Mirom pravjat vampiry. Oni - ne vechno molodye romantichnye junoshi i devushki s bessonnymi glazami i krovavymi gubami, a vpolne obyknovennye muzhchiny i zhenschiny so sledami zhiznennogo tsinizma na litse....
Znamenitaja povest amerikanskogo pisatelja Marka Tvena napisana v 1880 g. na osnove istoricheskogo sjuzheta o junom korole Eduarde VI. Sobytija, kotorye proiskhodjat v knige, otnosjatsja k XVI stoletiju....
Dickens' genius for creating eccentric yet entirely captivating characters found its fullest expression in his third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, published in 1839. The narrative follows Nicholas as he escapes...
The Chimes is Charles Dickens novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Veck, a poor working-class man. Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result...
Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable...
"Zapisnaja knizhka Aleksandra Bloka" - unikalnaja vozmozhnost i tsennejshij istochnik dlja izuchenija velikoj lichnosti genialnogo poeta Serebrjanogo veka. V knige predstavlen dnevnik A. Bloka, kotoryj...
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. The final novel of Thomas Love Peacock followed the others after a silence of 30 years, its typical...
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Filled with mystery and gothic horror elements,...
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. As an excellent example of a Victorian myste...
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "Haunted Lives" follows the story of young and...
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. As an excellent example of a. Victorian mystery,...
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This volume contains some of his mysterious stories. John Jago's Ghost, is a novella based on the Boorn Brothers murder case....
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Danger! And Other Stories" is a collection of fascinating short stories like "One Crowded Hour," "A...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. One of his notable works is the novel "Beyond". Together with his heroes the author goes to spheres of unrestrained feelings. Love is depicted as...
The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18-year-old undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage...
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The Arrow of Gold is a story of a young sailor, the unnamed protagonist, who joins...
Odin iz samykh izvestnykh jumoristov v mirovoj literature, O. Genri sozdal unikalnuju panoramu amerikanskoj zhizni na rubezhe XIX-XX vekov, v grotesknykh situatsijakh peredal kontrasty i paradoksy svoej...
V svojom izvestnejshem romane "Zamok" avstrijskij pisatel i osnovopolozhnik modernistskoj prozy Frants Kafka obraschaetsja k teologicheskomu voprosu poiska chelovekom svoego puti k Bogu. Khudozhestvennoe...
Lev Davidovich Trotskij - progressivnyj revoljutsionnyj dejatel, odna iz samykh jarkikh politicheskikh figur XX veka. Praktik i teoretik marksizma - L.D. Trotskij - stal sozdatelem kapitalnykh istoricheskikh...
Aleksis de Tokvil - frantsuzskij politicheskij dejatel i myslitel, naibolee izvestnyj kak avtor istoriko-politicheskikh traktatov "O demokratii v Amerike" i "Staryj rezhim i revoljutsija"."O demokratii...
V knige "Sinjaja zvezda" predstavleny raznoobraznye po tematike rasskazy i povesti avtora.Odnazhdy v odnoj daljokoj strane u korolja i korolevy rodilas dolgozhdannaja dochka, kotoraja okazalas stol nekrasivoj,...
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Memoirs of...
Naturalisticheskaja proza krupnejshego frantsuzskogo novellista XIX veka Gi de Mopassana stala obraztsom bezotsenochnogo realizma kak lichnogo mirovozzrenija, kotoroe pisatel pytaetsja donesti do chitatelja....
Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and...
It is the story of John Peerybingle and his family who are visited by a guardian angel in the form of a cricket who is constantly chirping on their hearth. A delightfully fantastic story, The Cricket on...
The setting is an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life. Battle is the only one of the five Christmas...
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...
Magdalen Vanstone and Norah - her sister learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the discovery that their parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married...
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured...
In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, (Walter Wilding),...
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of larndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured...
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...
