King of Navarra, Ferdinand, with three close associates, vows to spend three years in an unceasing study of scholarly works. In the name of science, the monarch vows to limit himself in sleep and food, as well as spend the entire long term without communicating with women. Ferdinand is sure that only mortification of the flesh can lead to significant discoveries and conclusions. The king issues a decree that prohibits women from approaching the palace in fear of cutting off...
Oscar Fingal O’ Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) war ein irischer Schriftsteller. Bekannt ist Wilde neben seinen hervorragenden Werken auch für seinen schwarzen Humor, den er nie verlor, auch in schweren Zeiten nicht. Oscar Wildes Dorian Gray ist eine der berühmtesten Figuren der Weltliteratur. Der elegant-zynische Dandy Dorian Gray hat sich ganz der Ästhetisierung seines Lebens verschrieben, ohne sich von moralischen Vorbehalten behindern zu lassen. Dorian stürzt sich hal...
Mit seiner bildgewaltigen Meistererzählung „Herr und Knecht” (1895) schuf der große russische Dichter und Humanist Leo Tolstoi eine zeitlose Parabel auf die Macht der Mitmenschlichkeit. Der Kaufmann Brechunow, dessen Leben bis dahin dem Zusammenraffen von Reichtümern gewidmet war, gerät mit seinem Knecht Nikita auf dem Pferdeschlitten in einen furchtbaren Schneesturm. Wassilij ist ungeduldig und möchte die Stadt schnell erreichen, um dort vor anderen Interessenten ein Stück...
The comedy is surprisingly lively, sparkling and witty, despite the fact that the plot is set by conventions that seem to be implausible: two pairs of separated twins, and even with the same names, because of which there are ridiculous confusions. Here, there is the atmosphere of the Italian Renaissance, and the topicality of the Shakespearean era, and some special Greek flavor, and a little lyricism, and satire on family customs, and the touchingness of meeting and reuniti...
Charles Dickens großer Roman zieht den Leser bis heute mit Sprachwitz, Spannung und nicht zuletzt mit der schonungslos realistischen Schilderung der Armut im England seiner Zeit in seinen Bann. „Oliver Twist” ist eines der berühmtesten Kinderbücher der Welt. Der Waisenjunge Oliver Twist wächst in kläglich Elend auf. Er kommt zu einem Leichenbestatter in die Lehre, flieht ohne einen Pfennig nach London und gerät in die Fänge des Hehlers Fagin, der eine Bande jugendlicher Tas...
Goethes (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749 – 1832) „Faust” ist das Menschheitsdrama par excellence: Die ungeheuerliche Suche nach dem, was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält, führt auch den Gelehrtesten an die Grenzen des Verstandes. Goethes „Faust”, hat zum Helden den Menschen an der Grenzscheide von Mittelalter und Humanismus, den Gottesmenschen, der sich aus vermessenem Erkenntnistriebe der Magie, dem Teufel ergibt. Das Schicksal Fausts, der aus unersättlichem Wissensdran...
Mark Twain veröffentlichte seinen berühmten Roman 1876 zu Beginn seiner literarischen Karriere. Twains Blick auf seine Helden ist getragen von der Erinnerung an seine eigenen Kindertage, und er weiß, was sie bewegt. Es geht um Lust auf Abenteuer und eine Freundschaft, auf die man sich verlassen kann. Die beiden unzertrennlichen Freunde Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn verbringen ihre Tage und Nächte lieber in Freiheit, voller Spaß und Spannung. und davon gibt es in dieser Ge...
Lew Tolstois Roman „Anna Karenina” spielt abwechselnd in Moskau, auf einem Landgut und in St. Petersburg und bietet eine ausgezeichnete Schilderung der russischen Gesellschaft in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Glücklos mit einem hohen Beamten verheiratet, verfällt die bezaubernde, kluge und sanftmütige Anna dem jungen Offizier Graf Wronski in unwiderstehlicher Liebe. Anna Karenina ist bereit, dieser Liebe alles zu opfern. Doch ihre Liebe scheitert und endet in Eif...
A short book written as a play. It follows the young captain who is getting married, and each scene represents the different stages of the marriage. The book is written almost entirely in dialogue. Be sure to pay attention to the fact that Kipling understands the meaning of the introduction, taking into account where the story ends.
A collection of unconnected but all featuring the same protagonist, gentlemen amateur detective Slane. Sir Jasper Slane, wealthy clubman, and amateur detective, is always willing to help his fellow aristocrats in need. With the able assistance of Inspector Stimpson of Scotland Yard, he solves thefts, rescues kidnapped victims, foils blackmailers, and helps to restore fortunes. Because of his upper class morality, Slane is perhaps more diffident than some other Oppenheim her...
The main character Katherine is a girl who does not differ in anything special, but is at the same time quite an enviable bride, she has a good dowry. And the bridegroom appears on the horizon, love, everything, but the father is against their relationship, because this Maurice squandered all his fortune, and aunt Catherine, on the contrary, for real happiness. The whole book revolves around the relationship between Catherine and Maurice, Maurice and the girl’s father, Cath...
