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Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The Shadow Line tells a story of a young sea captains first command which brings with it a succession of crises: sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fewer, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. The Nature of Crime is Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Fords collaborative work, a study of human psychology. The...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад, Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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. Precaution is the first novel written by Cooper written in imitation of Jane Austen's novels of English gentry manners. It is mainly interesting today as a document in the history of American cultural colonialism and as an example of an attempt to imitate Jane Austen's...
| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер, Cooper J |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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 Bravo was inspired by Cooper's trip to Europe where he traveled through much of Italy. This novel is set in Venice and it is the first of Cooper's three European novels. The book largely focuses on political themes including the tension between the social elite and...
| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер, Cooper J |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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 icebergs of Antarctica, and caught there during the long winter night.
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| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер, Cooper J |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This volume contains some of his mysterious stories. John Jago's Ghost, is a novella based on the Boorn Brothers murder case. The Family Secret and Dream Woman are classic mysteries. And Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. Collins's works were classified at the time as "sensation Novels", a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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 Two Idle Apprentices tells the story of sightseeing trip to Cumberland of Charles Dickens and his friend, the rising star of literature, Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In the wake of his disgrace he travels to the exotic region of Patusan, and as the agent at this remote trading post comes to be revered as...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад, Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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. Satanstoe is the first of a three novels cycle "The Littlepage Manuscripts", followed by "The Chainbearer" and "The Redskins". The novel is a fictional autobiography, that gives a comprehensive view of colonial life and society in New York State in the middle of the...
| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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. This volume contains Cooper's novel and some of his short stories. The Spy was Cooper's 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 collecting...
| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер, Cooper J |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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 Redskins is the last volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, narrating the history of three generations of a Dutch-descended American family starting from the mid-eighteenth century.
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| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
The Oak Openings, or, the Bee-Hunter = Прогалины в дубровах, или Охотник за пчелами. Т. 23: на англ.
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 Oak Openings focuses on the activities of professional honey-hunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed "Ben Buzz". The novel is set in Kalamazoo, Michigan's Oak Opening, a wooded prairie during the War of 1812.
| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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. Miles Wallingfordis a classic Cooper's sea adventure novel about merchant mariners and serves as a sequel to the sea adventure classic, "Afloat and Ashore"..
| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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. Afloat and Ashore is a nautical fiction novel by Cooper. Set in 1796-1804, it follows the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr., the son of wealthy New York landowners who chooses to go to sea after the death of his parents. The novel is partially...
| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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 Prairie is the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero. Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the "Leatherstocking Tales", though it was published before "The Pathfinder" and "The Deerslayer". Bumppo...
| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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 unsolved murder, his life is put in jeopardy. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby himself struggles to escape the curse of his own past. Barnaby Rudge is a powerful, disturbing...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Old Curiosity Shop is an instant bestseller that captured the hearts of the nation. Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the lecherous money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven.
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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 Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Fcu-Follet is a classic story of love and sea warfare from one of America's greatest novelists. Originally published in 1846, it is a captivating novel of seafaring adventure, romance, and Napoleonic history.
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| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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 Deerslayer was the last of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales to be written, however, it is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as "Deerslayer": a young frontiersman in early 18th-century New York, who objects to the...
| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |