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Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. His novel Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels ever penned. There are four of them — George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, Montmorency — all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over and the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. Jerome's characters proved to be so popular that he brought them back for an equally picaresque bicycle tour of Germany, an adventure recorded in Three Men on the Bummel.

Jane Austen is one of the most enduring and skilled English novelists. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners is one of the popular novels of all time that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.

Джек Лондон - классик американской литературы, автор ярких, живых приключенческих романов и рассказов. "Мартин Иден" - это не только знаменитый, но и во многом автобиографичный роман, в котором читатель наблюдает историю обыкновенного неуклюжего и грубоватого матроса Мартина, который ради своей любимой из высшего общества решает занять соответствующую социальную "ступень". Но в этом ли настоящее счастье? Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners — one of the popular novels of all time — that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the "most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author's works", and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as "irresistible and as nearly fl awless as any fi ction could be."

Чарльз Диккенс — один из самых известных писателей Англии XIX века. "Рождественские истории" неспроста полюбились и взрослым, и юным читателям во всём мире. Уютные, поучительные рассказы о добре и зле, о встречах с призраками и секретах волшебства, творят чудеса в душе каждого читателя. Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Один из самых скандальных романов английского классика Оскара Уальда был принят его современниками в штыки, но в итоге по праву занял своё место на литературном Олимпе. Оскар Уайльд обнажает проблемы общества удивительной историей Дориана Грея, нашедшего способ обмануть время. Но сможет ли он избежать расплаты за содеянное, и какие тёмные тайны скрывает его загадочный портрет?.. Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Даниэль Дефо - знаменитый английский писатель и публицист рубежа XVII-XVIII вв., чьи произведения до сих пор остаются самыми читаемыми и любимыми по всему миру. "Робинзон Крузо" - одно из самых известных произведений в мировой литературе, представляющее собой не просто увлекательный роман о человеке, который оказался на необитаемом острове и прожил там 28 лет, но настоящую историю о мужестве и силе духа.

Роберт Льюис Стивенсон - один из самых известных классиков, шотландский писатель и поэт, автор приключенческих романов, представитель английского неоромантизма, чьи произведения покоряют сердца читателей XXI века. "Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда" была написана автором после прочтения романа Ф.М. Достоевского "Преступление и наказание". Она представляет собой фантастическо-психологическую повесть о докторе Джекиле, поставившем над собой опасный эксперимент. В результате, которого он выпустил из глубин подсознания своё тёмное "Я", убийцу и негодяя мистера Хайда... Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray."

Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "The Call of the Wild" is a short adventure novel set in Yukon, Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush. The story starts when someone steals the main character, a dog Buck of a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, from his home and sells him into service as a sled dog in Alaska.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. In planning his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "I want to write something new something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." Working with anxiety and saw he feeling that it was the supreme test, he committed all his imaginative resources to the project. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

The setting is an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life. Battle is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements.

The Chimes is Charles Dickens novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Veck, a poor working-class man. Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness he is visited on New Year's Eve by spirits to help restore his faith and show him that nobody is born evil, but rather that crime and poverty are things created by man.