Three Soldiers is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Three soldiers of this title - Leroid, Mulvani and Orteris, who also previously appeared in the collection "Simple Tales from the Hills." Books reveal the side of British Tommy in Afghanistan, rarely seen in the Twilight of the British Empire. The soldiers comment on their improvements, act fools, but right against the backdrop of the wars in the Middle East, when the British began to weaken their imperial ...
Roderick Hudson is the first novel by Henry James. Although Roderick was a poor man, but he had a great talent, about which he was not even aware. In the afternoon, he was an ordinary student, and after university he was an outstanding sculptor. One day, by a happy coincidence, he meets the wealthy connoisseur of Rowland Mullet, a man who recognizes his genius and becomes his mentor.
„Murder in Picadilly” is a typical so-called „Golden Age” detective story published in 1936 and set in and around Soho. The story concerns the fortunes of a young man named Bobbie Cheldon. Bobbie has fallen head over heels in love with a nightclub dancer Nancy Curzon at „The Frozen Fang” nightclub but she is attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the fortune he expects to inherit. Bobbie’s miserly uncle Massy stands between him and happiness: he will not relinquish the ten t...
Little Kim meets an amazing man, a Tibetan llama, who descended from the mountains to the plains of India in search of a wonderful river. The Lama is kind, modest, but full of knowledge and driven by the idea of the Way and Wheel of life. Kim immediately becomes sympathetic to him and joins the llama on his journey. Kim feels that he would like to understand this man, to know him, "to appropriate him." Kipling very accurately expresses complex feelings, so on each page you ...
“Just So Stories” are usually devoted to how a particular animal changed its initial appearance as a result of the actions of a person or a fairy creature. For example, Keith cannot swallow a person because he once swallowed a Sailor, who secured a wooden lattice inside, which prevents him from swallowing other people. The camel acquired a hump as a punishment from Gene, Lord of All Deserts, for refusing to work. Ethiop painted Leopard spots. Powerful hind legs, a long tail...
The reader finally got the opportunity to read a quality translation of one of the best works of Rudyard Kipling. This almost autobiographical novel tells about the fun and arduous life of students in an English private school. Arkady Strugatsky was a real fan of Stalki and Company. It was the protagonist of this book - ""the great man of the century"", the bully and the cunning Stalki - who inspired the Strugatsky brothers to create the image of Stalker.
Kipling wrote the first novel, “The Light That Failed” in many ways an autobiographical novel, having already gained fame with his poems and stories. In addition to the novel and selected stories from collections of different years, the book includes the story “Brave Captains” - about the romance and hardships of sea travel, the formation of the character of a young man, about metamorphoses that occur in people under the influence of merciless circumstances...
The Italian Watch is a book of travel writing by Henry James. Everything in the book indicates that James enjoyed this luxury to its fullest. Throughout the book, he is constantly returning to the beauty and delights of Italian life, despite being too often significant shortcomings. Venice and Rome are undergoing the most extensive treatment.
Brother and sister meet Elf Pak. He introduces them to people and events of bygone years that took place in the vicinity of the estate during the time of old England. This is the south of the island of Britain, on the English Channel. Many important events in British history took place here: the Romans marched here, here the Gauls aka “winged hats” tried to conquer Britain. Through the fates of ordinary people, valiant, noble, decent, who participated in significant events ...
A classic for the ages, „The Odyssey” recounts Odysseus’ (Ulysses) journey home after the Trojan War. After the end of the war, Ulysses and his companions decide to return home, but in the middle of the path a horrible storm deviates them from the original route. Just one more difficulty, they have to face monsters like Cyclops and Mermaids, always overcoming them with cleverness astuteness. During one of these confrontations, all his companions are murdered and Ulysses has...
Mrs. Gareth has been collecting works of art in her Pointon manor all her life, and now, after her husband’s death, she must, according to English customs, hand over the manor to her son Owen. The trouble is that the limp Owen is under the influence of his bride, Mona Brixton, who dreams of taking up Poynton’s hands and closing access for Mrs Goret forever. And Mrs. Gareth decides to fight for her treasures.
The book is about history, but not the one that is written in dry letters in the textbook, but the one into which the time machine takes you and lets you live the days, months in the body of another person, a contemporary of the time you are reading about. It is about religion, but not about what they preach in churches, without the right to question, but about its origins, causes, development, problems, transformation over time, our perception of it in the modern world, as...
Kerry Kavanaugh is a beautiful child asked to be adult, not even of age, with a spoiled childlike mother who makes terrible decisions upon the death of Kerry’s father. Forced to flee with her father’s manuscript, a determined Kerry sails for New York to meet with her father’s publishers but is faced with a new challenge when a page of notes goes missing. Someone is out to steal the manuscript! But with a ship full of strangers, who can’t she suspect? Then she meets Graham M...
