Жанр "Художественная литература на английском языке"

Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience.
At age 19 Anne Bronte left home and worked as a governess for a few years...

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on...

Conceived as a fairly serious guide to amateur boating on the Thames in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's best-known novel ended up as a...

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating...

The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground was James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, published in 1821. This was the earliest United...

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth...

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. In planning his novel, F....

О. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a...

O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a...

Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most brillilant and controversial social and literary gures of all time. Wilde's prison...

In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mildmannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes his secret, inner persona -...

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a world of violence and generational conflict in which two young people fall in love and...

In Othello Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and...

Nightmare Abbey was written in 1818 by Thomas Love Peacock. It is a gothic satire, which delights in parodying the current...

Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in...

One of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt and revenge. Prompted by...

King Lear, growing old and too tired to reign, decides to divide his realm amongst his three daughters, leaving the largest share...

More than a century after its publication Heart of Darkness remains an indisputably classic text and arguably Conrad's finest...

One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the...

Frankenstein, an instant bestseller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science fiction genres, not only tells a...

A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss...

A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters - the...

Даниэль Дефо - знаменитый английский писатель и публицист рубежа XVII-XVIII вв., чьи произведения до сих пор остаются самыми...

Родоначальник "литературы ужасов", известнейший американский автор мистических детективов, Эдгар Аллан По широко известен именно...

Вильгельм Йенсен - известный немецкий писатель XX века.
Повесть «Градива» является одним из самых известных произведений автора....

Христиан Генрих Гейне - легендарный немецкий поэт, публицист и критик, считающийся главой "романтической эпохи". На его стихи...

Ирвинг Вашингтон - американский писатель-романтик XIX века, которого часто называют "отцом американской литературы". ...

Джордж Гроссмит - яркий комический актёр, автор и исполнитель весьма популярных в своё время скетчей и песен, автор либретто...

Виктор Гюго - один из самых известных французских писателей-романтиков XIX века, чьи произведения оказали большое влияние на...

Томас Мор - знаменитый английский философ и писатель XVI века. Его произведения и переводы не просто до сих пор остаются...