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Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime’s experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an…

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime’s experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an…

Joseph Conrad’s first novel Almayer’s Folly is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells…

An Outcast of the Islands was only Conrad’s second novel, but in its theme, in its impressionistic use of scenery, and, and over all, in the enormous richness and power of the writing, it predict…

Colonel Jack is one of Daniel Defoe’s most entertaining, revealing, and complex works. It is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. H…

They were the literary phenomenon of their time: The Waverly novels, 48 volumes set in fanciful re-creations of the Scottish Highlands (and other lands) of centuries past, published between 1814 …

David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy & impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously …

Представленные в книге легенды об отважном благородном разбойнике Робин Гуде адаптированы по методу Ильи Франка: снабжены дословным переводом на русский язык и необходимым лексико-грамматическим …

Гілберт Кіт Честертон (1874—1936) – англійський християнський мислитель, журналіст і письменник кінця ХІХ – початку ХХ століття. Лицар-командор із зіркою ватиканського ордену Святого Григорія Вел…

Гілберт Кіт Честертон (1874—1936) – англійський християнський мислитель, журналіст і письменник кінця ХІХ – початку ХХ століття. Лицар-командор із зіркою ватиканського ордену Святого Григорія Вел…

Ім’я Гілберта Кіта Честертона (1874—1936), англійського християнського мислителя, журналіста і письменника, відомо в усьому світі. Він написав близько 80 книжок, серед яких кілька сотень віршів, …

Philip Caresfoot is all but promised to marry the local heiress, Maria Lee. They are both to inherit small fortunes in their own right. And thus their marriages to each other would make an ever w…

A confessional narrative from a mad scientist Dr. Therne obsessed with one of the great issues of his day… in this case, vaccination against epidemic diseases like smallpox. His personal fears me…

In Elissa Henry Rider Haggard takes his readers to the Phoenician city in South Central Africa the mysterious ruins of which have been the subject of so much speculation and research in the recen…

Призраки и потусторонние твари всегда рядом и всегда голодны. Немногие смельчаки осмеливаются бросить им вызов, а уж тех, кто сделал охоту за сверхъестественным своим ремеслом, и вовсе можно пере…

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). C…

Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Al…

Enjoying the comforts of his well-kept home, country doctor William Harrison is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the «wooing and winning» of w…

A fallen woman would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her Ruth. Overturning the conventional assumption that a…

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He wrote many political tracts and often was in trouble with the authorities, including prison time. The third book ab…