Английская классика

Перед Вами величайшее творение Киплинга – роман «Ким», в котором выражена любовь автора к Индии, стране его детства и юности. Марк Твен говорил об этой книге, что ее всю пропитывает «глубокое и т…

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…

«Густой мрак и непроницаемая тьма скрывала до сих пор от взоров публики первоначальную историю общественной карьеры бессмертного Пикквика; но мрак исчезнет и темнота мигом превратится в ослепител…

Brigadier Gerard is an officer in Napoleon's army, recklessly brave, engagingly openhearted, and unshakable, if not a little absurd, in his devotion to the enigmatic Emperor. The Brigadier's wond…

The Adventures of Gerard is a compilation of short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote regarding a French Brigadier named Etienne Gerard who thinks very highly of himself as can be reflecte…

«– Сердце в порядке, – сказал врач. – Легкие тоже. Органических заболеваний не нахожу. Не волнуйтесь, Филип Лефрэнк, смерть вам пока не грозит. Недуг, поразивший вас, – переутомление. Лучшее лека…

Талантливый ученый доктор Моро сослан на затерянный остров за жестокие эксперименты над животными. Здесь, вдали от цивилизации, он собирается воплотить в жизнь свою мечту, создать путем хирургии …

В монографии рассматривается литературная судьба комедий английского драматурга Ричарда Бринсли Шеридана, особое внимание уделяется анализу художественного своеобразия переводов и переделок его п…

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…

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…

Роман «Остров сокровищ», являясь одним из лучших образцов классического приключенческого романа, принёс своему автору мировую славу, а безусловный мастер художественного слова Алексей Весёлкин, с…

The Captain of the Pole-Star is a collection of strange mystery tales that are independent of each other, sometimes involving ship voyages, shipwrecks, amnesia, lost love, grand thefts, comedy, a…

"The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales", is an Action & Adventure novel published in 1892. The novel takes place in the Napoleonic era on the English-Scottish border city called West Inch. …

Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World, Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. What h…

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient cla…

"The New Revelation" is a firsthand account of investigation into the world of spiritualism. The treatise deals not only with the issue of physical versus metaphysical, but also considers the pro…

This novel is narrated by John Fothergill West, who tries to discover why the tenant of Cloomber Hall, General Heatherstone, is nervous to the point of being paranoid. Why are his fears becoming …

Irish athletic reporter Malone narrates tale of bold squat quarrelsome Professor Challenger seeking remote Amazonian plateau where “the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended” with prehistoric cre…

A book of historical fiction representing Conan Doyle's ability to make the long-gone past come alive.

This volume collects a wide array of the author's short works of fiction, spanning virtually every literary genre. Detective stories are featured, but genres such as historical fiction, romance, …