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Tales of the Alhambra (Selected stories)
Вашингтон Ирвинг
For a while, the famous writer Irving Washington was an employee of the American diplomatic mission in Spain. He spent three months in the famous Alhambra Palace. This acquaintance with the historical relic inspired him to write this book. In...
The Conquest of Bread
Пётр Кропоткин
The Conquest of Bread is an 1892 book by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin. Peter Kropotkin was born a Russian prince whose father owned 1,200 serfs. But he became a Russian activist, writer, revolutionary, scientist, economist,...
The King in Yellow
Chambers Robert William
"The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories....
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Вашингтон Ирвинг
"The favorite story of the Dutch settlement of Sleepy Hollow, New York, is an ominous ghost story. A headless horseman is waiting for belated travelers. Ikabod Crane, who believes in everything beyond, cares for Katharina Van Tassel, the...
Rip Van Winkle
Вашингтон Ирвинг
"""Rip Van Winkle"" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in...
Common Sense
Пейн Томас
Thomas Paine was born in Great Britain; he came to America at the age of 37 for the first time. He is rightly considered to be the Anglo-American writer, philosopher, publicist, as well as "American godfather" for supporting...
A Changed Man
Томас Харди (Гарди)
"A Changed Man is a collection of twelve tales written by Thomas Hardy. The collection was originally published in book form in 1913, although all of the tales had been previously published in newspapers or magazines from 1881 to 1900....
The First Jungle Book
Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг
"The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or...
The Prince
Никколо Макиавелли
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (Of Principalities)....
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...
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