Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This is the second volume of a novel rich in both character portrayal and historical description. Characters include the absurdly criminalized Valjean and the implacable detective Javert. It includes scenes such as the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean's flight through the Paris sewers.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This novel tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner, a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England, and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. It is a tender tale of sin and repentance set in a rural world.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The Professor is Charlotte Bronte s first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a life in Brussels. But as a man, William has freedom of action, and as a writer Bronte is correspondingly liberated, exploring the relationship…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds — but only just! — in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and moral…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870's, the author's combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researched and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Owl and the Pussy-at', 'Calico Pie' and 'The Pobble Who Has No Toes', together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of The Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, Nonsense Stories, Nonsense Alphabets and Nonsense Cookery. It has a biographical…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «Confessions of an English Opium-man» (1812) relates Thomas De Quincey's early life and experiences of opium addiction at a time when that drug was widely used for the relief of pain, and before its addictive qualities were properly understood. It is a work which encompasses amusement with nightmare as the author experiences in turn the marvels of opium-induced dreams and the equally vivid…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Henry James (1843-1916), son of Henry James Sr. and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time. In this beautifully illustrated edition, Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest — Robin himself, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet and Alan-a-Dale, as well as Maid Marian, good King Richard, and Robin's deadly enemies Guy of Gisborne and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The highest standards in editing and production have been applied to the Wordsworth Children's Classics, while the low price makes them affordable for everyone. Wordsworth's list covers a range of the best-loved stories for children, from nursery tales, classic fables, and fairy tales to stories that will appeal to older children and adults alike. Many of these volumes have contemporary…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Set in 1482, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a compelling story of love and betrayal, brutal deeds and one of the most famous acts of revenge in world literature. Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, is one of fiction's most extreme characters — beneath his monstrous disfigurement, his love for the beautiful Esmerelda reveals a heart full of intense…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. This novel is based on the author's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude. It is also the story of a woman's right to love and be loved.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night. This is the background to the Arabian Nights. In this selection made by that master of folklore and fairy-tale Andrew Lang, the reader meets Aladdin with his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: «Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. «Little Women» is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community; Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial power and the intensities of his sexual relationship with Cleopatra. She, variously generous and ruthless, loving and jealous, petulant and majestic, emerges as Shakespeare's most complex depiction of…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, melancholy philosophising and finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical reflection has…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Black Beauty had a fine, soft black coat, one white foot and a silver star on his forehead. This tale tells of the horse's adventures and the disappointments and joys that surround him.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's corruption and delay, draw…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories, reprinted from The Strand Magazine. It contains the short story series “Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear” — a sinister novella which appeared in 1914-15 – “His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes” and the last 12 stories “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”.