The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a...
The Marble Faun = Мраморный Фавн. Т. 5: на англ.яз
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. The Marble Faun is Hawthorne`s awesome novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural...
The Man Who Was Thursday = Человек, который был Четвергом: притча на англ.яз
Гилберт Кит Честертон - один из классиков английской литературы XX века, известный своими яркими персонажами, тонким юмором и необычными сюжетами. "Человек, который был Четвергом" - это сатирическая притча о вечном...
Quentin Coldwater`s life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin`s name...
The Maracot Deep = Маракотова бездна: на англ.яз
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Maracot Deep" is an amazing fantasy-fiction novel about Professor Maracot and his team of...
The Moonstone = Лунный Камень: роман на англ.яз
Уильям Уилки Коллинз - известный английский писатель XIX века; драматург, автор многочисленных романов, пьес и рассказов. Роман "Лунный камень" по праву считается лучшим и одним из самых знаменитых романов автора....
Years later, Susan, now a widow, arrives in Casterbridge with Elizabeth`Jane, to seek her legal husband. To their surprise, Henchard is now the Mayor of Casterbridge and, following the sale of his wife, took a...
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm...
It is the spring of 1945, and the Nazis are eliminating all the witnesses to their horrible crimes, including Jews and foreigners remaining in the prison camps. Kommandant Repp, who is known as a master sniper,...
Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods` bridge to earth. The Japanese used to explain...
