В сборник вошли такие повести Николая Гоголя, как «Невский проспект», «Нос», «Портрет», «Шинель», «Записки сумасшедшего», «Коляска». Их объединяет не только место действия – красочные картины северной столицы России первой половины 19-го века, но и тема «маленького человека» в городе на Неве, его бесправие и угнетенность. Языком сатиры и тонкого юмора автор показывает социальные противоречия, нравы и быт различных слоев общества того времени.
Исторический роман Александра Пушкина «Капитанская дочка» о временах стихийного крестьянского восстания под предводительством Емельяна Пугачева.Главный герой романа – Петр Андреевич Гринев, был отправлен отцом на военную службу в Оренбург, скучный провинциальный город. Не ожидая ничего интересного от жизни в этом городе, Петр еще не знал, что там ему предстоит встретить свою любовь, Машу, капитанскую дочку, и благодаря стечению обстоятельств, Емельяна Пугачева, того самого ...
Partly based on the Lambton worm it is a horror story that features a giant white worm that can transform into a woman. Adam Salton, born and raised in Australia, is contacted by his granduncle in England, for the purpose of stablishing a relationship between these last two members of the family. Adam travels to Richard Salton’s house in Mercia, and quickly finds himself in the center of some inexplicable occurrences. The new heir to the Caswall estate, Edgar Caswall appear...
Life is full of missed opportunities and hard decisions. Sometimes it’s difficult to know what to actually do. Dubliners creates an image of an ever movie city, of an ever moving exchange of people who experience the reality of life. A collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce all set in Dublin and first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish Middle class life in around Dublin in the early years of the 20th Century. There are two types of stories...
The book opens with an unnamed narrator’s description of a party held one Christmas Eve in England at which some friends have gathered to share ghost stories. One of the partygoers, Douglas, says that he knows a particularly sinister ghost story about a governess’s time spent taking care of a wealthy Londoner’s niece and nephew at a country estate haunted by two ghosts.The story is that a governess goes to an English country house to take charge of two orphaned children, Mi...
Archibald Hunter was spending his annual vacation in Cruden Bay, Scotland when he sees two women and a man walking abreast. Suddenly, he has a vision of the man carrying a coffin and the two women walking behind. Just as suddenly, he sees the three walking normal again. As this was happening, Archie was being watched by an old woman, Gormala. She had seen Archie’s shocked look at what he had just seen and tells him that he has the gift of „Second Sight”. According to Gormal...
The story is set in 1751 and the author has successfully narrated the story keeping in mind the history of the time. If you love adventure stories then you simply cannot ignore this fast-moving adventure which promises to keep the reader engrossed from start-to-finish. The plot follows young David, who is cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle, and kidnapped into servitude on a sailing ship. The ship hits a small boat during a fog and picks up Alan Breck Stewart, ...
The late nineteenth and early twentienth century were a fecund period for classical mystery writers. Among the most popular was Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Old Man in the Corner contains twelve of the stories by Baroness Orczy featuring the mysterious man who sits in the corner of the ABC tea shop fiddling with a piece of string whilst working our the solutions to crimes that have baffled the police. Each case is unfolded during the course of a conversation between the man ...
It is the early days of the French Republic, and Robespierre’s revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly being thwarted. It appears that Sir Percy Blakeney – the cunning and heroic Pimpernel – is more than a match for them all. But Sir Percy’s spy-catching archenemy, Chauvelin, has devised a plan. Another fun adventure novel, and the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel. It continues telling the story of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel as they attempt to save more...
In this Gothic novella, Robert Louis Stevenson combines the horrors of the human soul with a disgust for the Victorian importance of reputation. Stevenson delves into the darkest depths of humanity, and seems to discover what Sigmund Freud would not publish for another 15 years: the repression of the id, or the instinctive side of human nature, by the super-ego, or the part of us that holds on to the cultural ideals and rules we were raised with. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll a...
An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel. In Eldorado, Sir Percy becomes involved in one of the most famous plots of the French Revolution, the attempt to rescue the child heir (son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette) to the French throne from imprisonment in Paris and spirits him away to Holland. He willingly walks into an ambush in an attempt to rescue his brother-in-law. When a certain member of the League (who also happens to be related ...
James Joyce first wrote Portrait as a one-thousand page novel, full of well-developed scenes and long explanations of Stephen’s motives, but he decided to trim it into a short book with a new sort of style. The novel tells the story of the first twenty years of Stephen Dedalus – a young Catholic boy growing up in late 19th century Ireland. As the title suggests, this is the story not just of a young man, but of a boy developing into an artist. His search for knowledge and u...
The novel comes from what is called James’s ‘late period’. The writing is mannered, baroque, complex, and focused intently on the psychological relationships between his characters. There is very little ‘plot’ here in the conventional sense. Much of the interest in the narrative is centred on the limitations of the principal character, from whose point of view the story is told. Lambert Strether is a morally upright, middle-aged American who feels that life has passed him b...
