"Wilhelm von Kaulbach, war ein deutscher Maler, der durch gro? e Wand - und Deckengemalde mit geschichtlichem Inhalt und Literaturillustrationen bekannt wurde. 1839/40 beauftragte ihn der Stuttgarter Verleger...
Dracula (a Gothic horror novel, first published in 1897) tells the story of the vampire Count Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead...
Serija knig "Zarubezhnaja klassika - chitaj v originale" - eto bessmertnye proizvedenija velikikh masterov pera, napisannye imi na ikh rodnom jazyke i narechii. Knigi iz etoj serii pomogut chitatelju uglublenno...
Serija knig "Zarubezhnaja klassika - chitaj v originale" - kollektsija, kotoraja sobrana iz bessmertnykh proizvedenij velikikh masterov pera, napisannykh imi na ikh rodnom jazyke. Knigi iz etoj serii pomogut...
Serija knig "Zarubezhnaja klassika - chitaj v originale" - eto bessmertnye proizvedenija velikikh masterov pera, napisannye imi na ikh rodnom jazyke i narechii. Knigi iz etoj serii pomogut chitatelju uglublenno...
Znamenityj srednevekovyj traktat "Molot vedm" napisan v kontse XV veka teologami-dominikantsami Ja.Shprengerom i G.Institorisom. Etot trud obedinil opyt borby inkvizitsii s mnogochislennymi eresjami, stav...
Krigsmans tid - den svenska tidens ständiga knekthåll i Nykarleby socken 1734-1810. Boken behandlar rotesoldatens värld, villkor och verklighet från antagning till avgång, hans härkomst och familjebild...
Anton Chekhov was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his...
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging,...
Eto izdanie otkryvaet novyj perevod "Gamleta" U. Shekspira, vypolnennyj izvestnym peterburgskim perevodchikom S.A. Stepanovym na osnove utochnennogo originalnogo teksta tragedii. V knigu voshel podrobnyj...
V knigu voshli stikhotvorenija i poemy Gennadija Grigoreva (1950-2007), pozhaluj samogo jarkogo i populjarnogo poeta 1980-kh i 1990-kh godov. Mnogie stroki iz ego proizvedenij stali nastojaschimi khit...
Anton Chekhov was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his...
Crime and Punishment ( is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later...
Robinson Crusoe, a novel, first published in 1719, tells the story of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before being rescued....
The Great Gatsby (1925) follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire...
Tender is the Night (1934), tells the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst, and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald...
Three Men in a Boat, first published in 1889, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames, taken by three English gentlemen. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel...
Great Expectations, published in 1861, is the author's penultimate completed novel; narrated in the first person, it depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. The...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1892, is a collection of twelve short stories, featuring a fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, related in first-person narrative from the point of...
Sense and Sensibility was first published anonymously in 1811. The novel tells the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, both of age to marry, following their life in a country cottage, where they...
Pride and Prejudice, first published in 1813 tells the story of the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage.
Although Wuthehng Heights is now regarded as a classic of English literature, contemporary opinions were deeply polarized; the novel was considered controversial because of its naturalistic depiction of...
Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing...
Emma, first published in 1815, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores concerns and difficulties of genteel English women; she also...
Dubliners, a collection of fifteen short stories, first published in 1914, form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, first published in 1865, tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays...
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (first published in 1826) is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary readers. It is set in 1757, during the...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens, unfinished at the time of the author's death. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses on his uncle,...
The Hound of the Basketyilles is the third of the crime novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1901-1902. It tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical...
The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, first published in the Strand Magazine in 1914-1915. It is a captivating mystery about the murder of a certain John Douglas with a quite...
Northanger Abbey (1817) was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed, but it was published only after her death. The novel is a satire of the Gothic novels popular at the time. The heroine, Catherine,...
The Beautiful and Damned, first published in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York caf societu and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after...
