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• ISBN9780007119325
• Oprawamiękka
• AutorAgatha Christie
• WydawnictwoHarper Collins Publishers

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything... Until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst aby a fellow passenger: `I`d like...

• ISBN9780007527526
• Oprawamiękka
• AutorAgatha Christie
• WydawnictwoHarperCollins

Agatha Christie's most daring crime mystery - an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, `The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', with its legendary twist, changed the detective fiction genre for ever. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. <

• ISBN9781853260056
• Oprawamiękka
• AutorThomas Hardy
• WydawnictwoWordsworth

Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic.It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and...

• ISBN9781853261787
• Oprawamiękka
• AutorThomas Hardy
• WydawnictwoWordsworth

The phrase `life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined żeby Hardy as the title for this, his third volume of short stories. While the tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths and themes of the great novels, they are powerful works in their own right. Unified aby his quintessential irony, strong visual sense, and engaging characters, they deal with the tragic and the humorous, the metaphysical and the magical. The collection displays the whole range of Hardy's art as a writer of fiction, from fantasy to uncompromising realism, and from the loving re-creation of a vanished rural world to the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life.

• ISBN9781784874551
• Oprawamiękka
• AutorThomas Hardy
• WydawnictwoVintage

Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles, in hope that they might help her alleviate her own family's poverty. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is beset with suffering and betrayal. When she...