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Dalsy served as a saleswoman in a department store. It doesn't matter what she sold there. They paid her only six dollars a week, and with this money she rented housing in furnished rooms and once lived.

The first russian-language book by the famous Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (1877-1942), opening a new series of novels, tells the story of the fate of the red-haired heroine, which Mark Twain called "the most touching and charming child of fiction since the immortal Alice."

Johnson Dry Logue grew strawberries in the garden. One day he saw the neighborhood boys, who moved over the hedge and hurriedly devoured selected berries. Without hesitation, Johnson dispersed them with a whip. What was his surprise when among the boys he saw a beautiful girl!

Young lawyer Lucian Denzil settles on the outskirts of London. The windows of the apartment, which Is rented by Lucian, overlook the house number 13 - Silent House, as it is called by everyone in the district. He has a bad reputation: they say, there live ghosts, from there hear terrible voices, at night in the windows flashing candles. But suddenly in the cursed house there is a new tenant - Mr. Berwin. Soon he will be found murdered in his own bedroom. Lucian Denzil will have a serious investigation, which will reveal many terrible secrets ...

The White Guard is the first work by Mikhail Bulgakov, which tells the story of the Civil War. In the center of the plot - an intelligent Russian family. In the new conditions of social cataclysm it is almost impossible for them to adapt to reality, the world of nobles and aristocrats collapses under the pressure of a new force. In many ways, this novel can be considered autobiographical, because the author and his relatives also had to survive the events described in the book, and observe the collapse of the Russian intelligentsia. As you read this book, you will notice echoes of the past in our modern life.

"Carmen won't last two days.

Harsh and extremely truthful tale about the legendary White Fang will tell about the adventures of a wolf born in the North and who ended his days in California. Jack London's novel combined beautiful nature, experiences, devotion, love and bloody fights. It is amazing how accurately the author was able to penetrate into the consciousness of his hero, half-baby half-dog. From birth until his last breath, his life was filled with events. "White Fang" will allow you to understand the psychology of the animal, see the laws of nature and imbue with the cruel story told by Jack London.

One of the most famous humorists in world literature, O. Henry created a unique panorama of American life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, in grotesque situations conveyed the contrasts and paradoxes of his era, which opened the space for people with business acumen, which the game of chance then elevates to the top of success, then tosses to the bottom of life.

The first collection of stories about Sherlock Holmes is a story of a military doctor, Dr. Watson (or Watson) about a great detective. Includes stories from 1891-1892. It is this collection that includes stories that became insanely popular in the early 20th century and remain popular until now.

Captain Chan Derron of the Space Legion received an important task - he must guard Dr. Max Ellerid during an important experiment on the New Moon. But the doctor died, and his invention disappeared. Derron goes to jail on a murder charge. He manages to escape, and for two years the Legion has been hunting for him.

Anyone who wants to say that he has lived life to the fullest must know love, poverty and war. Of course, not everyone, even in a lifetime, succeeds, but John Hopkins took only an hour.

The beginning of the 1870s was marked by the growth of radical and terrorist sentiments in Russian society. The political situation was not easy and ambiguous - the country was torn apart by various revolutionary circles with the most ardent and decisive methods of combating the existing system. One of Fyodor Dostoevsky's most famous novels, Besa, is a response to events in the country.

This is one of the most exciting novels in the world of adventure literature. The prototype of the noble filibuster Blood served as a real character - Englishman Henry Morgan, once a slave and pirate, who became the vice-governor of Jamaica.

Where else after the hospital to rest the pilot who survived a plane crash, as not in a small, quiet village away from civilization? But he only dreamed of peace - come anonymous letters, the village rolls a series of mysterious murders. Only the brilliant Miss Marple can untangle a tangle of events!

"The Brilliance and Poverty of the Courtesans" is one of the most famous novels in the series "Human Comedy" dedicated to the secret side of the life of the higher Parisian society. How seductive and insidious the mores of the Parisian light are, how cruel and ruthless its laws are! A lot of fates, woven by intrigues, thirst for fame, love, betrayal in a tight knot, which is able only the tragic death of the beautiful courtesan Esther and Lucien de Rubampre - the main characters of the novel Balzac.

Again, the great detective Hercule Poirot will have to mobilize all his thinking abilities to unravel the most difficult business. In the novel "Big Four" detective will deal with a very unusual case for himself - to uncover the conspiracy of the "world behind the scenes."

The novel, which withstood an incredible number of film adaptations and theatrical productions and formed the basis of the cult modernized version with Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert De Niro in the lead roles.

The famous novel by Robert Lewis Stevenson (1850-1894) tells the story of the exciting and dangerous adventures of the former Jim and his older comrades, who went in search of a pirate treasure.

The offense is not avenged if the avenger catches up with the reckoning. She is not avenged even if the offender does not recognize whose hand has brought down on him a punishment. Fortunato was a well-known wine connoisseur, so he did not suspect a catch in the invitation of his friend to try amontillado, the keg of which he bought the day before ...

"...- Electricity..." mutters the father-in-house, looking blankly at his plate. "And in my opinion, electric lighting is just a scam. They'll put a corner in there and think to take your eyes off! No, brother, if you give me the lights, you're not going to be a corner, but something substantial, something incendiary, something incendiary, that has something to do! You let the fire go, you know? a fire that is natural, not mental..."

The most complex, the most multi-level and ambiguous of Dostoevsky's novels, which critics considered to be an "intellectual detective", "early postmodernism", then - "the best of works about the mysterious Russian soul."

"There was a donkey at one owner's house, and for many years in a row he dragged bags to the mill tirelessly, but by old age he was weak and not as fit to work as before.

"The Burden of Human Passions" can be called "the novel of education", where the author traces the life of the main character Philip Carey from childhood to adolescence, from youth to maturity. He falls a lot of trials: the early death of his parents, the desperate search for his calling in the world, the doomed relationship with a frivolous woman. Having endured many disappointments, changing their views, from submission to his own passions to self-denial, Philip tries to thread behind the thread to weave the pattern of his own life ...

The wounded brown dog, strongly looking like a wolf, sheltered a young couple. It was difficult for young people to get the dog's position and win its love. But when the dog became almost native, in the life of the newlyweds there was a strange man, claiming that it was his dog ...

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Babbitt" - one of the best novels of the American writer, master of critical realism Sinclair Lewis. Published for the first time in 1922, this novel continues to excite readers, telling the truth about America. The name of the novel's main character, Babbitt, has long been a household name. Speaking of Babbitts, they usually mean ordinary businessmen, whom capitalist America impoverished spiritually, anonymized, forced to give up their own thoughts, deprived the right to true human feelings.

Few Russian writers so accurately and ingeniously caught only the nascent needs and trends of public life, as Ivan Turgenev was able to do. The novel "Fathers and Children" embodied in the literary form the disparate thoughts of Russian youth on the eve of the reforms of 1861. This work literally blew up Russian society, splitting it into two opposing camps: enthusiastic youth, immediately rushed to imitate Bazarova and moderate older liberals who did not accept the novel, made negative judgments about him. This fact, in itself, confirmed that the writer's geniuses are true, and the future of Russia is alarming.

A. Henry (1862-1910) - the pseudonym of William Sidney Porter, an outstanding American novelist, famous for brilliant humorous stories. During his short creative life he wrote about 280 stories, not counting feuilletons and various small works.

A collection of early stories from the man who created Nero Wolfe. Bill Farden is an experienced burglar. He gains entry to the house without effort, and his ears tell him the inhabitants are asleep. He pockets the silver and moves to the kitchen, to fill his stomach with strawberry shortcake. When the cook tiptoes downstairs, Bill disables her with chloroform. Upstairs, he ties the man of the house to his bedframe. In the next room he finds a little girl, and is touched by her helplessness until she pulls a gun on him. The nine-year-old is Major Wentworth, of the Girls' Military Auxiliary, and the revolver is as long as her arm. In these early stories, a young Rex Stout showed the talent for comic action that would make the Nero Wolfe novels enduring classics. In Stout's world, there is no thug more dangerous than a determined little girl.

