A book of historical fiction representing Conan Doyle's ability to make the long-gone past come alive.
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...
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...
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...
"Round the Red Lamp" features realistic stories and episodes of medical life, sketches of old-fashioned doctors, medical students and their pranks.
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...
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...
В книгу вошел сокращенный и незначительно упрощенный текст романа классика итальянской литературы Ф. Д. Гверрацци «Осада Флоренции». Увлекательный сюжет, описание значимых исторических событий и...
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...
Издание знакомит читателя с самыми выдающимися представителями немецкой литературы и их творчеством. Пособие охватывает период от древнегерманского эпоса до второй половины XX века. Данное пособие...
«Большие надежды» – знаменитый роман Чарльза Диккенса. Это история мальчика из простой семьи по имени Пип, которому неожиданно выпала возможность «стать джентльменом». Непростые жизненные испытания...
В данный сборник вошли два шедевра английской литературы: романы «Гордость и предубеждение» Джейн Остин и «Большие надежды» Чарльза Диккенса. Тексты произведений сокращены, незначительно упрощены и...
"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,...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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,...
