The novel Wyandotte arrived at a time when a patriotic mythology about the American Revolution was developing, and Cooper's somber tale of the sufferings of an isolated family in upstate New York during...
It is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury. Captain Macwhirr has a reputation as a solid, steadfast man, who "having just enough imagination to carry...
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century.His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form...
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.This is an extraordinarily beautiful Indian...
Jane Austen is one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises...
In 1823, Cooper began writing The Pilot, which he saw as a sea novel that seamen would appreciate for its fidelity and yet one that landsmen could understand.The hero of The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea -...
Герои Анатолия Рыбакова - обычные московские школьники. Наблюдательность и любопытство арбатских мальчишек Миши, Генки и Славки не дают им скучать, они предпочитают жизнь насыщенную и беспокойную. И после...
Книгу составили легенды о короле бриттов Артуре и рыцарях Круглого стола. Сочетание древнейших мифологических верований, исторических реалий и литературной фантазии обеспечило этим текстам долгую жизнь....
Юбилейное издание, посвященное русскому обществу и крестьянскому вопросу в прошлом и настоящем. Том II. Рассказывается о крестьянских волнениях до XIX века, законодательстве о крестьянах при императорах...
Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать...
Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать...
Alfred de Musset est un poete et dramaturge francais du XIXe siecle qui a sa place au Pantheon des romantiques."La confession d'un enfant du siecle" est une de ses oeuvres les plus connues; il у parle...
Юрия Карловича Олешу (1899-1960) в кругу писателей-современников называли "королём метафор". Олеша не умел писать "темно и вяло", длинно и скучно, его проза искрится блестящими образами и афоризмами, чуть...
Желая защитить династию фараона от примеси чужой крови, жрецы Древнего Египта обратились за помощью к богам - Изиде и Серапису - и создали волшебное кольцо. Любая женщина не царского происхождения, осмелившаяся...
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form...
"Пётр Первый" - эпохальный исторический роман, посвящённый величайшему из российских монархов. Безукоризненно написанная, уникальная по стилю и масштабу событий эпопея, в которой буквально оживает один...
В издание входят роман "Чудаки", рассказывающий о вырождении русского дворянства начала XX века, и избранные повести и рассказы, написанные с 1917 по 1924 годы русским советским писателем и классиком русской...
Роман классика американской литературы Джека Лондона "Мартин Иден" в переводе Раисы Облонской рассказывает, каким долгим и полным лишений может стать путь к мечте, успеху и литературной славе. Волею случая...
Александр Валентинович Амфитеатров (1862-1938) - известный журналист и писатель своего времени, его прозу можно с уверенностью отнести к литературе исконно русской и талантливой.Книга "Против течения"...
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered...
An autobiography of Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer, largely of adventure fi ction. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter...
The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. In this novel of relationships, psychological contortion, and deceit, a priest comes between an impressionable man and...
Precaution is the fi rst novel written by American author James Fenimore Cooper. It was written in imitation of contemporary English domestic novels like those of Jane Austen and Amelia Opie. In the customary...
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The adoptive daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is waiting for a profi table marriage. What hides her past? She lived in...
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolifi c and popular American writer of the fi rst half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique...
One of the greatest heroes in American literature, Natty Bumppo is the rugged frontiersman of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called...
The Bravo was inspired by a James Fenimore Cooper's trip to Europe where he traveled through much of Italy. This novel set in Venice and it is the first of Cooper's three novels to be set in Europe. The...
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linendraper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal,...
Wilkie Collins's intriguing story about Lucilla Finch, a blind girl and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better-known novels but it also overturns...
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This is the dtory about The girl named Mary - they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting...
In Black Heart and White Heart, Henry Rider Haggard mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white. He rides, too, with all his old dexterity,...
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay...
Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of this book, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a...
Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic-fantasy novel by the popular Victorian author Henry Rider Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to his far more popular and well known novel, She.Horace Holly and...
The Professor was published only after Charlotte Brontes death; today it gives us a fascinating insight into the first stirrings of her supreme creative imagination. William Crimsworth reveals his attraction...
A gripping novel which takes us and the hero, adventurer Allan Quatermain, back in time. It relates several exciting adventures like a lion hunt, wrestling with a crocodile, and a large-scale battle between...
Cetywayo and His White Neighbours is a 1882 non-fiction book by Henry Rider Haggard. It was based on his time working in South Africa.Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set...
The Pioneers enters of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town of the American frontier. The heart of the novel is a conflict...
Civil war rages between the native tribes of the Malay straits. Captain Tim Wingard sides with the Rajah Hassim.An English yacht blunders into this confusion and runs aground. When Wingard goes aboard...
An Outcast of the Islands was only Conrad's second novel, but in its theme, in its impressionistic use of scenery, and, and over all, in the enormous richness and power of the writing, it predicts Conrad's...
