Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel «Moby-Dick.» Partly based on the author’s experience, «Redburn» is a fascinating coming-of-age story of a young sailor Wellington Redburn, who decides to leave New York in search of a better life in Liverpool, England. It…
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiance is forced to take an extended trip to Canadas drier climes in order to recover his…
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 protagonist of the novel, «The Passionate Friends» is Stephen Stratton, who writes a long and deeply personal letter…
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. This brilliant satire of the women’s 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 feminist…
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. Michael, Brother of jerry tells the story of Irish terrier Michael, born in the Solomon Islands. The dog works as…
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel «Robinson Crusoe», which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. A New Voyage Round the World is a narrative fiction of a merchant ship’s captain who sails east via the Cape of Good Hope,…
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 Strength of the Strong and The Turtles of Tasman are collections of beautiful short stories among which there are…
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. «Ghostly Tales» is a tremendous collection of four chilling stories: «Schalken the Painter», «An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street», «An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted…
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. The Marble Faun is Hawthornes awesome novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on American morality. Hawthorne is concerned here with the nature of transgression and guilt. A murder, motivated by love, affects not…
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 the Camp» is a collection of fascinating military stories, set in the prime days of the British Empire….
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Mudfog Papers is his collection of sketches that describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog. It also describes the delusions of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble, his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show and the meetings of its Society for the…
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. «Eugene Aram» is a melodramatic novel, which depicts the events leading up to the execution of Eugene Aram for murdering his business partner. When the novel appeared…
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. Left unfinished at his death, «St. Ives» is one…
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. Filled with supernatural events, horrific scientific experiments, and bizarre events, «Tales of Mystery» is an excellent opportunity to discover another…
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. In The Ghost Kings Rachel Dove and Richard Darrien meet in Africa, when the brave man saves Rachel, a minister’s daughter, from a flash flood. Years pass before they meet again:…
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 Sea Lions, originally published in 1849, tells the story of two ships seeking seals among the…
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. George Flack, the main character of this great story, is the Paris correspondent for an American scandal sheet called The Reverberator. Francie Dosson, a pretty but not always tactful American girl, confides to Flack some gossip about…
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,…
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolifi c 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 Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with Satanstoe and ending with The Redskins….
In 1823, Cooper began writing The Pilot, which he saw as a sea novel that seamen would appreciate for its fidelity and yet one that landsmen could understand. The hero of The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea — modeled on John Paul Jones — leads the American Navy in dangerous raids on the English…
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Nada the Lily is the thrilling story of the brave Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and his love for the most beautiful of Zulu women, Nada the Lily. Young Umslopogaas, son of the…
Anne Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bronte literary family. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is her the second and final novel. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontes novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but…
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. «Marmion» novel in verse, which, at the time of the first publication, made his author famous. The plot…
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel «Moby-Dick». Mysterious and unpredictable, the «Pierre: or, The Ambiguities» contains all the good and intriguing features of the Gothic iction genre. «Typee» is one of the most famous and critically acclaimed traveling adventures of the…
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. «The Caxtons: A Family Picture» is a Victorian novel about a life of an aristocratic family. The novel is mainly concerned with domestic life, but it also…
Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) was an Irish satirist, essayist, prose writer and poet, who has found his calling as a cleric of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. «A Tale of a Tub» is one the most famous and masterful of Swift’s satire works. It is a prose parody consisting of several sections about the morals and…
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Two Destinies explores the powers of telepathy while telling a skillful tale that interweaves suspense with the familiar ingredients of Victorian melodrama. Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at…
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder. Barnaby Rudge is a young innocent simpleton who is devoted to his talkative raven, Grip. When he gets caught up in the mayhem of the Gordon riots and a mysterious…
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 — 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. «The Great War» is a monumental six volumes description of the events of World War I. Doyle did a great job interviewing numerous soldiers and generals, reading their letters and diaries to get a full picture…
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 Roads We Take», «A Newspaper Story», «Tommy’s Burglar» and other stories. Top100 Classic Books RUGRAM, 2018 год
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Romance is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. Serafina is captured by Don Balthasar’s pirates on a Caribbean island, when Jose Armando arrives from Spain to the rescue. The Complete Works of…
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,…
