These works are unique in Conrad's oeuvre in being openly autobiographical - but in scope and literary form they differ widely. In The Mirror Conrad explores his vast knowledge of the sea in an era when...
Leonid Andreev (1871-1919) - odin iz jarkikh predstavitelej literatury Serebrjanogo veka, osnovopolozhnik russkogo ekspressionizma, v proze kotorogo prichudlivo perepletajutsja povsednevnaja dejstvitelnost...
The Virgin of the Sun is a novel by H. Rider Haggard set in South America.A tale that deals with the marvellous Incas of Peru; with the legend also that, long before the Spanish Conquerors entered on their...
The Witch's Head is the second novel by H Rider Haggard, which he wrote just prior to King Solomon's Mines. Zulu magic comes to the British Fenlands, as the severed head of a sorcerer casts a spell from...
Nada the Lily is the thrilling story of the brave Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and his love for the most beautiful of Zulu women, Nada the Lily. Young Umslopogaas, son of the bloodthirsty Zulu king Chaka,...
The Two Admirals is an 1842 nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel was written after the Leatherstocking Tales novel The Deerslayer.Set during the 18th century and exploring the British...
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century.His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form...
The young Godfrey Knight, the son of a puritanical parson, who lives in the Essex countryside. From childhood on, he and his neighbor, Isobel Blake, the daughter of a wealthy, boorish shipping magnate,...
A young man named Rupert Ullershaw falls in a love with the wife of his much older cousin, Lord Devene. The woman commits suicide, and the young Rupert promises his mother to henceforward "follow The Way...
"Vozdushnyj korabl" - eto nezabyvaemaja istorija o ljudjakh, sozhzhjonnykh besplodnoj mechtoj o sile i krasote. Tsentralnyj obraz proizvedenija - stikhotvorenie Lermontova - risuet pered chitatelem siluet...
Leonid Andreev - odin iz jarkikh predstavitelej literatury Serebrjanogo veka, osnovopolozhnik russkogo ekspressionizma, v proze kotorogo prichudlivo perepletajutsja povsednevnaja dejstvitelnost i simvolicheskie,...
Pesa "Okean" - odna iz naibolee slozhnykh dram pisatelja. Protivopostavlenie infernalnogo obraza okeana-"bezdny" i zemli-"tochki opory", konflikt stikhijnogo i ratsionalnogo nevolno pogruzhajut chitatelja...
Aleksandr Grin - poslednij russkij romantik, poet, avtor filosofsko-psikhologicheskikh proizvedenij, pronizannykh neobychajnym simvolizmom. Ljubimyj detmi i vzroslymi, Aleksandr Grin otkryvaet mir, v kotorom...
V sbornik "Skazochki ne sovsem dlja detej" vkljucheny udivitelnye povesti i rasskazy pisatelja, a takzhe "skazochki", kotorye jarko illjustrirujut stremlenie avtora perevernut s nog na golovu stereotipy...
Fenimore Cooper's fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as "the trapper" or "the old man". It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving...
A confessional narrative from a mad scientist Dr. Therne obsessed with one of the great issues of his day... in this case, vaccination against epidemic diseases like smallpox. His personal fears meet the...
A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic descriptions of early frontier life, Indian raiders, and defenseless outposts, The Pathfinder set the standard for epic action literature.Vigorous,...
The People of the Mist is a classic lost race fantasy novel. It is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and its monstrous...
Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Bronte vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something...
In Elissa Henry Rider Haggard takes his readers to the Phoenician city in South Central Africa the mysterious ruins of which have been the subject of so much speculation and research in the recent past.A...
Aleksandr Valentinovich Amfiteatrov - izvestnyj zhurnalist svoego vremeni, pisatel, mnogotomnaja proza kotorogo nezasluzhenno zabyta v nashi dni. I khotja lichnost Amfiteatrova poka ne assotsiiruetsja...
Kniga "Sozhzhjonnaja Moskva" opisyvaet sobytija Otechestvennoj vojny 1812 goda, rasskazyvaet o zhizni obychnykh ljudej, kotorye v rokovoj chas smogli stat nastojaschimi gerojami. Eto povestvovanie o beschinstvakh...
Grigorij Petrovich Danilevskij - pisatel, publitsist, perevodchik, avtor khudozhestvennykh i istoricheskikh proizvedenij, nashedshikh priznanie i v Rossii, i za rubezhom.Kniga "Ukrainskaja starina", v...
A subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's most profound works. Taken from the poverty of her parents' home, Fanny Price is brought up with her...
Mr. Meeson's Will is the story of mean Mr. Meeson, the greedy and wealthy owner of a publishing house. Augusta Smithers is a young writer who enters into an unfair contract with Meeson. In order to make...
The hero of the story is Alan Vernon, a young retired army major, who, after undergoing financial ruin, decides to travel to Africa to make his fortune, in hopes of eventually winning the hand of beautiful...
The Red Rover presents some of the first serious depictions of characters of African lineage in American literature. The novel follows the activities of the sailor Dick Fid, free black sailor Scipio Africanus...
This is a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 1846 and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers,...
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form...
Arbuthnot has a sudden urge to travel to the Pacific islands after his wife's death. He gets on a yacht with two friends, Bickley, a doctor, Bastin, a minister, and Arbuthnot's dog, Tommy. The craft is...
A Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a brother entering her life... and soon finds herself face-to-face...
This is a historical novel about a Dutch woman who is caught up in the terrors of the Spanish Inquisition during the 1500s. This lively and heart-rending story by Henry Rider Haggard will remind each reader...
Tretij roman Vladimira Orlova "Shevrikuka, ili Ljubov k privideniju" iz avtorskogo sbornika misticheskikh romanov "Ostankinskie istorii" s bleskom obedinil mistiku i sotsialnuju satiru v istorii o moskovskikh...
Leonid Andreev - odin iz samykh jarkikh predstavitelej literatury Serebrjanogo veka, osnovopolozhnik russkogo ekspressionizma, v proze kotorogo prichudlivo perepletajutsja povsednevnaja dejstvitelnost...
Leonid Andreev - odin iz jarkikh predstavitelej literatury Serebrjanogo veka, osnovopolozhnik russkogo ekspressionizma, v proze kotorogo prichudlivo perepletajutsja povsednevnaja dejstvitelnost i simvolicheskie,...
