«Классика для ленивых» - это серия емких кратких изложений шедевров мировой литературы. Эта книга станет настоящей палочкой-выручалочкой для тех, кто хочет быстро подготовиться к контрольной или выполнить домашнее задание.Трагедия «Ромео и...
Книга Синдзи Араи «Песни сухого колодца» является первым обобщенным опытом издания произведений классика японской литературы 16 века, синтоистского монаха-странника Синдзи Араи на русском языке.
«…Я смотрю на христианство не как на исключительное божественное откровение, не как на историческое явление, – я смотрю на христианство, как на учение, дающее смысл жизни. Я был приведен к христианству не богословскими, не историческими...
This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus. The two boys, who find themselves repeatedly on the brink of discovery or death, witness many hair-raising...
"What is Man?" was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of it as such to friends when he read them passages. He had written it,...
At age 19 Anne Brontë left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience as a governess. Bronte depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can affect...
"Eureka" (1848) is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) which he subtitled "A Prose Poem", though it has also been subtitled as "An Essay on the Material and...
Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is sometimes considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the...
"The American Claimant" is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switchesfertile and familiar Mark Twain territory. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British...
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 her reclusive behavior becomes the subject...
Роман У. Коллинза «Женщина в белом» по праву занимает одно из видных мест в ряду лучших образцов английской литературы ХIХ в. Любовь и предрассудки, стяжательство и преступления – темы вечные, поэтому роман, написанный более 100 лет назад, и...
"On the Decay of the Art of Lyingis" a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1885 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. In the essay, Twain laments the dour ways in which men of...
The story projects Twain’s lifelong struggles with his conscience. Here the conscience admits to being the “most pitiless enemy of its host, whom it is supposed to “improve but only tyrannizes with gusto while refusing to praise the host for anything.
The book bears no relationship to Twain's actual life. The two short stories present fictional characters who are supposedly part of Twain's lineage.
Bringing together 38 tales and sketches, "The 30 000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories" provides a rare long view of Twain's work, covering virtually his entire career, from "Advice to Young Girls" (a...
One of the most renowned public speakers of his day, Mark Twain was often asked to give speeches to mark public holidays or important anniversaries, for school graduations, at banquets for distinguished visitors, and at events sponsored by...
A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during thirteen quite amazing years.
The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untrammeled by literary conventions.
"In Defense of Harriet Shelley" is an excellent literary classic for all ages. Twain took much of his ideas and inspiration for his stories and tall tales from real experiences as a river boat pilot, his world travels,...
Книга содержит адаптированный и сокращённый текст классического романа Вальтера Скотта «Айвенго» (1819 г.). Действие происходит в Средневековой Англии, во времена Ричарда Львиное Сердце и Робин Гуда. Для удобства читателя текст сопровождается...
Появление в 1782 году романа «Опасные связи» вызвало настоящий скандал в обществе. Этот роман в письмах рисует высший свет Франции в канун Великой революции, где царят безнравственность, цинизм и сладострастие. Герои романа, виконт де Вальмон и...
Роман "Один из наших" – история молодого человека, который всеми силами стремится освободиться из гнетущей его патриархальной атмосферы жизни на Среднем Западе. Герой отвергает предначертанную ему судьбу и выбирает военные...
В книгу вошли всемирно известные «Три поросёнка» и другие английские сказки. Тексты сказок подготовлены для уровня 1 (т. е. для начинающих учить английский язык) и снабжены комментариями. Для проверки восприятия текстов предлагаются упражнения, а...
Typical Mark Twain slightly caustic, complex humor. Six of Mark Twain's recollections his early experiences in newspaper work on topics such as his first editorship at age 13, the weaponry needed to edit a newspaper in Tennessee, a...
As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to "be remembered" somehow....
Mark Twain began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of "Chapters from my Autobiography". He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but realized, once he’d passed his 70th...
Emily Brontë's only novel is famous the world over and is the favorite classic of many readers. It is easy to see why, with hardship, insanity, cruelty, frustrated love, and ghosts.
Король Христофор V занемог, впал в хандру, потерял интерес к жизни. Исцелить его может только рубашка с плеча счастливого человека. На его поиски отправляются королевские вельможи. По пути им встречаются в основном недовольные своей судьбой люди:...
"Round the Red Lamp" features realistic stories and episodes of medical life, sketches of old-fashioned doctors, medical students and their pranks.
В книгу вошел сокращенный и незначительно упрощенный текст романа классика итальянской литературы Ф. Д. Гверрацци «Осада Флоренции». Увлекательный сюжет, описание значимых исторических событий и романтическая составляющая – все это делает роман...
A group of European and American tourists is enjoying its trip in Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a "a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler", the Korosko. They intend to travel to Abousir at...
"Through the Magic Door" is an essay by Arthur Conan Doyle: his subject is the charisma and charm of books. Doyle invites readers to enjoy the greatest minds of all times through what they have left behind and argues that, when...
Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the Hundred Years' War, by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1906, it describes the early life of that book's hero Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III...
As well as penning some of the most popular detective fiction, Conan Doyle also wrote thrilling adventure stories. 'Rodney Stone' is a combination of both. Nelson, Beau Brummell, Fox and King George III himself appear in a tale...
Известная повесть Н.В.Гоголя из цикла «Миргород», при создании которой автор широко использовал различные исторические источники: мемуары, летописи, исследования, фольклорные материалы. Издание содержит версии на русском и аварском языках.
В книгу вошли три новеллы известного немецкого писателя Стефана Цвейга: «Письмо незнакомки», «Амок» и «Шахматная новелла». Драматические судьбы героев, любовь на грани жизни и смерти, глубокие душевные депрессии, мастерски описываемые автором,...
This volume collects a wide array of the author's short works of fiction, spanning virtually every literary genre. Detective stories are featured, but genres such as historical fiction, romance, and even nautical adventure are...
This novel is narrated by John Fothergill West, who tries to discover why the tenant of Cloomber Hall, General Heatherstone, is nervous to the point of being paranoid. Why are his fears becoming stronger every year at the fifth of October? And...
"The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales", is an Action & Adventure novel published in 1892. The novel takes place in the Napoleonic era on the English-Scottish border city called West Inch. The Great Shadow refers...
Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday...
В предлагаемый сборник вошли два шедевра мировой литературы: роман Ф.С. Фицджеральда «Великий Гэтсби» и «Портрет Дориана Грея» О. Уайльда. Тексты произведений сокращены и незначительно упрощены, а также сопровождаются постраничными комментариями...
В сборник вошли сокращенные и упрощенные тексты наиболее популярных рассказов американского писателя О. Генри, а также одна из самых знаменитых повестей А. К. Дойла о Шерлоке Холмсе «Собака Баскервилей». Тексты сопровождаются комментариями,...