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10 Classic Christmas stories
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December is a time for traditions and rituals, from hanging the familiar decorations and singing carols to making that family Christmas cake recipe or sharing a seasonal story. We’ve picked ten classic books with a festive theme that have...
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Марк Твен
On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1885 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. In the essay, Twain laments the dour ways in which men of America's Gilded Age...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Жюль Верн
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne; it was first published in 1870. The...
On Liberty
Джон Стюарт Милль
On Liberty is a philosophical essay by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill. Published in 1859, it applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state. Mill suggests standards for the relationship between authority...
Faust
Иоганн Вольфганг фон Гёте
Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language...
Tao Te Ching
Лао-цзы
The Tao Te Ching is a Taoist philosophical treatise. Lao Tzu, a great Ancient Chinese philosopher and teacher, is considered to be the author of this book. We owe this book to an unnamed guardian who kept safe the far western borders of a...
Pride and Prejudice
Джейн Остин
Jane Austen is one of the founders of classic novels for women. Her most famous novel Pride and Prejudice is rightfully considered to be the masterpiece of the world literature. Walter Scott, Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf and Richard Aldington...
The Awakening
Кейт Шопен
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on...
На реке
Александр Куприн
«…Я лежал на кровати не раздеваясь, и, как ни боролся с дремотой, но именно в эту самую минуту она уже начинала закачивать меня своим томным дыханием. Вслед за шепотом раздался осторожный, но настойчивый стук пальцев по стеклу. Это вызывал меня...
White Fang
Джек Лондон
White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story details White Fang's...
To Build a Fire
Джек Лондон
""To Build a Fire"" is a short story by American author Jack London. There are two versions of this story, one published in 1902 and the other in 1908. The story written in 1908 has become an often anthologized...
The Call Of The Wild
Джек Лондон
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck....
Peter Pan
Джеймс Мэтью Барри
Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright James Matthew Barrie. A romantic fairy tale Peter Pan is a favourite story of many generations of children all over the world. The main character is a boy who never...
The Dead
Джеймс Джойс
""The Dead"" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. The other stories in the collection are shorter, whereas at 15,952 words, ""The Dead""...
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Герман Мелвилл
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and...
The Prussian Officer
Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс
The first narrative in the collection is "The Prussian Officer", which tells of a Captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has been left with only his military career, and though he has taken on...
Classic Christmas Collection
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Classic Christmas Collection is an anthology of what children and parents have heard and read over the ages. In our audiobook comes a selection of the best fairytales about Сhristmas, stories about adventures and everything that makes a our...
Fairy Tales (9 сказок)
Ганс Христиан Андерсен
The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen have inspired, frightened, and amused readers since they were first published in 1835. The power of his tales to charm and elevate runs like a living thread through whatever he writes. Only a few...
An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?
Иммануил Кант
"Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" is a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. In the December 1784 publication of the Berlinische Monatsschrift (Berlin Monthly), edited by Friedrich Gedike and Johann Erich...
The Other Wise Man
Henry Van Dyke
The Other Wise Man is a short novel or long short story by Henry van Dyke. It was initially published in 1895 and has been reprinted many times since then. The story is an addition and expansion of the account of the Biblical Magi, recounted in...
The Chimes
Чарльз Диккенс
The Chimes, is a novella written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of ""Christmas books,"" five novellas with strong social and...
Циция
Александр Михайлович Казбеги
Писательское дарование и гражданская мужество Александра Казбеги особенно ярко проявились в его творческой деятельности 80-х годов XIX века. В его романах и рассказах с большой художественной силой передан внутренний мир героев, их чувства и...
Голос и глаз
Александр Грин
Больной в клинике для слепых влюбляется в голос девушки. И вот после операции с его глаз снимают повязку… [i] FantLab.ru[/i]
Этрусская ваза
Проспер Мериме
«…Обязанность историка вынуждает меня сообщить, что в одну июльскую ночь, за несколько мгновений до восхода солнца, калитка парка отворилась и пропустила человека, который вышел на дорогу, принимая такие же точно предосторожности, как вор,...
