Ulysses, first published in February 1922, is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire modernist movem...
Odin iz samykh izvestnykh romanov anglijskoj pisatelnitsy Elizabet Gaskell byl vpervye opublikovan otdelnymi chastjami v zhurnale Charlza Dikkensa "Domashnee chtenie". Eto uvlekatelnaja istorija o zhizni...
U goluboglazoj i odukhotvorennoj Elfridy ne khvataet zhiznennogo opyta, poetomu ona ne mozhet vybrat mezhdu dvumja muzhchinami - arkhitektorom Stivenom Smitom i Genri Najtom. Kogda-to druzja stali sopernikami,...
"Khoroshie zheny" - prodolzhenie romana "Malenkie zhenschiny", kotoryj po pravu schitaetsja odnim iz samykh populjarnykh romanov, napisannykh na anglijskom jazyke. Meg sobiraetsja zamuzh, Dzho nachinaet...
"The Shadow Line - a short novel based at sea - was first published in 1916. It depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title representing...
V chetvertyj tom sobranija sochinenij Frantsa Kafki voshli rasskazy, opublikovannye pri zhizni pisatelja, a takzhe proizvedenija iz nasledija: malaja proza, aforizmy i pesa "Storozh sklepa". V kachestve...
"The Scarlet Letter: A Romance" is considered to be Hawthorne's "masterwork". Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles...
"Doktor Zhivago" - odna iz samykh izvestnykh i spornykh knig russkoj literatury XX veka. Za etot roman Boris Leonidovich Pasternak byl udostoen Nobelevskoj premii po literature.
Roman serbskogo pisatelja Gorana Petrovicha "Atlas, sostavlennyj nebom" - eto "svoego roda manifest postmodernistskogo vosprijatija mira, cheloveka, ustavshego ot obydennosti i, sledovatelno, ot polit...
Drama "Makbet" opisyvaet put cheloveka, dvizhimogo nezdorovymi ambitsijami, zhazhdoj vlasti, no obrechjonnogo na neprekhodjaschij strakh raspravy za svoi zlodejanija. Makbet, shotlandskij general armii...
Zadolgo do Indiany Dzhonsa suschestvoval Alan Kvotermejn: nastojaschij avantjurist, issledovatel i okhotnik za sokrovischami. Knigi ob Alane Kvotermejne pokorjajut chitatelej vsekh vozrastov, vdokhnoviv...
"The Moonstone" is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone...
V pjatyj tom sobranija sochinenij Frantsa Kafki voshli ego dnevniki, znachitelno obogaschajuschie nashi predstavlenija o zhizni i tvorchestve velikogo pisatelja.
Na osnovanii dokumentalnykh svidetelstv i sobstvennykh razyskanij avtor daet ubeditelnyj otvet na vopros o sudbe unikalnogo shedevra - Jantarnoj komnaty.
Fridrikh Nitsshe - nemetskij filosof, filolog-klassik, poet, avtor znamenitykh trudov "Tak govoril Zaratustra", "Po tu storonu dobra i zla", "Volja k vlasti". V nastojaschem tome predstavleny strastnye...
"Piraty Ameriki" vpervye byli opublikovany v 1678 godu. Avtor knigi - A.O.Ekskvemelin, sluzhivshij vo Frantsuzskoj Vest-Indskoj kompanii, v 1666 godu otplyl na odnom iz ee korablej na Antilskie ostrova...
Chto mozhet byt vkusnee otkrytoj sredi zimy banochki varenja iz letnikh jagod? A kakie raznosoly poluchajutsja iz gribov i ovoschej!.. Kniga "Konservirovanie" rasskazhet nachinajuschim i opytnym khozjajkam...
Zvjozdy Gollivuda do sikh por javljajutsja dlja mnogikh etalonom nedostizhimoj krasoty. Interes k tomu, kak im udajotsja podderzhivat formu, postojanno vozrastaet. Dieta, predlagaemaja v etoj knige, oprobovana...
V svoem romane "Sobor Parizhskoj Bogomateri" zamechatelnyj frantsuzskij prozaik Viktor Gjugo obraschaetsja k istorii Frantsii XV veka. Sozdannye im romanticheskie obrazy ulichnoj tantsovschitsy Esmeraldy...
Znamenityj poet, skazochnik i uchenyj Sakarias Topelius v istorii kultury Finljandii sygral tu zhe rol, chto i Pushkin v Rossii. "Skazki Morskogo korolja" obedinili luchshie obraztsy tvorchestva velikogo...
Znamenityj poet, skazochnik i uchenyj Sakarias Topelius v istorii Finljandii sygral tu zhe rol, chto i Pushkin v Rossii. V etu knigu voshli izbrannye skazki Topeliusa, tesno svjazannye s legendami Skandinavii,...
The plot of the novel The Lost World (1912) describes an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin where prehistoric animals still survive, led by a charismatic leading character Professor Challenger....
Following the tradition of modernist novelists, the plot of "To the Lighthouse" (1927) is secondary to its philosophical introspection - the novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of...
This Side of Paradise (1920) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel. The book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University...
Although Wuthering Heights is now regarded as a classic of English literature, contemporary opinions were deeply polarized; the novel was considered controversial because of its naturalistic depiction...
The Great Gatsby (1925) follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire...
Sense and Sensibility was first published anonymously in 1811. The novel tells the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, both of age to marry, following their life in a country cottage, where they...
This collection of eight short stories written during his "Klondike" period, has become a trademark of London's work. The title story Love of Life follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra....
The story of Kim (1901) unfolds against the backdrop of the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia known as The Great Came. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the...
Sister Carrie (1900) tells the story of a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a kept woman, and later becoming a famous actress. Sister...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1892, is a collection of twelve short stories, featuring a fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, related in first-person narrative from the point of...
V eto izdanie pomimo izvestnogo truda E. A. Torchinova "Daosizm" voshli ego daologicheskie perevody "Dao-De tszina" ("Kanona Puti" i "Kanona Blagoj sily") i sochinenija "Baopu-tszy" Ge Khuna (284-363 ili...
