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Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his diary on 1 Jan 1660, immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subsequent loosening of the rigid and social code enforced during the Puritan Commonwealth. As variously, Clerk to the Council, a Member of Parliament, a prisoner in the Tower of London, twice Secretary to the Admiralty and President of the Royal Society, Pepys was in a…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori’s «The Vampyre» and James Malcolm Rymer’s «Varney the Vampyre», a tale which held readers in thrall when…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R. James, ‘Stories I Have Tried To Write’, which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are…

Скачать книгу (размер 6 521 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1280) Аннотация: «William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of «Hamlet», «King Lear», «Othello», and «Macbeth» as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as «A Midsummer Night's Dream», «The Taming of the Shrew» and «As You Like It» with their magical combination of humour,…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 624 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1104) Аннотация: Highly acclaimed for its competitive edge on other editions of its kind, the Wordsworth Concise English Dictionary is an authorative, user friendly and up-to-date lexicon of the world's most widely used language. It reflects the usage not just of the UK and the USA but also of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and all those parts of the world where English is the first language. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Here together for the first time in one volume are the twenty five spooky stories created by Sir Andrew Caldecott in two collections the 1940s: Not Exactly Ghosts and Fires Burn Blue. Caldecott, who only turned to fiction after retiring from the civil service, allowed his lifelong fascination with the supernatural full reign in these simple yet remarkably disturbing stories. Taking his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Lafcadio Hearn’s fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental legends, and folktales. They are a potent blend of weird beauty and horror. Hearn, who referred to his narratives as ‘stories and studies of strange things’, believed that the spectral world was part of the oriental landscape. Lakes, mountains, ruined castles and terraced fields were the natural locale of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Anton Chekhov’s popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, calling for actors with intelligence and common sense rather than a dramatic voice or histrionic skills. He takes from everyday life themes of frustration which apply to us all – the difficulty of…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «This novel is an exciting fusion of a Sherlock Holmes mystery with the Ruritanian world of intrigue and skulduggery of Anthony Hope's novel «The Prisoner of Zenda». Colonel Sapt of the Ruritanian Court journeys to England on a secret mission to save the country from anarchy. His mission is to engage the services of Rudolf Rassendyll once more to impersonate the King while the monarch recovers…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the Ubermensch) are forsaken, as wit, exuberance and dazzling insights predominate, forcing the reader to face unpalatable insights and to rethink every commonly accepted 'truth'.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last. «The Whisperer in Darkness» brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Included in this volume are several early tales, along with…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 624 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1104) Аннотация: «Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is «The Happy Prince». Counterpoints to this were his novel «The Picture of Dorian Gray», which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 – 1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story. «In a Glass Darkly» (1872), one of his most celebrated volumes, purports to be the casebook of Dr Hesselius, a pioneer psychologist. These five tales represent some of Le Fanu’s most accomplished work, which rises above the…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems — 'The Second of September 1792' is a fine example — and finding full expression in the stories she wrote after she had become a highly successful novelist. Sometimes — as in «The Window» or «The Pestering», or «All Soul's Day» — these are what we…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «'I saw him take a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies fell about him...and there issued out of them a monstrous creature of the beetle tribe...' From out of the dark and mystic Egypt come The Beetle, a creature of horror, 'born of neither God nor man', which can change its form at will. It is bent on revenge for a crime committed against the devotees of an ancient religion. At…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: «Germinal» (1885) is the thirteenth in Émile Zola’s cycle of twenty novels about the Rougon-Macquart dynasty. It tells the story of Étienne Lantier, from the illegitimate Macquart branch of the family, who arrives in the mining settlement of Montsou, and witnesses at first hand the appalling conditions in which miners live and work. Gradually becoming embroiled in a bitter dispute…

Скачать книгу (размер 7 337 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1440) Аннотация: «Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland…

Скачать книгу (размер 7 174 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1408) Аннотация: Selected by Rosemary Gray, poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas. From the straightforwardly anecdotal to the more analytical of human behaviour, all are guaranteed to capture the imagination, stir the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «The garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim — that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this, she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. This is an ironic novel of manners. «Pride and Prejudice», which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it, the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has…