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Agnes Grey (1847) by English writer Anne Brontë is the story of a governess. The novel is based on the author’s own five-year experience. Like Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the work describes the difficult lives of poor girls who are forced to work for other families.

Homage to Catalonia is a book written by George Orwell (1903–1950), and it is based on his personal experience of participating in the Spanish Civil War on the republican side. the writer protested against the political repressions carried out by the Spanish Communists, as well as against the total lies and slanders spread by the Comintern (Communist International) against its opponents.

And it was only in this book that such different works came together to provide the reader with the opportunity to judge these contradictory contemporaries.

The heroine of Sanditon, Charlotte Heywood, the eldest daughter in a large family of a country gentleman from Willingden in Sussex, accidentally meets the Parker family from the town of Sanditon. The new friends invite the girlto stay with them for the summer and share ambitious plans to turn Sanditon into a fashionable seaside resort.

Burmese Days is the first novel by the British writer George Orwell (1903–1950).

The story Battle of Life by the English writer Charles Dickens (1812–1870) is about love and sacrifice. Two sisters live happily in an English village. Marion, the younger sister, is engaged to Alfred Heathfield, who is leaving the village to complete his studies. However, on the day Alfred is to return and marry Marion, it turns out that the bride has run away.

Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, the heroine of the story, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated than her sisters. However, after her aunt contracted a marriage, Emma has been obliged to return to her father’s house. She is chagrined by the reckless husband-hunting of her older sisters, Penelope and Margaret. Emma meets the Watsons’ neighbors, Lord Osborne and Mr. Howard.

Hearts of Three novel is a gem of the creative work of the American classic writer Jack London (1876–1916).

America's black intellectuals - writers, historians, educators, and community activists - have made major contributions to the struggle for equality and human rights throughout American public life.

The protagonist of the novel This Side of Paradise (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amory Blaine, is a middleclass Princeton University student. He is convinced that he has an extremely promising future. But his family inheritance has dissipated, and he is unlucky in love. In a crisis, he travels from New York to his alma mater. Blaine believes that the new generation has inherited disappointment and loss of faith, but still yearns for love and success.

The edition includes two works by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930). The Great Shadow—an adventure story set in an Anglo-Scottish border village at the end of the Napoleonic era, including a fascinating interpretation of the Battle of Waterloo, as well as The Disintegration Machine—which is a fantasy story from the Professor Challenger series.

In his thriller stories Poe tries to show psychic side of the crime from the inside. He is not interested in social roots of the crime, but in unmotivated actions that go beyond normal behavior of a person in the society.

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by the English writer H. G. Wells (1866–1946). A stranger appeared in an English village during a snowstorm. No one saw his face, it was hidden under medical bandages. But one day a stranger took off the bandages and... he was left without a head!

The Shunned House is a collection of several mystical stories by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
For many years, Dr. Elihu Whipple has been investigating an old shunned house in Benefit Street. The people who once lived in this house have died of a mysterious illness. Whitish phosphorus fungous vegetation grow in the cellar of the house. The doctor and his nephew decide to spend the night in the house and destroy the dangerous supernatural power. They arm themselves with military flamethrowers...