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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the story of a handsome young man, whose full-length portrait was painted by an artist infatuated by Dorian`s beauty. Fearing that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to...

The Picture of Dorian Gray / Портрет Дориана Грея: роман (на англ.яз.)

Оскар Уайльд

The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the story of a handsome young man, whose full-length portrait was painted by Basil Hallward, an artist infatuated by Dorian`s beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and...

The Scarlet Letter = Алая буква: роман на англ.яз

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is considered to be Hawthorne`s «masterwork». Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles...

The Sea-Wolf / Морской волк

The Sea-Wolf, first published in 1904, is a psychological adventure novel. The book`s protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of...

The Shadow Line = Теневая черта: повесть на англ.яз

The Shadow Line — a short novel based at sea — was first published in 1916. It depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title representing the threshold...

The Time Machine / Машина времени: роман на англ.яз

The Time Machine is a science fiction novel (1895) about time travel by way of using a vehicle that allowed its operator to travel forwards or backwards in time. The novel has since been adapted into three feature...

The Valley of Fear / Долина ужаса: на англ.яз

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, first published in the Strand Magazine in 1914-1915. It is a captivating mystery about the murder of a certain John Douglas with a quite unpredictable...

The Valley of Fear = Долина ужаса: роман на англ.яз

Tlie Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, first published in the Strand Magazine in 1914-1915. It is a captivating mystery about the murder of a certain John Douglas with a quite unpredictable...

The War of the Worlds / Война миров: роман (на англ.яз.)

The War of the Worlds (1898) is a science fiction novel, telling about a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel has been both popular and influential, spawning half a dozen feature films,...

This Side of Paradise = По ту сторону Рая: роман на англ.яз

This Side of Paradise (1920) is F. Scott Fitzgerald`s debut novel. The book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who...

Three Men in a Boat / Трое в лодке, не считая собаки: роман (на англ.яз.)

Three Men in a Boat, first published in 1889, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames, taken by three English gentlemen. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with...

Through the Looking-Glass / Алиса в Зазеркалье

Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is the sequel to Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a...

To the Lighthous / На маяк

Following the tradition of modernist novelists, the plot of To the Lighthouse (1927) is secondary to its philosophical introspection — the novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as...

Treasure Island / Остров Сокровищ: роман (на англ.яз.)

Роберт Льюис Стивенсон

Treasure Island, first published in 1883, is an adventure novel, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". It is traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and...

Ulysses

Ulysses, first published in February 1922, is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire modernist movement".

Un amour de Swann = Любовь Свана:роман на франц.яз

Un amour de Swann est la deuxieme partie du roman Du cote de chez Swann, le premier tome d`A la recherche du temps perdu. Se detachant de la narration a la premiere personne et de lintrigue principale car ayant pour...

Une vie: роман (на франц.яз.). Guy de Maupassant

Une vie ou L`Humble Verite est le premier roman de Guy de Maupassant, paru d abord en feuilleton en 1883 dans le Gil Bias, puis en livre, la meme annee, sous le titre L`Humble Verite. Le roman decrit la vie «...

Vanity Fair / Ярмарка тщеславия: роман (на англ.яз.)

У. М. Теккер

Vanity Fair was first published in 1848, with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray`s interest in deconstructing his era`s conventions regarding literary heroism. The story follows the lives of...

When God Laughs and Other Stories/Когда боги смеют

Named after the first story the collection Wlien God Laughs and Other Stories explores themes for which London became famous: the struggle for survival in the midst of hostile environments, human nature`s most...

Wuthering Heights

Although Wuthering Heights is now regarded as a classic of English literature, contemporary opinions were deeply polarized; the novel was considered controversial because of its naturalistic depiction of mental and...

Wuthering Heights / Грозовой перевал: роман на англ.яз

Although Wuthehng Heights is now regarded as a classic of English literature, contemporary opinions were deeply polarized; the novel was considered controversial because of its naturalistic depiction of mental and...

«Битлз» in the USSR, или Иное небо

А. Большанин

Действие фантастического романа Алексея Большанина и Юлия Буркина разворачивается в СССР образца 1980 года — на фоне олимпийских колец и загнивающего социализма происходит нечто поистине невероятное: Джон Леннон жив,...

Аврора, или Утренняя заря в восхождении

Якоб Беме

В книгу вошло самое известное сочинение знаменитого немецкого мистика Якоба Бёме (1575—1624), прозванного современниками «тевтонским философом». Основываясь на толковании библейских текстов, Бёме...

Автобиография Элис Би Токлас: роман

Гарт Стайн

Гертруда Стайн (1874-1946) - выдающаяся писательница, первопроходец литературы модерна - предстает перед русским читателем в своеобразной автобиографии, своего рода взгляде с другой стороны на события, описанные...

Айвенго

Вальтер Скотт

Романы Вальтера Скотта захватывают и при первом прочтении, и при десятом. Мастер повествования, он наполняет свой мир идеями и мотивами, важными в жизни любого человека. Исторический фон помогает заострить вечные...