«Юная и шаловливая, изнеженная и лукавая, своенравная и прекрасная Элеонора, дочь богатого феодала Вахтанга Хелтубнели, была предметом мечтаний тогдашней молодежи. Все, кто были достаточно знатны, богаты и блестящи, неотступно искали ее руки, каждый мечтал о чести стать ее супругом, измышляя тысячи...
"The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents....
Самая смешная книга страны советов. Юмор образца 1931 года оказывается вдруг невероятно современным. Нострадамусу, наверное, было бы завидно. А ведь «великий комбинатор» Ильфа и Петрова – асоциальный и аполитичный тип, мошенник и человек без крыши над головой! Но почему-то ход его мыслей...
Самая смешная книга страны советов. Юмор образца 1931 года оказывается вдруг невероятно современным. Нострадамусу, наверное, было бы завидно. А ведь «великий комбинатор» Ильфа и Петрова – асоциальный и аполитичный тип, мошенник и человек без крыши над головой! Но почему-то ход его мыслей...
Самая смешная книга страны советов. Юмор образца 1931 года оказывается вдруг невероятно современным. Нострадамусу, наверное, было бы завидно. А ведь «великий комбинатор» Ильфа и Петрова – асоциальный и аполитичный тип, мошенник и человек без крыши над головой! Но почему-то ход его мыслей...
«Станция Мценск. Чемодан в одну руку, портплед в другую и на платформу. Поезд взвизгнул и укатил, а я остался. Скамейка с веселым соседом-скорняком, свечи на столике, недопитый чай, скептический разговор с наборщиком в коридоре и уютная ночная печаль за окном – где все это?..»
Чарльз Диккенс – наверное, лучший английский романист Викторианской эпохи. Но удавались ему и рассказы. В них он запечатлевал портреты своих современников – аристократов и простого люда. И для тех, и для других находился свой занятный сюжет.
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (Of Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until...
"First published in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, XIV (January, 1844), “The Christmas Banquet” shares its subtitle—”from the unpublished “Allegories of the Heart”—with “Egotism; or the Bosom-Serpent,” another Hawthorne story of the period. “The Christmas Banquet” is an...
"The favorite story of the Dutch settlement of Sleepy Hollow, New York, is an ominous ghost story. A headless horseman is waiting for belated travelers. Ikabod Crane, who believes in everything beyond, cares for Katharina Van Tassel, the blonde beauty, the daughter of a wealthy landowner,...
"William Blake an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form «„what is in proportion to its merits...
"This audiobook collects a magnificent set of works by Russian classical authors: Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Turgenev, Aleksandr Kuprin. Each original story, springing from a common...
10 Great Russian Short Story. The Russian short stories that will make a vivid impression on a person: The Mantle by Nikolai Gogol, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy, Darkness by Anton...
The Conquest of Bread is an 1892 book by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin. Peter Kropotkin was born a Russian prince whose father owned 1,200 serfs. But he became a Russian activist, writer, revolutionary, scientist, economist, sociologist, historian, essayist, researcher, political...
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the...
"No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar crisis of Japanese cultural identity. Framed by an epilogue and prologue, the story is told in the form three notebooks left by Ōba Yōzō,...
"The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird...
"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Jekyll Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named...
"Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story, and...
"A Changed Man is a collection of twelve tales written by Thomas Hardy. The collection was originally published in book form in 1913, although all of the tales had been previously published in newspapers or magazines from 1881 to 1900. There are eleven short stories and a novella The Romantic...
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