классическая проза

In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day.These short stories, written mostly in the 1890s, vividly portray Bengali …

An unnamed spy – perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File – is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackmail and hidden motive, where friend and…

A short story by Francine Prose from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.‘The Mirror’ boldly imagines Jane Eyre’s married life after the novel ends.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him,…

One of the great hidden gems of the past decade.Written in brief entries from ‘Ambition’ to ‘Zzzzz’ Salway's confident debut novel chronicles the existential ups and downs of British 20-something Verity Bell.The alphabetically arranged mini-chapters …

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Greedily she engorged without restraint,And knew not eating death;’Milton’s Paradise Lost is a poem of epic proportions that tells of Satan’s attempts to mislead Eve i…

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.’Just before the First World War, two yo…

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Don't you sometimes feel that this is the kind of life we were meant to live on this earth? Everything we need, everything, right here, right at our fingertips.’Said t…

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into t…

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The red and yellow tulips, heavy with flowers, seemed to lean upon the dusk. A grey cat, dragging its belly, crept across the lawn, and a black one, its shadow,…

Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд – американский классик мировой литературы. Писатель, ярко и беспристрастно отразивший безумную жизнь 20-х годов. Он и сам был плотью от плоти той легендарной эпохи. Но эксцентричность и внешняя позолота канули в прошлое, и в…

Now seen as one of the great English comic novels, Tristram Shandy caused a stir on publication in polite 18th-century English society. The novel broke with conventions of form and structure, foreshadowing Postmodern authors by 200 years, and scandal…

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.’Heralded as one of the first instances of fem…

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.’Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of…

Главный герой Виктор пережил многое, его жизнь катилась в тартарары пока он не попытался её изменить. История о становлении личности с необычным сюжетом.

Короткий рассказ, повествующий о судьбе одного очень красивого украшения - кольца с янтарём, которое переходило по наследству от одной девушки к другой.

Эмиль Золя (1840–1902) – один из столпов мировой реалистической литературы, предводитель и теоретик литературного движения натурализма, увлеченный исследователь повседневности, страстный публицист и правозащитник. Его самый известный труд – эпохальны…

Бессмысленное уничтожение чужого имущества как «маленький бунт». © FantLab.ru

В. Г. Зебальд (1944-2001) – немецкий писатель, поэт и историк литературы, преподаватель Университета Восточной Англии, автор четырех романов и нескольких сборников эссе. Роман «Кольца Сатурна» вышел в 1998 году.

Три шутливые миниатюры: «Белый жеребец», «Стрела Амура» и «Полёт министра».