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“The Death of Ivan Ilyich” tells a tale of a man in his 40s who has spent his entire life climbing the social ladder in Russia. Barely tolerant of his wife and generally indifferent to the other people around him, Ivan has a minor accident hanging curtains in a new apartment that proves to be a terminal injury. As his life slowly and painfully spirals inexorably toward death, Ivan struggles immensely against what he perceives to be an unfair fate. Only in the end does he see how he might have...
| Автор | Leo Tolstoy |
"The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories" by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and...
| Автор | Иван Тургенев, Ivan Turgenev |
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) stands as one of Russia's most influential authors. Along with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, he helped shape the Russian novel and consequently the Russian identity. Born into wealth, Turgenev had a compelling vision of nobility and the perils of serfdom. His profound novels and short stories made him internationally revered. In this collection of short stories, Turgenev characterizes the «superfluous man»—an archetype which becomes central to the rest of his work and...
| Автор | Ivan Turgenev |
Body of Thought by Mary M Thompson. What is real, and what isn't? The revelation is ours to discover.
| Автор | Mary M Thompson |
10 short stories; different voices; unsettling content; gender bending; experimental.
| Автор | Michael K Freundt |
Публицистическая поэма-аллюзия о временах и современниках с лирическими отступлениями и прозаическими комментариями – честно и от души. Книга содержит нецензурную брань.
| Автор | Константин Кривчиков |
Enter the dark worlds created by Edgar Allen Poe in the collection «The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales.» Poe emphasizes morbidity and death through his tales and poems, and this anthology holds all of Poe's best and most famous works from throughout his career. In «The Fall of the House of Usher,» a man and his sister suffer from a strange, debilitating illness. Her death drives him to the point of madness, and the fragile mansion falls along with the Usher family line. It is...
| Автор | Эдгар По |
"The Garden Party, and Other Stories" by Katherine Mansfield. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
| Автор | Katherine Mansfield |
Katherine Mansfield is often recognized as one of the true innovators of the modern short story. The New Zealand-born Englishwoman embraced a Bohemian lifestyle and became involved in a series of scandalous relationships, which greatly influenced some of her most significant work. Her best-known writings were produced in her final years, as she was plagued by illness. Her fiction is dominated by themes of male-female relationships, sexual ambivalence, and gender roles. Most of her work focuses...
| Автор | Katherine Mansfield |
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is credited alongside James Joyce as the creator of the modern short story. The New Zealand-born Englishwoman embraced a Bohemian lifestyle and became involved in a series of scandalous relationships, which greatly influenced some of her most significant work. Her best-known writings were produced in her final years, as she was plagued by illness. Her fiction is dominated by themes of male-female relationships, sexual ambivalence and gender roles. Most of her work...
| Автор | Katherine Mansfield |
Собственные размышления о том, какие же все-таки проявления дружбы считать истинными. Мне повезло столкнуться со всеми описанными проявлениями.
| Автор | Татьяна Михайловна Коробкова |
В новую книгу Георгия Баженова вошли его роман-портрет «Музы сокровенного художника», письма сестре Элеоноре, дневники матери и записки родной тёти, а также интервью и критическая статья о творчестве автора.
| Автор | Георгий Баженов |
O. Henry, O. Hooper Henry и др.
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story, written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter), about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been a popular one for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time. The plot and its «twist ending» are well-known, and the ending is generally considered an example of...
| Автор | O. Henry, O. Hooper Henry и др. |
O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, is one of the most famous short story writers of all times whose stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. O. Henry is so acknowledged as a great short story writer that his pen name is associated with a prestigious American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. Included in this collection of «The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories» is the title story which describes the struggles...
| Автор | O. Henry |
O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, is one of the most famous short story writers of all times whose stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. O. Henry is so acknowledged as a great short story writer that his pen name is associated with a prestigious American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. Included in this collection of «The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories» is the title story which describes the struggles...
| Автор | O. Henry |
Jack London was born into abject poverty in the slums of San Francisco during the winter of 1876. His writing was to reflect the hard life he lived, perpetually chronicling men facing the wild as he did throughout his life. After his eighth grade year, poverty forced London to leave school. This did not stop him, as he furthered his literary knowledge and skill at the Oakland Public Library, borrowing books and educating himself. London faced great obstacles, even landing himself in a Niagara...
| Автор | Jack London |
