зарубежная классика
Медные буки. Часть 1
Артур Конан Дойл
Детективный рассказ. Мистер Холмс получает от некой мисс Хантер письмо, в котором она просит совета по поводу работы в должности гувернантки у мистера Рукасла. Девушку волнуют некоторые условия, которые выдвигает ей этот господин. При встрече с...
Бруггльсмит
Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг
«Старший офицер с „Бреслау“ пригласил меня пообедать на корабль, прежде чем он пойдёт в Соутгэмптон за пассажирами. „Бреслау“ стоял за Лондонским мостом. Решётки передних люков были открыты для приёма груза, и вся палуба была завалена якорями,...
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.
Little Bun Rabbit
Лаймен Фрэнк Баум
Who knew Dorothy could speak rabbit? A delightful Christmas story to read with your children This charming Christmas story was published in L. Frank Baum's first children's book, Mother Goose in Prose (1897), illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. ...
A Kidnapped Santa Claus
Лаймен Фрэнк Баум
""A Kidnapped Santa Claus"" is a Christmas-themed short story by American writer L. Frank Baum; it has been called «„one of Baum's most beautiful stories“» and constitutes an influential contribution to the mythology of Christmas. ""A Kidnapped...
Дама с камелиями
Александр Дюма-сын
«Дама с камелиями» – роман Александра Дюма (сына), жанр зарубежная классика. История любви парижской куртизанки и молодого, романтичного Армана Дюваля. Прототипом Маргариты Готье являлась возлюбленная Дюма Мари Дюплесси, которая в 23 года...
Латник
Александр Бестужев-Марлинский
«Мы гнались за Наполеоном по горячим следам. 22 ноября послал меня Сеславин очистить левую сторону Виленской дороги, с сотнею сумских гусар, взводом драгун Тверского полка да дюжиною донцов. Местом сбора назначено было местечко Ошмяны, и я,...
The Christmas Mistake
Люси Мод Монтгомери
Linda Grant, beset by medical bills and other pressing obligations, tells her children that they will not be celebrating Christmas this year. Older Keith takes the news in stride, while younger Teddy angrily insists he will have his Christmas...
Christmas At Red Butte
Люси Мод Монтгомери
“Christmas at Red Butte” – it is one of Lucy Maud Montgomery's short stories, and can most likely be found in one of her short story collections, which would be a better value. Christmas at Red Butte is about an orphaned girl, Theodora, who...
A Christmas Inspiration
Люси Мод Монтгомери
“A Christmas Inspiration” is a short Christmas story first published in 1901. It is a wonderful story written by world-famous Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. As in the most of her Christmas story in this one Montgomery emphasizes the place of...
A Merry Christmas
Луиза Мэй Олкотт
A Merry Christmas collects the treasured holiday tales of Louisa May Alcott, from the dearly familiar Yuletide benevolence of Marmee and her “little women” to the timeless “What Love Can Do,” wherein the residents of a boarding house come...
Lazarus
Леонид Андреев
Lazarus is 1906 short story by Leonid Andreyev. The story is a speculation about the life of the Biblical Lazarus after Jesus brings him out of the tomb. And when the scarlet, flattened globe would lower, Lazarus would set out for the desert...
The Little Angel
Леонид Андреев
Leonid Nikolaivich Andreyev was born in Orel in 1871. After his father's death he was thrown upon his own resources, but managed to study at both Petrograd and Moscow Universities, graduating in Law in 1897. During this period he endured great...
Финансист
Теодор Драйзер
Студия «МедиаКнига» представляет культовую аудиокнигу знаменитого английского писателя Теодора Драйзера – «Финансист» (The Financier) – классику мировой литературы. Аудиокнига представлена на основе наиболее точного и полного современного...
The Scarlet Letter
Натаниель Готорн
The Scarlet Letter – published first in 1850, was in its time considered as an innovative and at the same time scandalous novel, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book was strongly disapproved by the fellow countrymen of the author and banned...
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Мэри Шелли
Desperate in his search of the secret of life, young Dr Victor Frankenstein attempts to construct and then bring to life a previously inanimate creature. He succeeds, yet immediately finds himself horrified and repulsed by the fruit of his...
10 Classic Christmas stories
Сборник
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 employ...
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...
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...
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...
Gulliver's Travels
Джонатан Свифт
Gulliver, an adventurous traveler, sails through the unknown waters of seas and oceans. A storm ruptures his ship and the sailor ends up unconscious on the shore of a mysterious country. Having woken up, the sailor finds himself surrounded by...
Utilitarianism
Джон Стюарт Милль
Mill's book Utilitarianism first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861 and was reprinted as a single book in 1863. John Stuart Mill was brought up as a Benthamite with the explicit intention that he would...
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 and...
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...
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...
Опавшие листья
Уилки Коллинз
Студия «МедиаКнига» представляет аудиокнигу «Опавшие листья» – роман знаменитого англичанина Уилки Коллинза – одного из самых известных писателей детективного жанра всех времен и народов. Он стоял у истоков жанра и явился одним из его...
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...
Без благословения церкви
Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг
«…Контракт был подписан легкомысленно; но ещё раньше, чем девушка достигла полного расцвета, она наполнила собой большую часть жизни Джона Хольдена. Для неё и для старой ведьмы – её матери – он снял маленький дом, из которого открывался вид на...
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“» is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals...
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 journey to...
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 classic, while the 1902 story is...
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....
Заурядная женщина
Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг
«– Одета! Не говорите мне, пожалуйста, что эта женщина когда-нибудь одевалась! Она стояла посреди комнаты, а ее айя… нет, ее муж – это, конечно, был мужчина – набрасывал на нее одежду. А она в это время поправляла прическу, запустив пальцы в...
Цвет яблони
Джон Голсуорси
Лауреат Нобелевской премии Джон Голсуорси хорошо известен в нашей стране как автор знаменитой «Саги о Форсайтах». Однако его перу принадлежат не менее замечательные новеллы, рассказы и маленькие повести, проникнутые юмором, мягкой лиричностью...
Der arme Spielmann
Franz Grillparzer
Der arme Spielmann Als Sohn eines hohen und einflussreichen Staatsbeamten versagt Jakob, weich, tr?umerisch und nach innen gewandt, vor den Anforderungen der Wirklichkeit. Er wird vom ehrgeizigen und j?hzornigen Vater von der Schule genommen...
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 Biester, Kant...
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 reprinted with minor textual...
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 Turn Of The Screw
Генри Джеймс
The Turn of the Screw, originally published in 1898, is a novella written by Henry James. The story, a part of Gothic and ghost story genres, first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (27 January – 16 April 1898). In October...
Daisy Miller
Генри Джеймс
Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated...
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 mistresses...
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