Классическая проза
10776 кн.
A striking novel of truth and soul-searching.Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks.Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes, relationships and actions and becomes increasingly uneasy about the person who is revealed to her…Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart, six bittersweet...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
An extraordinary story of war and friendship from one of America’s most revered authors of the 20th CenturyTwo teenagers form an unlikely friendship in pre-War Philadelphia. Al is obsessed with lifting weights, looking good and chasing girls. Birdy is obsessed with flight.Birdy’s passion becomes all-encompassing. Birdy wants to fly.A few years later these young men find themselves emotionally and physically scarred by Word War Two. Al is called to an army psychiatric hospital to help the doctors...
| Автор | Уильям Уортон |
The brilliant second novel from GMTV’s Penny Smith. A sequel to ‘Coming Up Next’, Katie Fisher’s back in front of the cameras, but not exactly on the sofa.Katie Fisher, one-time presenter of breakfast TV show Hello Britain!, nearly has her life in perfect order. She's recovered from her humiliating dismissal, improved her relationship with the drinks cabinet and, most importantly, found a gorgeous new TV producer boyfriend. But her dream job as a chat show host has come to an end and there...
| Автор | Penny Smith |
Two dazzling novellas from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451.Two previously unpublished novellas comprise this astonishing new volume from one of science fiction's greatest living writers. In the first, 'Somewhere a Band is Playing', newsman James Cardiff is lured through poetry and his fascination with a beautiful and enigmatic young woman to Summerton, Arizona. The small town's childless population hold an extraordinary secret which has been passed on for thousands of years unbeknownst...
| Автор | Рэй Брэдбери |
WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIESThe Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon’s two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one whose unprecedented scale shaped science fiction as we know it today.The Galactic Empire has prospered for twelve thousand years. Nobody suspects that the heart of the thriving Empire is rotten, until psychohistorian Hari...
| Автор | Айзек Азимов |
First ever illustrated eBook of the classic bestseller featuring more than 60 colour paintings and pencil drawings by the award-winning artist, Alan Lee, Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY.Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to...
| Автор | Alan Lee |
Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this immensely popular book. George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with...
| Автор | Джордж Оруэлл |
Перевод Марка Вовчка.
Научная редакция, примечания в тексте, и послесловие Я. И. Перельмана. IULES VERNE SANS DESSUS DESSOUS 1890 г.
| Автор | Жюль Верн |
| Жанр | Альтернативная история, попаданцы, Научная Фантастика, Классическая проза |
| Год | 1934 |
Небольшая лирическая зарисовка навеянная жарким летом, среди каменных джунглей столицы.
| Автор | Роман Иванов |
| Жанр | Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Классическая проза |
| Год | 2023 |
Colonial politics in 1930 Kyauktada, India, come to a head when the European Club, previously for whites only, is ordered to elect one token native member. The deeply racist members do their best to manipulate the situation, resulting in the loss not only of reputations, but of lives. Amidst this cynical setting, timber merchant James Flory stands as a bridge between the warring factions, a Brit with a genuine appreciation for the native people and culture. But he has trouble acting on his...
| Автор | Джордж Оруэлл |
Przejmująca i chwytająca za serce opowieść o tym, jak dokonywała się kasata czterechsetletniego klasztoru, wypędzenie z niego zakonnic i likwidacja kościoła, połączona z jego profanacją, nad czym czuwało wojsko i pewien bardzo srogi pułkownik. Fragment opowiadania: „Zabrano nam wszystko, co było majątkiem doczesnym, dającym się spieniężyć. Zostały pamiątki, relikwie, które obca ręka mogła sprofanować. Te trzeba było w pewnym miejscu od profanacji zabezpieczyć. Robiły się więc dniami całymi...
