Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is ... 続きを読む
Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical, and psycholo ... 続きを読む
An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.'
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her in ... 続きを読む
As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.'
A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of t ... 続きを読む
* The only accurate, affordable edition of an ancient guide to Greek myth
The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus&n ... 続きを読む
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the ... 続きを読む
A new single-volume edition of all Dickens's Christmas books, with a selection of the original illustrations and a full critical introdution.
New edition includes a selection of 20 of the origina ... 続きを読む
'I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. Dickens wrot ... 続きを読む
"Dom-bey and Son"...Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. The hopes of M ... 続きを読む
Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ... 続きを読む
