The Emperor’s Tomb — the last novel Joseph Roth wrote — is a haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a magically evocative paean to the passing of time and the loss of hope. The Emperor’s Tomb runs from 1913...
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The First...
Story of the Bad Little...
Классическая проза, Юмористическая проза
The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England. A Tale of the Great Invasion
The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room." [1] — and features references to...
The Mutiny of the...
The Gold Bat is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 13 September 1904 by Adam & Charles Black, London. Set at the fictional public school of Wrykyn, the novel tells of how two boys, O'Hara and Moriarty, tar and feather a statue of...
Speeches: Literary &...
The Dead...
В предлагаемый сборник вошли мистические новеллы Эдгара Аллана По (1809–1849), повествующие о самых темных и загадочных сторонах...
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of the Fariyaq, alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of...