Probably one of the most complicated books ever written, the story parallels Homer’s The Odyssey, and touches on every theme that exists, as well as explores every literary style that exists. At times, it has extremely lude and graphic sexual content and very foul language. Taking Homer’s Odyssey as a structural framework, Joyce builds on it a complex narrative of Dublin characters on one day – Thursday 16 June 1904. Each chapter features a different prose-style to match it...
The scene is set in the terrorized Paris of revolutionary France in the 1800’s. During this time period nobody was safe from the horrifying grasp of „Madame la Guillotine” which claimed hundreds of lives every day. The Scarlet Pimpernel is England’s national hero, a rescuer of French aristocrats from under the guillotine in France. He’s also Sir Percy Blakeny, husband of Marguerite Blakeney nee St. Marguerite’s brother Armand is under suspicion in France and a French govern...
Bram Stoker made his imprint on vampire lore with Dracula, and five years later, he made yet another imprint on another iconic type of undead: the mummy. The Jewel of Seven Stars follows the attempts to revive a five-thousand-year-old Egyptian queen. The story opens with London barrister Malcolm Ross receiving a late-night summons to the home of Margaret Trelawney. Margaret’s father, an Egyptologist, is comatose, and an attempt has been made on his life, or so it seems. His...
Often considered one of the first mystery novels, The Woman In White follows protagonist Walter Hartright, an art teacher, as he has a mysterious late night encounter on a London street with a lost woman, dressed all in white, who he later finds out had escaped from an asylum. The figure of this woman and the words they exchanged during their meeting come to haunt Walter, even as he accepts a job at Limmeridge House outside of London to instruct heiress Laura Farlie in art....
Książki Karola Maya przyciągają czytelników ekscytującymi przygodami rozgrywającymi się w dzikich i malowniczych sceneriach Dzikiego Zachodu. „Old Surehand” to seria opowieści, której głównym bohaterem jest ów tajemniczy myśliwy. W rozwiązaniu jego rodzinnej tajemnicy pomagają mu Old Shatterhand i Winnetou. Cała trójka przeżywa przy tym wiele emocjonujących i mrożących krew w żyłach przygód, wielokrotnie ocierając się o śmierć w starciach z Indianami i niedźwiedziami grizzl...
Książki Karola Maya przyciągają czytelników ekscytującymi przygodami rozgrywającymi się w dzikich i malowniczych sceneriach Dzikiego Zachodu. „Old Surehand” to seria opowieści, której głównym bohaterem jest ów tajemniczy myśliwy. W rozwiązaniu jego rodzinnej tajemnicy pomagają mu Old Shatterhand i Winnetou. Cała trójka przeżywa przy tym wiele emocjonujących i mrożących krew w żyłach przygód, wielokrotnie ocierając się o śmierć w starciach z Indianami i niedźwiedziami grizzl...
Dwaj przyjaciele Old Shatterhand i Winnetou stają w obronie osady Bloody Foxa, zaatakowanej przez Komanczów. Gdy zmierzają na ratunek, poznają tajemniczego myśliwego – Old Surehanda. Okazuje się, że jemu także mogą pomóc w rozwikłaniu rodzinnej tajemnicy. Sprawa nie jest prosta, muszą zmierzyć się z niebezpiecznymi Indianami i jeszcze groźniejszymi niedźwiedziami grizzly.
A romance of the fifth century, in which many of the scenes described in the ’Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ are reset to suit the purpose of the author. Only two historical personages are introduced into the story,– the Emperor Honorius, and Alaric the Goth; and these attain only a secondary importance. Among the historical incidents used are the arrival of the Goths at the gates of Rome, the Famine, the last efforts of the besieged, the Treaty of Peace, the introdu...
‘The Last Days of Pompeii’ is a love story set in that Roman town just before the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried it and most of its citizens in ash. It draws a vivid portrait of the lifestyle of the Imperial Romans, their daily baths, symposia, and gladiatorial entertainments, their religious practices and their homes while presenting a busy plot full of decadent, diabolical seducers, religious fanatics, and glutinous parasites.The novel itself tells the story of ...
Książki Karola Maya przyciągają czytelników ekscytującymi przygodami rozgrywającymi się w dzikich i malowniczych sceneriach Dzikiego Zachodu. „Old Surehand” to seria opowieści, której głównym bohaterem jest ów tajemniczy myśliwy. W rozwiązaniu jego rodzinnej tajemnicy pomagają mu Old Shatterhand i Winnetou. Cała trójka przeżywa przy tym wiele emocjonujących i mrożących krew w żyłach przygód, wielokrotnie ocierając się o śmierć w starciach z Indianami i niedźwiedziami grizzl...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, „This Side of Paradise,” focuses on several themes and illustrates some social and moral changes in America during the early 20th century. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Amory Blaine is utterly an idealist. He indulges in every sense of his dreams, to the point that it becomes detrimental to the state...
