Here are sixteen of the best stories by one of America's most popular storytellers. For nearly a century, the work of O.Henry has delighted readers with its humor, irony a...
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Имя О.Генри известно уже не одному поколению читателей. Популярнейший американский юморист начала столетия и мастер-рассказчик, он один из корифеев этого жанра. Жизнь и ра...
<p>Чтоб помочь хозяину пансиона, двое друзей представляются высокопоставленными особами, но их маскарад проваливается.</p>
<p>Один из лучших юмористических рассказов О Генри.Иногда попытка выведать рецепт вкусных блинчиков может привести к неожиданных последствиям.</p>
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 ...
<p>Рассказ, основанный на двойственном понимании фраз, когда одну и ту же фразу каждый понимает по-своему.
Два уже немолодых приятеля, Энди и Мак, заработав на золотоносно...
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...
When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for w...
This short story collection, a facsimile of the 1909 Authorized Edition, includes the title story, "The Lonesome Road," "The Emancipation of Billy," and many more.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories - all of them had been published earlier, independently. Divided into three separate parts, according ...
Книга представляет собой сборник занимательных рассказов известного американского писателя О. Генри. Психологизм и тонкое чувство юмора, присущие его рассказам, обрели мил...
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<p>Доктор медицины Чарлз Спенсер Джемс имел и другую, весьма необычную ночную профессию.</p>
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 ...
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