The Story Of Moving Pictures: Level 2 How did people make and watch films in the past? Do you know what magic lanterns or kinetoscopes were? Or nickelodeons or drive-ins? Find out in this
The Tragic Muse. Henry James Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. "The Tragic Muse" is wide, cheerful panorama of English life follows the fortunes of two would-be artists: Nick Dormer, who throws over a political career in his efforts to
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Waifs and Strays & The Ransom of Red Chief. O. Henry William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. This volume includes amazing stories "Waifs and Strays" and "The Ransom of Red
Tales of Hearsay (Сборник: Чёрный штурман, Князь Римский, Душа воина, История). Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fl uently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and
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The White Company. Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The White Company" is a huge historical novel set during the Hundred Years War. Together with the heroes of this story, you will visit England, France, and Spain, and take part in the events of one
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The People of the Mist. H. R. Haggard The People of the Mist is a classic lost race fantasy novel. It is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and its monstrous god. In the novel Penniless Leonard Outram attempts to redress the undeserved loss of his family
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Henny Penny Henny Penny is going to the village when a big acorn falls on her head from an oak tree. She thinks that the sky is falling and she runs to tell the king. Along the road she meets Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky and other animal friends. They all join her, while the fox is waiting for them in the wood.
Ayesha. The Return of She. Haggard H.R. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic-fantasy novel by Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to his far more popular and well known novel, She. Horace Holly and
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The Stoic. Dreiser T. Stoic is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, whose main character is Frank Cowperwood, a businessman based on the real tycoon Charles Yerkes. Cowperwood, still married to his estranged wife Aileen, lives with Berenice. He decides to move to London, England, where he intends to take over and develop the
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The Crime of the Congo. A. C. Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Crime of the Congo" is a book intended to expose the situation of serious human rights abuses in the Congo Free State, persohal property of the King of the Belgians, Leopold II. This exposure
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Red Eve / Алая Ева. H. Rider Haggard In Red Eve Henry Raider Haggard sets a suspenseful love story against some of the most dramatic events in history, including the devastation wrought by the Black Plague. Will dashing protagonist Hugh de Cressi survive long enough to live happily ever after with his true
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Charles Dickens: Short Stories. Charles Dickens Серия English Fiction Collection состоит из лучших произведений английских и американских авторов. Читая книгу на языке оригинала, вы не только обогатите собственную лексику
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This Side of Paradise. Francis S.Fitzgerald Творчество Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда, одного из самых известных и блистательных авторов "эпохи джаза", остаётся актуальным и интересным и по сей день. Его
The Redskins or Indian and Injin / Краснокожие. James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century.His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature.This is the last volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, narrating
The Tragedy of The Korosko. Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. As an adventure novel, "The Tragedy of The Korosko" tells the story of European tourists on a trip to Egypt, sailing up the River Nile in a boat called the Korosko. During a morning tour of the
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Tales of Terror. Doyle A.C. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book serves as the collection of six gripping horror stories, such as "The Horror of the Heights," "The New Catacomb" and "The Case of Lady
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The Great War: Part 3. A. C. Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Great War" is a monumental six volumes description of the events of World War I. Doyle did a great job interviewing numerous soldiers and generals, reading their letters and diaries to get a
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The Black Robe. Collins W. Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel. In this story of relationships, psychological contortion, and deceit, a priest comes between an impressionable man and the young woman he loves. Collins is best known for
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Collected Short Stories I: An Exciting Christmas Eve. Doyle A.C. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is a wonderful collection of selected short stories like "That Veteran," "The Winning Shot" and "An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture on
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Two Short Stories. Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. As the title suggests, this book serves as the collection of two entertaining short stories written by one of the most famous authors of the nineteenth century: "The Bravoes of Market Drayton" and
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. W. Irving Ирвинг Вашингтон - американский писатель-романтик XIX века, которого часто называют "отцом американской литературы".Многократно экранизированная повесть "Легенда
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"The Ransom of Red Chief" and Other Stories. О. Генри Читать О.Генри в оригинале по силам только «продвинутым». Эту адаптацию мы сделали специально для тех, кто не очень давно изучает английский. Вы поймете все шутки и
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A Clockwork Orange. Antony Burgess Энтони Берджесса - английского прозаика, поэта, литературоведа, лингвиста и композитора - по праву называют одним из величайших интеллектуалов своего времени.
Tales of the Jazz Age VIII. F. S. Fitzgerald F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VIII is a collection of brilliant short stories, including Two Wrongs and an ironic The Night of Chancellorsville in which a trainload of light ladies is catapulted unawares into the realities of the
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Three Ghost Stories. Dickens C. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), also known as "Boz," was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. The greatest writer - he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his
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The Holy Flower. H. Rider Haggard Brother John, who has been living in Africa for many years, gives Allan Quatermain the largest orchid he has ever seen. Later, in England, he has a meeting with Mr. Somers, an orchid collector who is prepaired to finance an expedition to search for the plant Join Allan as he sets out to find this
Чудеса страны Оз / The Magic of Oz. Л. Фрэнк Баум Книга представляет собой две адаптированные части знаменитого сказочного цикла американского детского писателя Лаймена Фрэнка Баума о Волшебной стране Оз. Эта
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Wing-and-Wing; or, Le feu-follet / Блуждающий огонёк. James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper was a prolifi c and popular American writer of the fi rst half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet is a 1842 sea novel by James
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Soldiers Three. Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. "Soldiers Three" is a collection of short stories. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection "Plain Tales from the
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The Last Boer War (Последняя бурская война). H. Rider Haggard Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer, largely of adventure fiction, but also of non-fiction. The eighth child of a Norfolk barrister and squire, through family connections he gained employment with Sir Henry Bulwer during the latter’s service as lieutenant-governor of Natal, South Africa.
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Armadale III / Армадейл 3. Wilkie Collins When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. This traditional melodrama also
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The Rescue. Conrad J. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The Rescue depicts Civil war that rages between the native tribes of the Malay straits. Captain Tim Wingard sides with the Rajah Hassim. An English yacht blunders into this
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The Snow-Image and Other Tales. Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. This volume includes such amazing three amazing stories "Fanshawe", "The Snow-Image" and "The New Adam and