Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue «Three Men in a Boat». Other works include the essay collections «Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow» and «Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow», «Three Men on the Bummel» and several other novels. .The book «Three Men in a Boat»…
События исторического романа Вальтера Скотта разворачиваются во время похода первых крестоносцев, совпавшего со временем правления византийского императора Алексея Комненуса. Необдуманный поступок графа Роберта накануне Крестового Похода навлекает на него множество бедствий, заставив вступить на путь мщения и подвигов. Что окажется важнее — оскорбленное достоинство или спасение любви? Ярко воссозданные нравы и атмосфера того далекого времени…
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are «Treasure Island» and «Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde». Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. «Island Nights’ Entertainments» is a collection of three wonderful short stories: «The Beach of…
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. «Heart of the West» is a collection of humorous and sentimental stories of sheepherders, cowpunchers, trail cooks, prospectors, outlaws, and Texas Rangers offer the modern reader a window into the often…
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise, who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Typhoon is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain,…
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Short Stories is a collection of beautifully written and gripping tales, including several ghost stories and Crowley Castle story, featuring a love triangle of sorts. It makes the perfect evening or summer reading for adults and young adults alike. The Complete Works of…
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 — 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician, A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. «Kenelm Chillingly» is one of Bulwer’s most popular novels of English life. Kenelm is the long-desired heir of an old family, who leaves home in search of…
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories — all of them had been published earlier, independently. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, the collection includes one of the author’s better-known short stories, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» and other great works. Palmira Classics Пальмира, 2017…
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. «Can You Forgive Her?» is the first of six novels in another famous series, «The Palliser Novels,» also…
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Dead Secret was Collinss first full-length puzzle-romance. Moments from death, Mrs Treverton tells a secret, never to be passed to her husband. Years later, when her daughter Rosamond returns with her husband, she is warned not to enter the Myrtle Room. Strong-minded and…
F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. An oddity in F. S. Fitzgerald’s career, his play The Vegetable was a satirical attack on the presidency of Warren Harding. An ordinary, incompetent man, taunted for his lack of ambition by his family, realises his dream of ruling the United States of…
A confessional narrative from a mad scientist Dr. Therne obsessed with one of the great issues of his day… in this case, vaccination against epidemic diseases like smallpox. His personal fears meet the tragic legacy of other doctors careless ignorance and spawn a malignant crusade against vaccination that will ultimately create many more victims. Henry…
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. «Tales of Pirates» is a volume collecting short stories about sea and pirate adventures. Mixing adventure, romance, and humor, these…
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. «Tales of Mystery» includes short mystery stories like «The Lost Special», «The Beetle-Hunter» and «The Man with the Watches» filled…
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. «Headlong Hall» like most of Peacock’s novels, assembles a group of characters who discuss topics that were then of interest to Peacock and his circle of intellectual friends. Peacock uses the work to parody contemporary thinking in a variety of…
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…
John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met. When Harmons body is pulled out of the Thames, all of London is fascinated by the mystery of the murdered man and his unclaimed riches….
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. This volume consists of two magnificent short stories: intriguing…
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. «When the Sleeper Wakes» is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and…
William Shakespeare (1564—1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. «The Merry Wives of Windsor» is a five-act comedy…
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 — 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is one of many wonderful historical stories about Brigadier Gerard, an officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars, the bravest soldier, and one of the most gallant lovers in France. Original RUGRAM,…
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. «The Rajahs Diamond» is a collection of four wonderful short stories: «Story of…
«Цимбелин» Уильяма Шекспира — трагикомедия и в то же время романтическая история, полная приключений, перевоплощений и неожиданных сюжетных поворотов. Имогена, единственная дочь британского правителя Цимбелина, тайком выходит замуж за своего возлюбленного Леоната, достойного, но бедного человека. Цимбелин недоволен этим браком и изгоняет Леоната из королевства. Но за спиной короля плетутся зловещие интриги, жертвой которых может…
The novel tells the inspiring story of a beautiful English maiden named Margaret, who faces hardship during the opening phases of the Spanish Inquisition in the late 1400’s. As Margaret and her family struggle to live in peace, they soon fi nd themselves in the midst of a series of perilous adventures. The drama that…
«Басни Эзопа» — это уникальный сборник написанных в древние времена текстов, мораль которых до сих пор может научить читателей мудрости. Доподлинно так и не известно, существовал ли Эзоп на самом деле, или за этим именем скрыто два десятка безымянных авторов. Но это не столь важно, поскольку тексты остроумных «Басен Эзопа» послужили основой для многих басен…
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. “Collected Tales” is a collection of early Doyle’s short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy. Top100…
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Princess Casamassima» is the wonderful story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot. The book is unusual in the Jamesian canon for…
This novel takes place in ancient Egypt. The hero, prince Rames, goes through many challenges and daring encounters to win his way through to the woman he loved with all his heart and the recognition that was rightfully his. Neter-Tua, The Morning Star, daughter of the Pharaoh, daughter of the ages, high priestess of Amen,…
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. This volume contains some of his amazing collected short stories, including The Night Born, Dutch Courage and The House of…
In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, (Walter Wilding), with disastrous consequences in adulthood. After the death of one — now a proprietor of a wine merchant’s company — the…
Penguin Island (1908) is a satirical fictional history, beginning with Christian missionary monk landing on the island. Mostly blind and deaf monk have mistaken auks for humans and baptized them. The God, who only allows human to be baptized, converted the birds into humans. Thus begins the history of Penguinia. Palmyra Classics Пальмира, 2017 год
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 contains «The Dream», «A Ruler of Men», «The Friendly Call» and other famous stories by O. Henry. . Top100 Classic…
