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Phoenix and Carpet

The Phoenix and the Carpet is E. Nesbit`s second fantasy novel and is the sequel to Five Children and It. From Robert, Anthea, Jane and Cyril`s new nursery carpet there falls a mysterious egg which is hatched in the...

Pinocchio

C. Collodi

The story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children`s tales of all time. Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose, which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. And...

Plato: Symposium and The Death of Socrates

Plays. Пьесы

The plays collected in this text provide the reader with a clear picture of Marlowe as a radical theatrical poet of great linguistic and dramatic daring, whose characters constantly strive to break out of the social,...

Plays

А. П. Чехов

Anton Chekhov`s popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, calling for actors...

Poetical Works. Поэзия

W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his ‘very self’ into...

Poetical Works

William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of...

Poetical Works

William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of...

Poetical Works. Поэзия

John Milton has a strong claim to be considered the greatest English poet after Skakespeare. His early poems, collected and published in 1645, include the much loved pair L`Allegro and Il Penseroso (`the cheerful man...

Poetical Works

Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into...

Poetical Works. Поэзия

William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin,...

Poetical Works (Россетти. Поэзия)

Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular...

Poetical Works. (Гарди. Поэзия)

Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary...

Poetical Works

Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were...

Poetical Works (Байрон. Поэзия)

`I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be`. wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece "Don Juan", which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe and near East which Byron...

Poetical Works

Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to...

Poetical Works (Теннисон. Поэзия)

Although Tennyson has often been characterized as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre,...

Poetical Works. (Уитман. Поэзия)

This collection contains the poetic works of Walt Whitman. These poems reflect the vitality of a new nation and the vastness of its lands. They combine autobiographical, sociological and religious themes but did not...

Poetical Works

This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the...

Pollyanna

E. Porter

When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sour-tempered aunt after her father`s death, things seem bad enough, but then a dreadful accident ensues. However, Pollyanna`s sunny nature and good humour prove to have...

Portrait of a Lady

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but...

Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror

"The figure of my wife came came straight towards the wide eyes were open and looked at me with love unspeakable". Edith Nesbit, best known as the author of "The Railway Children" and other children`s classics, was...

Pride and Prejudice

J. Austen

`Pride and Prejudice`, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs. Bonnet has only one aim - that of finding a good...

Prince. Государь

Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century. Widely quoted...

Prisoner of Zenda / Rupert of Hentzau

Best known for his political fairy tale, The Prisoner of Zenda, which saw four major screen adaptations, including the acclaimed 1937 incarnation starring Ronald Colman, Anthony Hope was one of the few novelists to...