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A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of one of England's greatest radicals.The early years of the 19th-century were ones of misery and oppression. The common people were forced into conditions of extreme poverty by enclosures and the Agricultural Revolution, and the long Tory administration of Lord Liverpool saw its task as keeping law and order at all costs. The cause of reform was a dangerous one, as William Cobbett was to find.Cobbett is best known for his ‘Rural Rides’, a classic account of early-19th-century Britain which has never been out of print. But he was a much greater figure than that implies, being the foremost satirist and proponent of reform of the time. He had a taste for provoking the deceit and vanity of the supposedly good and great, and had an abiding hatred of the establishment, or ‘The Thing’, as he christened it. In the pages of his ‘Political Register’ he lambasted corruption and excoriated hypocrisy, and was forever in fear of prosecution for libel, for which he was sent to Newgate prison for two years, which was the cause of his bankruptcy and forced him to flee to America.For all that the establishment loathed and feared him, the people loved him, and he was greeted by adoring crowds wherever he went. He was a hero of his time, and Richard Ingram’s admirable biography is both judicious, moving, sometimes funny and always utterly engaging.

Throughout these classic crime stories, we see Holmes at his incisive and eccentric best. All groups within Victorian society feature, from European aristocrats to travelling Gypsies, mad doctors to innocent ladies. These are truly classic stories and a perfect introduction to the fascinating world of Sherlock Holmes.

Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey down the Mississippi River. Raising the timeless and universal l issues of prejudice, bravery and hope, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was and still is considered the great American novel.

Что будет, если пойти за спешащим Белым Кроликом в жилете? Можно ли оказаться не в своем уме, а в чужом? А встречали ли вы улыбку без кота? И почему нельзя убить время за чаепитием с Мартовским Зайцем? Удивительные ответы на удивительные вопросы можно найти только в Стране чудес, нырнув за отважной Алисой в кроличью нору, пережив множество захватывающих приключений и разгадав по пути тысячу головоломок.

Доктор Джозеф Белл – вот с кого списан портрет Шерлока Холмса! Белл был худой, гибкий, с острым взглядом и стремительной походкой. По одному внешнему виду пациента он мог сказать, чем тот болен, и сообщить ряд деталей его жизни, прежде чем тот успевал раскрыть рот. Не правда ли, узнается образ знаменитого сыщика? У доктора Белла Дойль научился методу дедукции и анализа и мог бы стать талантливым детективом, ведь имел за плечами собственные поразительные случаи раскрытия преступлений. Аудиокнига будет интересна не только любителям детективов, но и людям, совершенствующим свои знания в английском языке. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge The Adventure of the Red Circle The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

Аудиокнига на английском и русском языках. Издается без сокращений. The Five Orange Pips Adventure of the Noble Bachelor Пять апельсиновых зернышек Приключение благородного холостяка