When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. .As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond…
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are «Treasure Island» and «The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.» Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Praised by many as a potential masterpiece, «Weir of Hermiston» tells the story…
This novel is set in the climactic months before the opening of the Third Crusade, called the Kings’ Crusade. The Brethren is a classic tale of love and chivalry, unfolding amidst the touching story of two English knights who are in love with the same maiden. The devotion of these men is tested when their…
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had «died» in The Final Problem. Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901-1902 (although setting it before Holmes’ death) Doyle came under…
Jack London (1876—1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This book is a collection of intriguing short stories with unexpected culminations such as «Like Argus of the Ancient…
Herbert George Wells (1866 — 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. «The Wheels of Chance» is his early comic novel. It is a humorous account of a young…
The hero of the story is Alan Vernon, a young retired army major, who, after undergoing financial ruin, decides to travel to Africa to make his fortune, in hopes of eventually winning the hand of beautiful Barbara Champers-Haswell. Vernon has heard of a mysterious kingdom ruled by the priestess and plans to help himself to…
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. «The Blithedale Romance», considered one of Hawthorne’s major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, «The Blithedale Romance» represents one of Hawthorne’s best and most sharply etched works, one that Henry…
У голубоглазой и одухотворенной Эльфриды не хватает жизненного опыта, поэтому она не может выбрать между двумя мужчинами — архитектором Стивеном Смитом и Генри Найтом. Когда-то друзья стали соперниками, и Эльфрида сталкивается с невероятно трудным выбором. Написанный в решающий для Гарди период жизни, роман «Голубые глаза» более чем любой другой роман показывают литературный талант Гарди. .Читайте…
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. The Game is a story about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. Since London was…
Walter Scott (1771—1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright. Although he was an advocate and legal administrator by profession, Scott is most famous for his great literary works and activities in the Royal Highland Society. «Waverley; Or, Tis Sixty Years Since» is a historical novel, the author’s first work of prose also considered…
Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. «Orley Farm» is a novel which was first published by the London publisher Chapman and Hall from March 1861 to…
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time,…
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel «Moby-Dick.» Partially based on real events, «Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile» tells us a wildly eventful story of a soldier during the American Revolution. An extraordinary adventure full colorful historical events and personalities,…
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell’s best known novels are Cranford, North and South…
Written at various times, under various influences, the four stories contained in Within The Tides are linked by Conrads treatment of loyalty and betrayal. They range in setting from the Far East via eighteenth-century Spain to England. The tone shifts from the tragic inevitability of The Planter of Malata and the pathos of Because of…
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories includes «Strictly Business», «The Gold That Glittered», «Babes In The Jungle», «The Day Resurgent», «The Fifth Wheel» and other famous…
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. The Refugees is another vivid example of the author’s love for historical events. It revolves around two characters: Huguenot guardsman…
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. «The Game» is a story about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death on the ring. Since London was…
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. The story of the novel «The Black Arrow» takes…
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. My Lady’s Money, published in 1879, is a novel that centers around a rich woman who is a victim of theft. There are a lot of possible suspects she must sort through. One of them — an honest girl Isabella. The Lazy Tour of…
A sequel to the famous novel King Solomon’s Mines is based on author’s own experience in the African continent. Quatermain has lost his only son and longs to get back into the wilderness. Having persuaded Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good, and the Zulu chief Umbopa to accompany him, they set out from the coast…
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 novel Afloat and Ashore ends abruptly part way through, and is followed by what critic Harold…
Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright. Although he was an advocate and legal administrator by profession, Scott is most famous for his great literary works and activities in the Royal Highland Society. This book includes three notorious short tales: «The Two Drovers», «My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror» and wonderful «The Tapestried…
Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer, largely of adventure fiction, but also of non-fiction. The eighth child of a Norfolk barrister and squire, through family connections he gained employment with Sir Henry Bulwer during the latters service as lieutenant-governor of Natal, South Africa. Haggard travelled to southern Africa in 1875 and remained in the…
Complete in five handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a definitive collection of the famous detective’s adventures. No home library is complete without it. .Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand,…
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. She is the story of Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey, and their journey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. The journey is triggered by a…
Anthony Trollope (1815 — 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. «The Duke’s Children» is the sixth and final novel in another famous series, «The Palliser Novels,» also known…
Джордж Бернард Шоу — ирландский прозаик и критик XX века и самый прославленный — после Шекспира — драматург, писавший на английском и языке. .»Кандида» — это остроумная лирическая комедия о вечных и вечно новых отношениях мужчин и женщин. Пьеса расскажет читателю о непонятном и загадочном, не поддающемся рациональному объяснению, и о том, за что женщина…
Исторический приключенческий роман Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона. Главный герой — семнадцатилетний Дэвид Бэлфур. Его родители погибли, оставив юношу наедине со взрослым миром. Однако в замке Шос, который пользуется репутацией мрачного и безрадостного места, проживает дядя Дэвида. Юноша начинает подозревать, что именно он является законным наследником семейного имущества, но дядя совершенно не намерен уступать его племяннику… Читайте…
Творчество Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда, одного из самых известных и блистательных авторов «эпохи джаза», остаётся актуальным и интересным и по сей день. .В эту книгу вошел блистательный и загадочный рассказ «Алмаз величиной с отель «Риц»» и роман «Последний магнат», опубликованный уже после смерти Фицджеральда. Он рисует читателю правдивую картину «золотого века» Голливуда: фейерверки событий из красивой…
Джек Лондон — классик американской литературы, автор ярких, живых приключенческих романов и рассказов. «Приключение» — захватывающий роман, написанный под впечатлением автора от путешествия по Южным морям. История разворачивается в глухих дебрях Соломоновых островов, куда приехали отчаянные люди, готовые занять своё место под солнцем любой ценой. Но что же их ожидаем в итоге: торжество жизни или…
