Жанр "Художественная литература на английском языке"

Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of...

D. H. Lawrence is dying. Exiled in the Mediterranean, he dreams of the past. There are the years early in his marriage during the...

It's The Perfect Escape... Until There IS No Escape

Welcome to Turtle Cove.

A luxury resort surrounded by pristine sea and...

Everyone has a secret... Only some lead to murder.
Introducing Leo Stanhope: a Victorian coroner's assistant who must uncover a...

1883. Two young people have been killed near Portsmouth's docks. When journalist and amateur detective Leo Stanhope arrives, the...

Manchester, the summer of 1890. A city humming with industry and gleaming with affluence.

But for Charles, cloistered in his...

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In...

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky...

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the “roaring...

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination...

In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola’s short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of...

Contains original illustrations by the author

Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's young daughter Janet while she was...

When Tudy's first husband tragically dies, she takes up the offer of Tom, a family friend, to pay for her to go to study in...

A man tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now...

Four sailors discover a copper cylinder containing a manuscript written by the adventurer Adam More, who was shipwrecked in the...

Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women...

Gilbert's libretti of the comic operas composed by Arthur Sullivan are hugely well known, and lines such as "let the punishment...

Saddened by the subjugation of Italy under Napoleon, disillusioned with life and racked with loneliness and ennui, university...

As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on...

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left...

Inspired by Fitzgerald’s own courtship of his future wife Zelda, ‘The Last of the Belles’ centres on the Southern beauty Ailie...

This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati – author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe...

When the young priest Francesco Vela becomes the incumbent of the parish of Soana, a small village in Ticino, he is tasked with...

The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine, while this volume of his Collected Poems was in production,...

While on a journey with his wife to Prague for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the...

A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his...

Eichendorff's prose masterpiece - a picaresque account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his...

Frank Aldersley becomes engaged to Clara Burnham on the eve of his departure on a journey to discover the Northwest Passage....

During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses,...

After one of their own people repeatedly fails to live up to a pact with the Devil, a petty and morally bankrupt village...