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The Secret Garden
Фрэнсис Элиза Ходжсон Бёрнетт
Nobody loves Mary - the heroine of the famous story of Francis Burnett "The Secret Garden." However, she does not burn with love for others, and moreover - she can not stand the whole world. And then her parents are passing away...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in Collier's Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age, which is...
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald's 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age....
The Camel's Back
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
When Perry Parkhurst decides that his long-time engagement to Betty Medill has gone on long enough, he presents her with a marriage license and an ultimatum: get married immediately or end the relationship all-together. But things don’t go quite...
The Offshore Pirate
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
"The Offshore Pirate" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920. It is one of eight short stories included in Fitzgerald's first published collection, Flappers and Philosophers. The story is about Ardita...
The Republic
Платон
he Republic (Greek: Πολιτεία, Politeia; Latin: Res Publica) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice (δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's...
The Apology of Socrates
Платон
The Apology of Socrates was written by Plato. In fact, it’s a defensive speech of Socrates that he said in a court noted down by Plato. The main subject of the speech is a problem of the evil. Socrates insists that neither death nor death...
The Allegory of the Cave
Платон
The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature". It is written as...
Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
Платон
Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the...
Мореход Никитин
Александр Бестужев-Марлинский
«В 1811 году, в июле месяце, из устья Северной Двины выходил в море небольшой карбас. Надо вам сказать, что в 1811 году в июле месяце, точно так же, как в настоящем 1834 году, до которого мы дожили по милости божией и по уверению календаря...
Огонь и вода
Александр Грин
О необычайной силе человека, способного, если надо, пройти по воде. [i] FantLab.ru[/i]
Пастушеские воспоминания
Александр Михайлович Казбеги
«В 18… году я решил заняться пастушеством. Мне захотелось обойти родные горы и долины, ближе сойтись с народом и самому испытать радости и тревоги, неразлучные с жизнью пастуха. У меня, человека гор, было небольшое стадо овец. Продав кое-какие...
Костешские скалы
Александр Вельтман
Рассказ Александра Вельтмана «Костештские скалы» из его романтического «бессарабского» цикла знакомит нас с жизнью и работой молодого офицера-топографа, ведущего съемочные работы в Бессарабии и квартирующего у молдаванки. В рассказ о любви...
Акварель
Александр Грин
«Клиссон проснулся не в духе. Вчера вечером Бетси жестоко упрекала его за то, что он сидит на ее шее, в то время как Вильсон поступил на речной пароход „Деннем“…»
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]
The Lees of Happiness
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
The Lees of Happiness - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). The Lees of Happiness is a was first published in the "Chicago...
Tarquin of Cheapside
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
Tarquin of Cheapside - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). Written almost six years before being added to this collection, this story...
Porcelain and Pink
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
Porcelain and Pink - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). “Porcelain and Pink is a comic one-act play. The plot involves a young woman...
Oh Russet Witch!
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
Oh Russet Witch! - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). This story was written just after the author completed the first draft of his...
Mr. Icky
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
Mr. Icky - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). Mr. Icky is a whimsical and lighthearted play written by F. Scott Fitzgerald centered...
Jemina, The Mountain Girl
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
Jemina, The Mountain Girl - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). In the story of "Jemina, The Mountain Girl", Jemina...
May Day
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
May Day - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). Published as a novelette in The Smart Set in July, 1920, "May Day"...
Tales of the Jazz Age
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin...
Пьер и Суринэ
Александр Грин
История о силе истинной любви, не знающей преград и способной воскресить ушедшего из жизни возлюбленного. [i] FantLab.ru[/i]
Последний дебют
Александр Куприн
Первое выступление Куприна в печати. За публикацию юнкер Куприн был наказан двумя сутками карцера.
The Jelly-Bean
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
The Jelly-Bean - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). This is a Southern story, with the setting laid in the small Lily of Tarleton,...
The Thing in the Hall
Эдвард Фредерик Бенсон
Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror stories. In his own day it was his ghost stories...
Negotium Perambulans
Эдвард Фредерик Бенсон
Negotium Perambulans is a short story by british writer E. F. Benson. It details the tale of a man, who, as a child, comes to an isolated fisher villiage in West Cornwall and is enchanted with it. He stays at his uncles house during this entiere...
Mrs. Amworth
Эдвард Фредерик Бенсон
Mrs. Amworth by E. F. Benson, The village of Maxley, where, last summer and autumn, these strange events took place, lies on a heathery and pine-clad upland of Sussex. In all England you could not find a sweeter and saner situation. Should the...
The Sanctuary
Эдвард Фредерик Бенсон
Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror stories. In his own day it was his ghost stories...
The Cat
Эдвард Фредерик Бенсон
Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror stories. In his own day it was his ghost stories...
The Wishing-Well
Эдвард Фредерик Бенсон
Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror stories. In his own day it was his ghost stories...
Naboth's Vineyard
Эдвард Фредерик Бенсон
"Naboth's Vineyard" exemplifies E. F. Benson's fine literary style and his ability to create the most frightening of supernatural and macabre tales. This story takes it title from a story in the Old Testament...
At the Farmhouse
Эдвард Фредерик Бенсон
Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror stories. At the Farmhouse - tells the story of a...
The Terror by Night
Эдвард Фредерик Бенсон
Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror stories. In his own day it was his ghost stories...
Selected works of E.F. Benson
Эдвард Фредерик Бенсон
Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror stories. In his own day it was his ghost stories...
The Judge's House
Брэм Стокер
"The Judge's House" is a classic ghost story by the Irish author Bram Stoker. The story was first published in the December 5, 1891, special Christmas issue of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News weekly magazine....
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Бенджамин Франклин
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a...
The Way to Wealth
Бенджамин Франклин
The Way to Wealth is an essay written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758. It is a collection of adages and advice presented in Poor Richard's Almanac during its first 25 years of publication, organized into a speech given by "Father...
The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen (3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella...
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