«The Dunwich Horror» is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales (pp. 481–508). It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. In the…
In «The Embroidered Towel» by Mikhail Bulgakov the young doctor arrives at his new post after a bone-jarring 24-hour wagon ride. He frets about how young he looks, and feels intimidated by the well-stocked pharmacy and medical library his predecessor has left behind. He also worries that he’ll have to treat a hernia and won’t…
«The Dreams in the Witch House» is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle. Written in January/February 1932, it was first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales. Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in…
Немногие группы настолько окутаны туманной дымкой рок-мифологии, как The Doors, и отделить факты от вымысла казалось практически невыполнимой задачей. Но теперь, по прошествии пятидесяти лет, самый тихий участник The Doors наконец-то нарушает свое молчание, чтобы расставить все точки над i. В серии коротких зарисовок Робби Кригер возвращает читателей туда, где вершилась история группы. Ломбард, где…
«The Dream of a Ridiculous Man» (Russian: Сон смешного человека, Son smeshnovo cheloveka) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world. Slipping into nihilism with the “terrible anguish” he is determined to commit suicide….
Francis Marion Crawford (1854 – 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories. «The Doll’s Ghost» included in the short story collection Wandering Ghosts. Mr. Puckler is a doll doctor, and the dolls he repairs become very, very life like….
«The Doom that Came to Sarnath» (1920) is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first published in The Scot, a Scottish amateur fiction magazine, in June 1920. The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other…
Размышления главных персонажей новеллы – Адама и Евы – преподаны Твеном в форме дневниковых записей. Автор вновь поднимает вечный вопрос о земном существовании с двух точек зрения – мужской и женской. Сквозь юмор повествования о жизни этой пары проступает взгляд великолепного знатока человеческих слабостей. Твен благосклонно наблюдает за людьми с позиции скептически настроенного оптимиста. На…
The Divine Comedy Inferno by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, that gives the widest synthesis of medieval culture and world ontology. Dante’s Inferno a real medieval encyclopedia of scientific, political, philosophical, moral and religious knowledges. It is considered to be the preeminent work in Italian and world literature. The Divine Comedy…
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald’s 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. Much of the story is set in Montana, a setting that may…
Ф.С. Фицджеральд называл эти два рассказа «фантазиями» – так невероятны их сюжеты. В этих захватывающих историях есть все – и лихо закрученная интрига, и любовь, и великолепный стиль автора. Слушая рассказы в оригинале, вы сможете в полной мере оценить блестящий слог писателя. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. «Usually classed among the best examples of the novella», The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of a high-court…
О’Генри – американский писатель. Рассказы О’Генри отличаются изобретательной фабулой, неожиданными развязками и насмешливым юмором. Они образуют сказочно-авантюрную эпопею американской жизни, полную достоверных бытовых примет и метких авторских наблюдений. Подлинный герой О’Генри – «маленький американец» с его правом на счастье. Аудиокнига на английском языке. The Day We Celebrate. Stories
В настоящее издание включены два рассказа из раннего периода творчества американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда [1896 – 1940], вошедшего в историю мировой литературы романами о жизни Америки 20-х годов. «Хрустальная чаша» – огромная хрустальная чаша – символ невезения и бездушной роскоши. Подаренная к свадьбе героини рассказа, она влечет за собой череду трагических и нелепых событий….
«»The Dead»» is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. The other stories in the collection are shorter, whereas at 15,952 words, «„The Dead“» is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well as raising questions about the…
«The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in Collier’s Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age, which is occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. It also was…
When eight-year-old Ania is sent to stay with her grandmother for the summer holidays, she finds a house full of strangers and a grandmother who pretends not to know her. Ania only returns home six years later. This autobiography is about childhood in an illegal cult in the USSR, involving the scientific and creative elite…
The Conquest of Bread is an 1892 book by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin. Peter Kropotkin was born a Russian prince whose father owned 1,200 serfs. But he became a Russian activist, writer, revolutionary, scientist, economist, sociologist, historian, essayist, researcher, political scientist, biologist, geographer and philosopher. The Conquest of Bread has become a classic of…
Герберт Уэллс – английский писатель, открывший жанр научной фантастики в мировой литературе XX века. «Страна слепых» – прекрасно написанная повесть-притча о единомыслии и непонимании, о проблемах личности «не такой, как все». Что случится с человеком, обладающим неким особым чувством, в существовании которого сомневаются окружающие? – сомневаются, но при этом очень боятся того, что такое чувство действительно…
There is no riddle that sharp mind of detective Sherlock Holmes can’t solve. Observation, intelligence, selflessness and bravery distinguish a famous literature character created by writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The inimitable duet of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson sets to investigation of a crime series, masterly solves complicated cases and restores justice inside and outside…
What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth’ So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection «„The Complete Poetry of John Keats“» contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the Odes and of the uncompleted…
The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) is a short 1848 book written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world’s most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the…
«The Overcoat» (sometimes translated as «The Cloak») is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoyevsky: «We all come out from Gogol’s ‘Overcoat’.» The story narrates the life and death…
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding» is a short story written by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky published in 1848. The piece is narrated by an awkward outcast attending a Christmas party. He observes the party’s guest of honour and takes special interest in one of the children. The narrator begins by mentioning to the reader…
«The Colour Out of Space» is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the «blasted heath» in the wild hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. The…
Linda Grant, beset by medical bills and other pressing obligations, tells her children that they will not be celebrating Christmas this year. Older Keith takes the news in stride, while younger Teddy angrily insists he will have his Christmas turkey one way or another. When the neighborhood schoolteacher drops by to extend an invitation to…
Самый известный сборник Киплинга – «Сказки просто так». Входящие в него веселые добрые истории о том, как животные стали такими, какими мы их знаем, были придуманы писателем для его детей и племянницы. Сказочная «Кошка, которая гуляет сама по себе» имела реальный прототип – домашний сиамский кот Киплингов любил ночами уходить из дома и бродить по…
«The Cats of Ulthar» is a short story written by American fantasy author H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. As the narrative goes, the city is home to an old…
«First published in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, XIV (January, 1844), “The Christmas Banquet” shares its subtitle—”from the unpublished “Allegories of the Heart”—with “Egotism; or the Bosom-Serpent,” another Hawthorne story of the period. “The Christmas Banquet” is an allegory composed by Elliston and read aloud to his wife Rosina (and an old friend)…
The Chimes, is a novella written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of «„Christmas books,“» five novellas with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s. In addition to A Christmas Carol and The Chimes, the Christmas…
