""To Build a Fire"" is a short story by American author Jack London. There are two versions of this story, one published in 1902 and the other in 1908. The story written in 1908 has become an often anthologized classic, while the 1902 story is less well known. The 1908 version...
""The Dead"" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. The other stories in the collection are shorter, whereas at 15,952 words, «„The Dead“» is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well...
«– Сбор ровно в полдень на этой поляне. Жозеф Морель кивнул головой двум своим спутникам, поправил за спиной дорожный мешок и, помахивая сачком для ловли насекомых, углубился в чащу. Это были владения пальм, папоротников и лиан…»
«Летний Петербург, пора белых ночей. Квартира чиновника Горожанкина в полуподвальном помещении. Состоит она из двух комнат: в одной, где кухня, спит и живет семья Горожанкина, во второй, что на сцене, помещается он сам, и в светлом углу, за ситцевой перегородкой, проживает бывший студент Михаил...
First Love is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, first published in 1860. It is one of his most popular pieces of short fiction. It tells the love story between a 21-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy. First Love was published in March 1860 in the Reader's Library. Like many of Turgenev's...
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic. The Odyssey is fundamental to the modern Western canon; it is the second-oldest extant work of Western literature, while the Iliad is the oldest. Scholars...
"Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" is a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. In the December 1784 publication of the Berlinische Monatsschrift (Berlin Monthly), edited by Friedrich Gedike and Johann Erich Biester, Kant replied to the question posed a year earlier by...
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in...
Classic Christmas Collection is an anthology of what children and parents have heard and read over the ages. In our audiobook comes a selection of the best fairytales about Сhristmas, stories about adventures and everything that makes a our world world magical. Our collection includes the...
Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his...
The first narrative in the collection is «The Prussian Officer», which tells of a Captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has been left with only his military career, and though he has taken on mistresses throughout his life, he remains single. His young orderly is...
A Doll's House is a three-act play written by Norway's Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879. The play is significant for the way it deals with...
The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen have inspired, frightened, and amused readers since they were first published in 1835. The power of his tales to charm and elevate runs like a living thread through whatever he writes. Only a few children's authors will be ranked among the Immortals,...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, called Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a...
The Other Wise Man is a short novel or long short story by Henry van Dyke. It was initially published in 1895 and has been reprinted many times since then. The story is an addition and expansion of the account of the Biblical Magi, recounted in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. It tells...
The Chimes, is a novella written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of «„Christmas books,“» five novellas with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s. In addition to A Christmas Carol and The...
Роман «Бесы» читать трудно. Почти на физическом уровне. Достоевский пристально, не отрывая взгляда показывает «дорожную карту» разрушения личности и общества. Повествование, которое начинается как семейная история заканчивается картиной тотальной социальной катастрофы: обманутые ожидания, публичные...
«Год назад, в период лорис-меликовской „диктатуры сердца“, начиналось, как мы тогда говорили, „веяние на запад“. Из большой партии политических ссыльных восемь человек возвращены были с дороги обратно в Россию. Я был в числе этих первых ласточек. Меня возвращали из Томска под надзор полиции в...
«Только пуск Гумешевского завода открыл ящичек памяти, где хранилась эта крупинка прошлого. Вспомнилось отчетливо, до мелочей. Перед революцией этот рудник давно уже был безлюдным, заброшенным полем. Вблизи его чадил маленький сернокислотный завод Злоказова. Отработанная вода, без всяких...
«Он нашел архимедовскую точку опоры, но использовал ее против себя, лишь с этим условием, видимо, ему и было дано найти ее…»
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