the Law by E.W. Hornung, The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah...

Andrew Lang

Ulysses the Sacker of Cities, The Wanderings of Ulysses, The Fleece of Gold, Theseus, Perseus

The master storyteller Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, the lovely Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons and the Wooden Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told. Also included in this book are the adventures of Theseus and his dramatic battle with the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne, and the quest of Jason for the Golden Fleece with the help of the Princess Medea. Формат: 12,5 см х 19,5 см.

The Perestroika Chaos, The Captive of the Caucasus, The Tambourine for the Upper World, Palmer's First Flight, Palmer's Second Flight, The Rat-killer, Hassle, Remembering the Soviet Past, A General and His Army, The Commissar, Bag in Hand, Pork Kebabs

Now classics in Russian literature, these stories, focusing on the theme of captivity, have again become relevant today given Russia's growing bureaucratic totalitarianism and the unending war in the Caucasus. The stories are grouped in two sections: "The Perestroika Chaos" and "Remembering the Soviet Past". The first section, often verging on the absurd, conveys the chaos in the lives and minds of ordinary Russians in the face of unfamiliar market conditions. These problems caused many of those unable to adapt to them to feel nostalgic for the seemingly secure Soviet past. The second section is a reminder of that Soviet past for those, including some left-wing intellectuals in the West, who tend to forget its inhuman essence. Издание на английском языке.

This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such us Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also make their appearance, including The Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood.

Настоящий сборник составили сказки - жемчужины русского фольклора, собранные и обработанные знаменитым литературоведом прошлого столетия А.Н.Афанасьевым.