Bateman Hunter needs to return Barnard's friend to the waiting bride, home to civilization. But what if the sunsets on the coral island caused him to understand the meaning of life?

The story "In The People" - the second part of the famous trilogy "Childhood", "In People," "My Universities" - was published in 1915.

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"Parma Abode" is the second novel about the era of restoration after "Red and Black". The action of this action-packed work, saturated with complex vicissitudes of political struggle and sharp turns in the personal fates of the characters moved to Italy, so beloved by the author. The book was highly appreciated by Balzac, who noted the authenticity and psychological depth of the characters; it has firmly entered the gold fund of the world's realistic classics.

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Classics of the detective genre! The train that is rushing towards trouble is their main character... The novels "Roman Express" and "Passenger from Calais", included in this edition, begin similarly: the train departs and ahead of the seemingly boring hours of waiting ... But at the final point passengers will come by other people. If, of course, they stay alive... In our library you can read the book "The Passenger from Calais (collection) for free." To read the online book "The Passenger from Calais (collection) " go to this link. Enjoy your reading.

Read online the full version of the book "Vanka" by Anton Chekhov on the website of the electronic library MyBook.ru. Download apps for iOS or Android and read "Vanka" anywhere, even without the Internet.

Romantic drama, the first literary success of the English writer Thomas Hardy, one of the first books about the heroine with the features of a feminist - an independent mistress of the farm, the attention of which seeks three: a rich gentleman, a desperate sergeant and a reasonable farmer. The difficult problem of women's choice and all the "charms" of rural life - in the novel "Away from the distraught crowd."

"Time was going on for the night. The deacon Savely Gykin was lying in his church guardhouse on a huge bed and did not sleep, although he always used to fall asleep at the same time with chickens. From one side of the planted, sewn from multi-colored patches of blanket looked his red hard hair, from under the other sticking out large, long-worn legs. He listened......"

The work of Francis Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby" many paid attention after watching the film of the same name with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. Needless to say - the time of dry law, closed parties, gangster showdowns and jazz really attracts and attracts. This time, when the music was loud and graceful at the same time, there were many guests, and champagne - even more. At least that's what the mysterious Mr. Gatsby's house has always been. Perhaps he hid behind this mask the aimlessness of his life? Perhaps it was easier for him not to notice that the luxury surrounding him is just tinsel, and the woman he loves is not what he used to be?

Old Cal Adams bought his daughter as a gift what she so desired - a piano. Strangely, on this day Marilla did not play on it, as well as the next and later. Even on his deathbed, Cal could not ask his daughter to play him at least one tune ...

"The Magnificent Five" - Julian, Dick, Ann and their cousin George with their dog Timmy - decide to rent vans and live a few weeks outdoors. They arrange a parking lot next to circus tents, and after a while the guys realize that someone wants to survive them from their place ...

Sometimes trying to find out the recipe of delicious pancakes can lead to unexpected consequences.

The novel by the famous American writer James Fenimore Cooper "Pioneers, or At the Origins of Suskuyhanna" is the first of the pentalogy of "Leather stocking". The novel takes us back several centuries, when friendship with an Indian could cost a life, and the right hand and apt eye were the only allies of the free hunter. It was a time of brave, courageous and desperate men.

The autobiographical novel "Look at Your Home, Angel," published in 1929, is an amazing kaleidoscope of Thomas Wolfe's vivid memoirs about childhood and adolescence: the birthplace of Asheville, North Carolina, which hides in the text behind the fictional Altamont; about the time of the union and the disintegration of the author's family and the difficult relationship of its members; about the first steps of man in a huge and frightening world.

"Stories Told After Dinner" (Told After Supper, 1891) is a parody of Jerome K. Jerome's holy (Christmas) stories. English ghosts adore Christmas Eve. By this date, they are always preparing to appear to the hosts, and better guests at home. And the hosts and guests are also good, love to treat each other on Christmas Eve stories about ghosts. Unsurprisingly, a huge number of human encounters with ghosts occur at this time.

"Wonderful things are happening in the world, gentlemen. Another time a man dies, then you think:

"There is no prophet in his homeland" - this much-loved by the writers dictum could well confirm and Lewis, because "Letters of Balamut", the first published by him artwork, was almost unnoticed at home, and only noisy success in the U.S. forced the British to appreciate the literary talent of the new author. The plot of "The Letter of Balamut" is uncomplicated - a venerable, much achieved in the hellish hierarchy, fatherly instructs an inexperienced nephew, taking the first steps towards catching human souls. The debut task of a demonic in a diabolical high society - the seduction of a virtuous young Englishman. The young man has just embarked on the path of faith, and his fragile spirit seems to be an easy prey to the young demon. The collection also includes the story "Balamut Offers Toast" adjacent to the Balamut Letters.

Before you turn the story of the American Robert Jordan, who arrived in the guerrilla anti-fascist squad Pablo, in the mountains of Spain and met there love - beautiful Mary, passionate and purposeful. It is a story of loyalty and courage, love and loss, victories and defeats, faith and disappointment. A profound, time-transcended story about the fleeting 72 hours of the life of ordinary people in war.

One of the most famous humorists in world literature, O. Henry created a unique panorama of American life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, in grotesque situations conveyed the contrasts and paradoxes of his era, which opened the space for people with business acumen, which the game of chance then elevates to the top of success, then to the bottom of life.

A funny tale-tale of the famous English writer Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) about a bear Winnie the Pooh and his friends.

"The Spiral Staircase" is one of Mary Reinhard's best and perhaps most violent novels. Summer vacation in the village breaks the chain of mysterious murders. One man's madness and the mystery of a locked room.

The most scandalous novel by Lawrence, for which there was no publisher - and the author had to publish it at his own expense. The novel that brought the author to the dock - for violation of the norms of public morality. Times are changing - and now in the story of two sisters from the English hinterland, professing the idea of "free relations", there is nothing sensational. However, the psychology of the novel and the lightness of style make this work interesting even for the most picky reader.

For nine years now, when he came here at exactly one o'clock in the afternoon, he sat on this bench, and always something happened to him after that - something in the spirit of Dickens, from which his vest heaved high above his heart, and not only over his heart.

The novel by the famous English writer Arnold Bennett "A Tale of Old Women" describes the lives of the Baines sisters and the people around them. However, the writer is most interested in the connection from the fate with social shifts in the development of societies.

French "justice" is going to exemplary execute for the attack on the battery of Llanza captives Captain "Saterland" Hornblower and his first lieutenant Bush, wounded in the battle at Rosas ...

a cold town in southern Russia, a military unit of the N-Russian Infantry Regiment. Kuprin himself served in the army and small episodes describing the everyday life of the Russian army of the second half of the 19th century, shown by the author very vividly and historically truthfully. In the book you will find colorful images of Russian officers, philosophical reflections on man and the great intensity of passions. Surrounded by drunkenness, debauchery and blunt army life looms a bright, romantic image of a young subaltern-officer Romashov, growing up his soul and searching for answers to simple questions posed by life itself. Lack of clear goals, detachment from reality and love for a married woman lead him to a fatal duel. Kuprin's novel "The Fight" written during the Russo-Japanese War reveals the painful problems that are brewing in the Russian military environment. Deep psychological analysis, learned by Kuprin from Tolstoy, the passionate attitude of the writer to the problem set by him, the brilliant style make "The Fight" as interesting for us as for Kuprin's contemporaries.

