Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, t...
Роман «Хитроумный идальго Дон Кихот Ламанчский» Сервантеса (около 1547–1616) входит в золотой фонд мировой литературы. Первый полный перевод романа на русский язык с испан...
Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt, and, led by two young pigs,...
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens ...
Перед вами захватывающий детектив об Арсене Люпене, джентельмене-грабителе. Этот благородный вор и неуловимый мошенник — один из самых известных персонажей своего времени....
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordina...
One of Dickens's finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterious benefactor with the l...
The red letter "A" on her dress marks young mother Hester Prynne among her Puritan neighbors, who demand to know who fathered her child. Rumors swirl, but the shunned and ...
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?
On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies befo...
Solomon Northup's memoir recalls how he was kidnapped in Washington DC in 1841 and sold into slavery, describing the brutalities and injustices he endured before he finall...
Мировой и отечественный классик, Лев Николаевич Толстой был уже при жизни назван "главой русской литературы" и четырежды номинирован на Нобелевскую премию.
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Повесть «Яма» А. И. Куприн начал писать в 1909 году и завершил работу через шесть лет. Книга о жизни проституток вызвала скорее осуждение, чем сочувствие или понимание. Ав...
Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe's sentimental and moral tale of slaves...
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Томас Гарди - английский писатель-романист XIX-XX вв. Его романы "Тэсс из рода д’Эрбервиллей", "В...
Intelligent, beautiful and vivacious, Isabel Archer fascinates and intimidates the elite society of Albany, New York. Fiercely protective of her independence, she travels ...
"Азазель" - первый роман из серии о необыкновенном сыщике Эрасте Фандорине. Ему всего двадцать лет, но он удачлив, бесстрашен, благороден и привлекателен. Юный Эраст Петро...
Interview with the Vampire is a debut gothic horror and vampire novel by American author Anne Rice, published in 1976. Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the n...
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With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. Fir...























