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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside”A Little Princess tells the story of Sara Crewe, beloved daughter of the revered Captain Crewe. Sent to board at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, Sara is devastated when her adored f…
Soon to be a major TV series, airing in 2016.‘War & Peace’ is a masterpiece – an epic portrait of Russian society and its descent into the Napoleonic Wars, which has inspired love and devotion among its readers for over a century.Focusing on the lives of five aristocratic families, ‘War & Peace’ tells the story of three young people whose lives are swept along by events and changed forever: the mi…
1917. Driving an ambulance through the mud in Flanders, aristocrat Evie Creswell is a long way from home. At Oaklands Manor all she had been expected to do was to look pretty and make a good marriage. But with the arrival of World War One everything changed…And Evie, to the horror of her family, does not choose a husband from her blue-blooded set; instead she weds artist Will Davies, who works as …
As joint owner of London’s most notorious gambling hall, The Underworld, Cole Hewitt spends his days surrounded by wealth – and looks every inch the debonair. But, unknown to most, he was born a bastard – and knows better than anyone the fine line between the elite and the slums.When he falls for the beautiful Lady Gemma Amberson, sister to the Duke of Kent, Cole knows that his past means he will …
Многотомник представляет собой биографический справочник командно-начальствующего состава Красной Армии, в который вошли биографии командиров и начальников штабов корпусов, дивизий, бригад, полков батальонов, а также начальников РО, ПВО, командиров частей ВВС, пограничных отрядов и отрядов НКВД и многих других, участвовавших в советско-японском конфликте у озера Хасан в 1938 г., реки Халхин-Гол в …
Героическая комедия А. Гладкова впервые переведена на французский язык. Текст сохранен в стихотворной форме, насколько это возможно при расхождении систем стихосложения в русском и французском языке. Все сюжетные линии и персонажи также сохранены, кроме имени главной героини (вместо Шуры предложено более знакомое французскому читателю Саша).
Книга повествует об уникальном и глубоко верующем русском человеке, Григории Ефимовиче Распутине, посвятившим свою жизнь защите простого народа и российской монархии, истинно близком друге царской семьи последнего императора России.
Рассказ по мотивам поэмы Кристины Россетти «Базар гоблинов». Сестры Лиззи и Лаура живут в деревне, в которой каждые сумерки гоблины раскидывают свой чудесный базар. Однажды приняв угощение от торговцев, Лаура нестерпимо хочет отведать их фруктов и ягод снова. Лиззи предстоит спасти сестру, пока та не сгорела от тоски по дивным угощениям с гоблинского базара.
Дневники российского военачальника, военного теоретика генерала Андрея Евгеньевича Снесарева (1865–1937) – уникальный исторический источник периода Первой мировой войны, который удалось сохранить его семье. Снесарев начал писать дневник только в феврале 1916 г., поэтому более ранние события войны не получили своего отражения в его дневниковых записях. Книга представляет несомненный интерес для ист…
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘A tall, slim girl, ‘half-past sixteen’, with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn…’Anne Shirley, now a young woman, is a new teacher at Avonlea School. As she learns to cope with the ups and downs of life, she is accompanied by some familiar faces, as well as new friends: the twins Davy …
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. …
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars…First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over thirty years, ‘Leaves of Grass’ has become one of the most celebrated poetry collections in the history of American literature. A master of free verse, Walt Whitman captures th…
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.“And now, Katy, it's your turn. Tell us what you're going to be when you grow up.”“I’m not sure about what I’ll be,” replied Katy; “beautiful, of course, and good if I can. That’s what I’d like to be. But now I’ll tell you what I mean to do…’Tomboyish Katy Carr is tall, gangling, and full of mischief. Constant…
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,' said the Spirit. 'Look upon me!'A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as 'humbug'. It is only through a series of eerie, life-changing …