For such a young man he had too red nose, with a small mesh of bursting vessels, which happens in alcoholics, as well as strange, skillful eyes. But he wasn't an alcoholic, he was an astronaut. A spacer. And all his physical shortcomings were the result of numerous decompressions. In general, he looked monstrous, and accordingly people treated him. And it's Bowman's fault. He gave people space flights...

One of the most famous humorists in world literature, O. Henry created a unique panorama of American life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, in grotesque situations conveyed the contrasts and paradoxes of his era, which opened the space for people with business acumen, which the game of chance then elevates to the top of success, then tosses to the bottom of life.

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"Portrait of Dorian Gray" is one of the greatest works of the last century and a half, a novel that was tried to ban, and the author was condemned for "obscene behavior." The transformation of a beautiful and innocent young man Dorian into a monster under the influence of hedonistic ideas and cynical aphorisms of Lord Henry - in the novel that gave rise to the cult of eternal youth.

Around the World in Eighty Days is one of Jules Verne's best novels. The fascinating story of Phileas Fogg, his resilient servant Passepartout and their stunning imagination of a round-the-world journey full of dangerous adventures, familiar to us from childhood - on numerous films and cartoons. But how different are they from the work of Jules Verne himself?

One of the most famous humorists in world literature, O. Henry created a unique panorama of American life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, in grotesque situations conveyed the contrasts and paradoxes of his era, which opened the space for people with business acumen, which the game of chance then elevates to the top of success, then tosses to the bottom of life.

"Resurrection" is a masterpiece of Leo Tolstoy's late work.

One of the most famous humorists in world literature, O. Henry created a unique panorama of American life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, in grotesque situations conveyed the contrasts and paradoxes of his era, which opened the space for people with business acumen, which the game of chance then elevates to the top of success, then tosses to the bottom of life.

"Time is not waiting" - the nickname of the main character of the novel. Elam Harnish is a man of strong will, risky and successful. Getting rich in the north, on the gold mine, he goes south, to California to destroy the financial kings, where, subsequently very cool changes his life.

American writer Henry James (1843-1916) - the largest figure in the literature of the Western world, one of the innovators who gave direction to the psychological prose of the 20th century. The novel 'Ambassadors' (1903), which James considered his main creative achievement, comes out in Russian language for the first time. Readers will have a fascinating journey into the world of human passions, confusing situations, deep experiences. Together with the main character we will wander the streets of foggy London, walk along the boulevards of shining Paris. The author with the help of his characters will reveal many secrets, the main of which - the mystery of the human soul.

"Everyone knows the great general Hans Pichholz. I only found out about it in the eleventh year. His exploits turned my head. Hans Pichholz fought thirty years with all the states from Apennine to the terrible, hard-working Urals and all won. And for this he was placed on the square troubadours monument of real Carrara marble with small veins. The great Hans sits on horseback, not outdone by anyone, holding a sword in one hand, a spear in the other, and a musket hangs behind him. Malboruk is a boy in front of Hans Pichholz..."

The debut story of a young writer, a kind of creative manifesto. The concept of absolute freedom is the basic tenet of this manifesto. The hero of this story is tried for murder, which he committed for the stupidest of all possible reasons. And this is the truth, which the hero is not afraid to throw in the face of his judges, to go against everything, to forget about all conventions and to die in the name of his beliefs.

Humanity has long solved the problem of immortality. Andrew Young - the oldest of the "immortal" lived in the world for more than five thousand years. Surrounding treat him with great respect, but he is very lonely and deeply unhappy. The load of memories accumulated over fifty centuries became so unbearable for the psyche that Young seriously thinks about suicide ...

Kidnapped, or The Adventures of David Balfour, which tells the story of how he was kidnapped and shipwrecked, how he languished on a desert island and wandered in the wild mountains, how fate brought him together with Alan Breck Stewart and other ardent Scottish Jacobites, as well as everything he had suffered at the hands of his uncle Ebenezer Balfur, the owner of the castle described by himself and now offered to your attention by Robert Louis Stevenson.

"The Adventures of the Brave Soldier Schweik" is perhaps one of the most original books in the history of prose of the 20th century.

After aimless wandering around the cities, Frank Chambers accidentally gets into the tavern "Two Oaks" and, being stranded, decides to accept the owner's invitation there to temporarily work. However, this decision radically changes not only his life, but also the life of the owner of the tavern and his wife Cora.

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Rodion Raskolnikov is a student who is constrained in funds. He huddles in a tiny room and reflects on justice. For the sake of it, he meaningfully commits a crime and receives punishment: fearing remorse, experiencing the torment of conscience, unwittingly seeking remorse. The main character is surrounded by people: good and bad, generous and mean, unhappy in life and bright in the soul. And only one of them - Porfiry Petrovich - is able to reveal Raskolnikov. And only one of them, Sonia Marmeladova, called for remorse.

The main character of the thriller "Deep Sleep" is a talented and promising detective Philippe Marlowe. He is hired by an old General Stanwood in order to find out the fate of the missing husband of his eldest daughter. Once the son-in-law was a bootlegger, and the general thinks that this is what his disappearance is connected with. But the detective discovers even more interesting moments and reveals the secrets of the family, which were previously for the general for seven seals.

Rodion Raskolnikov is a student who is constrained in funds. He huddles in a tiny room and reflects on justice. For the sake of it, he meaningfully commits a crime and receives punishment: fearing remorse, experiencing the torment of conscience, unwittingly seeking remorse. The main character is surrounded by people: good and bad, generous and mean, unhappy in life and bright in the soul. And only one of them - Porfiry Petrovich - is able to reveal Raskolnikov. And only one of them, Sonia Marmeladova, called for remorse.

Learning that the war with Bobovia began, the brilliant (but demented) inventor Papa Schimmelhorn packed his secret weapon and went to Washington ...

Rodion Raskolnikov is a student who is constrained in funds. He huddles in a tiny room and reflects on justice. For the sake of it, he meaningfully commits a crime and receives punishment: fearing remorse, experiencing the torment of conscience, unwittingly seeking remorse. The main character is surrounded by people: good and bad, generous and mean, unhappy in life and bright in the soul. And only one of them - Porfiry Petrovich - is able to reveal Raskolnikov. And only one of them, Sonia Marmeladova, called for remorse.

Rodion Raskolnikov is a student who is constrained in funds. He huddles in a tiny room and reflects on justice. For the sake of it, he meaningfully commits a crime and receives punishment: fearing remorse, experiencing the torment of conscience, unwittingly seeking remorse. The main character is surrounded by people: good and bad, generous and mean, unhappy in life and bright in the soul. And only one of them - Porfiry Petrovich - is able to reveal Raskolnikov. And only one of them, Sonia Marmeladova, called for remorse.

Rodion Raskolnikov is a student who is constrained in funds. He huddles in a tiny room and reflects on justice. For the sake of it, he meaningfully commits a crime and receives punishment: fearing remorse, experiencing the torment of conscience, unwittingly seeking remorse. The main character is surrounded by people: good and bad, generous and mean, unhappy in life and bright in the soul. And only one of them - Porfiry Petrovich - is able to reveal Raskolnikov. And only one of them, Sonia Marmeladova, called for remorse.

Alexander Belyaev - the famous science fiction writer, a classic of domestic science fiction and adventure novel, combining an adventurous plot with anticipation of scientific discoveries. The idea of the novel "Professor Dowell's Head" came to the writer's head when he was bedridden, actually feeling "head without body". So A.Belyaev continued in literature the theme of life of the head without a body thanks to scientific achievements. Herbert Wells praised the novels "Professor Dowell's Head" and "Amphibian Man," calling them "wonderful" and "very different from Western books."

