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Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was a popular children's author of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Aside from being an author, she devoted her life to the cause of children's education, helping to establish the first free kindergarten in San Francisco. In «The Arabian Nights» Wiggin gives us renditions of such classic tales as "Sinbad, «Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,» and «Aladdin.» For children and adults alike, these exotic tales set in a land far away are now international...
| Автор | Kate Douglas Wiggin |
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1891) made her name as an abolitionist and author most noted for her 1832 breakout novel «Uncle Tom's Cabin.» Here are collected three of Beecher's most treasured short stories. In «Betty's Bright Idea,» a sweet young girl forms a bond with a poor family and is determined to help them make a better life for themselves. In «Deacon Pitkin's farm,» a young boy whose family can no longer afford payments on their house chooses to forego schooling in...
| Автор | Гарриет Бичер-Стоу |
Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known for his psychological works of fiction. His characters and plots all carry psychosomatic troubles and problems that help make the stories more relatable to the reader. «Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories» combines some of Dostoyevsky's shorter works, though they certainly do not lack for depth. «Notes from Underground» is widely known as the first existential novel because of the raving, maniacal, and incoherent ramblings of...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Arthur Machen (1863-1947), popular Welsh writer of the bizarre and fantastic, created some of the finest horror stories ever written. He produced works that would later have a profound influence on science fiction author H. P. Lovecraft, and the contemporary horror genre as a whole. This novel contains what are considered to be Machen's best works, written as a set of interwoven tales that shocked his Victorian contemporaries with their risqué subject matter and wonderfully eerie...
| Автор | Arthur Machen |
Because of his frank and honest portrayal of human sexuality in the controversial works for which he is best known, e.g. «Lady Chatterley’s Lover» and «Women in Love», D. H. Lawrence was not widely respected in his day. In fact at the time of his death he was considered little more than a pornographer. However E. M. Forester challenged this portrayal calling Lawrence «The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation», and with his extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity...
| Автор | Lawrence Lawrence |
While readers will be most familiar with «The Christmas Carol» in which Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts who endeavor to show him the error of his miserly ways just in time for Christmas, Dickens also wrote four other Christmas themed books. These include «The Chimes», the story of Toby «Trotty» Veck, a poor working-class man who has lost his faith in humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness; «The Cricket on the Hearth», the story of John Peerybingle and...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
"Daisy Miller" is one of Henry James's most popular tales, it is the story of a young American woman who while traveling in Europe is courted by Frederick Winterbourne. Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878, «Daisy Miller» is a novel that plays upon the contrast between American and European society, a theme common to James's work. The title character's youthful innocence is sharply contrasted with the sophistication of European society in this fatefully...
| Автор | Генри Джеймс |
"Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories" is a collection of short stories that includes «Dracula's Guest,» «The Judge's House,» «The Squaw,» «The Secret of the Growing Gold,» «A Gipsy Prophecy,» «The Coming of Abel Behenna,» «The Burial of the Rats,» «A Dream of Red Hands,» and «Crooken Hands.» Among the most captivating of these tales is «Dracula's Guest,» which is widely believed to be the first chapter of Stoker's original «Dracula» manuscript. A young...
| Автор | Bram Stoker |
Henry James (1843-1916) was an America-born writer whose novels, short stories and letters established the foundation of the modernist movement in twentieth century fiction and poetry. His career, one of the most significant and influential in English literature, spanned over five decades and resulted in a body of work that has had a profound impact on generations of writers. Born in New York, but educated in France, Germany, England and Switzerland, James often explored the cultural discord...
| Автор | Генри Джеймс |
After a brief military career, the illustrious Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky quickly turned to writing as a profession with the publication of his first novel, «Poor Folk,» in 1846. This novel sparked a literary career that would eventually cement Dostoyevsky's reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth century. Early participation in a literary/political group landed the writer in exile in Siberia for nearly a decade, an experience which had a profound influence on...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Henry James (1843-1916) was an America-born English writer whose novels, short stories and letters established the foundation of the modernist movement in twentieth century fiction and poetry. His career, one of the most significant and influential in English literature, spanned over five decades and resulted in a body of work that has had a profound impact on generations of writers. Born in New York, but educated in France, Germany, England and Switzerland, James often explored the cultural...
| Автор | Генри Джеймс |
"TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" And so begins «The Tell-Tale Heart», that compressed tale of Gothic composition. The characters and images that Edgar Allan Poe has gifted us are plentiful. Hugely influential to the short story genre, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) remains a lion of American letters. His morose explorations of human depravity render his tales exceptionally captivating. Here, in Volume II of II, is contained...
| Автор | Эдгар По |
"In a Glass Darkly", which was first published in 1872, collects together five classic gothic horror and mystery short stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. In «Green Tea» we have the story of Jennings, a clergyman who believes he is being followed by a demon in the form of a monkey. In «The Familiar» we have the tale of a sea captain who is stalked by 'the watcher'. «Mr. Justice Harbottle», the third installment of the work, relates the plight of Elijah Harbottle, who finds himself...
