Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl's power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years ago. It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, and eventually it is arranged that Heidi should return to the mountains. Together she and her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped remains one of the most exciting stories ever written. Young David Balfour, orphaned then betrayed by his Uncle Ebenezer, his so-called guardian, falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of the Jacobite cause. Shipwreck, murder and dramatic escape through the Highlands are just a few of the ingredients of this highly charged tale of…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the help of a selfless Swallow helps people in distress. As well as The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend and The Remarkable Rocket, this collection contains The Selfish Giant, a remarkable story of the redemptive power of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: The Mill on the Floss, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck. When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails with Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Dr…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Set in 1482, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a compelling story of love and betrayal, brutal deeds and one of the most famous acts of revenge in world literature. Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, is one of fiction's most extreme characters — beneath his monstrous disfigurement, his love for the beautiful Esmerelda reveals a heart full of intense…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. This novel is based on the author's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude. It is also the story of a woman's right to love and be loved.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night. This is the background to the Arabian Nights. In this selection made by that master of folklore and fairy-tale Andrew Lang, the reader meets Aladdin with his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. What does persuasion mean — a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. «Little Women» is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community; Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial power and the intensities of his sexual relationship with Cleopatra. She, variously generous and ruthless, loving and jealous, petulant and majestic, emerges as Shakespeare's most complex depiction of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Black Beauty had a fine, soft black coat, one white foot and a silver star on his forehead. This tale tells of the horse's adventures and the disappointments and joys that surround him.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's corruption and delay, draw…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories, reprinted from The Strand Magazine. It contains the short story series “Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear” — a sinister novella which appeared in 1914-15 – “His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes” and the last 12 stories “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Cavalier and Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war and provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans as they face adversity, survival in the forest, reconciliation and eventual forgiveness. This is the first enduring historical novel for children, which conjures up as much magic today as it did on first publication. The freedom from adult…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. This collection includes «Sredni Vastor» and «The Unrest Cure».
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Walter Skeat (1835-1912) was one of the greatest investigators of the roots of the English language, and his remarkable scholarship was instrumental in the revival of the great works of early English Literature. His astonishing detective work into the origins and development of the world's most widely used language provides an unsurpassed guide to its flexibility and richness.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. This volume also includes Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, «The Merry Men» and Other Tales and Fables. «The Merry Men» is a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks and madness;…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the…