"Selected works of Oscar Wilde «„Best of Oscar Wilde“» is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. “The ones who are able to see the high meaning of beauty are cultural people....
В 1976 году Анита Роддик открывает первый магазин The Body Shop® в Брайтоне на южном побережье Англии. В 1985 году компания впервые выходит на фондовый рынок. В 1986 создает собственный Департамент по проектам,...
"Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories «„Rip Van...
В мире нет ни одного человека, который хоть раз не слышал о группе The Beatles! Феномен этой четверки до сих пор пытаются разгадать историки музыки, критики и меломаны. Можно ли вообще объяснить столь масштабную...
Рассказы и повести Виктора Пелевина, составившие эту книгу, по праву вошли в золотой фонд современной отечественной литературы. Содержание Затворник и Шестипалый День бульдозериста Девятый сон Веры Павловны Синий...
"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe\'s...
"Short story “The Blue Cross” is Chesterton\'s first Father Brown mystery. It introduces the characters Flambeau and Valentin. It is unique among the Father Brown mysteries in that it does not follow the actions of...
The Beatles от A до Z: необычное путешествие в наследие «ливерпульской четверки»
Британский писатель, продюсер и музыкант Питер Эшер рассказывает историю «Битлз» через песни: их собственные, их коллег, предшественников и последователей. Для этого он использует классическую алфавитную систему,...
The Box. Марк Левинсон (обзор)
Книга «The Box» в формате 10-минутного чтения: обзоры лучших книг, только самое важное и полезное. Левинсон начал свою карьеру журналиста в Time и Journal of Commerce, а затем стал пишущим редактором в Newsweek. Также...
The Chimes, is a novella written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of «„Christmas books,“» five novellas with strong social and moral...
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...
The Conquest of Bread is an 1892 book by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin. Peter Kropotkin was born a Russian prince whose father owned 1,200 serfs. But he became a Russian activist, writer,...
"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as...
"The Overcoat" (sometimes translated as «The Cloak») is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as...
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled «The Casque of Amontillado» [a.mon.ti.a.o]) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey\'s Lady\'s Book. The story, set in an...
"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by American fantasy author H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town...
The Cat that Walked by Himself
Самый известный сборник Киплинга – «Сказки просто так». Входящие в него веселые добрые истории о том, как животные стали такими, какими мы их знаем, были придуманы писателем для его детей и племянницы. Сказочная...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in Collier\'s Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age, which...
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the...
"First published in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, XIV (January, 1844), “The Christmas Banquet” shares its subtitle—”from the unpublished “Allegories of the Heart”—with “Egotism; or the...
he story is about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife\'s brothers. The home of the Canterville Ghost was the ancient...
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled «The Casque of Amontillado» [a.mon.ti.??a.?o]) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey\'s Lady\'s Book. The story, set in...
The country of the blind. Stories / Страна Слепых. Рассказы
Герберт Уэллс – английский писатель, открывший жанр научной фантастики в мировой литературе XX века. «Страна слепых» – прекрасно написанная повесть-притча о единомыслии и непонимании, о проблемах личности «не такой,...
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" is a short story written by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky published in 1848. The piece is narrated by an awkward outcast attending a Christmas party. He observes the party\'s...
