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The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (first published in 1826) is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary readers. It is set in 1757, during the French and...

The Lost World / Затерянный мир

The plot of the novel The Lost World (1912) describes an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin where prehistoric animals still survive, led by a charismatic leading character Professor Challenger. The novel also...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Тайна Эдвина Друда: на англ.яз

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens, unfinished at the time of the author`s death. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses on his uncle, choirmaster...

The Moonstone / Лунный камень

The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / Artur Confn Doyle

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894.

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 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 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 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 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...