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"My Man Jeeves and Other Early Jeeves Stories" is a collection of short stories concerning P. G. Wodehouse's most beloved character, Jeeves. This collection brings together all the stories found in the book «My Man Jeeves» as well as four other early stories. Contained in this volume you will find the following hilarious tales: Leave it to Jeeves, Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest, Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg, Absent Treatment, Helping Freddie, Rallying Round Old George, Doing Clarence...
| Автор | Wodehouse Wodehouse |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer who lived at the turn of the 20th century. His works explored a number of subjects such as philosophy, poetry, journalism, lectures, criticism, and theatrical plays. However, his best-known stories feature the character of an English priest and detective named Father Brown. While the character was based on a real priest who was involved in Chesterton's own conversion of faith, the adventures and mysteries that Father Brown solves are purely...
| Автор | G. K. Chesterton |
Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) was a British writer, whose witty works satirizing Edwardian society and culture led him to be known as a master of the short story. Munro, better recognized by the pen name Saki, produced works that contrasted the conventions and hypocrisies of Edwardian England with the uncomplicated and sometimes cruel state of nature, a conflict which the latter usually won. This complete edition of short stories will entertain readers with its wonderfully intricate characters,...
| Автор | H. H. Munro |
First published in 1902, “Just So Stories” is Rudyard Kipling’s classic collection of animal fables and poetry. This collection grew out of nighttime story-telling between Rudyard and his daughter Josephine. The peculiar name is drawn from her insistence that these tales, which were origin stories describing how animals got their most distinctive features, be told “just so”. This volume reproduces the complete edition of “Just So Stories” which includes the following stories: “How The Whale Got...
| Автор | Редьярд Киплинг |
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an author, essayist and political activist whose works addressed the complex issues of racial and social identity at the turn of the century. Chesnutt's early works explored political issues somewhat indirectly, with the intention of changing the attitudes of Caucasians slowly and carefully. His characters deal with difficult issues of miscegenation, illegitimacy, racial identity and social place. They also expose the anguish of mix-race men and women and...
| Автор | Charles W. Chesnutt |
“The Return of Sherlock Holmes” is a collection of thirteen detective stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous literary creation, Sherlock Holmes. These tales originally appeared in magazines in 1903 and 1904 and were published together as a collection in 1905. Doyle had stopped writing Sherlock Holmes stories after 1893, when Holmes appeared to have died in “The Final Problem”. However, the public continued to press Doyle for more tales of his most famous character, especially after...
| Автор | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
“Billy Budd” is the final work of American author Herman Melville which was discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and first published in Raymond Weaver’s 1924 edition of “The Collected Works of Melville.” The emergence of that collection as well as Weaver’s 1921 biography, “Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic”, sparked a revival of interest in the forgotten writer. Despite the complex and incomplete nature of the manuscript excitement arose around this “new” Melville...
| Автор | Herman Melville |
Early 20th century English author Gilbert Keith Chesterton may be best remembered for his stories which feature the character of an English priest and detective named Father Brown. While the character was based on a real life priest who was involved in Chesterton’s own conversion of faith, the adventures and mysteries that Father Brown solves are purely fictional. Collected together here are fifteen of Chesterton’s most thrilling Father Brown tales which were first collected in “The Innocence of...
| Автор | G. K. Chesterton |
Though little is known about Marie de France, her work changed romantic writing forever. “The Lais of Marie de France” challenged social norms and the views of the church during the twelfth century concerning both love and the role of women. She wrote within a court unknown to scholars, in a form of Anglo-Norman French. Inspired by the Greeks and Romans long before her, Marie de France sought to write something not only morally instructive, but memorable, leaving an indelible imprint on the...
| Автор | Marie de France |
This edition brings together the complete Christmas books and short stories of Charles Dickens. 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...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an author, essayist and political activist whose works addressed the complex issues of racial and social identity at the turn of the century. Chesnutt's early works explored political issues somewhat indirectly, with the intention of changing the attitudes of Caucasians slowly and carefully. His characters deal with difficult issues of miscegenation, illegitimacy, racial identity and social place. The stories in «The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales»...
| Автор | Charles W. Chesnutt |
The work of William James contributed greatly to the burgeoning fields of psychology, particularly in the areas of education, religion, mysticism and pragmatism. The brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James, William wrote several powerful essays expressing his ideas on the pragmatic theory of truth, sentience, and human beings' right to believe. In «The Will to Believe», James suggests that what a person holds to be true or attainable may exist through that person's...
| Автор | William James |
Considered one of the greatest short story writers of her generation, Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer from New Zealand. This collection includes thirty-five of her most popular stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: «The Tiredness of Rosabel», «At Lehmann's», «Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding», «The Swing of the Pendulum», «The Woman at the Store», «How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped», «Ole Underwood», «Millie», «Bains Turcs'», «The Little Governess»,...
| Автор | Katherine Mansfield |
This vintage book contains Vernon Lee's 1890 supernatural horror novel, “Oke of Okehurst – Or, the Phantom Lover”. “Vernon Lee” was the pen name of British author Violet Paget (1856–1935). Paget was a renowned author of popular supernatural fiction and was a prolific writer of books on the subject of aesthetics. This fantastic volume is highly recommended for lovers of spooky and chilling literature, and it would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf. Other notable works by this...
