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Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekov и др.
IN the village of Reybuzh, just facing the church, stands a two-storeyed house with a stone foundation and an iron roof. In the lower storey the owner himself, Filip Ivanov Kashin, nicknamed Dyudya, lives with his family, and on the upper floor, where it is apt to be very hot in summer and very cold in winter, they put up government officials, merchants, or landowners, who chance to be travelling that way. Dyudya rents some bits of land, keeps a tavern on the highroad, does a trade in tar,...
| Автор | Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekov и др. |
The Yellow Wallpaper is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the nineteenth century toward women's physical and mental health. The story also has been classified as Gothic fiction and horror fiction. The story is written as a collection of first person journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house that he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working, and has...
| Автор | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Мы знаем Диану Арбенину – поэта. Знаем Арбенину – музыканта. За драйвом мы бежим на электрические концерты «Ночных Снайперов»; заполняем залы, где на сцене только она, гитара и микрофон. Настоящее соло. Пронзительное и по-снайперски бескомпромиссное. Настало время узнать Арбенину – прозаика. Это новый, и тоже сольный проект. Пора остаться наедине с артистом, не скованным ни рифмой, ни нотами. Диана Арбенина остается «снайпером» и здесь – ни одного выстрела в молоко. Ее проза хлесткая, жесткая,...
| Автор | Диана Арбенина |
One of the classic short stories based around the American Civil War. A story of a man joining a conflict because of betrayal and finding no safe place to hide in the horror of war.
| Автор | Ambrose Bierce |
A story of how a straight forward order can come to haunt an officer who did not question enough.
| Автор | Ambrose Bierce |
Born into poverty in San Francisco in 1876, Jack London is one of the most well-known and beloved of all American authors, as well as one of the first Americans to become world famous and wealthy from his literary career. London lived a colorful and adventurous life as a young man, working as a sailor and then living as a hobo, all before starting high school. After dropping out of college at Berkeley, London joined the Klondike Gold Rush, an experience which would form the basis of many of his...
| Автор | Jack London |
"To Build a Fire and Other Stories" is a classic collection of some of Jack London's most loved short stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: To The Man On The Trail, The White Silence, In A Far Country, The Wisdom Of The Trail, An Odyssey Of The North, The Law Of Life, The God Of His Fathers, Bâtard, The League Of The Old Men, Love Of Life, The Wit Of Porportuk, To Build A Fire, All Gold Canyon, The Apostate, South Of The Slot, The Chinago, A Piece Of Steak,...
| Автор | Jack London |
This ebook is a compilation of short stories written by author Sherwood Anderson and published in 1921. It includes some of his greatest works: «The Egg,» a story about the struggle to find success and happiness in the American Midwest, «I'm a Fool,» about a young man who sabotages his chance at love because of his own feelings of inferiority, and «I Want to Know Why,» about the confusion and desperation felt by a boy entering adulthood. Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories is highly...
| Автор | Sherwood Anderson |
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was a novelist and short story writer who has been recognized as one of the most innovative and important American authors of his time. He was a prolific writer, publishing seven novels and myriad collections of essays, memoirs, poetry and short stories. Anderson wrote in a characteristically simple prose style, and his unconventional techniques caused him to at first be written off. However, his unique exploration of the unconscious and its effect on behavior...
| Автор | Sherwood Anderson |
Эта книга – о войне едва обретшей государственную самостоятельность Грузии против южных осетин. Автор рассказывает о том, что видел своими глазами и что видели очевидцы – друзья и помощники, единомышленники и противники, – те, кого он знал до написания первой строки и с кем познакомился в процессе работы над книгой. Среди них есть люди военные и те, кто никогда не носил погон, есть журналисты и домохозяйки, политики и историки, писатели и технари, музыканты и экономисты, бывшие сотрудники...
| Автор | Сергей Стукало |
Кто такие «цифровики»? Есть ли разница между деструктивной сектой и российскими реформаторами? Как наших детей уже сегодня загоняют в электронный концлагерь? Почему обучение с планшетом приводит ребенка к умственной деградации? Кому выгодно дебилизировать российских школьников? Каким образом ТНК превращаются в тоталитарные секты? О реформе российской школы, цифровизации нашей жизни, о взаимосвязях сектантов, оккультистов, ТНК и реформаторов, единым фронтом выступающих против свободы и...
| Автор | Ольга Четверикова |
"Twice-Told Tales" is one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most loved collections of short stories. Presented here is the complete collection of tales which includes the following: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Wedding-Knell, The Minister's Black Veil, The Maypole of Merry Mount, The Gentle Boy, Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, Little Annie's Ramble, Wakefield, A Rill From the Town Pump, The Great Carbuncle, The Prophetic Pictures, David Swan, Sights From a Steeple, The...
| Автор | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
В Санкт-Петербурге существует знаменитая тюрьма «Кресты». Главный герой проводит там почти ровно год. Как попадают в «Кресты», как там живут, чем кормят, где спят, как моются, рассказывает эта книга. В конце ее автор дает советы, как вести себя в тюрьме. Как остаться в живых. Как максимально сохранить здоровье. Как приблизить свободу.
| Автор | Леон Малин |
