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Jane Austen is one of the most enduring and skilled English novelists. With her wit, social perception and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerizes her readers as much today as she did when her novels were first published. Short Stories I is the collection of Jane Austen's stories, they remained unpublished during her lifetime even though the last one was completed before she was 17.
| Автор | Джейн Остен |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Family Secret and Dream Woman are classic mysteries. The Dream Woman tells a story of Francis Raven who had a dream about a woman killing him. Then he met a girl called Alicia Warlock who looked like the person in his thoughts.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Jane Austen is one of the most enduring and skilled English novelists. With her wit, social perception and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerizes her readers as much today as she did when her novels were first published. Short Stories III is the collection of Jane Austen's stories, they remained unpublished during her lifetime even though the last one was completed before she was 17.
| Автор | Джейн Остен |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of life of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. The Short Stories I includes three stories: The Grey Women, Curious if True and Six Weeks at Heppenheim. Curious if True is one of the precursors of the horror genre by Elizabeth Gaskell. It makes the perfect evening or summer reading for adults...
| Автор | Элизабет Гаскелл |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Mr. Harrison's Confessions is a story of country doctor William Harrison who is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the "wooing and winning" of women's affections.
| Автор | Элизабет Гаскелл |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VII is a collection of brilliant short stories: The Scandal Detectives, He Thinks He's Wonderful, The Captured Shadow, The Perfect Life and others. It also includes The Freshest Boy - the story about a naive and dreamy boy and his discouragement while attending a preparatory school.
| Автор | Фицджеральд Фрэнсис Скотт |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, Walter Wilding. After the death of one — now a proprietor of a wine merchant's company — the executors are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean —...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. A collection of incredible short stories Tales of the Jazz Age II brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era.
| Автор | Фицджеральд Фрэнсис Скотт |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. A collection of incredible short stories Tales of the Jazz Age IV brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate Fitzgerald's writing. For example in Bernice Bobs Her Hair the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy. Also...
| Автор | Фицджеральд Фрэнсис Скотт |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age V is a wonderful short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel's themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac The Rich Boy and Winter Dreams, deal with wealthy protagonists - the old- money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green - as they come to terms with lost love.
| Автор | Фицджеральд Фрэнсис Скотт |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Yellow Mask is a mystery novel. The secret of Wilkie Collins's success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating plot skillfully combines melodrama, detective and a manners novel in his books, generously flavoring them elements of the Gothic novel.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Haunted House is a collection of ghost tales by Dickens, who wrote the opening and closing stories, framing them, and five other authors: Hesba Stretton, George Augustus Sala, Adelaide Anne Procter, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell..
| 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. 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 for the Continental Army in territory controlled by British army..
| 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. "The Maracot Deep" is an amazing fantasy-fiction novel about Professor Maracot and his team of explorers discovering a sunken city of Atlantis. There, scientists are trying to study the culture and life of the inhabitants of the depths, incidentally encountering...
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан |
| 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. This volume includes the fascinating mystery novel "The Parasite" and two intriguing short stories: "The Love Affair of George Vincent Parker" and "The Cabman's Story.".
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан |
| 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. "Collected Tales" is a collection of early Doyle's short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy..
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан |
| 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. This volume contains twelve of author's best short stories like "The Last of the Legions", "Through the Veil" and "The Coming of the Huns" set in the early centuries of civilization up to the first millennium..
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
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 story of the novel "Before Adam" is told through the eyes of a man of the early twentieth century who suffers from a split personality syndrome: every night he sees bright dreams, in which he is a distant ancestor of a man who lived hundreds of thousands of years ago..
| Автор | Джек Лондон |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |