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Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers. "A Double-Barreled Detective Story" is a somewhat unusual short story. Twain takes Sherlock Holmes, world-famous detective, the creation of Sir Arthur Doyle, and puts him in an unusual setting, a small town in the American west, where our...
| Автор | Марк Твен, Twain Mark |
| 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. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise, who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. A Personal Record is Conrad's account of himself, his cultural background, and the central motives in his life as a seaman and a writer separated from the country where he was born.
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад, Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame story being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox. Massachusetts. All the tales are modified from the original myths.
| Автор | Натаниель Готорн, Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. The Allan's Wife novel celebrated Allan Quatermain series, this book tells more stories of Quartermain's time in South Africa — presenting his observations about two dueling witch doctors, his father's death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella.
| Автор | Генри Райдер Хаггард |
| 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 | Jack London |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| 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 |
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. "Beyond the City" is a novel set in the Victorian era. It tells the story of different women, whose desire for money and romance forces them to go way beyond the traditional notions of middle-class life.
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан, Doyle A |
| 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. This collection includes many amazing short stories such as "That Spot", "Trust", "All Gold Canyon" and "The Story Of Keesh".
| Автор | Джек Лондон, London J |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers. This volume includes some of his amazing works: a novel about Buffalo Bills favorite horse "A Horses Tale" a short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Letters from the Earth" the most controversial work of the...
| Автор | Марк Твен, Twain Mark |
| 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. "Children of the Frost" is an amazing collection of stories like "In the Forests of the North", "Nam-Bok the Unveracious" and "The Master of Mystery"..
| Автор | Джек Лондон |
| 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. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Collected Sea Tales contains stories that take rank with the most mature and romantic of his works.
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад, Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories includes amazing stories like "The Rose of Dixie", "The Third Ingredient", "The Hiding of Black Bill", "Schools and Schools" and many others.
| Автор | О. Генри, О. Генри, O. Henry |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 18 |
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stones contains "Sound and Fury", "Tracked to Doom", "A Strange Story" and other famous stories by O. Henry.
| Автор | О. Генри, О. Генри, O. Henry |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 18 |
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories includes "Psyche and the Pskyscraper", "A Bird of Bagdad", "Compliments of the Season", "A Night in New Arabia" and other stories.
| Автор | О. Генри, О. Генри, O. Henry |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 18 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories includes such amazing stories as "The Snow-Image" and "The New Adam and Eve". This volume also contains the novel "Fanshawe", that was the first published work by Hawthorne, published anonymously in 1828. It was based on his experiences at Bowdoin College in the early 1820s. He had written successful short stories before, but this was his first attempt at creating a novel.
| Автор | Натаниель Готорн, Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. Collected Short Stories is a series of sketchy tales of relationships and acquaintences. These are gentle, undemanding stories of couples in love, several men with peculiar character traits and anecdotal mishaps.
| Автор | Джером Джером |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories, a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne's stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". Hawthorne shows us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered at the time.
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| Автор | Натаниель Готорн, Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories contain several short stories from a "Cabbages and Kings" series. In Coralio - a sultry coastal town in the volatile banana republic of Anchuria - a disparate cast of vagabonds, mercenaries and consuls is busy plotting, scamming, drinking, loving or trying to forget the past. Each has his own tale to...
| Автор | О. Генри, O. Henry |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |