Классическая проза

In 'Beyond the City', the desire for money and romance drives the characters beyond the typical boundaries of their middle class Victorian lives. Lust, deceit, and financial scandals rock their p…

«Афонський пройдисвіт» Івана Нечуя-Левицького – найяскравіший антиклерикальний твір, у якому автор сміливо викриває лицемірство, аморальність і кар’єризм духовенства***. Оповідання належить до кр…

Эта книга рассказывает о том, какой была век назад русская Пасха – главный праздник христианского богослужебного года. …Крестный ход с громкими пениями, пасхальная заутреня, обряд христосования, …

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "s…

The Parasite was an 1894 novelette about Austin Gilroy who studied physiology and knows a professor who studies the occult. The young man is introduced to a middle-aged woman known as Miss Penclo…

Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre has been enjoyed by readers around the world for over 160 years. The eldest of the Brontë sisters, this is Charlotte's most famous and influential novel. Writt…

The Professor is Charlotte Brontës 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 Vil…

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder …

A hilarious and cutting critique of what not to do, this deliciously wicked essay lays out what writers should and must do if they want their fiction to live and breathe ― as Twain's own fiction …

В книге собраны повести и рассказы о любви великих мастеров русской прозы: А. Пушкина, И. Тургенева, А. Чехова, А. Куприна, И. Бунина. Что такое любовь? Одна из самых высоких ценностей, сила, соз…

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is sometimes considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.…

At age 19 Anne Brontë left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience as a governess. Bronte depicts the precari…

Emily Brontë's only novel is famous the world over and is the favorite classic of many readers. It is easy to see why, with hardship, insanity, cruelty, frustrated love, and ghosts.

"The American Claimant" is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches―fertile and familiar Mark Twain territory. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British her…

"Eureka" (1848) is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) which he subtitled «A Prose Poem», though it has also been subtitled as «An Essay on the Material and …

Жизнь русского общества второй половины XIX века запечатлена в салтыковских сказках во множестве картин, миниатюрных по объему, но огромных по своему идейному содержанию. В богатейшей галереее ти…

Впервые повесть напечатана в сборнике статей и заметок Гоголя «Арабески», вышедшем в 1835 г. Замысел «Невского проспекта» относится еще к 1831 г., когда Гоголь сделал несколько незаконченных набр…