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Conrad Joseph Tales of Hearsay & Unrest. Volume 12
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Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The Tales of Hearsay is a posthumous collection of four stories, published in 1911, the year after Conrad died, including The Tale, considered to be the one of his best short stories. Tales of Unrest is the collection of short stories where a reader will find many of Conrads most frequently explored themes: isolation, distinctions between East and West, between colonial and native, a discernment and critique of civilization.
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A wonderful collection of four of the most popular classic Beatrix Potter tales presented in a luxurious padded format. Selected tales include The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan, and The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse and features original stunning artwork throughout.
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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. Tales of Adventure is an astounding collection that anthologizes some of the best short fiction stories of the author outside of the world-famous detectives canon, including excellent tales like The Surgeon of Gaster Fell, The Sealed Room, and The Great Brown-Pericord Motor.
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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. With the tradition of collecting the best tales about ghosts, Ghostly Tales incorporates four brilliant stories, such as Ghost Stories of Chapelizod and The Ghost and the Bone-setter and The Mysterious Lodger.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Twice-Told Tales IV is a volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic folktales. These ironic tales introduce complex, emotional topics within a familiar context. The volume contains The Shaker Brida, The White Old Maid and other tales.
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This companion volume to the Tales of Mystery and Imagination contains Edgar Allan Poes best-known poetry, and a selection of his very best stories (many of which originate in his 1840s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque), along with his finest tales from the last decade of his tragically short life. Many of these stories and poems tell of the familiar Рое themes of murder, obsession and love, but this volume also contains many overlooked tales of the fantastic, black comedies, parodies and hoaxes, such as The Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Pfall, Mesmeric Revolution, Hop-Frog, and The Imp of the Perverse. Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Twice-Told Tales is a volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic folktales. These ironic tales introduce complex, emotional topics within a familiar context. The volume contains Wakefield, The Hollow of the Three Hills and other stories.
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In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knights account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Baths Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Twice-Told Tales is a volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic folktales. These ironic tales introduce complex, emotional topics within a familiar context. The volume contains The Haunted Mind, Dr. Heideggers Experiment, The Vision of the Fountain and other tales.