In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert...
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An elderly man reads to an elderly woman every day from a yellowed notebook that he carries around with him. He hopes that this notebook, which contains the memories of his love and life, will jog her memory, but it is not to be. Yet, he tries...
«Сага о Форсайтах» известного английского писателя Дж. Голсуорси (1867–1933) – эпопея о судьбах английской буржуазной семьи,...
The Return of...
Исторические приключения, Советская классическая проза
The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace
Returning to Bukhara after a prolonged exile, Hodja Nasreddin finds his family gone, his home destroyed, and his city in the grasp of corrupt and greedy rulers who have brought pain and suffering upon the common folk. But Hodja Nasreddin is not one...
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?
On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night,...
Зарубежная классическая проза, Юмористическая проза
33 лучших юмористических рассказа на английском / 33 Best Humorous Short Stories
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
«Иностранный язык: учимся у классиков» – это только оригинальные тексты лучших произведений мировой литературы. Эти книги станут...
Message in a Bottle has the earmarks of sentimental tongue-wagging at its finest and should please romantics and cynics alike.
It's sure to bring romantics to their...
Gentlemen & Players is a novel by Joanne Harris first published in 2005. A dark psychological thriller, some of the themes may be partly based on Harris’ experiences as a teacher at Leeds Grammar School. Set in the present day during...
Originally published in 1936, House of Incest is Anaïs Nin’s first work of fiction. The novel is a surrealistic look within the narrator’s subconscious mind as she attempts to escape from a dream in which she is trapped, or in Nin’s...