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51The Collected Short Stories of Saki , Munro Hector Hugh (2016)
'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'. Saki (H. H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the… 254 руб52The School for Scandal and Other Plays , Richard Brinsley Sheridan (2008)
Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a… 528 руб53The Age of Innocence , Wharton E. (2008)
Edith Wharton s masterpiece brings to life the grandeur and hypocrisy of a gilded age. Set among the very rich in 1870s New York, it tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to marry… 165 руб54The Time Machine The Invisible Man , Wells H. (2007)
Here are two masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from the father of science fiction. The Time Machine propels the Time Traveller into a distant, dismal, Darwinian future. The Invisible Man… 240 руб55Author Author , Lodge D. (2005)
Framed by a dramatic and moving account of Henry James's last illness, Author! Author! begins in the early 1880s, describing James's friendship with the genial Punch artist, George Du… 491 руб56Henry V , Shakespeare William (2016)
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics'Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume… 349 руб57Теневая черта , Conrad Joseph (2017)
The Shadow Line— a short novel based at sea — was first published in 1916. It depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title… 232 руб58Comedy (изд. 2013 г. ) , Bevis Matthew (2013)
To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that… 674 грн (только Украина)59The Lucky Country , Horne Donald (2009)
Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck. The phrase`the lucky country`has become part of our lexicon; it`s forever being invoked in debates about the… 1153 грн (только Украина)60Grace Kelly: Film Stills , Daniel Dreier (2014)
Her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956 put an end to Grace Kelly`s promising movie career. Born the daughter of a wealthy construction company owner from Philadelphia in 1929, her wedding… 1317 грн (только Украина)
