Остроумные, насмешливые истории-анекдоты и трагичес-кие, эмоциональные рассказы. Их герои – то истинные английские леди и джентльмены, поставленные судьбой в необычные, за...
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Collected Short Stories: Volume 3
W. Somerset Maugham
The story is about Miss Brill, a middle-aged English teacher in an unnamed French vacation town. It follows her on a regular Sunday afternoon in the park, which she spends...
<p>Свидетельство любви - каким оно может быть? Историю об этом может рассказать человек, принявший участие в охоте, в морозной лесистой болотной глуши.</p>
Inspired by the rhythms of the periodic table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian J...
Настоящий сборник охватывает рассказы немецких писателей из числа созданных за десять-двенадцать лет после окончания второй мировой войны.
События недавней истории и жи...
The Oldest Member knows everything that has ever happened on the golf course - and a great deal more besides.
Take the story of Cuthbert, for instance. He's helplessly ...
Il semble que Francois Mauriac ait mis le meilleur de son art dans cette cruelle peinture d'une famille de hobereaux du Sud-Ouest dont l'heritier, un pauvre homme degenere...
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He is best known for his novel Red Badge of Courage (1895). The novel introduced for most readers ...
The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving histor...
An account of a few hours in a writer's life, describing both what he sees and what he observes. The author's previous novels include "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty ...
Meet the Young Men in Spats - all members of the Drones Club, all crossed in love and all busy betting their sometimes nonexistent fortunes on unlikely outcomes - that's w...
<p>Рассказ о прозрении рядового голландского мещанина, застигнутого врасплох бурей фашизма.</p>
The Pupil is the emotional story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family. He befriends his tutor, who is the only adult in his life th...
Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes "The world is what i...
'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.'
'If she con...
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THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR
In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's m...
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Champion of the World by Roald Dahl, read by Stephen Mangan.
In The Champion of the World, Roald Dahl tells a funny, bitte...
"A Dog's Tale" is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's Magazine. In January of the following year it was extracted...
Любовь, ревность и смерть, бунт против судьбы и отчаяние от собственной несостоятельности – Моэм всегда писал на волнующие человечество темы. Его острая наблюдательность, ...