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 Stones contains «Sound and Fury», «Tracked to Doom», «A Strange Story» and other famous stories by O. Henry. Top100 Classic Books…
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 Crater; or, Vulcan’s Peak: a Tale of the Pacific is a novel in which Cooper incorporated…
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 — 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book includes two great science fiction stories from the cycle of the Professor Challenger’s adventures: «When The World Screamed» and «The Disintegration Machine.» Original RUGRAM, 2018 год
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Pair of Blue Eyes — third published novel, but not his third novel. This is because the very first novel he completed, he never published, and in fact he destroyed the manuscript. This is the story about the love triangle of a young woman, Elfride Swancourt,…
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 Terror» is the collection of six gripping horror stories, such as «The Horror of the Heights», «The New…
Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolific author and he is credited for writing the first modern detective novel in English literature. The novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another ‘fallen leaves’, who are linked by their relationships with…
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 amazing stories like «The Rose of Dixie», «The Third Ingredient», «The Hiding of Black Bill», «Schools and Schools» and…
The «Genius» is Theodore Dreiser’s autobiographical novel about the turn-of-the-century art scene. It explores the multiple con licts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality. The «Genius» was deemed so shocking that its sale was immediately prohibited by the New York Society for the Suppression of…
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. «An Inland Voyage» is a travelogue about authors canoeing trip through France and Belgium…
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. «Children of the Frost» is an amazing collection of stories like «In the Forests of the North», «Nam-Bok the Unveracious»…
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. «Ghost Stories of Chapelizod» is a collection of three brief mystical stories — «The Village Bully», «The Sextons Adventure» and «The Spectre Lovers» — set in the suburban village of Chapelizod….
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. The Spy was his second novel, published in 1821. The action takes place during the American Revolution. Garvey Birch is a modest American who pretends to be a regular peddler, but in fact, he collects military information…
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. «Harry Heathcote of Gangoil» is Trollope’s only Australian novel, where Harry Heathcote deals with the problems facing a…
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. Combining the elements of drama, psychological thriller, and gothic horror, «The Wyvern Mystery» tells the story of a young woman Alice Maybell. Raised by Squire Fairfield, she starts to attract…
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. As an excellent example of a. Victorian mystery, «Guy Deverell» has everything you need: an old countryside manor house with a set of colorful characters and ambiguous relationships between…
F. S.Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «Flappers and Philosophers» was the author’s first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in «Bernice Bobs Her Hair» the fashionable…
The Witch’s Head is the second novel by H Rider Haggard, which he wrote just prior to King Solomon’s Mines. Zulu magic comes to the British Fenlands, as the severed head of a sorcerer casts a spell from beyond the grave. The story sweeps from England to the South African setting Haggard knew well from…
Olaf, a Norseman in the eighth century A.D., flees his homeland after challenging the Norse god Odin’s right to a human sacrifice, travels to Constantinople to protect the Empress Irene Augusta from her son Constantine the Fifth and other enemies of the Eastern Roman Empire. From Byzantinum, to the pyramid tombs of Upper Egypt, Olaf…
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of «Costaguana». The events described in the novel are typical for political life in underdeveloped countries. The author takes up the problem of imperialism and its corrupting action even on the best people, which is…
In Black Heart and White Heart, Henry Rider Haggard mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white. He rides, too, with all his old dexterity, and the story concerning Zulus, witches, battles, sacrifices, and traitors. Original RUGRAM, 2018 год
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. While being one of the early works, «The Mysterious Lodger» is still considered as a fine example of horror fiction classics by one of the most prominent authors of the genre….
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 —1927) was an English writer and humourist. This volume answers on such questions like «Are we as interesting as we think we are?», «Should women be beautiful?», «When is the best time to be merry?», «Should married men play golf?» and other funny. Original RUGRAM, 2018 год
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 —1927) was an English writer and humourist. «The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow» is a collection of humorous essays. This collection offers the author’s witty observations on all manner of topics, ranging from love to children to cats and dogs. Original RUGRAM, 2018 год
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. «Tales of the Fish Patrol» is a collection of stories drawn from author’s own experiences and memories of the days…
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. This volume consists of two magnificent short stories: intriguing «The Pavilion on the…
Haggard’s faith-fortifying novel is a delicious blend of stirring events, captivating characters, and historical detail. The story is about the destruction of Jerusalem, about first-century life as they follow the hardships and trials of Miriam, a young believer; and Marcus, the Roman offi cer who wishes to marry her. Original RUGRAM, 2018 год
During the Carlist war of the early 1870s, a young sailor, the unnamed protagonist, joins the champions of Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender to the throne of Spain. The Carlists use the eager youth’s intense attraction to the sea to persuade him to run perilous enterprises for their cause, ventures he later learns have been…
Portraying a young man’s first sea-voyage to the East in Youth, and the blind old age of Captain Whalley in The End of the Tether, the stories in this volume are united in their theme — the ‘Ages of Man’ — and in their scepticism. Conrad’s vision has influenced twentieth-century writers and artists from T….
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 prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict…
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 Belton Estate» is a novel about a young woman who has accepted one of two suitors, then discovered that…
The Beautiful and Damned, first published in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel. It explores and portrays New York caf societ у and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after «the Great War» and in the early 1920s. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald’s characters in this novel are complex,…
Mr. Meeson s Will is the story of mean Mr. Meeson, the greedy and wealthy owner of a publishing house. Augusta Smithers is a young writer who enters into an unfair contract with Meeson. In order to make a fresh start she boards a steamer bound for New Zealand only to find her enemy is…
