Классическая проза
10776 кн.
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 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is «huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New...
| Автор | John Kennedy Toole |
This collection includes three of classic American author Mark Twain’s best known and beloved novels. Tom Sawyer recounts the adventures of a self-confident but naïve boy who runs away with his friend, Huckleberry Finn, after witnessing a murder. Along the way, they have many adventures and meet interesting people. Tom’s childish innocence contrasts starkly with the cruelty and hypocrisy that fill the adult world. Frequently lauded as The Great American Novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
| Автор | Марк Твен |
In A Tale of Two Cities, French aristocrat Darnay and English lawyer Carton compete in their love for Darnay’s wife Lucie against the menacing backdrop of the French Revolution and the shadow of the guillotine. David Copperfield draws on Dickens's life to provide a vivid story mixed with comedy and sorrow. Born into poverty, young David Copperfield overcomes a cruel stepfather and frequent tragedies to enjoy success as an author. In Great Expectations, Dickens, creates a dark tale of...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
The Brontë Sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne are all celebrated writers whose novels are still a hallmark of passion and romance as well as literary masterpieces. In Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë draws from her own experience as a governess to tell the story of a young woman who cares for the unruly and spoiled children of the upper class. In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, a young woman flees her alcoholic husband and takes refuge in a small village where she is the subject of much speculation. Jane...
| Автор | The Brontë Sisters |
“Poems – by Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell” is a collection of fantastic poetry written by the literary sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Brontë. Published in 1846 under the pseudonyms Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily), and Acton (Anne) Bell, it only sold three copies when first published. After the success of their later works, the poems have since garnered more attention and acclaim. The Brontë sisters consisted of Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), who belonged...
| Автор | Эмили Бронте |
A genre-bending retelling of The Odyssey , Army of the Brave and Accidental is a modern fable: a story about relationships, parenthood, and trying to have an impact on the world told from the shifting perspectives of ten characters. A hundred years after James Joyce stitched together a version of the epic tale, Canadian writer and essayist Alex Boyd updates the story as a reflection of Canadian twenty-first-century culture, allowing it to take a radically different cultural snapshot. These...
| Автор | Alex Boyd |
Charles Dickens’ 1835 short work, “A Christmas Dinner”, lovingly describes many of the traditions, foods, games and festivities we still associate with Christmas. This meditation, included in his debut collection “Sketches By Boz” (1836) includes the beginnings of his ideas for “A Christmas Carol”, including a “misanthrope” who doesn’t join in the Christmas spirit, and an empty chair at the family dinner table (Tiny Tim). A holiday classic and a window into the nascent genius...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
In this Christmas story, a poor girl named Tilly finds an injured bird in the snow and takes it home to care for it, believing in the lessons her mother has taught her concerning the golden rule and Christ's commandment to love our neighbors. Although her friends think she shouldn't take care of the bird, her kindness is rewarded unexpectedly on Christmas Eve. This version of «Tilly's Christmas» is included as a part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Louisa May Alcott.
| Автор | Луиза Мэй Олкотт |
No other author made a greater contribution to the literature of Christmas than Charles Dickens. Collected here are twenty-three short works, some on the theme of Christmas, from «A Christmas Dinner» (1835) to «What Christmas Is As We Grow Older» to others that simply explore the function of kindness and goodwill in society, as in one of his last works, «No Thoroughfare» (1867). Read and reread these heartwarming classics every holiday season.
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
No other author made a greater contribution to the literature of Christmas than Charles Dickens. Collected here are the five Christmas Novellas (A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain), plus twenty-three other short works on the theme of kindness and goodwill from “A Christmas Dinner” (1835) to “No Thoroughfare” (1867). Read and reread these heartwarming classics every holiday season.
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
From the author of the bestselling Jalna series, a story of one small thing that creates a lot of beauty. Bill and Coo were two pigeons who built their nest in the shelter of the gable of the Dullards’ house. Mr. and Mrs. Dullard hated all birds, especially pigeons. Mr. Dullard even tries to hit Bill with a rock, but the rock bounced back from the roof and hit Mr. Dullard instead. After that they let the pigeons alone, but they grumbled about them continually. When the beautiful new egg Coo...
| Автор | Mazo de la Roche |
From the author of the bestselling Jalna series! Writing in isolation was never trickier than in this full house. In this short but poignant tale, Mazo de la Roche tells the story of a small boy from an orphan home who has come to work for two sisters – Mrs Morton and Lydia Dove – who are, in old age, suffering greatly reduced circumstances. They have rented out half of their house to a writer, Lindley, who has sought out this isolated spot for the writing of a novel. However, the seclusion...
| Автор | Mazo de la Roche |
From the author of the bestselling Jalna series. Switched at birth: two boys exchange lives for a year. This novel from Jalna author Mazo de la Roche tells the story of two families, English and American, on whom circumstances have played a strange prank which might have had unhappy consequences. As an experiment, they send off their sons to see the other's country, but then war intervenes, and the story of the Wyldes and the Rendels shows the problems and the promise of Anglo-American...
| Автор | Mazo de la Roche |
From the author of the bestselling Jalna series. Shaw Manifold is a born forester, of hardy stock. A fatherless boy of nine, he was brought up in the rugged environment of his grandfather’s farm, a lonely youngster in the midst of callous elders. His only ally was his mother, Cristabel, whose work removed her to a distant city. Mother and son lived for their reunions: their private world was a tortured and nostalgic place, but its love braced Shaw against the exhaustion of overwork and the...
| Автор | Mazo de la Roche |
Trece histoiras. Un soñador, un joven y dos arcángeles en busca de la verdad. ¿Qué tienen en común un depresivo, un pedófilo, un abortista, un drogadicto, un jugador profesional, científicos, criminales, un sexólogo, un esquizofrénico y un discapacitado? Trece historias. Un soñador, un joven y dos arcángeles en busca de la verdad. ¿Qué tienen en común un depresivo, un pedófilo, un abortista, un drogadicto, un jugador profesional, científicos, criminales, un sexólogo, un esquizofrénico y un...
| Автор | Aldivan Teixeira Torres |
Felipe es un hombre victorioso en todos los aspectos de la vida. Nada más puede desear ser feliz hasta que algo terrible suceda. La nueva situación provoca una gran revuelta en su mundo. Perdido, se encuentra por casualidad con el pensamiento de un joven inocente. Sus palabras son tan reconfortantes y optimistas que abren una nueva perspectiva en medio de tanto dolor, y luego se lanza el siguiente reto: ¿Podría entender la voluntad de Dios y, en consecuencia, descifrar su código?
| Автор | Aldivan Teixeira Torres |
At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die…Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor’s house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died.But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison – just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane…From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Agatha Christie’s audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman’s throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away.But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |