Описание: "The Reluctant Dragon" is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame, originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days. It is Grahame's most famous short story, arguably better known than Dream Days itself or the related The Golden Age. It can be seen as a...
Описание: The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Scottish novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow-moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals (Mole, Rat (a European water vole), Toad, and Badger) in a pastoral...
Описание: 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 country, Zhou in the fifth...
Описание: 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 man's «most faithfull...
Описание: Nowadays The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the most famous and popular novel by an American writer Mark Twain (his real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Huckleberry Finn is a teenager who runs away from his alcoholic father that was constantly beating him. On...
Описание: 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 timeless appeal and will...
Описание: 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 long-lasting labors and, as...
Описание: 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 by the Russian tsars...
Описание: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer...
Описание: Студия «МедиаКнига» представляет аудиокнигу знаменитого британского поэта, драматурга, политика и общественного деятеля Ричарда Бринсли Шеридана – «Школа злословия». Книга прочитана популярной киноактрисой и известной актрисой дубляжа Юлией Тарховой. «Школа...
Описание: 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 перевода, без цензурных...
Описание: Студия «МедиаКнига» представляет культовую эпическую аудиокнигу по роману знаменитого польского писателя, мастера исторического романа, лауреата Нобелевской премии по литературе 1905 года – Генрика Сенкевича – «Крестоносцы», (также известную, как «Меченосцы»),...
Описание: 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 hardship—often even...
Описание: 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 and walk straight toward...
Описание: 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 together to make a lovely...
Описание: “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 simple human kindness...
Описание: “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 sacrifices her one family...
Описание: 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 turkey one way or...
Описание: «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, получив приказание, что...
Описание: «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 умерла от туберкулёза....
Описание: ""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 Santa Claus"" was...
Описание: 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. Dorothy meets a shy...
Описание: «В душах людей наливаются и зреют гроздья гнева – тяжелые гроздья, и дозревать им теперь уже недолго…» Культовый роман Джона Стейнбека «Гроздья гнева» впервые был опубликован в Америке в 1939 году, получил Пулицеровскую премию, а сам автор позднее был награжден...
Описание: «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, болтами, винтами и...
Описание: «Людовик XV и его эпоха» – исторический роман Александра Дюма, жанр зарубежная классика. «В первые годы своего царствования Людовик XV пользовался любовью народа, который назвал его Возлюбленным (Ie Bien-Fime). Но эта любовь превратилась мало-помалу в ненависть и...
