Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories - all of them had been published earlier, independently. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, the collection...
A Study in Scarlet (first published in 1987) marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most famous characters in popular fiction. Although Conan Doyle wrote...
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is Joyce's first novel. Written in the modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego...
Jacobs published his English Fairy Tales in 1890 and More English Fairytales in 1894 but also went on after and in between both books to publish fairy tales collected from continental Europe as well as...
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is...
The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the story of a handsome young man, whose full-length portrait was painted by Basil Hallward, an artist infatuated by Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry...
Vanity Fair was first published in 1848, with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. The story follows...
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) belongs to the classics of early science fiction. It tells the story of Edward Prendick a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat and left on the island home of Doctor...
The War of the Worlds (1898) is a science fiction novel, telling about a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel has been both popular and influential, spawning half a dozen feature...
Romeo and Juliet, continuing the tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity, tells the story of two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It...
Shakespeare's Sonnets, first published in a 1609, is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The author plays with gender...
Treasure Island, first published in 1883, is an adventure novel, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". It is traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, and is noted for its atmosphere,...
New Arabian Nights, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories, containing Stevenson's first published fiction, highly acclaimed by literary critics as pioneering works in the English short...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is a novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River, set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg. Tom Sawyer is more than a boyhood adventure story,...
The Time Machine is a science fiction novel (1895) about time travel by way of using a vehicle that allowed its operator to travel forwards or backwards in time. The novel has since been adapted into three...
Named after the first story the collection When God Laughs and Other Stories explores themes for which London became famous: the struggle for survival in the midst of hostile environments, human nature's...
The Sea-Wolf, first published in 1904, is a psychological adventure novel. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under...
The First Men in the Moon (1901) is a scientific romance; the novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist,...
The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella originally published in 1897. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to...
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll,...
The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. The novel is noted for its accurate portrayal of the East Coast American upper class,...
King Lear depicts the gradual descent into madness of the title character, an ageing British monarch. He intends to divide his monarchy among his three daughters, challenging them to to prove which of...
The Black Arrow was first published in 1888. Being both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel, The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of Roses: the young...
Paradise Lost (1667) an epic poem written in blank verse, is considered to be Milton's major work. It certainly helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time.The poem...
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, was written between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called to wreak upon...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) tells the story of a Yankee engineer from Connecticut who is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants...
Le Petit Prince est une oeuvre la plus connue de Saint-Exupery. Publie en 1943 a New York simultanement a sa traduction anglaise, c'est un conte poetique et philosophique sous l'apparence dun conte pour...
Pietarissa syntynyt Pjotr Ivanoff (1868-1937) eli poikkeuksellisen mielenkiintoisen elämän. Tsaarille uskollisena pysynyt seikkailunhaluinen Ivanoff palvelu Pietarissa Keisarillisessa Henkivartiokaartissa,...
"Древние тюрки" - знаменитая работа гениального русского историка, географа и мыслителя Льва Николаевича Гумилева (1912-1992), посвященная сравнительно мало изученному периоду мировой истории VI-VIII вв....
Книга, которую трудно отнести к какому либо жанру. Одни влюбляются в нее. Другие критикуют и яростно ненавидят. Неповторимый стиль автора и громкая музыка, что доносится из каждой страницы этого тихого...
Роман Станислава Шуляка "Русское народное порно" пребывает в русле традиции, не особенно прижившейся в отечественной литературе, традиции, представленной такими авторами, как Маркиз де Сад, Дэвид Герберт...
Аркадий Аверченко обладал удивительной способностью изобретать остроумные сюжеты, создавать массу смешных положений, диалогов и импровизаций. Его герои обыватели большого города, с их нелепостью, глупостью,...
Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать...
Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать...
Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать...
Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать...
Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать...
Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать...
Роман Томаса Харди "Тэсс из рода д'Эрбервиллей: чистая женщина, правдиво изображённая" на английском языке, вошел в серию книг зарубежной классики. "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - коллекция,...
