Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This volume is a collection of famous stories about the legendary sleuth. Venture back in time to Victorian London to…
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Bravo was inspired by Cooper’s trip to Europe where he traveled through much of Italy. This…
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like «Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde» and «Treasure Island.» Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. «Lay Morals and Other Papers» is a wonderful collection…
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name 0. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Tales includes «The World and the Door», «The Theory and the Hound», «The Hypotheses of Failure», «Calloway’s Code», «A Matter of Mean…
Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. This brilliant satire of the womens rights movement in America. The story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston…
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolifi c and popular American writer of the fi rst half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet is a 1842 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The…
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. «The Purcell Papers» is a collection of early works of the author, united by one vivid dark theme. All these stories are a prime example of Victorian Gothic art, which inspired…
Chance is narrated by Conrad’s regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but is characterized by a complex, nested narrative in which different narrators take up the story at different points. The novel is also unusual among its author’s works for its focus on a female character: the heroine, Flora de Barral. The narrators describe and attempt to…
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, his third novel, was published in 1839. The narrative follows Nicholas as he escapes from the influence of his villainous uncle and the wicked schoolmaster Wackford Squeers. Then he stumbles into a theatrical career, and pursues his fortune through…
Allan Quatermain is confronted with the legend of the Heu-Heu, a monster who eats humans, while sheltering from a thunderstorm in the Drakensberg mountains. The legend appears to be reality as Quatermain is to find out after arriving in Zululand and being summond by Zikali, a Zulu Sangoma of indeterminate age. Together with his trusted…
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 —1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century, «The Tenants of Malory» is the sensation novel about two feuding families, Verney and Fanshawe, and their ambiguous relationship. Arthur, Lord Verney’s nephew, cannot choose between his feelings to…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. Rodney Stone is a fantastic gothic mystery novel set in the world of boxing fights in England during the Napoleonic…
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Armadale is a novel by Collins, first published in 1864-66. When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist,…
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Our Old Home is a collection of essays, based on Hawthornes stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool. It was first published in the form of a series of travel papers for «The Atlantic Monthly». In his…
Серия «Читаю иллюстрированную классику в оригинале» — это любимые читателями произведения на языке оригинала, дополненные прекрасными иллюстрациями известных художников. С ними легко погрузиться в атмосферу описываемой эпохи — ведь они оформлены в стиле иллюстрированных изданий XIX века. Книги серии «Читаю иллюстрированную классику в оригинале» предназначены всем, кто любит читать классические произведения на английском языке. Джейн…
Оскар Уайльд (1854-1900) — всемирно известный пи- сатель, классик английской литературы. .Философский роман «Портрет Дориана Грея» (1891) — .единственное крупное прозаическое произведение Уайльда. .Роман посвящен бессмертным темам морали и нравственно- .сти, любви и ненависти, физической и духовной красоты, .поэтому и в наши дни он не теряет своей актуальности. .Неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала снабжен комментариями…
Siblings Louisa and Tom Gradgrind are raised by their father, a harsh and pragmatic educator and his influence means that they go on to lead lives that are lacking in all areas. Louisa marries the arrogant and greedy Josiah Bounderby, ending in an unhappy pairing and the unfeeling and villainous Tom robs his own brother-in-law’s…
Алиса бежит за Белым Кроликом и проваливается в кроличью нору! С этого начинаются ее удивительные приключения. Теперь прочитать о них могут даже те, кто только начинает изучать английский. Они легко прочитают адаптированный текст, уследят за всеми превращениями Алисы и разберутся в игре слов. Серия «Английский в адаптации: чтение и аудирование» — это тексты для начинающих,…