Rodion Raskolnikov is a student who is constrained in funds. He huddles in a tiny room and reflects on justice. For the sake of it, he meaningfully commits a crime and receives punishment: fearing remorse, experiencing the torment of conscience, unwittingly seeking remorse. The main character is surrounded by people: good and bad, generous and mean, unhappy in life and bright in the soul. And only one of them - Porfiry Petrovich - is able to reveal Raskolnikov. And only one of them, Sonia Marmeladova, called for remorse.

"Of course, there are two sides to this problem. Consider the second one. It is not uncommon to hear about "sellers." But they don't exist. There are girls who work in shops. It's their profession. However, why should the name of the profession be turned into a definition of a person? Let's be fair. After all, we do not call "brides" all the girls living on Fifth Avenue..."

Prominent British novelist Ivlin Waugh (1903-1966) is accurate and organic in describing the life of the English aristocracy. While studying at Oxford, the future writer became close to the golden youth, and these impressions formed the basis of many of his books. In the center of the novel "The Handful of Ashes" - a rift between the spouses of Tony and Brenda, but this seemingly mediocre everyday situation under the pen of the master acquires a universal and tragic sound.

M.E.Saltykov-Shedrin is deservedly attributed to the writers-satirists of world size. But at the same time, often his works are interpreted only as a satire on the state structure and the orders of autocratic Russia.

The Phantom of the Opera. One of the most striking phenomena of mass culture of the 20th and then the 21st century. It was filmed many times, it was dedicated to countless rock compositions, ballads and albums... And, probably, there is no person who has never heard or watched written on his motives brilliant musical Andrew Lloyd Webber.

For six years, Gustave Flaubert painstakingly wrote his masterpiece novel "Mrs. Bovary", repeatedly crossing the pages and starting from a blank slate. The results of his work readers around the world enjoy to this day. A kind of unbiased encyclopedia of life in the French province of the second half of the 19th century has repeatedly become the basis for film. The main character, dreamy, selfish and empty, marries a healer and lives a gray life. She can only fantasize about social evenings in the company of elegant men, but acquaintance with the conqueror of women's hearts Rudolf Boulanger gives hope for an interesting pastime. A detailed description of life in a small town, where everyone is familiar with each other, and each news is discussed indefinitely, will make you think about the moral principles of the 19th century and find in them parallels with modernity.

Oliver Twist - the hero of one of the best works not only British, but also world literature - began his triumphant procession around the world in 1837 and does not stop it to this day.

Young sailor Edmond Dantes considered himself lucky - a profitable business, a beautiful bride. But power in France changes as often as the wind. The denunciation of the envious - and the innocent Edmond is behind bars for a long fourteen years ... After passing through the stone bags of Ifh Castle, tempering the will, getting rich on pirate treasures, the hero under the pseudonym "Count of Monte Cristo" returns to France to avenge the traitors who broke his life. Don't kill them - he's not so merciful. The Count uses intrigue, bribery, influence and provocation to break his life...

The world-famous tale of a wooden boy "The Adventures of Pinocchio" brought its creator, Carlo Collodi, wide recognition. This touching story is known by every child, it to this day inspires directors and writers on original interpretations and makes you believe: good breeds good. Poor carpenter Jeppetto creates a puppet doll named "Pinocchio" and by the power of his desire breathes life into it. Thus begins the difficult path of Pinocchio, which teaches children of many generations the strength of spirit and nobility.

Young sailor Edmond Dantes considered himself lucky - a profitable business, a beautiful bride. But power in France changes as often as the wind. The denunciation of the envious - and the innocent Edmond is behind bars for a long fourteen years ... After passing through the stone bags of Ifh Castle, tempering the will, getting rich on pirate treasures, the hero under the pseudonym "Count of Monte Cristo" returns to France to avenge the traitors who broke his life. Don't kill them - he's not so merciful. The Count uses intrigue, bribery, influence and provocation to break his life...

Mark Twain's story about the adventures of a boy who, thanks to his bravery, enthusiasm and pure heart became a symbol of a whole generation, has long turned into a sample of a beautiful syllable and a magnificent book for both children and adults.

Young sailor Edmond Dantes considered himself lucky - a profitable business, a beautiful bride. But power in France changes as often as the wind. The denunciation of the envious - and the innocent Edmond is behind bars for a long fourteen years ... After passing through the stone bags of Ifh Castle, tempering the will, getting rich on pirate treasures, the hero under the pseudonym "Count of Monte Cristo" returns to France to avenge the traitors who broke his life. Don't kill them - he's not so merciful. The Count uses intrigue, bribery, influence and provocation to break his life...

"In the souls of people, bunches of anger are poured and ripening , heavy bunches, and it will not take long for them to mature now..." John Steinbeck's cult novel The Grapes of Wrath was first published in America in 1939, won the Pulitzer Prize, and the author was later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Today, the "Grapes of Wrath" are included in many of the curriculum of schools and colleges in the United States.

This is the story of the fateful love of Heathcliff, the adopted son of the owner of the estate "Wuthering Pass", to the daughter of the owner Catherine. Demonic passion of two strong personalities who do not want to make concessions to each other, because of which suffer and die not only the main characters, but also the people around them. "This is a very bad novel. It's a very good novel. He's ugly. It has beauty. It's a terrible, excruciating, strong and passionate book," Somerset Maugham wrote of The Thunder's Pass.

In the vicinity of the farm "The King of The Beast" was a ferocious Mexican lion. The enterprising daughter of the farmer finds a way to solve the problem.

Once the government of a distant planet strange robots - humanoids make a tempting, unusual proposal - to take on all the problems of people on the planet and prevent the impending war. But is it really good and beneficial for everyone, as robots claim? During the narration, the author will provide different opinions on this matter and the reader will have to decide his own attitude to them.

"One dollar is eighty-seven cents. That was it. Sixty cents of coins one cent each. For each of these coins had to bargain with the grocer, the greengrocer, the butcher so that even the ears were burning with the silent disapproval that caused such frugality. Della counted three times. One dollar is eighty-seven cents. And tomorrow is Christmas..."

There were two pigeons. They lived peacefully and peacefully, soul to soul. But suddenly one of them wanted to see the light. And as his friend did not dissuade him, he still went on a journey...

Randle Patrick McMurphy. A man who has served many terms in different correctional facilities. But fate threw him in a more terrible place - a psychiatric hospital. At first glance, the hospital is a more comfortable place than prison. But this is only at first glance. A clash begins between the freedom-loving McMurphy and the senior nurse Gnusen.

The novels offered to readers have not been published in Russia for many years. They are full of melodramatism, sometimes they are present and elements of mysticism. Heroes of the novel "Two Destinies" from childhood love each other, but evil rock for many years separates them. Having managed to keep their feelings clean, the lovers, having gone through all the trials, finally connect their lives.

The profession of Mrs. Warren - a play by Bernard Shaw, published in 1893-1894 by George Bernard Shaw - the largest English playwright of the late 19th century. His plays are whipped up by political reaction, normative morality, hypocrisy, bigotry.  "Gentleman (taking off his hat). Forgive me. Can't you tell me where Heindhead View is, Mrs. Alison's house? Young girl (coming off the book). This is The House of The Missus..."

I. Ilf and E. Petrov completed the novel "Twelve Chairs" in 1928, but even before the first publication the censors reduced, "cleaned" it. The edit continued from publication to publication for another ten years. As a result, the book decreased by almost a third. The version published now is the first complete one, which has been reconstructed from archival materials. The book is equipped with an extensive historical and literary and real commentary.

A beautiful and sad love story against the backdrop of the First World War. An American soldier falls in love with a Nurse Scotsman. Many insidious obstacles build the war Frederick and Catherine, who no longer think of life without each other. Winter lingered, the snow did not fall, and the Austrians went on the offensive, the Italians retreat. Fearing the brutality of the gendarmerie over the officers, Frederick decides to desert. In the name of love, goodbye, weapons!

Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote more than 50 books: 8 plays (three of them were on Broadway), hundreds of short stories, poems, but the most famous became her detective works. She was one of the first authors to bring humor to the genre. At one time she was an even more popular author than Agatha Christie. "The Wall" is one of the late works of the writer.

A story from the collection "Early Poirot Cases."

Gulliver's travels are well known by abbreviated translations for children. But at the same time this book Swift intended it for an adult thoughtful reader. His hero Lemuel Gulliver not only travels in different outlandish countries, he observes the social and political structure of these countries, draws parallels with modern England and Europe. This gives the ground for the author's caustic satire...

Does your cutie annoy you sometimes? Why torment - here's a girl, worked on science. It's perfect. You just won't want to marry someone else.

Pierre and Jean was published in December 1887 and in January 1888 in Nouvel Revue. In January 1888, the novel was published by Allendorff in a separate book.

In a huge New York mansion killed old Levenworth, a successful entrepreneur and millionaire. During the investigation, the main suspect is one of his nieces, Eleanor. Unwittingly involved in the investigation young lawyer Raymond, confident in the innocence of the girl, trying to ward off her suspicions. Joining forces with the detectives Grimes, he begins to unravel the threads leading to the real criminal.

The first novel, published in 1903. It's a humorous look at all-girls' college life at the turn of the 19th century. Patti Wyatt, the main character of this story is a bright, cheerful, unflappable girl. She enjoys life on campus and arranges pranks and to entertain herself and her friends. Patty, however, believes in justice and finds a way to comfort freshman Olivia Copeland, who believes she will be sent home if she does not pass the exams.

To Perry Mason comes a lame gatekeeper and asks to help fully fulfill the last will of the owner burned on fire, which is actively hindered by the heirs, but then he dies, and the client of the lawyer becomes a Persian cat ...

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There is no money, and there is a fourth dimension demonstrator. Shouldn't we use it to mine so much-needed cents and dollars?

Ten unrelated people in a mansion on a secluded island ... Who called them here with a mysterious invitation? Why would someone kill them, one by one, in the most incredible ways? Why is everything that happens so closely intertwined with a cheerful nursery?

Jules Verne is a classic adventure novel, and "Captain Grant's Children" only confirms this. Cleverly combining fascinating adventures, memorable characters, wonderful syllables and scientific geographical facts, Jules Verne captures the reader's attention from the first pages. According to his novels it is quite possible to give school geography lessons: the effect will be 100%.

"The meeting of the Royal Geographical Society of London on 14 January 1862 in the building at Waterloo Square, 3 was very crowded. President of the society Sir Francis M... made an important message to his venerable colleagues, and his speech was often interrupted by applause. This speech- a rare example of eloquence - ended at last with the following rant, in which patriotic feelings poured out in a whole stream..."

Hercule Poirot was approached by Carla Lemarshan to investigate the murder of her father. This is a real challenge even for Poirot, because for the commission of this crime was convicted and executed Carla's mother, and the murder itself occurred sixteen years ago ...

Childhood - What could be more interesting and beautiful than discovering the world with children's eyes? They are always wide open, very attentive and extremely astute. Therefore, Leo Tolstoy looked around through the eyes of little nobleman Nikolenka Irtenyev and once again showed the purity and lowliness of feelings, sincerity and lies, beauty and ugliness...

The novel "Once, Two - Buckle Buckle" (released in the U.S. under the name "Patriotic Murders") once again draws the great detective into deadly political games. Hercule Poirot investigates the death of his dentist Mr. Morley. Everything indicates suicide, but Poirot thinks otherwise. And after the death of one of the patients, the doctor is no longer in doubt.

The tragic story of a man spending the winter so far in the north for the first time. Struggling with the frost and the difficulties he causes, he moves along the snowy path to the camp to his comrades, and his only companion - a sled dog.

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For a very strict 19th century novel "Jane Eyre" was incredibly bold, especially since the author was a woman. Without pathos, exactly and truthfully Charlotte Bronte wrote the story of the life of one girl. In many ways, the autobiographical novel has made a lot of noise in prudish England, and today the work is in the top of the most read and does not cease to shake with its plot, the fate of the characters and morals.

The second novel of the classic of world literature, which was published only eleven years after the scandalous "Sister Kerry".

One of the most famous humorists in world literature, O.Henry created a unique panorama of American life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, in grotesque situations conveyed the contrasts and paradoxes of his era, which opened the space for people with business acumen, which the game of chance then elevates to the top of success, then descends to the bottom of life.

Read online the full version of the book "The Story of an Unknown Man" by Anton Chekhov on the website of the electronic library MyBook.ru. Download apps for iOS or Android and read "The Story of the Unknown Person" anywhere, even without the Internet.

Changing several owners rubber tree fell into the hands of a lonely pianist Bess.

The stories in the letters of mark Twain's grand niece, American writer Gene Webster brought her truly worldwide fame. Staged on Broadway based on these works, the play, as well as created in different years of the film version, in the first of which the role of the heroine was played by the famous silent film actress Mary Pickford, invariably had a noisy success.

A chronological series of stories about Herbert West, a medical student and his audacious attempts to defeat death. The story is conducted on behalf of his friend, who willy-nilly have to be an assistant in nightmarish experiments.

Octave Mirbo's book made a lot of noise in its time - even if you had frank notes of the maid, which can embarrass even a sophisticated reader. Meanwhile, this work was first published in 1900. A bright picture of the decomposition of bourgeois society in the person of gentlemen who know no bounds in satisfying their erotic fantasies and whims. The main character of the novel - Celestina, an ordinary maid, who over the years of her work has changed many places. The book amazes with its bold revelations, especially in the scenery of the last century, which (as we think today) should have been more noble, restrained and prim. The provocative novel was filmed three times.

A young companion of a capricious elderly American becomes the wife of an impressive English aristocrat Maximilian de Winter, tormented by secret sadness, and arrives with him in his ancestral estate Manderley. In a huge gloomy mansion, both people and walls, and it seems, the air itself reminds the new mistress of her deceased predecessor - the beautiful and sophisticated Rebecca de Winter. The strange behavior of Maximilian, wariness, and sometimes hostility of servants, general innuendo, clearly designed to hide the secret of the death of the former owner Of Manderley, plunge the heroine into awe. After months of painful experiences, she will find out the terrible truth about the past of the inhabitants of Manderley.

The plot of the novel is uncomplicated - the meeting of Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth in his youth, love, breakup and a new meeting years later, already mature, many survivors and conscious people. At the same time, however, "The Reasoning" is a stunning humor and subtle irony of the "encyclopedia of mores" of the provincial English "light" of the early 19th century. Young ladies chasing rich suitors, and hunters for dowry, mothers and aunts, desperately intriguing in search of profitable parties for girls, empty and chewy local "lionesses", ruining nobles, gossip and rumors - before the reader literally come to life colorful portraits and sharp, funny situations.

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Classics of the detective genre! Mysterious stories about crimes committed in a confined space. The train rushing to meet the trouble - their main character ... The novels "Roman Express" and "Passenger from Calais", included in this edition, begin similarly: the train departs and ahead of the seemingly boring hours of waiting ... But at the final point passengers will come by other people. If, of course, they stay alive...

This is the story of John Segreve, his life, which failed, the love in which he failed; about his dreams and death, and if in the latter he found what he was deprived of the first two, then his life ultimately, it can be assumed, has developed. How do you know?..

Washington Irving - the first American writer, who gained worldwide fame and won the young American literature "the right of citizenship" in the minds of an experienced and discerning European reader, "the first ambassador of the New World in the Old," in the words of W. Thackeray. Irving was the pioneer of the themes that later became the main themes in U.S. literature, he first developed a novel, a favorite genre of American writers, and created a prosaic style that was considered exemplary for several generations. In the novels, Irving appears as a true romantic. The first romantic to be nominated by American literature.

