классическая проза

Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre has been enjoyed by readers around the world for over 160 years. The eldest of the Brontë sisters, this is Charlotte's most famous and influential novel. Written as a fictitious 'autobiography', it follows the stor…

The Professor is Charlotte Brontës first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a l…

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. (The victim was an old man with a filmy «…

A hilarious and cutting critique of what not to do, this deliciously wicked essay lays out what writers should and must do if they want their fiction to live and breathe ― as Twain's own fiction always does. In "How to Tell a Story," the title piece,…

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is sometimes considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emergi…

At age 19 Anne Brontë left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience as a governess. Bronte depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can affect a y…

Emily Brontë's only novel is famous the world over and is the favorite classic of many readers. It is easy to see why, with hardship, insanity, cruelty, frustrated love, and ghosts.

"The American Claimant" is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches―fertile and familiar Mark Twain territory. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by Ame…

"Eureka" (1848) is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) which he subtitled «A Prose Poem», though it has also been subtitled as «An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe». Adapted from a lecture he had pres…

«Тёмные аллеи» – это истории о любви. О любви, что может стать грустным и горестным эпизодом прошлого. Или – минутой, переломившей, перемоловшей человеческую жизнь. Возможно – просто поэтичной легендой, которую расскажет как умеет старенькая странниц…

Полный вариант заголовка: «The works of Laurence Sterne : Volume 7. The sermons of Mr. Yorick : complete in 8 volumes : with an account of the life and writings of the author».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The works of Laurence Sterne : Volume 8. Sermons : complete in 8 volumes : with an account of the life and writings of the author».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The works of Laurence Sterne : Volume 4. A sentimental journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick : complete in 8 volumes : with an account of the life and writings of the author».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The works of Laurence Sterne : Volume 6. Letters of the late Laurence Sterne to his most intimate friends / with a fragment, in the manner of Rabelais : complete in 8 volumes : with an account of the life and writings of th…

Аудиокнига предназначена для развития навыков аудирования и чтения и адресована учащимся 7–8 классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка, лицеев, гимназий, студентам колледжей и неязыковых вузов, а также лицам, изучающим английский язык са…

Примечание: Кларисса Гарлоу.

Примечание: Кларисса Гарлоу.

Полный вариант заголовка: «The romance of the forest / By Ann Radcliffe».

Примечание: Кларисса, или История молодой леди. Полный вариант заголовка: «Clarissa, or The history of a young lady : Comprehending the most important concerns of private life. Vol. 1».