Miguel de Cervantes, escritor espanol de fama universal, es celebre en primer lugar por su novela "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha", una de las obras mas portentosas de la literatura mundial.Esta...
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her...
Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks...
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners - one of the popular novels of all time - that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth...
The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground was James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, published in 1821. This was the earliest United States novel to win wide and permanent fame and may be said to have begun...
When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very...
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who...
Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Aus-ten's Gothic parody. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fa-thers give the story an uncanny air, but one with...
The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. The main character Harmachis is charged by...
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing...
Francis Morgan, a wealthy heir of industrialist and Wall Street maven Richard Henry Morgan, is a jaded young New Yorker. When his father's business partner Thomas Regan suggests that Francis take a holiday...
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent...
White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North - kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang's life...
Knigi, sozdannye belorusskim prozaikom Vasilem Bykovym, prinesli emu mirovuju izvestnost i priznanie millionov chitatelej. Projdja skvoz ad Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojny, prosluzhiv v poslevoennoj armii,...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died"...
V romane russkogo pisatelja, poeta Borisa Pasternaka, Doktor Zhivago" rasskazyvaetsja ob istorii zhizni i ljubvi odnogo vrode by nichem ne primechatelnogo cheloveka, o ego sudbe, iskoverkannoj kholodnoj...
"Ali-Baba i sorok razbojnikov" - odna ikh samykh izvestnykh vostochnykh skazok, vkljuchjonnykh v tsikl "Tysjacha i odna noch". Posle smerti kuptsa ego starshij syn nasleduet delo ottsa i, zhenivshis na...
Vyshivanie - odin iz drevnejshikh vidov rukodelija. Sposobov nanosit uzory - velikoe mnozhestvo, no my predlagaem vam ostanovit svoj vybor na vyshivke krestikom i lentami.Blagodarja etoj knige vy osvoite...
Muzhskaja druzhba ispokon vekov otlichalas osoboj vernostju i predannostju. Predstaviteli silnogo pola vsegda gotovy podderzhat i pomoch drug drugu v slozhnoj zhiznennoj situatsii. Oni chasto ustraivajut...
Kazhdyj chelovek v mire individualen i imeet svoi osobennosti, odna iz kotorykh - gruppa krovi. Predraspolozhennost cheloveka k tem ili inym zabolevanijam zachastuju opredeljaetsja imenno etim pokazatelem....
Unikalnaja kniga predstavljaet soboj reprint 1900 goda, soderzhaschij v sebe objasnenija maloponjatnykh slov i oborotov, vstrechajuschikhsja v tserkovno-slavjanskom jazyke i drevnerusskikh rukopisjakh...
Uiljam Shekspir - odin iz samykh znachimykh i tainstvennykh pisatelej, etalon anglijskoj poezii i dramaturgii. Spory po povodu ego avtorstva i lichnosti ne utikhajut do sikh por, no eto niskolko ne umaljaet...
Maksim Gorkij - osnovopolozhnik sotsialisticheskogo realizma, prinadlezhaschij k chislu pisatelej, opredelivshikh obraz russkoj literatury XX veka. V proze, dramaturgii i memuarakh Gorkij masterski otrazil...
"Chuvstvo i chuvstvitelnost" - odno iz samykh populjarnykh i ljubimykh proizvedenij izvestnoj anglijskoj pisatelnitsy Dzhejn Ostin, kotoroe bylo neodnokratno ekranizirovano. S ironiej i ljogkostju avtor...
Maksim Gorkij - osnovopolozhnik sotsialisticheskogo realizma, prinadlezhaschij k chislu pisatelej, opredelivshikh obraz russkoj literatury XX veka. V proze, dramaturgii i memuarakh Gorkij otrazil sotsialnye...
Maksim Gorkij - osnovopolozhnik sotsialisticheskogo realizma, prinadlezhaschij k chislu pisatelej, opredelivshikh obraz russkoj literatury XX veka. V proze, dramaturgii i memuarakh Gorkij masterski otrazil...
Maksim Gorkij (1868-1936) - osnovopolozhnik sotsialisticheskogo realizma, prinadlezhaschij k chislu pisatelej, opredelivshikh obraz russkoj literatury XX veka. V proze, dramaturgii i memuarakh Gorkij masterski...
Tomas Khardi - krupnejshij anglijskij pisatel i poet pozdneviktorianskoj epokhi. "Tess iz roda d' Erbervillej" - odin iz samykh izvestnykh romanov avtora, kotoryj do sikh por vljubljaet v sebja chitatelej...
Etot znamenityj roman vkhodit v short-listy vsekh literaturnykh rejtingov sovremennosti, nesmotrja na bolee chem dvukhsotletnjuju istoriju. V nebogatom semejstve Bennet - pjat docherej. I kogda v spokojnyj...
Poslednij roman izvestnoj anglijskoj pisatelnitsy Dzhejn Ostin byl zakonchen posmertno ejo plemjannitsej i opublikovan pod nazvaniem "Mladshaja sestra". Dejstvie proizvedenija razvorachivaetsja v selskoj...
"Mensfild-Park" - odno iz izvestnykh proizvedenij anglijskoj pisatelnitsy Dzhejn Ostin. V njom rasskazyvaetsja o sudbe devushki Fanni, vzjatoj na vospitanie bogatymi rodstvennikam, no vysokomerno otnosjaschikhsja...
Maksim Gorkij - osnovopolozhnik sotsialisticheskogo realizma, prinadlezhaschij k chislu pisatelej, opredelivshikh obraz russkoj literatury XX veka. V proze, dramaturgii i memuarakh Gorkij masterski otrazil...
Roman izvestnoj anglijskoj pisatelnitsy Dzhejn Ostin "Nortengerskoe abbatstvo" pochitaetsja vo vsjom mire narjadu s romanami "Gordost i predubezhdenie" i "Emma". Odnako imenno "Nortengerskoe abbatstvo"...