Matthew Mole did not expect that one day his land will appeal to the rich Colonel Pinchen. And that the rich Colonel Pinchen would throw him out of his own house, too, he did not expect. But so it happened, and Matthew Mole was accused of witchcraft. And before he died, he cursed Colonel Pinchen. And soon after the completion of the construction of a new house - a house of seven gabes - Colonel Pinchen died ...

One of the most famous humorists in world literature, O. Henry created a unique panorama of American life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, in grotesque situations conveyed the contrasts and paradoxes of his era, which opened the space for people with business acumen, which the game of chance then elevates to the top of success, then tosses to the bottom of life.

In the sky above the largest cities is seen a mysterious flying object, from which from time to time the sounds of the pipe are heard. But it's not the Doomsday trumpet - or you'll have to believe that the Doomsday trumpet will be played by "Yankee Doodle," "Right, Britain" and "The Walking Song" ... And at the meeting of the Weldon Scientific Society, dedicated to the construction of a giant controlled balloon, comes to an unknown person who calls himself an engineer Robur and gives a speech about the superiority of aircraft heavier than air over balloons, and then disappears together with the chairman and secretary of the Society ...

Once Wild Cravaya, living on the swamps, a distant family of elves, decided to get an immortal soul. She succeeded, but the possession of the soul was not as easy as the Wild Crushka thought

Mr. Scrooge is a miser and misanthrope. No one likes Mr. Scrooge, and he only likes his account book and his savings. One Christmas Eve Mr. Scrooge visits an old friend. And all would be nothing, but only a friend long ago died ...

Acting on behalf of his law office, a young and naive Jonotan Harker goes to the Carpathians to make a deal to sell the estate of the Transylvanian aristocrat Count Dracula. He could not even imagine that this trip would jeopardize everything he loves. Count Dracula turned out to be a powerful vampire who sleeps during the day and feeds on the blood of his victims at night. After Dracula's appearance in England, he took aim at the immediate entourage of Jonotan and his fiancee Mina. To resist the machinations of Dracula, Jonathan will have to believe the most ridiculous superstitions about vampires, and, in the company of the legendary vampire hunter Abraham van Helsing, to resist a nightmare that will not be dreamed even in the worst dream.

At one point, Telemack Hicks was asked who had disfigured his left ear. In response, Hicks told an amazing story of true friendship.

"After reaching the age of twenty, the artful fruit is quite ripe. If you've ever been at least fifty miles from Sandown Ranch, you've probably heard of this miracle. Thick, pitch-black hair, dark brown eyes, and laughter like a murmur of a stream running on the prairie. The name is Rosita McGlen. That was the daughter of old McGellan, who owned the Sandown sheep ranch..."

Marina is a young woman who has been going to her happiness for a long time. She lost her parents early and only recently met the man of her life. Family happiness did not last long. A late trip out of town turned out to be another nightmare for her, from which she could not find a way out. But the woman did not realize that this is only the beginning and the most terrible news is waiting for her ahead.

The action takes place in the future. The professor invents a way of unusually fast reproduction of eggs with the help of red sunlight...

Lenny Barton - a player in the roof, unaware of the norms in alcohol, asked to work to his namesake. Edward Barton - a man who will not hurt the fly and always come to the rescue, agreed.

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Rumpelstilzchen is a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm about an evil dwarf capable of creating gold from straw, conjuving it.

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The history of the family clan of representatives of the large bourgeoisie, whose fate, as in the mirror, reflected the fate of England itself at the turning point of the late 19th - early 20th century. The era of modernism, the First World War, the "jazz culture" of the 1920s - three generations of Forsyths seem to reflect all types of personality of these eras. But this typical imagery of the heroes of the epic Golsworthy - only a frame for a really interesting, fascinating story about men and women, love and betrayal, jealousy and hatred, friendship and betrayal.

"Merciful sovereign, Pavel Andreevich! Not far from us, namely in the village of Pestomov, there are unfortunate facts, which I consider a duty to report. All the peasants of this village sold the huts and all their property and moved to the Province of Tomsk, but did not reach and returned. Here, of course, they have nothing more, everything is now foreign; they settled three and four families in one hut, so that the population of each hut of at least 15 people of both sexes, not counting small children, and in the end there is nothing, hunger, famine, famine of hungry or typhoid; everyone is literally sick. The paramedic says, "You come to the hut and what do you see?" Everyone is sick, everyone is raving, who laughs, who climbs the wall; in the huts stench, no water to serve, nor to bring it no one, and food serves one frozen potato. The paramedic and Sobol (our local doctor) what can they do when they need medicine before they need bread they don't have? The local government refuses that they have already been discharged from this land and are listed in the Tomsk province, and there is no money. By informing you and knowing your humanity, please do not refuse to help as soon as possible. Your well-wisher..."

The world-famous American writer Harold Robbins (1912-1997) is called "20th Century Maupassant." The Hollywood Trilogy combines three novels, "Dream Merchants," "The Hunters of Luck" and "The Heirs," in which Robbins in a novel form traces the entire history of Hollywood - from its inception to the present day. His novels are similar to Hollywood blockbusters - they have everything that is interesting to the modern person: money, sex, passion, career, betrayal, dreams ... And all that a person is capable of to make a dream a reality... Robbins' novels have been translated into 32 languages and more than 800 million of his books have been sold worldwide.

The book includes Henry James's novel (1843-1916) "Women's Portrait" - the pinnacle of American psychological realism, one of the greatest works written in English.

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«... Who did God give, son or daughter? Is it going to be baptized soon? Big boy! Don't drop it, mummy! Oh, oh! Fall!! Did you cut through? Is that his gold? Take a cat from him, or she'll scratch him! Pull your uncle by the moustache! So! Don't cry! The house is coming! He can walk already! Get him out of here - he's impolite!...."

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Amateur astronomer Tedies McIlwain has discovered a new star. It is just to the right of the Arctic and approaching the Earth. McIlwain soon began to communicate with the residents of his star through a special apparatus.

The Indian story of the most difficult, long and doomed journey that man can make is about traveling inside, in search of the buried treasures of Eternity, Atman, The Dharma Body, the Great Void, and so on. The story of the son of Brahman Siddhartha, his friend Govinda, as well as Gautam-Buddha, a sage of the Shakya family.

In the south of England, in a quiet place, on a secluded island, where enjoying the good weather Hercule Poirot, for the rest there is everything - a cozy hotel, sea, beach, sun, decent audience. But with the appearance of the famous actress, a dazzling beauty, accustomed to the worship of the public, breaking men's hearts and family hearths, the guests feel that the island settled Evil, and only Poirot sees in the woman-vamp a potential victim of human passions. It is he who draws the right conclusions and finds the killer among the holidaymakers, after it turned out that the motives and opportunities for murder were at all, and no one had an undisputed alibi.

a revelation, Arthur Koestler's Blinding Darkness was a reflection of the writer's views on the inner life of the Soviet Union in the 1930s. It was from the publication of this book that he dissociated himself from communism and for many years, until perestroika in the 1980s, was betrayed by disgrace in the USSR. The book describes the last month of the life of Nikolai Rubaashov, an old Bolshevik and revolutionary, from his arrest to the court. The influence of "Blinding Darkness" was so great that Orwell in his 1984 novel largely wrote off O'Brien from the book's chief antagonist, the investigator Gletkin, who led Rubaashov's case.