| Автор | Joseph Le Sheridan |
Considered by many to be one of the greatest horror fiction writers of all time, H. P. Lovecraft was certainly a pioneer of the genre. Contained here are 24 of the author's classic stories. This collection includes the following tales: The Alchemist, The Beast in the Cave, Memory, The Picture in the House, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Dagon, The White Ship, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Doom That Came to Sarnath, Poetry and the Gods, Nyarlathotep, The Cats of Ulthar, Polaris, The...
| Автор | Lovecraft Lovecraft |
Дорогие читатели, представляем вам авторскую рубрику «Философский вердикт» – это рубрика, где автор высказывает свою философскую точку зрения о разных фильмах современности и прошлого. Вы познакомитесь с лучшими философскими вердиктами рубрики о лучших фильмах в истории человечества, по мнению автора. Каждый вердикт не претендует на истину. Автор лишь расскажет о своём субъективном взгляде на кинокартины, заслуживающие вашего внимания. Добро пожаловать в философские миры лучших кинопроизведений...
| Автор | Виталий Александрович Кириллов |
В книге «Всё, что должно разрешиться» Захар Прилепин выступил не как писатель – но как слушатель и летописец, военкор и поставщик гуманитарной помощи на Донбасс, майор армии ДНР и советник главы республики Александра Захарченко. Перед вами – «Письма с Донбасса», расширенное и значительно дополненное издание первой хроники войны на Донбассе. Кто первым взял в руки оружие и откуда оно взялось. Как появился на Украине Моторола. Кто такой Захарченко и чего от него ждать. Как всё начиналось – и чем...
| Автор | Захар Прилепин |
Быть может, у меня ничего не получилось, но я так не думаю. Перед вами – итоги моих болезненных размышлений о нашем с вами Отечестве. Чтоб понять, кто мы и зачем, нужно было заново пересобрать все представления, и я бережно, с тщанием ребёнка, пересобрал. В какой точке бытия находимся мы и куда следуем. Что есть Родина. Какое отношение мы имеем к Древней Руси. Насколько близки к нам князья династии Рюриковичей и кто для нас Грозный Иоанн. Как мы из дня нынешнего видим «белых», и что нам...
| Автор | Захар Прилепин |
Евгений Сатановский: «На страницах этой книги перед читателем развернется удивительная географическая мозаика – Россия и постсоветское пространство, Восточная Европа и Балканы, США и Латинская Америка, Африка и Афганистан, Ближний Восток и Карибы… А поскольку наблюдательность у Игоря Ротаря редкостная, в итоге складывается впечатление, что сам с ним во всех объезженных им уголках планеты побывал. Что несомненно лучше и много безопаснее для читателя, чем пытаться повторить его маршруты, большая...
| Автор | Игорь Ротарь |
Augustus "Gus" Belmont was your typical commercial airline pilot. Late forties, divorced with one kid, he lived life as he saw it. The only problem:<br>he was dying. And, Gus was a Rat.<br><br>Kristin Belmont was Gus's daughter–smart, beautiful, a college senior with the entire world ahead of her. She was not a Rat–though she could see and talk with ghosts.<br><br>Gus faced his mortality with ticked off stoicism, but he...
| Автор | R.A. Comunale M.D. M.D. |
Much of the text in the Bible is in the form of stories. From Old Testament tales of the patriarchs to the parables of Jesus, the reader is confronted with a variety of narratives. Even in those places where Bible writers are making and explaining statements of fact, there is a story in the background. What do these stories mean? Bible teacher, writer, and publisher Henry Neufeld thinks that's the wrong question to ask. (Yes, there are bad questions ) We spend a great deal of time trying...
| Автор | Henry E. Neufeld |
It's all about scars and what they mean.<br /> <br />Old myths made new.<br /> <br />Poems for those who've passed.<br />Tales of the lost and found.<br /> <br />Rarely seen stories, reprinted.<br />Brand new stories – in new places and familiar words.<br /> <br />Scar Tissue and other stories.<br /> <br />Holmes <font face="Segoe UI Symbol">♥</font> Watson<br />Ravenfall<br />Kitty and...
| Автор | Narrelle M Harris |
Thwarted ambition, talent turned sour, supernatural encounters, last chances for redemption. The characters of these stories all face crucial turning points in their lives that reveal their true colours.<br /> <br />From Emilie Collyer – the author of A Clean Job and other stories – comes a collection of speculative fiction with a darkly humorous flavour, that will put a twist in how you see the world.<br /> <br />Autopsy of a Comedian<br />A forensic pathologist is...
| Автор | Emilie Collyer |
Take a look inside The Book Vault and discover award-winning crime and speculative fiction from Liz Filleul:<br /> <br />The Book Vault includes Liz's prize-winning entries in the annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards; along with The Punishment Book, a novelette based on one of those stories.<br /> <br />Not What You Think We Are<br />An exploited former gymnast builds a team of tiny champions after discovering a dark family secret<br /> <br />Crime...
| Автор | Liz Filleul |
He was Gaetano Salvidienus Rufus, better known by most simply as The Sicilian. He had been raised by the Greek, Apollodorus, upon the Mediterranean island of Sicily after his father Quintus Salvidienus Rufus had been executed by Mark Antony as a traitor, even though his father had secretly been working for the young Roman prince, Octavian.<P> Octavian, who was the nephew, adopted son—and heir to the Great Julius Caesar.<P> Caesar had been assassinated and soon afterwards had become...
| Автор | Gary Lovisi |