Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror stories. In his own day it was his ghost stories which were his most popular works. Among the most significant works Edward Benson: And the dead Spoke…, The Outcast,…
«The Cask of Amontillado» (sometimes spelled «The Casque of Amontillado» [a.mon.ti.??a.?o]) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend…
«The Cask of Amontillado» (sometimes spelled «The Casque of Amontillado» [a.mon.ti.ˈʝa.ðo]) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend…
he story is about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife’s brothers. The home of the Canterville Ghost was the ancient Canterville Chase, which has all the accoutrements of a traditional haunted house. Descriptions of…
When Perry Parkhurst decides that his long-time engagement to Betty Medill has gone on long enough, he presents her with a marriage license and an ultimatum: get married immediately or end the relationship all-together. But things don’t go quite as well as Perry expected, and the two end up parting ways for good. Perry decides…
Смерть Канарейки – второй роман из цикла книг о частном детективе Фило Вэнсе. Вэнс, стильный джентльмен из Нью-Йорка с незаурядным интеллектом, помогает полиции раскрывать запутанные дела. На сей раз в своей квартире задушена молодая певичка с Бродвея Маргарет Оделл по прозвищу Канарейка. Несмотря на свою молодость, Канарейка успела нажить врагов, и в деле несколько подозреваемых….
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara…
«Зов предков» – одна из ранних работ Джека Лондона. Главным героем романа является пес, и поэтому принято считать, что это детская книга. Однако зрелость и глубина идей этого произведения делает его актуальным и для взрослых читателей. В нем затрагиваются такие темы, как выживание сильнейших, противостояние цивилизации и природы, судьбы и свободы воли. Действие романа происходит…
The Call of Cthulhu by Howard Phillips «H. P.» Lovecraft is one of the classic horror works, so called “Lovecraft horrors”. According to the comment of one of the Lovecraft’s friends: “One day Howard looked into something where the man shouldn’t ever have looked.” It’s hard to say whether it was true. But even if…
В данное издание вошли два самых известных страшных рассказа Г.Ф. Лавкрафта: «Зов Ктулху» и «Хребты безумия». Английские тексты полностью озвучены носителями языка. Пособие адресовано всем, кто изучает английский язык и хочет читать литературу на языке оригинала. The Call of Cthulhu / Зов Ктулху
«»«The Caballero’s Way»» is a short story by the American author William Sydney Porter, who wrote under the pseudonym of O. Henry. It was first published in the July 1907 issue of Everybody’s Magazine and was collected in the anthology The Heart of the West later the same year. The story introduces the Cisco Kid,…
Книга «The Box» в формате 10-минутного чтения: обзоры лучших книг, только самое важное и полезное. Левинсон начал свою карьеру журналиста в Time и Journal of Commerce, а затем стал пишущим редактором в Newsweek. Также он редактировал финансовые и экономические новости The Economist, занимался аналитикой для финансового холдинга JPMorgan Chase, являлся советником Конгресса по транспортным и…
«The Boscombe Valley Mystery», one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fourth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in the Strand Magazine in 1891. Lestrade summons Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local landowner has been…
«The BOOK of BITMAN — Крипта от А до Я» — это увлекательный и понятный путеводитель в мире цифровых валют, предназначенный для тех, кто только начинает свой путь в мире криптовалют. В этой книге вы найдете все необходимые знания, чтобы разобраться в основах криптотехнологий. Автор подробно рассказывает о том, что такое криптовалюты и какие возможности…
«Short story “The Blue Cross” is Chesterton’s first Father Brown mystery. It introduces the characters Flambeau and Valentin. It is unique among the Father Brown mysteries in that it does not follow the actions of the Father himself, but rather those of Valentin. Brown has been committing acts to draw the attention of the police…
«The Black Cat» is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe’s «The Tell-Tale Heart». In both, a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself…
Аудиокнига предназначена для развития навыков аудирования и чтения и адресована учащимся 8–9 классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка, лицеев, гимназий, студентам колледжей и неязыковых вузов, а также лицам, изучающим английский язык самостоятельно или под руководством преподавателя (базовый словарь около 1600 слов). Роман Роберта Луиса Стивенсона «ЧЕРНАЯ СТРЕЛА» [1888] адаптирован и прочитан носителем языка. В…
«Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories «„Rip Van Winkle“» (1819) and «„The Legend of Sleepy Hollow“» (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of…
Рассказы и повести Виктора Пелевина, составившие эту книгу, по праву вошли в золотой фонд современной отечественной литературы. Содержание Затворник и Шестипалый День бульдозериста Девятый сон Веры Павловны Синий фонарь Спи Вести из Непала Онтология детства Ника Нижняя тундра Свет горизонта Запись о поиске ветра Гость на празднике Бон СССР Тайшоу Чжуань Папахи на башнях The…
«Selected works of Oscar Wilde «„Best of Oscar Wilde“» is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. “The ones who are able to see the high meaning of beauty are cultural people. However, the chosen one is the one who sees only one thing in beauty: the Beauty itself” said…
Британский писатель, продюсер и музыкант Питер Эшер рассказывает историю «Битлз» через песни: их собственные, их коллег, предшественников и последователей. Для этого он использует классическую алфавитную систему, однако применяет ее неожиданным образом. К примеру, вы не встретите известнейших «Yesterday» на букву Y или «All you need is love» на букву A, вместо этого Эшер рушит устоявшиеся…
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century…
This book is about setting up your own business and what is the best way to start if you have made up your mind. Multiple tips from the author are illustrated by 25 years of experience and urge the reader to perform gap analysis if you are in business and contain recommendations on avoiding typical…
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin’s death, this work has become one of the most famous…
Данное пособие решает проблему с артиклями раз и навсегда, полностью покрывая все вопросы, связанные с этой трудной темой. Все примеры приведены из реальной речи и ни одного из головы. Подобное пособие не имеет аналогов среди учебников об артиклях. The Articles
The Art of War, literally The Laws of War by Master Sun is the most famous ancient Chinese treatise, dedicated to a military strategy and policy, written by Sun Tzu. The treatise by Sun Tzu influenced crucially on a whole military art of the East. Although it is the first treatise on the military art,…
P. T. Barnum, the great American showman of the 19th century, wrote this short book about making and keeping money. He certainly had life experiences that qualify him for the subject–he started a small newspaper in his twenties, bought and transformed a museum into a showplace for curiosities, built a circus empire that gave performances…
The Apology of Socrates was written by Plato. In fact, it’s a defensive speech of Socrates that he said in a court noted down by Plato. The main subject of the speech is a problem of the evil. Socrates insists that neither death nor death sentence is evil. We shouldn’t be afraid of the death…
The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato’s Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare «the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature». It is written as a dialogue between Plato’s brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter. The allegory…
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with…