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Inexhaustible fantasy of the queen detective masters new locations to investigate the murder in a confined space. Hercule Poirot boards a flight from Paris to Croydon. Shortly before landing, a rich French usr, Madame Giselle, is found dead. At first, everyone thinks that the cause of death was the bite of a wasp. But Poirot can't do it. Very quickly he found that Madame had killed the strongest poison on the tip of the dart released from the wind tube. The funny thing is that the Belgian detective himself is under suspicion and his position in the plane is the most profitable for committing this mysterious murder

Silas Hamer, a rich smug millionaire, heard a mesmerizing melody, which was played by a street tramp. After that, he abruptly changed his life

On the luxurious steamer "Karnak" sailing on the Nile, killed a young millionaire, recently married and, as it turned out, had many enemies among the passengers. Anyone could kill a self-confident and brazen girl who stole the groom from her best friend. But none of the likely suspects committed this crime... Fortunately, on the steamer is the great detective Hercule Poirot, who knows the entire society represented on the cruise, still in London, and is aware of the possible motives of each of those present. And, of course, the first thing the Belgian thinks about is a "love triangle" consisting of the murdered, her freshly baked husband and a very temperamental woman, which he left for the sake of a millionaire ...

"Golden calf" is a cult work of Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov with the characteristic wisdom and humor characteristic of the authors, which in many ways reflects the essence of life in our country. The book is disassembled into a set of quotations, which are tightly entered into the colloquial language. The novel "Golden Calf" was published in 1931. Its main character - the great combiner Ostap Bender. By genre it is a social satire, and a novel with a Pluto character, and a feuilleton. The action begins in the city of Arbatov, where in the office of the chairman of the executive committee appears the main character, claiming that he - the son of Lieutenant Schmidt. This is followed by a series of comic events and adventures.

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Bold both in idea and in language, Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Dog's Heart" is considered to be one of the most significant and revealing literary works of his time.

The great Hugo built his "Notre Dame of Paris" from images and words, he gave us an amazing opportunity to quench the thirst for time, embodied in stone, to comprehend the meaning of his own silent amazement in the face of frozen perfection - the example of living passions, driven by the opposition of good and evil to the inevitable conversion to dust.

The novel "Idiot" is the embodiment and flourishing of Dostoevsky's creative techniques and philosophy. This is the story of the unfortunate Prince Myshkin, who has always been a "white crow", stood out against the background of his surroundings by the beauty of the soul and softness, for which he was called an idiot. Myshkin, barely recovered from mental illness, goes home to the only remaining relatives, and in the end the hero falls into the cycle of passions, human anger, selfishness, painful love and cruelty. He is well versed in people and relationships, but can not help neither the frantic Rogozhin, nor the desperate and daring Nastasier Filippovna, nor himself. Read the book to find out how "Idiot" fascinates more and more generations of readers.

Two lovers - Yorinda and Yoringel - went for a walk in the woods. And, in his trouble, came too close to the castle of the evil witch ... Now Yorinda is in captivity. And Joringel has to save her...

In his work George Meredith (1828-1909) continues realistic traditions in English literature. The novel "The Trial of Richard Feverel" (1859) is devoted to the problem of becoming the personality of the hero, the theme of the relationship between "fathers and children." Following Dickens, J. Meredith advocates the humanistic principles of raising a young man.

"The Story of Tom Jones, Found" is an epic novel by the 18th century English writer G. Fielding (1707 - 1754). The author draws the story of the wanderings of his hero, poor man and wanderer, against the background of a realistic picture of the life of his time.

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A small heart-wrenching story about two orphaned ailing souls, two grains of sand, devoid of all the unprecedented power of war. Sholokhov wrote it from the words of a passer-by who told him the story of his difficult fate. So ten years after this meeting was created a work that absorbed the tragedy of the entire Russian people, who have fallen full of the sorrows of the war. And after all the unbearable, immense adversity, it is unknown how many more sorrows will fall on the share of man and child, who met to pass together on the left war potholes and not to break under the weight of terrible troubles that fell on the back of an ordinary person

Tommy Tucker was always afraid of the basement. As a child, he was constantly screaming when he was in the kitchen. Later I was terribly afraid to go to the kitchen, if the door to the basement was even a little ajar. The calmest thing he felt was only in case when the door was not just closed, but locked. Tommy lived to be six years old, when it was time to go to school, and then his parents sought advice from Dr. Hawthorne how to save the boy from this fear.

One of the most famous humorists in world literature, O. Henry created a unique panorama of American life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, in grotesque situations conveyed the contrasts and paradoxes of his era, which opened the space for people with business acumen, which the game of chance then elevates to the top of success, then tosses to the bottom of life.

The coachman of the cab thought he was taking the gentleman to the house, but he took his body. Most likely, the drunken man was poisoned by a sleeping pill, leaving the double-headed halfway. Melbourne relishes the details of the sensation: here have not heard of such. In the dock - a young representative of the highest world, along with the murdered pretended to the hand of a wealthy heiress. It would seem that the outcome is clear, the investigator, presenting iron evidence, rubs his hands in anticipation of the death sentence. But the case involved a second detective, used to put sticks in the wheels of his colleague. His version is rapidly becoming equally indisputable evidence ...

Notes on david Balfour's future adventures at home and abroad, which describe his subsequent involvement in the Appinian murder case, his encounter with Lord Advocate Grant, his captivity in Bass Rock, a journey through Holland and France, and a strange relationship with James Moor Drummond, or McGregor, son of the famous Rob-Roy, and his daughter Catrio.

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The pandemic of alien contagion put an end to civilization. Humanity is once again divided into two warring camps - humans and a new race of mutants.

The book of the brilliant French writer, the 20th-century classic Sidoni-Gabriel Colette (1873-1954), includes her early works - four novels about Claudine, first published in France from 1900 to 1903, as well as an essay on her life and work up to the age of 30.

"Living in London, the well-mannered and immaculate Prince of Bohemian, Florisel, managed to attract the whole society with his pleasant treatment and thoughtful generosity. Already judging by what was known about him, Prince Florisel was a wonderful man, but it was known about him very little compared to what he was doing. Being in an ordinary environment a man of the character of calm and even, with a very simple everyday philosophy, almost the same as that of a simple farmer, Prince Florisel was sometimes not averse to get acquainted with other ways of life, more risky and dangerous than the way on which he was appointed from birth to go ..."

In an old house on the slope of the mountain a lot of oddities: each new buyer leaves it in a day or a week for incomprehensible reasons, the servants are extraordinarily helpful, and the owner of the house, Dona Marchesi, a beautiful, bright female tigress, lurks a danger, which is not explained. What's going on? And how can the new owner solve all the secrets of the stone manor?

A team of teenagers led by Timur takes charge of veterans, discreetly helping them ...

Here is the most famous story of all time - the adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas- father "The Three Musketeers" about the era of the reign of Louis XIII.

You can read about real human feelings in one of the most poignant novels of the 20th century, Three Comrades. Against the background of the social, economic and political crisis, the relationship between Robbie and Pat - people of different backgrounds and financial situation - develops. Continuing the theme of the lost generation, E.M. Remark touches on the issues of war and tells about people who can not get rid of the ghosts of yesteryear. Remark's work is filled with a thirst for life, despite the death that has soaked every page of his. The novel has been screened many times and became the basis for performances, and the book remains in demand in different countries of the world. "Three comrades" are literally disassembled into quotations, and the thoughts of ideas arising in the characters, still find a response from readers.

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The novel-fairy tale "Three Fat Men" was written by Yuri Karlovich Olesha in 1924. The work is romantic and heroic at the same time. There are no miracles, which would not happen in life, the forces of the supernatural do not work, magical. But the game energy that permeates many pages of the book makes the whole book look like a deployed theatrical performance. Suoc and Tutti, gymnast Tibul and gunsmith Prospero, Dr. Gaspar Arnery and others, bold, funny, scary characters of this story written by the writer bright colors, detail and convincing.

«... David Rasmunsen was persistent and, like many great men, was a man of the same idea. So when the whole world rang about the discovery of gold in the North, he decided to earn there something on the sale of eggs and all his energy used to perform this enterprise. He calculated everything to the last detail, and the company promised him a lot of income. In Dawson, eggs sold for five dollars for a dozen, and that was enough to start a case. It was beyond conclusive that only one thousand dozen eggs in this kingdom of gold could be obtained five thousand dollars..."

