Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick." Partly based on the author's experience, "Redburn" is...
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick". The part fictional story, part autobiography, "White-Jacket"...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Fair Margaret tells the inspiring story of a beautiful English maiden...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature,...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Swallow is a story of a Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature,...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. In The Ghost Kings Rachel Dove and Richard Darrien meet in Africa,...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains two stories of Allan Quotermain's series. The...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. The Days of My Life is an autobiography by Haggard. This book deals...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature,...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic-fantasy novel by Haggard, published...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Montezuma's Daughter is a story of Thomas Wingfleld, an Englishman...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Stella Fregelius is a story of the overlapping fates of three people...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. The Virgin of the Sun is a novel by Haggard set in South America....
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Colonel Quaritch is a story of an impoverished nobleman, who is looking...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Queen of the Dawn is set in Egypt one thousand eight hundred years...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature,...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. In Mary of Marion Isle we make the acquaintance of Andrew West, a...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Lysbeth is a historical novel about a Dutch woman who is caught up...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. The Wanderer's Necklace is a story of Olaf, a Norseman in the eighth...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Love Eternal is a story of young Godfrey Knight, the son of a puritanical...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Allan and the Ice-Gods is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain...
Дмитрий Сергеевич Мережковский (1865-1941) - известный русский писатель, поэт, литературный критик, религиозный мыслитель, творчество которого входит в сокровищницу мировой литературы. В трилогии "Царство...
Имя Ивана Ефремова ассоциируется у читателей в первую очередь с "Туманностью Андромеды", "Лезвием бритвы", "Таис Афинской" и другими романами, однако задолго до их создания писатель прославился как автор...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. Queen of the Dawn is about the overthrow...
Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred,...
"Туманность Андромеды" - одно из самых известных и масштабных произведений русского писателя Ивана Ефремова. В романе автор создал необычный, красивый и многоплановый мир будущего, устроенный разумно и...
Владимир Афанасьевич Обручев - русский, советский писатель, учёный-географ с мировым именем, исследователь Сибири и Средней Азии, академик АН СССР. Его роман "Плутония" - увлекательная история о путешествии...
Дмитрий Сергеевич Мережковский (1865-1941) - известный русский писатель, поэт, литературный критик, религиозный мыслитель, творчество которого входит в сокровищницу мировой литературы. "Итальянские новеллы"...
Юные герои Анатолия Алексина впервые сталкиваются со "взрослыми", нередко драматическими проблемами. Как сделать правильный выбор? Как научиться понимать людей и самого себя? Как войти в мир зрелым, сильным...
Александр Александрович Блок (1880-1921) - великий русский поэт Серебряного века, перу которого принадлежат произведения, которые стали не только символом своей эпохи, но и связующим звеном между классической...
Александр Александрович Блок - великий русский поэт Серебряного века, перу которого принадлежат произведения, которые стали не только символом своей эпохи, но и связующим звеном между классической литературой...
Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby....
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles...
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Filled with drama and unexpected plot twists, Collins' Jezebel's Daughter is based on a play, The Red Vial, which was produced...
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Family Secret and Dream Woman are classic mysteries. The Dream Woman tells a story of Francis Raven who had a dream...
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master stylist,...
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. My Lady's Money, published in 1879, is a novel that centers around a rich woman who is a victim of theft. There are a lot of...
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard. Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Wives and Daughters is far more than a nostalgic evocation of village life; it offers an ironic critique of mid-Victorian...
