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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Praised by many as a potential masterpiece, "Weir of Hermiston" tells the story of young Archie Weir from a rich Edinburgh family. Having abandoned all attempts to get along with his father, Archie is banished from his family and sent to live as the local...
| Автор | Роберт Льюис Стивенсон, Роберт Стивенсон |
| 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. Typhoon is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury.
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад, Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Twice-Told Tales IV is a volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic folktales. These ironic tales introduce complex, emotional topics within a familiar context. The volume contains "The Shaker Brida", "The White Old Maid" and other tales.
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| Автор | Натаниель Готорн, Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Twice-Told Tales is a volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic folktales. These ironic tales introduce complex, emotional topics within a familiar context. The volume contains "The Haunted Mind", "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", "The Vision of the Fountain" and other tales.
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| Автор | Натаниель Готорн, Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Twice-Told Tales is a volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic folktales. These ironic tales introduce complex, emotional topics within a familiar context. The volume contains "Sunday at Home", "The Gentle boy", "The Gray Champion" and other stories.
| Автор | Натаниель Готорн, Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Год | 2018 |
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Written by young Robert Stevenson, "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes" is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. Stevenson started the twelve-day track through the wild Cevennes region of France and wrote down the whole way in this...
| Автор | Роберт Льюис Стивенсон, Роберт Стивенсон |
| 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 |
F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. An oddity in F. S. Fitzgerald's career, his play The Vegetable was a satirical attack on the presidency of Warren Harding. An ordinary, incompetent man, taunted for his lack of ambition by his family, realises his dream of ruling the United States of America.
| Автор | Фицджеральд Фрэнсис Скотт |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. An oddity in F. S. Fitzgerald's career, his play The Vegetable was a satirical attack on the presidency of Warren Harding. An ordinary, incompetent man, taunted for his lack of ambition by his family, realises his dream of ruling the United States of America.
| Автор | Francis Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald F |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| 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 Tragedy of The Korosko" tells the story of European tourists on a trip to Egypt, sailing up the River Nile in a boat called the Korosko. The book raises the themes of imperial sovereignty, invasive foreign policy, and even religious extremism.
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| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан, Doyle A |
| 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. "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" is a novel about two boys from the fictional Missouri town of Dawson's Landing. One, born into slavery, with a small amount of black ancestry. The other is white, born to be the master of the house. The...
| Автор | Twain M. |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| 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. "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" is a novel about two boys from the fictional Missouri town of Dawson's Landing. One, born into slavery, with a small amount of black ancestry. The other is white, born to be the master of the house. 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. "The Strength of the Strong" includes seven extraordinary tales such as "South of the Slot", "The Unparalleled Invasion" and "The Enemy of All the World". Many of them deal with political issues, and display London's devotion to Socialism.
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| Автор | Джек Лондон, London J |
| 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 |
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. This book includes two wonderful short stories: mysterious and unpredictable "The Sire de Maletroits Door" and witty and inspiring "Providence and the Guitar."
| Автор | Роберт Льюис Стивенсон, Роберт Стивенсон |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "The Silverado Squatters" is Robert's sweet traveling memoir about a two-month honeymoon trip with his wife, Fanny, and her son Lloyd. It extensively describes their travel to Napa Valley, California in 1880.
| Автор | Stevenson R. |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
Jack London (1876—1916) 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 book is a collection of intriguing short stories with unexpected culminations such as "Like Argus of the Ancient Times", "The Hussv" and "The Red One".
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| Автор | Джек Лондон, London J |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "The Rajah's Diamond" is a collection of four wonderful short stories: "Story of the Bandbox", "Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders", "Story of the House with the Green Blinds" and "The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective".
| Автор | Stevenson R. |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |