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Take a journey through the makers and shapers of celluloid history. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, Western to new wave, this...
John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met. When Harmon's body is pulled out o...
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 —1927) was an English writer and humourist. A charming story in which fiction is intertwined with autobiographical motifs, and humor goes side by side with delicate lyricism...
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 —1927) was an English writer and humourist. «Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green» is a short story collection. This volume includes such interesting stories like: «Reginald...
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 —1927) was an English writer and humourist. When it's time to relax after dinner the members of a family and their guests turn to telling ghost stories. These ghoulish accou...
Henry James (1843—1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. In «The Sacred Fount» an unnamed narrator attempts to discover the...
Henry James (1843—1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Europeans» is a wonderful comedy, contrasting the behaviour a...
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 collections of wonderdul stories includes «The Dream», ...
In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. In this masterful and forensic...
James Joyce (1882—1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. This volume includes the only extant play in three acts by the great writer «Exiles». There are obvious parallels to be dra...
Учебник предназначен для магистров гуманитарных и естественных специальностей, изучающих немецкий язык в магистратуре по программе высших учебных заведений. Учебник может быть также рекомендован для аспирантов...
Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. «The Light That Failed» is a haunting and powerful novel of human suffering, love and loss. In Dick Helda...