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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. The Stark Munro Letters is an epistolary novel that takes the form of twelve long letters written by J. Stark Munro between March 1881 and November 1884 and sent to his friend Herbert Swanborough. Stark Munro is a recent graduate from medical school, and the letters...
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан, Doyle A |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. The novel Villette reflects her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of this book, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is...
| Автор | Шарлотта Бронте, Bronte C |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. The novel Villette reflects her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of this book, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is...
| Автор | Шарлотта Бронте, Bronte C |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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. The Firm of Girdlestone is a truly fascinating novel that tells a story of a merchant John Girdlestone and his son, Ezra. Their firm is about to collapse, and if they do not do something about it, the name of Girdlestone will be tainted with disgrace.
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| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан, Doyle A |
| 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. Mercedes of Castile; or, The Voyage to Cathay is a historical novel by Cooper. The novel is set in 15th century Europe, and follows the preparations and expedition of Christopher Columbus westward to the new world.
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| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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. Micab Clarke is a historical adventure novel set in the times of Monmouth Rebellion in England. The book follows the story of an extraordinary man, who starts as a romantic adventurer, but living a difficult life, ends up as a hardheaded soldier of fortune.
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| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан, Doyle A |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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. Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the early days of the Hundred Years' War. As a background story to his book "The White Company", it describes the early life of Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the war.
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| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан, Doyle A |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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. The Refugees is another vivid example of the author's love for historical events. It revolves around two characters: Huguenot guardsman Amory de Catinat, and Amos Green, an American who comes to see France. The book also features many famous historical figures and...
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан, Doyle A |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains three famous novels by Haggard. The Mahatma and the Hare is the story of the selfcalled mahatma — a spiritual man who is able, when asleep, to view "The Great White Road" on which the souls of those recently departed enter heaven. Barbara Who Came Back is the story of Septimus Walrond, who was returning from a professional visit to a distant...
| Автор | Генри Райдер Хаггард |
| 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. Wyandotte is set in New York state during the American Revolution. The main character of the novel is an Indian, "Saucy Nick", also called Wyandotte ("Great Chief"), whose depictions violate stereo types of Native Americans. The novel Wyandotte arrived at a time when a...
| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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. Round the Red Lamp is a collection of medical and detective stories by Doyle, where he focused on the problems that present themselves to physicians and surgeons at the time. The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales is a collection of early Doyle's short stories....
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard and The Adventures of Gerard = Подвиги бригадира Жерара и Приключен
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. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard and The Adventures of Gerard are wonderful collections of 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.
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| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains three famous novels by Haggard. The Wizard is a book about adventures and the nature of miracles that could be enjoyed by both adults and children alike. In Elissa Haggard takes his readers to the Phoenician city in South Central Africa, a trading town that was built by civilized men. And in Black Heart and White Heart, the author mounts...
| Автор | Генри Райдер Хаггард |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Hide and Seek is the story about the girl named Mary — they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting by Raphael. All they did know about her identity was that shed lost her hearing in an accident, and the proprietor of the circus had treated her horribly, and in her cache of secret personal private things, she owned one thing as precious to her as life itself: a bracelet made of brown...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки, Collins W |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The novella The Haunted Hotel is a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death. The action takes place in an ancient palazzo converted into a modern hotel that houses a grisly secret. No Thoroughfare is a stage play produced by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, Walter Wilding, with...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки, Collins W |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. The Professor was published only after Charlotte Brontes death and today it gives us a fascinating insight into the first stirrings of her supreme creative imagination. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth, and is a first-person narrative from his perspective. It describes his maturation, his career...
| Автор | Шарлотта Бронте, Bronte С. |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 1 = Жизнь и приключения Николоса Никльби 1. Т.7: на анг
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, his third novel, was published in 1839. The narrative follows Nicholas as he escapes from the influence of his villainous uncle and the wicked schoolmaster Wackford Squeers. Then he stumbles into a theatrical career, and pursues his fortune through numerous adventures. Upon its original publication, the set was hailed as "one of the most glorious publishing achievements of our time."
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Life and Adventures of Martin Cbuzzlewit is his sixth novel. The story involves the escape of a young boy from imminent danger, and portrays the terrified child's point of view throughout his traumatic experiences. It also contains some of Dickens's most memorable characters. There is the seedy but charming schemer Montague Tigg, and his associate Chevy Slyme, the eccentrically fey and colourfully attired barber, the buxom goodhearted...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс, Dickens C |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |