Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young widow who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when...
The red letter "A" on her dress marks young mother Hester Prynne among her Puritan neighbors, who demand to know who fathered her child. Rumors swirl, but the shunned and shamed Hester keeps her secret...
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse....
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. The Four...
Wives and Daughters is far more than a nostalgic evocation of village life; it offers an ironic critique of mid-Victorian society. No nineteenth-century novel contains a more devastating rejection than...
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's...
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a...
In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes his secret, inner persona - the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde. This book is about losing control. It's...
Obychnye geroi i, kazalos by, obychnye sudby. Voprosy, prostye i ne ochen, kotorye my zadajom sebe kazhdyj den. V romane, napisannom dostupnym jazykom, mozhno najti dlja sebja mnogo poleznogo. Eto ne prosto...
Dilogija Alesja Adamovicha "Partizany" - moschnejshee proizvedenie klassika sovetskoj literatury, belorusskogo pisatelja Alesja Adamovicha o vojne, o materinskoj ljubvi i ljubvi k Rodine, o samopozhertvovanii...
Andrej Platonov byl podlinnym synom revoljutsii, prinjal ejo srazu i bez malejshego somnenija. On togda zanimalsja vsem srazu: melioratsiej, elektrotekhnikoj, partijnoj rabotoj. I pisal, smuschajas - potomu...
Andrej Platonov byl podlinnym synom revoljutsii, prinjal ejo srazu i bez malejshego somnenija. On togda zanimalsja vsem i srazu: melioratsiej, elektrotekhnikoj, partijnoj rabotoj. I pisal, smuschajas -...
Lev Davidovich Trotskij - progressivnyj revoljutsionnyj dejatel, odna iz samykh jarkikh politicheskikh figur XX veka. Avtor teorii permanentnoj revoljutsii, praktik i teoretik marksizma - L.D. Trotskij...
Lev Davidovich Trotskij - progressivnyj revoljutsionnyj dejatel, odna iz samykh jarkikh politicheskikh figur XX veka. Avtor teorii permanentnoj revoljutsii, praktik i teoretik marksizma - L.D. Trotskij...
The House by the Churchyard is a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu published in 1863 that combines elements of the mystery novel and the historical novel. Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the...
Moliere est le nom de scene de Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, un dramaturge francais du XVIIe siecle. Comedien et directeur de troupe surnommee " Troupe de Moliere ", il est l'inventeur de la comedie classique....
Emile Zola est un classique de la litterature francaise du XIXe siecle.Le roman "Au Bonheur Des Dames" n'est pas qu'une nouvelle edition de l'histoire d'une Cendrillon et de son " prince charmant ", c'est...
Thomas Mann - legendarer deutscher Schriftsteller, Essayist, Meister des epischen Romans, Literatur-Nobelpreistrager 1929. "Der Zauberberg" ist ein Roman, der virtuos die Welt in einer Tuberkulose-Heilstatte...
Franz Kafka - einer der bekanntesten deutschen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts, dessen Werke in der Weltliteratur bis heute einmaligbleiben. "Das Schlote" ist ein nicht vollendeter Roman von Franz...
Sigmund Freud - ein bekannter osterreichischer Psychiater, Psychoanalytiker und Neurologe. Er ist der Begriinder der Psychoanalyse, die einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf die Psychologie, Medizin, Soziologie,...
Thomas Mann - legendarer deutscher Schriftsteller, Essayist, Meister des epischen Romans, Literatur-Nobelpreistrager 1929. "Der Zauberberg" ist ein Roman, der virtuos die Welt in einer Tuberkulose-Heilstatte...
Jorge Luis Borges es un legendario prosista, poeta u publicista argentino. La prosa de Borges se destaca ante todo por sus fantasias laconicas, reflexiones sobre problemas filosoficas de fondo que adoptan...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains...
The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...
More than a century after its publication Heart of Darkness remains an indisputably classic text and arguably Conrad's finest work. Taking place mostly in Africa, it tells the story of Europeans going...
Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic...
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur,...
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York...
In what may be Dickens s best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman - and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances,...
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a world of violence and generational conflict in which two young people fall in love and die because of that love. It is not simply that the families of Romeo and...
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur,...
Ivanhoe was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first attempt to combine history and romance, which later influenced Victorian medievalism. Set at the time of...
In "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman sings nature and his symbiosis with America, he sings the universe and his awareness of it all, but above all he sings the people and their quest for individuality and...
Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most brilliant and controversial social and literary gures of all time. Wilde's prison writings include his most celebrated essay "De Profundis", written to Lord Alfred...
Eta unikalnaja kniga, v kotoruju vkhodjat samye obajatelnye i privlekatelnye detektivy ot avtora s mirovym imenem, napisannye s prekrasnym chuvstvom jumora, uzhe stala bestsellerom v 26 stranakh. I eto...
Pieni kirjakauppa kaakkoisenglantilaisessa kaupungissa. Luke, 28-vuotias myyjä, on onnettomasti ihastunut työkaveriinsa Reediin. Työpaikkaromanssin tiellä ovat paitsi homokammoiset kollegat myös Reedin...
Våren 1941 värvade Waffen-SS med bakgrundsstöd av det finländska högkvarteret och regeringen 1 200 frivilliga för insats i Tyskland. De frivilliga slöt tvååriga tjänstgöringskontrakt och kom fram till...
