Hypocrisy
11Dead Souls , Gogol N. (2008)
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still… 937 руб12Pygmalion and Major Barbara , Shaw George Bernard (1992)
George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by… 424 руб13The English , Jeremy Paxman (2007)
Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions… 887 руб14The Collected Short Stories of Saki , Hector Hugh Munro (1993)
Saki (H. H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the… 203 руб15Sense and Sensibility (+ Audio CD) , Jane Austen (2008)
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are sisters. Both are intelligent, sensitive, charming, and beautiful, but there the similarities end. Elinor values propriety and common sense; she is prudent and… 1065 руб16The Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl , Nina Lugovskaya (2003)
Recently unearthed in the archives of the NKVD, Nina Lugovskaya's diary provides a rare window into the daily routines of an educated Moscow family during the 1930s when fear of arrest was a fact of… 1093 руб17Tess of the D'Urbervilles , Thomas Hardy (2010)
HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen… 216 руб18To Kill a Mockingbird , Harper Lee (2010)
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'. A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel… 534 руб19The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , Mark Twain (2011)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a… 226 руб20The Mill on the Floss , Eliot George (1993)
The Mill on the Floss, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the… 232 руб
