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Although the two parts are now published as a single work, Don Quixote, Part Two was a sequel published ten years after the original novel. While Part One was mostly farcical, the second half is more serious and philosophical about the theme of deception. Part Two of Don Quixote explores the concept of a character understanding that he is written about: an idea much explored in the 20th century.
| Автор | Сервантес Сааведра, de Cervantes ,Ормсби Джон |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2017 |
Paradise Regained recalls the earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost by its title, its use of blank verse, and its progression through Christian history. However, this work deals primarily with the temptation of Christ as recounted in the Gospel of Luke..
| Автор | Джон Мильтон |
| Жанр | Прочие издания |
| Год | 2017 |
"The Moonstone" is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins’? enlightened social attitudes, i. e. in his treatment of the servants. In 1877 Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage, but the production was performed for only two months.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2017 |
"The Shadow Line" - a short novel based at sea - was first published in 1916. It depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title representing the threshold of this development. Conrad also extensively uses irony by comparison in the work, with characters such as Captain Giles and the ship’?s "factotum" Ransome used to emphasise strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2017 |
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 1930) — a famous Scottish writer. Conan Doyle is most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Other works by this prolific writer include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1892, is a collection of twelve short stories, featuring a...
| Автор | Doyle Arthur Conan, Doyle Conan |
| Жанр | Детектив Остросюжетный роман |
| Год | 2022 |
This Side of Paradise (1920) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel. The book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking.
| Автор | Francis Fitzgerald |
| Жанр | Прикладная и научно популярная литература |
| Год | 2017 |
G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailties–gained during his years listening to confessions–Father Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals to justice. ..This definitive collection of fifteen stories, selected by the American Chesterton Society, includes such classics as “The Blue Cross,” “The Secret Garden,” and “The Paradise of Thieves.”
| Автор | Честертон Гилберт Кит, Chesterton Gilbert |
| Жанр | Детектив Остросюжетный роман |
| Год | 2017 |
The Idiot tells the story of Prince Myshkin, a man of pure innocence, whose kindness and open-hearted simplicity make many of the more earthy characters he encounters mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight.
| Автор | Достоевский Федор Михайлович, Мартин Ева |
| Жанр | Русская литература |
| Год | 2022 |
Chekhov is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His works often asked many more questions than they answered, and he was one of the first writers to use the stream-of-consciousness technique. Considered the greatest short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition.
| Автор | Чехов Антон Павлович |
| Жанр | Русская литература |
| Год | 2022 |
Eugene Onegin, a novel is verse, is one of the most famous and remarkable work of Russian literature. It is hard to overestimate the importance of the novel Eugene Onegin, once called an “encyclopedia of Russian life”. It portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein.
| Автор | Пушкин Александр Сергеевич |
| Жанр | Русская литература |
| Год | 2022 |
Crime and Punishment is social-psychological and social-philosophical novel. It focuses on moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unprincipled pawnbroker for her cash. He commits the murder to test a theory of his that dictates some people are naturally capable of such actions, and even have the right to perform them. It portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary,...
| Автор | Достоевский Федор Михайлович |
| Жанр | Русская литература |
| Год | 2022 |
Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) — a famous English writer who worked in many literary genres. Wells is best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction"; his most notable works include The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella originally published in 1897. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics...
| Автор | H. Wells, Wells Herbert |
| Жанр | Мистика Фантастика Фэнтези |
| Год | 2022 |
Tender is the Night (1934), tells the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst, and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald worked on the book, were the darkest years of his life, and the novel's bleakness reflects the author’s own experiences.
| Автор | Фицджеральд Фрэнсис Скотт |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2022 |
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, first published in 1865, tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.
| Автор | Lewis Carroll |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2022 |
Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) — a famous English writer who worked in many literary genres. Wells is best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction"; his most notable works include The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella originally published in 1897. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics...
| Автор | H. Wells, Wells Herbert ,Wells H.G |
| Жанр | Мистика Ужасы |
| Год | 2022 |
This Side of Paradise (1920) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel. The book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking.
| Автор | Francis Fitzgerald |
| Жанр | Иностранные языки |
| Год | 2017 |
This collection of eight short stories written during his "Klondike" period, has become a trademark of London's work. The title story Love of Life follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra. Other stories include The Story of Keesh; A Day's Lodging; Negore, the Coward; The Sun Dog Trail; The Unexpected; The White Man's Way, and Brown Wolf.
| Автор | Jack London |
| Жанр | Иностранные языки |
| Год | 2017 |
Один из наиболее известных во всем мире романов Ф. М. Достоевского, последнее и самое объемное его произведение, отсылающее к вневременным нравственно-философским темам греха, сострадания, воздаяния. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
| Автор | Dostoyevsky Fyodor |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2023 |