This novel, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Presenting a host of now-classic characters in a series of adventures, it displays the richness of his...
Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his TourThrough the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable...
The "Genius" is Theodore Dreiser's autobiographical novel about the turn-of-the-century art scene. It explores the multiple con licts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional...
Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary...
Jennie Gerhardt was Theodore Dreiser's second novel and his first true commercial success. The story of love between beautiful young woman and very rich man Lester Kane. Lester wants to marry her, but...
Последний роман знаменитого американского писателя Джека Лондона "Сердца трёх" в переводе Татьяны Кудрявцевой покоряет своим интригующим сюжетом и необыкновенным динамизмом действия. Лондон показал себя...
Filled with drama and unexpected plot twists, Collins' Jezebel's Daughter is based on a play, The Red Vial, which was produced in 1858. A story of intrigue, betrayal and misplaced trust, revolves around...
Биографическая книга из серии "Исторические хроники" известного петербургского прозаика Валерия Попова повествует о сложной судьбе и творчестве Михаила Зощенко. В отличие от прежних биографий знаменитого...
Духовный авторитет академика Дмитрия Сергеевича Лихачёва так велик, что его справедливо называют "совестью нации". Его книги, статьи, беседы - великое наследие, изучение которого помогает хранить традиции...
Имя Николая Александровича Бердяева - выдающегося христианского и политического мыслителя, проповедника философии личности и свободы в духе религиозного экзистенциализма и персонализма - вписано в историю...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. "The Portrait of a Lady" is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman,...
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He also wrote great stories for children based on Greek myth and legend. They are incomparable retellings of themes...
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is...
Frank Cowperwood has moved to Chicago with new wife Aileen. His plan is to take over the street-railway system in the process bankrupting opponents with political allies. The Titan follows Cowperwood through...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. "The Blithedale Romance", considered one of Hawthorne's major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. The stories in "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" are all stories within a story. The frame story being that a Williams...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. This volume includes wonderful stories like "The First and The Last", "A Stoic", "The Apple Tree", "The Juryman" and "Indian Summer of a Forsyte...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. Roderick Hudson, egotistical, beautiful and an exceptionally gifted sculptor. He...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. This volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. This volume includes some amazing stories like "Villa Rubein", "A Man of Devon", "A Knight", "Salvation of a Forsyte" and "The Silence".
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. "The Outcry" is an effervescent comedy of money and manners. Breckenridge Bender,...
Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated...
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. In the semi-autobiographical novel "Paul Kelver" details the eponymous narrator's rocky road through life, including his stints as an actor, a...
Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. "The Princess Casamassima" is the wonderful story of an intelligent but confused...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America. The story of the...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright whose literary career spanned the Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian eras. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 "for his distinguished...
Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward. Through the example and guidance of her mother, who dotes...
Повесть "Приключения Тома Сойера" о заводиле и атамане мальчишек Томе Сойере и его друге, беспризорнике Гекльберри Финне, почти сразу стала классикой детской литературы. При этом Марк Твен уверял, что...
Роман "Чапаев и Пустота" сам автор характеризует как "Это первое произведение в мировой литературе, действие которого происходят в абсолютной пустоте". На самом деле оно происходит в 1919 году в дивизии...
В данное издание включены удивительные повести и рассказы Куприна. Всем известно, что ничто не должно омрачать счастливой улыбки артиста. Но задумывались ли любители красочного и яркого зрелища, насколько...
С древних времён люди прекрасно понимали, что именно на праздниках, а не на буднях, держится год. Именно праздники напоминают нам о том, как делят дни и месяцы, об уходящем прошлом и грядущем будущем....
Аркадий Аверченко (1891-1925) - прославленный писатель-сатирик, драматург, театральный критик и редактор знаменитых периодических изданий "Сатирикон" и "Новый Сатирикон".В книге представлены замечательные...
