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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 (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 (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

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,...

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...

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...

Prophet

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...

Prophet

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...

Puck of Pooks Hill

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...

Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness

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...

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...

Rainbow

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...

Republic Plato

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...