Описание: 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 Abraham» to a group of people. Many of...
Описание: Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington (1856–1915). The book describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he...
Описание: "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. It was later republished in Dracula's Guest and...
Описание: "The Luck of Roaring Camp" is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence. The story is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th-century gold...
Описание: Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales, is a collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or «Brothers Grimm», Jakob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. The first edition contained 86 stories, and by the seventh...
Описание: Мечта Бекки Шарп – выбиться из нищеты, стать светской дамой и блистать в высшем свете. Вот только девушке для этого придется пустить в ход всю свою хитрость. «Ярмарка тщеславия» стала центральным романом английского писателя и журналиста Уильяма Мейкписа Теккерея,...
Описание: Мировой бестселлер, ставший успешным после первой же публикации в 1847 году, роман Шарлотты Бронте «Джейн Эйр» – это история о сильной и скромной женщине, которая переносит удары судьбы ради обретения счастья. С XIX века и до сих пор произведение увлекает читателя...
Описание: Не успели сходить на премьеру «Маленьких женщин» в кино, а все только и делают, что обсуждают сюжет фильма? Не беспокойтесь, мы знаем, как вам помочь. Наш аудио-обзор на роман Луизы Мэй Олкотт познакомит вас с произведением американской классики и даст подробное...
Описание: Студия «МедиаКнига» представляет жемчужину мировой литературы, аудиокнигу всемирно известного писателя фантаста Жюля Верна – «Пятнадцатилетний капитан». Издание было многократно экранизировано. Книга прочитана популярным артистом Аркадием Бухминым. " «Матросы...
Описание: Этот роман, вышедший в 1949 году, современники называли «джойсовским». Переводчики не решались приступиться к нему более шестидесяти лет, но теперь и у нас появилась возможность познакомиться с одним из главных шедевров ирландской литературы. Коннемара (от...
Описание: Маленький человек. Ребёнок. Что для него может быть важнее неизменной близости родителей, тепла их сердец, надёжного укрытия в их заботливых объятиях? В Британской Индии, в колониальный период, было принято отправлять маленьких англичан на историческую родину, в...
Описание: 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 which were his most...
Описание: 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 which were his most...
Описание: 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 landscape painter, who...
Описание: "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 Book of Kings starring Ahab and his infamous wife...
Описание: 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 which were his most...
Описание: 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 which were his most...
Описание: 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 which were his most...
Описание: 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 wind blow from the...
Описание: 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 time, hearing his...
Описание: 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 which were his most...
Описание: 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 Button». All of the stories...
Описание: 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» relates a series of events which took place in the spring...
Описание: 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 Tantrum is a teenage girl who lives on a mountain. She...
Описание: 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 around a man named Mr. Icky. In a quick...
Описание: 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 second novel. However it may seem, the...
