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Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov: A Dog's Heart

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: When a stray dog dying on the streets of Moscow is taken in by a wealthy professor, he is subjected to medical experiments in which he receives various transplants of human organs. As he begins to transform into a rowdy, unkempt human by the name of Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, his actions distress the professor and those surrounding him, although he finds himself accepted into the ranks of…

Bunin Ivan: Dark Avenues

Скачать книгу (размер 1 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 350) Аннотация: Considered one of the most influential authors of twentieth century Russian Literature, Ivan Bunin's Dark Avenues is the culmination of a life's work which unrelentingly questioned of the political doxa whilst taking his poetic mastery of language to dark new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of a disintegrating Russian culture, this collection of short fiction centres…

Dostoevsky Fyodor: Notes from Underground

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and witty monologue ranges from general observations and philosophical musings to memorable scenes from his own life, including his obsessive plans to exact revenge on an officer who has shown him disrespect and a…

Carroll Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Originally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the fantastic tale of the young Alice's encounters with the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, has captured the imaginations of young and old throughout the world since it was first published in 1865. In addition to…

Scott F. Fitzgerald: Image on the Heart and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When Tudy's first husband tragically dies, she takes up the offer of Tom, a family friend, to pay for her to go study in France. As she and her benefactor become close, she agrees to marry him in Provence later that year. But as the wedding approaches, Tom discovers that his fiancee has become involved with Riccard, a dashing French pilot and his near-double. A tale of broken trust and infidelity…

Scott F. Fitzgerald: The Intimate Strangers and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll in North Carolina and the other during the First World War, when he was a soldier about to go to battle. When, years later and after the death of her husband, Cedric contacts her out of the blue, Sara finds herself eager to see him again — against the wishes of her…

Tolstoy Leo: A Calendar of Wisdom

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, such as faith and existence, as well as matters of everyday life. Banned in Russia under Communism, A Calendar of Wisdom was Tolstoy's last major work,…

Twain Mark: The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Mark Twain's gloriously funny Diary of Adam and Eve, which John Updike recently described as a paradigm of the relations between sexes, is presented here with a number of other Twain pieces on our two oldest ancestors, showing the writer's interest in this most famous biblical story. By giving a voice to Adam and Eve, and by hitting all the notes on the literary scale — from the intimate to the…

Wilde Oscar: The Selfish Giant and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpertual winter. It takes a wonderful event and the heart of a young boy for him to realize the error of his ways. A classic tale for children, The Selfish Giant is presented here with all of Oscar Wilde's other fairy stories — The Happy Prince, The…

Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov: Diaboliad and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: In Bulgakov's Diaboliad, the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the First Central Depot for the Materials for Matches, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior Kalsoner, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare. This…

Goncharov Ivan: The Same Old Story

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Filled with dreams of pursuing a career as a poet, the young Alexander Aduev moves from the country to St Petersburg, where he takes up lodgings next to his uncle Pyotr, a shrewd and world-weary businessman. As his ideals are challenged by disappointment in the fields of love, friendship and poetical ambition, Alexander must decide whether to return to the homely values he has left behind or…

Tolstoy Leo: Hadji Murat

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Tolstoy knew as he was writing Hadji Murat, his last work of fiction, that it would not be published in his lifetime, and so gave an uncompromising portrayal of the Russians' faults and the nature of the rebels' struggle. In the process, he shows a mastery of style and an understanding of Chechnya that still carries great resonance today. Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the emotional journey of a young man who, during a stay in a picturesque German village, falls in love with Lotte, a local woman engaged to another man. As he realizes that his passion is doomed to failure and constant pain, Werther contemplates taking the most drastic…

Austen Jane: Pride and Prejudice

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the passion of the two unlikely lovers growing as their union seems ever more improbable.

Twain Mark: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: One of Twain's most celebrated novellas, 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold. This collection also includes another acclaimed novella,…

Conrad Joseph: Heart of Darkness and the Complete Congo Diary

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the perils he encounters on his quest, but also the deterioration of his state of mind as he is…

Dickens Charles: George Silverman's Explanation

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: After a traumatic early childhood spent living in poverty in a Preston cellar, the suddenly orphaned George Silverman grows up convinced that he is at fault for all the misfortunes in his life. Hoodwinked by hypocritical clergymen and exploited by his employer, he finds himself forsaking love and facing professional ruin. One of Dickens's very last writings, 'George Silverman's Explanation' is a…

Green David: Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A journalist for National Public Radio in the US, David Greene decides to travel thousands of kilometres from Moscow to Vladivostok on the iconic Trans-Siberian line. On the train and in the many Siberian outposts he stops as he meets a wide range of ordinary Russian people — from a group of Beatles-singing babushkas to soldiers and struggling entrepreneurs — with situations arising that are at…

Hill Christian: Combat Camera: From Auntie Beeb to the Afghan Frontline

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: May 2011, Afghanistan: Camp Bastion is under attack, The Sun's Defence Editor is about to catch the wrong helicopter, and a famous TV war reporter is missing half his kit and wants his trainers back. Amid the chaos, Christian Hill is preparing to lead his Combat Camera Team on the British Army's first big operation of the Helmand summer, inching through the IED-riddled fields of the notorious…

Joyce James: Ulysses

Скачать книгу (размер 4 471 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 878) Аннотация: Controversial, scandalous, erudite and funny, Ulysses is undisputedly a landmark of twentieth-century modernism. It charts one day — 16th June 1904 — in the lives of three inhabitants of Dublin, the advertising salesman Leopold Bloom, the artist Stephen Dedalus and Bloom's wife Molly. Their peregrinations, thoughts and encounters form the basis of the narrative, which becomes a celebration of all…