| Автор | Vernon Lee |
This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace by trying to secure a legal separation from her husband. After the split, Maupassant lived with his mother till he was thirteen, and inherited her love of classical literature. In 1880, Maupassant published his first – and,...
| Автор | Guy de Maupassant |
Uncle Wiggily Longears is one of the most beloved and enduring characters of children’s literature. The creation of American author Howard R. Garis, the charming Uncle Wiggily is an elderly rabbit who uses a crutch to get around and often visits with and helps his many friends and neighbors, such as his nephew and niece Sammie and Susie Littletail, Dr. Possum, Jennie Chipmunk, Dottie and Willie Lambkin, the friendly bear cubs Neddie and Beckie Stubtail, and many more. The first Uncle Wiggily...
| Автор | Howard R. Garis |
Когда человеку хорошо и все удается, он, как правило, этого совершенно не замечает. Привычно, понятно, плохое со мной никогда не случится, и я буду узнавать о проблемах из газет. Но никому еще не удавалось проехать по жизни без аварий и буреломов. В счастливую семью может однажды прийти измена, и хорошо если муж уйдет к другой. В наше время он может уйти к другому! Родители стареют и у них портится характер, дети растут и подкидывают свои сюрпризы. Нас предают и мы предаем, нам врут и мы врем....
| Автор | Эдуард Шатов |
Первая книга двухтомника «Пушкин. Бродский. Империя и судьба» пронизана пушкинской темой. Пушкин – «певец империи и свободы» – присутствует даже там, где он впрямую не упоминается, ибо его судьба, как и судьба других героев книги, органично связана с трагедией великой империи. Хроника «Гибель Пушкина, или Предощущение катастрофы» – это не просто рассказ о последних годах жизни великого поэта, историка, мыслителя, но прежде всего попытка показать его провидческую мощь. Он отчаянно пытался...
| Автор | Яков Гордин |
Герои второй части книги «Пушкин. Бродский. Империя и судьба» – один из наиболее значительных русских поэтов XX века Иосиф Бродский, глубокий исторический романист Юрий Давыдов и великий просветитель историк Натан Эйдельман. У каждого из них была своя органичная связь с Пушкиным. Каждый из них по-своему осмыслял судьбу Российской империи и империи советской. У каждого была своя империя, свое представление о сути имперской идеи и свой творческий метод ее осмысления. Их объединяло и еще одно...
| Автор | Яков Гордин |
Игорь Свинаренко – прозаик, журналист и редактор – еще одним своим профессиональным занятием сделал застольную беседу. А с кем в России поговорить по душам и со вкусом? Конечно, с ВПЗР, «Великими писателями Земли Русской». Аббревиатура эта иронична лишь отчасти, многие литераторы применяют ее к себе всерьез, особенно если разговор застольный, а собеседник умело провоцирует и подначивает – по этой части он мастер. Сорок писателей приоткрыли ему душу (порой не стесняясь в выражениях), а он собрал...
| Автор | Игорь Свинаренко |
Ставятся и обсуждаются вопросы главным образом гуманитарного характера, вытекающие из анализа результатов космической деятельности, полученных за истекшие 50 лет с начала космической эры. Высказываются соображения и обсуждаются вопросы, связанные с ограниченностью ресурсов Земли и возможностей Человека, а также выясняется исключительно важная роль ограничений фундаментального характера, определяющих по существу границы возможностей людей в познавательной и созидательной деятельности. В качестве...
| Автор | Г. Г. Вокин |
Эта книга внешне относится к жанру литературной критики, точней литературно-философских эссе. Однако автор ставил перед собой несколько другую, более общую задачу: с помощью анализа формы романов Федора Достоевского и Скотта Фитцджеральда выявить в них идейные концепции, выходящие за пределы тех, которыми обычно руководствуются писатели, разрабатывая тот или иной сюжет. В данном случае речь идет об идейных концепциях судеб русской культуры и европейской цивилизации. Или более конкретно: западной...
| Автор | Александр Суконик |
Back at dinner, somebody said that the goose thinks it’s a dog. No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t think it’s a dog. The goose doesn’t think. The goose just is. And what the goose is is goose. But goose is not goose, Robert thinks. Even the goose isn’t goose.In Good Trouble, the first story collection from Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland, characters are forced to discover exactly who they are, and who they can never quite be.There’s Rob, who swears he is a dependable member of society, but can’t...
| Автор | Joseph O’Neill |
The very best of Le Fanu’s supernatural fiction, including such classics as: ‘Schalken the Painter’, ‘Squire Toby's Will’, ‘Mr Justice Harbottle’, ‘The Familiar’, ‘Green Tea’, ‘Madam Crowl’s Ghost’ and ‘The Murdered Cousin’, introduced by genre expert Michael Cox.‘Sheridan Le Fanu,’ wrote S.M. Ellis in 1916, ‘retains his own special place and fame as the Master of Horror and the Mysterious.’Today, Le Fanu’s reputation is as high as ever amongst connoisseurs of supernatural and mystery...
| Автор | J.S. Le Fanu |