| Автор | Jan Łada |
सजर क कहनय सजर दवर परकशत सरवततम कहनय क सगरह ह। उददशय एक पठ म इकटठ करन ह ज जवन वशलषण और सकरतमक परतसथपन क लए आवशयक सहयत ह, यह तक क हतहत क असफलतओ क समन भ। यह सगरह पररणदयक ह और आप अदवतय कमत क लए ख नह सकत ह।
| Автор | Aldivan Teixeira Torres |
George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to "e;come up for air"e; from his life of quiet desperation. With seventeen pounds he has won at a race, he steals a vacation from his wife and his family and pays a visit to Lower Binfield, the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. But the pool is gone, Lower Binfield has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of Bowling's holiday is...
| Автор | Джордж Оруэлл |
Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a man living in Paris in the early 1930s without a penny. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his home city, London, where the world of poverty is different in externals only. A socialist who believed that the lower classes were the...
| Автор | Джордж Оруэлл |
Joyce's experimental masterpiece set a new standard for modernist fiction, pushing the English language past all previous thresholds in its quest to capture a day in the life of an Everyman in turn-of-the-century Dublin. Obliquely borrowing characters and situations from Homer's Odyssey, Joyce takes us on an internal odyssey along the current of thoughts, impressions, and experiences that make up the adventure of living an average day. As his characters stroll, eat, ruminate, and argue...
| Автор | Джеймс Джойс |
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than mans and yet as mortal as his own.So begins The War of the Worlds, the novel that made Wells famous and has enthralled and terrified readers and listeners for almost 100 years. Ten huge and tireless creatures land in England and, using their deadly rays and crushing strength, threaten the very existence of humankind. Wells' classic is not...
| Автор | H. G. Wells |
Toby Stephens and Juliet Aubrey star in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Wilkie Collins' chilling Gothic dramaA lonely stretch of road on Hampstead Heath is the venue for Walter Hartright's midnight first encounter with a mysteriously distressed figure in white. As he helps the woman to escape from unnamed pursuers, he has little understanding of the way she will affect his future. At Limmeridge House, in Cumberland, Walter meets and falls in love with Laura, who strangely...
| Автор | Уилки Коллинз |
Trzej muszkieterowie „Pierwsza połowa XVII wieku. Na francuskim tronie zasiada Ludwik XIII. W szeregach królewskiej gwardii służą trzej muszkieterowie Atos, Portos i Aramis… Pewnego dnia dołącza do nich młody Gaskończyk d’Artagnan. Już we czwórkę – w myśl dewizy „Jeden za wszystkich, wszyscy za jednego” – próbują pokrzyżować podstępne plany kardynała Richelieu, spełnić życzenie królowej Anny Austriaczki, ukarać uwodzicielską Milady de Winter, uratować życie księcia Buckinghama… Autor „Trzech...
| Автор | Aleksander Dumas |
Текст печатается по изданию: «Н. В. Гоголь. Собрание сочинений, Гослитиздат, 1959».
Для восьмилетней и средней школы.
Рисунки А. Лаптева.
Оформление В. Максина.
| Автор | Николай Гоголь |
| Жанр | Классическая проза, Юмористическая проза, Русская классическая проза |
| Год | 1968 |
It Begins… This book contains segments of letters found by an individual known as “The Editor”. When first presented with these mysterious letters, it was clear the writer was sick. An individual so twisted… The Editor had no choice but to continue investigating this material and its origin. Is this material of fiction; a sick joke, perhaps? Or is this a dark literary outlet for a hidden serial killer or cult? The questions just keep stacking. Upon further research, The Editor was able to...
| Автор | Zin |
Sophie can’t walk or talk, but behind her disability hides a keen intelligence. Living on The Styx River cattle station with her father and a nanny, Sophie is acutely aware that she is a non-person. She feels as voiceless and isolated as the wallabies of The Wall, an eerie wilderness of basalt lava tubes forming a natural stone labyrinth that protects its remote lushness from anyone foolish enough to wander in. Sophie’s mother Rose, as The Wall’s indigenous custodian, taught Sophie its...
| Автор | Patricia Holland |