Английская литература

"His Last Bow" is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. Adventures invol…

The Captain of the Pole-Star is a collection of strange mystery tales that are independent of each other, sometimes involving ship voyages, shipwrecks, amnesia, lost love, grand thefts, comedy, a…

As well as penning some of the most popular detective fiction, Conan Doyle also wrote thrilling adventure stories. 'Rodney Stone' is a combination of both. Nelson, Beau Brummell, Fox and King Geo…

"Round the Red Lamp" features realistic stories and episodes of medical life, sketches of old-fashioned doctors, medical students and their pranks.

A book of historical fiction representing Conan Doyle's ability to make the long-gone past come alive.

Тед Уоллис по прозвищу Гиппопотам – стареющий развратник, законченный циник и выпивоха, готовый продать душу за бутылку дорогого виски. Некогда он был поэтом и подавал большие надежды, ныне же бе…

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "s…

Поэзия английского романтизма – удивительное творческое явление. олицетворявшее протест доминировавшему прежде классицизму, его представители мечтали «восстановить цельность мира, разрываемого пр…

A fantastic night ends for Mr. Scott Eccles when he wakes to find his host is dead. He brings Inspector Baynes, Sherlock Holmes, and John Watson to look into the case. The inspector and Holmes ha…

The Parasite was an 1894 novelette about Austin Gilroy who studied physiology and knows a professor who studies the occult. The young man is introduced to a middle-aged woman known as Miss Penclo…

Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre has been enjoyed by readers around the world for over 160 years. The eldest of the Brontë sisters, this is Charlotte's most famous and influential novel. Writt…

The Professor is Charlotte Brontës first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Vil…

Трогательные и смешные истории о животных английского писателя и самого известного в мире ветеринара Джеймса Хэрриота переведены на десятки языков. Его добродушный юмор и блестящий дар рассказчик…

«Мемуары женщины для утех», более известные как «Фанни Хилл», – одна из самых фривольных книг в истории английской литературы. В Америке роман был запрещен к публикации в течение двухсот лет и то…

Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World, Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. What h…

Необыкновенный психологический мир отличает произведение «На маяк». Автор тонко его рисует перед читателем романа в манере тайнописи души, потока сознания.

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient cla…

At age 19 Anne Brontë left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience as a governess. Bronte depicts the precari…

Книга популярной английской писательницы П. Л. Трэверс принадлежит к числу лучших образцов детской литературы и, вместе с тем, является одной из немногих детских книг, которые с равным интересом …

Emily Brontë's only novel is famous the world over and is the favorite classic of many readers. It is easy to see why, with hardship, insanity, cruelty, frustrated love, and ghosts.