Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, "Lady Windermere's Fan". The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme...
Похожие книги
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde, Stephen Colbourn
"Любовь, которая назвать себя не смеет..." Преступлением, за которое блестяще остроумного и светского ирландца приговорили к двум годам тюрьмы, разрушив его счастливую жиз...
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 Septem...
The man kept talking. There was kindness in his voice, and it gave White Fang a strange new feeling. Now the man's hand moved nearer and nearer to his head. White Fang mov...
Sleepy Hollow:
"The horseman's head still lies somewhere on the battlefield," the people of Sleepy Hollow said. "Every night, he rides back to the battlefield to look for...
В сборник включена малая проза Оскара Уайльда - пародийно-готическая повесть "Кентервильское привидение", "Портрет г-на У.Х.", увлекающий поистине детективным сюжетом, бес...
Трехтомное Собрание сочинений английского писателя Оскара Уайльда (1854-1900) - наиболее полное из опубликованных на русском языке. Знаменитый эстет и денди конца прошлого...
Неразгаданная тайна лирического героя Шекспировских сонетов. Неизвестный портрет, изображающий прекрасного юношу. Можно ли с помощью подделки доказать теорию, которая тебе...
В эту книгу вошли новые, уточненные и полные переводы уайльдовской прозы и поэзии: бессмертный роман "Портрет Дориана Грея", шедевр его драматургии - пьеса "Саломея", трог...
Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. They have never lacked readers and admi...
In 1888 Henry James wrote "There was the customary novel by Mr. Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight".
Madam Crowl...
The Fast Track Classics series enables students to experience the pleasure of reading well-known classic novels.
These shortened classic novels cater for every taste whet...
Ein Plädoyer für einen Sozialismus, der Grund und Notwendigkeit im Individualismus findet. Wildes Essay sagt aus was ist: Wir sind gefangen. »Es wird natürlich gesagt werd...
<p><br /></p>
Classic / British English
Pip is a poor orphan whose life is changed forever by two very different meetings - one with an escaped convict and the other with an eccentr...
Moby Dick is the most dangerous whale in the oceans. Captain Ahab fought him and lost a leg. Now he hates Moby Dick. He wants to kill him. But can Captain Ahab and his men...
Classic / British English
Macbeth, a brave soldier, is trusted by the Scottish king. Then a strange meeting with three witches makes him greedy for power. Macbeth want...
The year is 1757. The English and the French are at war in North America. Two sisters - Cora and Alice - want to visit their father, General Munro. They begin their danger...
В 1895 году Оскар Уайльд находился на вершине славы и популярности. Блестящий поэт, драматург и остроумный собеседник, все, что он делал, вызывало либо восторг, либо сканд...
The Temptation of Harringay, written by renowned English author H. G. Wells, is a work that centers around the titular character and his moral quandary. The protagonist fa...