Огонь и вода
Александр Грин
О необычайной силе человека, способного, если надо, пройти по воде. [i] FantLab.ru[/i]
Extracts From Adam's Diary (Translated From The Original MS)
Марк Твен
Written at the end of Twain's career, Extracts from Adam's Diary was first published in 1897. Twain's Adam was based on himself.
Голос и глаз
Александр Грин
Больной в клинике для слепых влюбляется в голос девушки. И вот после операции с его глаз снимают повязку… [i] FantLab.ru[/i]
Продавец счастья
Александр Грин
Может ли человек «следовать руслу случая», поверив бумажке, вынутой попугаем?! «Если вам кто-нибудь говорил, что жизнь требует осторожности и терпения – не верьте…» Одна из самых непредсказуемых новелл Грина. [i] FantLab.ru[/i]
Этрусская ваза
Проспер Мериме
«…Обязанность историка вынуждает меня сообщить, что в одну июльскую ночь, за несколько мгновений до восхода солнца, калитка парка отворилась и пропустила человека, который вышел на дорогу, принимая такие же точно предосторожности, как вор,...
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Даниэль Дефо
"The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a...
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
[i]«Забавный случай с Бенджамином Баттоном» и «Алмазная гора»[/i] Ф.С. Фицджеральд называл эти два рассказа «фантазиями» – так невероятны их сюжеты. В этих захватывающих историях есть все – и лихо закрученная интрига, и любовь, и великолепный...
Тени утра
Михаил Петрович Арцыбашев
«Была весна. Паша Афанасьев, гимназист восьмого класса, освобожденный от экзаменов по болезни, и гимназистка Лиза Чумакова стояли у плетня, который перегораживал два сада. Лиза, прислонившись одним плечом к плетню, и с тем, еще детски серьезным и...
The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales
Оскар Уайльд
[i]«Счастливый принц» и другие сказки[/i] Оскар Уайльд – «король парадокса» и мастер неповторимого изящного слога. Его сказки чаруют не только великолепным стилем и красивейшим английским языком, но и нежностью, мудростью и знанием жизни,...
Alice in Wonderland
Льюис Кэрролл
[i]Алиса в Стране чудес[/i] Отправляйтесь в удивительную Страну чудес вместе с Алисой! Слушайте волшебную повесть в оригинале и наслаждайтесь неповторимой игрой слов, тонкими каламбурами и мягким юмором Льюиса Кэрролла. Вас ждут встречи с...
The Monkey's Paw
William Wymark Jacobs
"""The Monkey's Paw"" is a supernatural short story by author W. W. Jacobs, first published in England in the collection The Lady of the Barge in 1902. In the story, three wishes are granted...
The Christmas Banquet
Натаниель Готорн
"First published in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, XIV (January, 1844), “The Christmas Banquet shares its subtitle—from the unpublished “Allegories of the Heart—with “Egotism; or the Bosom-Serpent, another Hawthorne...
The Best of Oscar Wilde
Оскар Уайльд
"Selected works of Oscar Wilde ""Best of Oscar Wilde"" is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. “The ones who are able to see the high meaning of beauty are...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Douglass Frederick
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a...
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding
Федор Достоевский
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" is a short story written by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky published in 1848. The piece is narrated by an awkward outcast attending a Christmas party. He observes the party's guest of...
Selected works of Saki
Саки
"Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and...
The Best of Washington Irving
Вашингтон Ирвинг
"Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories ""Rip Van...
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
"No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar crisis of Japanese cultural identity. Framed by an epilogue and prologue, the story...
Notes from the Underground
Федор Достоевский
Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an...
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Федор Достоевский
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (Russian: Сон смешного человека, Son smeshnovo cheloveka) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any...
The Metamorphosis
Франц Кафка
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works. Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a "monstrous...
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