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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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`, 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...
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...
Private Memoirs & Conf. of Justified Sinner
In the early years of the 18th century, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. Hogg`s sinner, justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained, is suspected of involvement in a...
The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran`s achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I`s Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental...
The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran`s achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I`s Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental...
When Dan and Una stage a performance of A Midsummer Night`s Dream in a fairy ring, they are astonished by the appearance of Puck in person. He explains that he is the last of the People of the Hills, who started as...
Railway Children. Дети железной дороги
When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country...
Railway Children. (Несбит. Дети железной дороги)
When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country...
In 1915, Lawrence`s frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic...
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Ребекка с фермы Саннибрук
Rebecca Randall is one of seven fatherless children, but is full of fun and strange ideas. She leaves her family at Sunnybrook Farm and goes to live with her two aunts in Riverboro. There she goes to school for the...
Red Badge of Courag. Красный знак мужества
"The Red Badge of Courage" is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier. It evokes the chaos and the dull...
The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher A.N. Whitehead described all subsequent developments...
