The work of the famous English writer Jane Austen, the author of elegant and witty novels PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, MANSFIELD-PARK, EMMA, has had a significant impact on the development of English prose of the XIX-XX centuries and has been enjoying increasing

The poem 'Odyssey', created by the genius of the legendary epic poet of Ancient Greece Homer, is one of the greatest works of world literature, a creation full of full-blooded life, bright fantasy and poetic brilliance. The dangerous adventures of the cunning and long-suffering Odyssey (he, passionately striving to go home to Ithaca, will have to fight with Poseidon, visit the country of cruel...

ompleted the tragedy a few months before his death. This work was the result of the philosophical and artistic searches of the author - a poet, playwright, prose writer, the greatest scientist of his time, a man of encyclopedic knowledge. The hero of the tragedy, Dr. Johann Faust, lived in the first half of the 16th century and was known as a magician and a warlock who, having rejected modern...

Множество источников разной степени достоверности утверждают, что однажды при встрече с автором «Хижины дяди Тома» Авраам Линкольн якобы произнес такую фразу: «Эта маленькая леди начала великую войну». Роман американской писательницы Гарриет Бичер-Стоу (1811–1896) очень быстро приобрел мировую известность и признание. Написанная в характерном для девятнадцатого века сентиментальном стиле...

В суждениях современников и потомков Эмили Бронте (1818–1848) не раз звучала мысль о том, что она гораздо в большей степени поэт, чем романист, а между тем в историю литературы писательница вошла прежде всего как автор знаменитого романа «Грозовой перевал». Его называли «романтичнейшим романом», «дьявольской книгой, объединившей все самые сильные женские наклонности», одним из самых лучших...

A.S. Pushkin entered Russian culture not only as a great Poet, but also as a wonderful prose writer and playwright. This volume includes the most significant and well-known prose works of the author, in which he appears as a historian, chronicler, subtle psychologist (expert on the human soul) and an excellent storyteller: 'Arap of Peter the Great', 'Tales of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin',...

Роман «Скажи изюм» Василия Аксёнова - яркая, сатирически заостренная картина советского общества семидесятых. В годы брежневского застоя, казалось бы, уже вполне «травоядные», фотографы задумали небывалое - издать неподцензурный альбом «Скажи изюм» в двенадцати экземплярах… Но бдительные «железы» (они же «органы») всегда лучше знают, что граждане Страны Советов должны думать, как действовать...

The surest way to creative immortality is to write from the point of view of eternity. It is from this position that Chingiz Aitmatov, a classic of Russian and Kyrgyz literature, a laureate of prestigious awards, writes his prose. His books - 'And the Day Lasts More Than a Century ...', 'Scaffold' and many others have been translated into dozens of languages. These novels became the property of...

Gwen has a destiny to fulfill, but no one will tell her what it is. She's only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle, Count Saint-German, is up to something nefarious, but nobody will believe her. And she's just learned that her charming time-traveling...

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon,...

Czy wyobrażasz sobie, że się zakochujesz, choć nie wolno ci nawet dotknąć drugiej osoby? Jedyną szansą Stelli na przeżycie są nowe płuca. Życie dziewczyny to ciągłe pobyty w szpitalu, przyjmowanie leków i oczekiwanie na przeszczep. W tym czasie musi zachować bezpieczną odległość od wszystkich, żeby nie narażać układu odpornościowego osłabionego nieustanną walką z zakażeniami i bakteriami. Bez...

Hazel Wood to znakomita powieść dla młodzieży – mroczna, wciągająca, porywająca.