Книги жанра Зарубежная классика
Жанр: Зарубежная классика, Зарубежная литература
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This novel is narrated by John Fothergill West, who tries to discover why the tenant of Cloomber Hall, General Heatherstone, is nervous to the point of being paranoid. Why are his fears becoming stronger every year at the fifth of October? And why doesn't he let his children leave home? This is a great mystery novel with a sharp twist at the...
Жанр: Зарубежная классика, Зарубежная литература
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This volume collects a wide array of the author's short works of fiction, spanning virtually every literary genre. Detective stories are featured, but genres such as historical fiction, romance, and even nautical adventure are represented, as well. The Last Galley is an engrossing grab-bag of tales from the pen of one of the greatest nineteenth-century...
Жанр: Зарубежная классика, Зарубежная литература
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Настоящий сборник включает в себя произведения героической тематики, универсальной для всего мира – от Дагестана до Франции. Перед читателем предстают примеры истинного мужества и гуманизма, облаченные в увлекательную художественную форму.
Книга издана на средства гранта Президента...
Жанр: Зарубежная классика, Зарубежная литература
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В книгу вошли три новеллы известного немецкого писателя Стефана Цвейга: «Письмо незнакомки», «Амок» и «Шахматная новелла».
Драматические судьбы героев, любовь на грани жизни и смерти, глубокие душевные депрессии, мастерски описываемые автором, делают его новеллы сегодня особенно актуальными. Произведения подверглись незначительному упрощению, что позволило сохранить как сюжетную линию, так и живой немецкий язык.
Предназначается для изучающих немецкий язык (уровень 4 – для продолжающих верхней...
Жанр: Зарубежная классика, Зарубежная литература
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As well as penning some of the most popular detective fiction, Conan Doyle also wrote thrilling adventure stories. 'Rodney Stone' is a combination of both. Nelson, Beau Brummell, Fox and King George III himself appear in a tale at the heart of which is, as one character says, "a pretty conspiracy – a criminal, an actress and a prize-fighter, all playing their...
Жанр: Зарубежная классика, Зарубежная литература
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Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the Hundred Years' War, by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1906, it describes the early life of that book's hero Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the Hundred Years'...
Жанр: Зарубежная классика, Зарубежная литература
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"Through the Magic Door" is an essay by Arthur Conan Doyle: his subject is the charisma and charm of books. Doyle invites readers to enjoy the greatest minds of all times through what they have left behind and argues that, when we read, the selfishness and hopelessness of the world can be left...
Жанр: Зарубежная классика, Зарубежная литература
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A group of European and American tourists is enjoying its trip in Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a "a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler", the Korosko. They intend to travel to Abousir at the southern frontier of Egypt, after which the Dervish country starts. They are attacked and abducted by a marauding band of Dervish warriors. The terrorists will either kill them or forcibly convert them to Islam. This "desert drama" is high adventure at its pulpy best, and still surprisingly relevant...