Niro Wolfe, a passionate collector of orchids, a great foodie, beer lover and a great sleuth, almost never leaves the house. All crimes he unravels on the basis of the facts that collects Archie Goodwin, his charming, ironic assistant with a great memory.

At first, the murder of esquire Roger Eckroyd did not seem mysterious to the police - all pointed to the guilt of the stepson of the murdered. But otherwise believes Hercule Poirot, who recently moved to these places, once again decided to retire. He was asked to help by Ekroyd's niece, who does not believe in the young man's guilt. And Hercule Poirot begins an investigation, with around a lot of suspects - relatives and acquaintances of Esquire, each of whom was interested in his death. The narration is conducted on behalf of Dr. Sheppard, the last person to see Ekroyd alive. With the help of his records Poirot to calculate the dodgy criminal ...

Squadron under the leadership of its flagship - cruiser "Ulysses" - on the orders of the high command sent to accompany transport ships to Murmansk. People from the last remnants of forces try to fulfill the task, but troubles follow one after another: ships sink, cause terrible damage, deprive the opportunity to resist, people die in dozens, showing courage, resilience and miracles of courage. Is it worth continuing to fight and cling to life, does it matter?..

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For the first time in Russian is a famous novel of American classics, a master of psychological nuances and subtle experiences, the author of such recognized masterpieces as "Turn the Screw", "Bostonians" and "Women's Portrait".

This is a comprehensive satire on the American way of life and its principles, on American society, and especially its higher, "general" layers...

"The Humiliated and Offended" is one of the most melodramatic books of Russian literature. We can say that it began melodrama as a literary genre. The tragic mismatch of romantic ideas about life and reality is the main idea of the novel. Much in this work seemed unusual to readers: they were put before a new ethical-social problem - the problem of selfishness.

A series of novels about the adventures of space Legion soldiers in the thirtieth century. About battles with alien aliens, about ruthless superpowers from other galaxies trying to capture the solar system and destroy humanity.

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge is the first work by Carlos Castaneda, published in 1968. He describes the author's initial study period (from 1960 to 1965) with Juan Matus, a shaman, an Egg Indian. The book was written as a master's thesis on anthropology. The veracity of the facts described in this and all subsequent castaneda books has been discussed since their publication.

Louise is seriously ill, the girl has heart problems since childhood. All around seek to protect Louise and not to cause her inconvenience.

American novelist Theodore Dreiser has long taken pride of place among the classics of world literature. The topic of big business, people, both successful in it, and victims of the fiasco, attracted the attention of T. Dreiser back in the years when he was engaged in journalism.

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This bright, warm and tender story is perfect for those moments when you really want to have a little warmth in life. This beautiful book is like a medicine from depression, moping and melancholy. The March sisters, girls from an impoverished American family of the late 19th century, seeking to become worthy of the love of their parents. Each heroine is a gem of a narrative with its own character, aspirations. Serious beauty Margaret, windy with a boy's character Joe, good Bess, refined Emmy; they all love their family, each have their own talent and zest.

Everyone who read the fairy tale of Antoine de Saint-Exupery as a child, remember that the little prince went to his home planet in a somewhat unusual way. A lot of people probably thought he was dead. In fact, it is not. Years passed, and he came back to Earth. If you once dreamed of finding out what happened to a beautiful blond boy after a snake bite, then the new story about the Little Prince, from the series "Tales for Adult Children" by Nick Lisicki - it's for you. "Tales for adult children" - a collection of stories, the main characters of which are familiar to us from childhood fairy-tale characters ... Or maybe not quite fabulous. Because now they live in real life. And each of them has real problems. For a wide range of... adult readers.

Private detective Sam Spade addresses a young beauty Miss Wanderley, who came from San Francisco after running away with her lover sister. She must return her home and in the evening meets with the mediator, who will specify the whereabouts of the fugitives. To conduct a woman is taken by Spade's companion - Miles Archer. When both the facilitator and Archer are killed, suspicion falls on Space himself, who is silent, covering the interests of the client. But his client is not who he claims to be, and soon has to turn again to Spade with a request to save her from the pursuers, who need a statuette ...

This fantastic story has amazing psychological power and makes us think about universal questions of morality: do we have the right to experiment on each other, what results can it lead to and what price are we willing to pay to become the smartest? And lonely?

"Of course, an essay of this kind, as it does, requires the editor to appeal to the courtesy of numerous experts. And he would have paid off badly for his kind attitude, if he had not admitted to the debt to many people.

An artifact of unearthly origin surrounded by an impenetrable force field has been found on the Moon. How long is he there, who put it and for what purposes? Or maybe it's some sign that humanity has matured..?

This collection includes three classic plays by Bernard Shaw, different in plot, genre and style - but at the same time equally marked by the genius of the great playwright and his stinging wit. WINNER OF THE WORLD is a caustic parody of "patriotic" melodrama, in which the hero of the War of Independence is a godless man, hanger and smuggler, all his life with pleasure flouted the laws of society. CAESAR and CLEOPATRA - not coming down from the best scenes of the world, not once filmed an absolute masterpiece of the creative heritage of Shaw, a ruthless historical satire on the eternal themes of politics, war and power. MAN AND SUPERMANE - an immortal play, where under...

WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER 'If you only read one crime novel this year, this should be it’ Guardian 'A bloody good read' Val McDermid When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Kelvingrove Park, only one man stands a chance of finding her killer. Jack Laidlaw. He is a man of contrasts, ravaged by inner demons but driven by a deep compassion for the violent criminals in Glasgow’s underworld. But will Laidlaw’s unorthodox methods get him to the killer in time, when the victim’s father is baying for blood? Acclaimed for its corrosive wit, dark themes and original maverick detective, the Laidlaw trilogy has earned the status of classic crime fiction.

Dead Souls - a re-enactment of the poem of the same name (1842-1852) by Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852).

Mary Ann Evans (such as the real name of the writer) was a woman educated, talented and unconventional thinking - a kind of English Georges Sand. The breadth of her views and deep knowledge were reflected in the writer's work. The most ambitious work by George Eliot, a real great English novel was "Middlemarch." Middlemarch is the name of a provincial town in which the action of the novel takes place and around it. Many characters inhabit his pages, and their fates are intertwined by the will of the author: it is the prude and pedant Casebon and Dorothea Brooke, the talented doctor and scientist Lidgate and the bourgeois Rosamond Vincey, the prudish and hypocrite banker Bulstrol, pastor Ferbrater, talented but poor Will Ladislav and many, many others. Failed marriages and happy marriages, dubious enrichment and rousing around inheritance, political ambition and ambitious intrigues. Middlemarch is a town where many human vices and virtues are manifested.

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Continuation of the story of the popular American writer Susan Coolidge, whose works are classics of world children's literature.

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Children loved to play among the beautiful trees, but everything changed after the owner of the garden - the Giant returned from a long absence home. He fenced everything with a fence and hung a sign saying "Outside entrance is forbidden."

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Patty is full of joy of life, loves fun and joke for the sake of a joke, not paying attention to the conventions that is a constant source of joy for her friends

Autobiographical novel by D. Kerouac, written in three weeks and tells the reader about the fascinating and crazy wanderings of Jack with his semi-mifical friend, hero and idol of a generation - Dean Moriarty.

One of the cult works about vampires. Robert Neville is the last man on earth. Because of the virus, all the inhabitants turned into vampires, and only Robert is invulnerable to a new disease. He continues to fight with the rest of humanity - hunts vampires. The book has been filmed three times, under the titles "The Last Man on Earth," "Omega Man" and "I Am a Legend."

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