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Готовы снова провалиться в кроличью нору? Легендарная история Льюиса Кэрролла оживает в новом аудиоформате! Там, где за каждым углом таится неожиданно…

First published in The Week's News on 11 August 1888 (Martindell has 4 August), and collected in In Black and White in The Indian Railway Library…

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a you…

Robinson Crusoe strandet nach einem Sturm als einziger Überlebender auf einer einsamen Insel. Er baut sich eine kleine «Festung», wo er lebt und anfän…

This early work by H. G. Wells was originally published in 1894. «In the Avu Observatory» is a short story of a man working in an observatory in Borne…

The Ported fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre dro…

"The Adventure of the Yellow Face", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third ta…

Есть ли связь между убийством американского президента Джона Кеннеди; попавшим к западногерманскому журналисту дневником узника фашистского концлагеря…

The Three Musketeers is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. Situated between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the…

The Piazza published by Herman Melville in 1856. The sketch describes Melville's farmhouse, called Arrowhead, in Pittsfield, Mass. Supposedly, th…

Сестры Шлегель – героини романа английского писателя Э. М. Форстера (1879–1970) – получают приглашение погостить в загородном доме преуспевающих промы…

Tales of Space and Time is a fantasy and science fiction collection of three short stories and two novellas written by the English author H. G. Wells …

Robert Musil beschreibt in der Novelle «Grigia» die schrittweise Selbstauflösung des Geologen Homo. Unentschlossen, ob er seiner Frau und seinem krank…

"The Stranger" is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the London Mercury in January 1921, and later reprinted in…

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of 13 stor…

An English family have just moved to a house in India. They find Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the mongoose flooded out of his burrow. A pair of large cobras, Nag …

"The Bet" is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other following a conversation about…

Элизабет Гаскелл – одна из самых значимых британских писательниц викторианской эпохи. Её творчество сочетает тонкий психологизм, социальную наблюдател…

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Consisting …

In the mountainous city of Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lacklustre career, but also a scrumpti…

The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the eleventh …

Er war im Lager als der »Pastor« Elias Hopkins bekannt, aber man wusste allgemein, dass dies nur ein Ehrentitel war, den er seinen vielen hervorragend…

Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English s…

The Luft Bad is a short story by Katherine Mansfield: I think it must be the umbrellas which make us look ridiculous. When I was admitted into the enc…

"The Star" is an 1897 apocalyptic short story by H.G. Wells. In January (about 1900, presumably), the people of Earth awaken to the notion that a…

A Blaze is a short story by Katherine Mansfield: «Max, you silly devil, you'll break your neck if you go careering down the slide that way. Drop …

"The Angel of the Odd" is a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844. The story follows an unnamed narrator who reads a …

Toomai's father rides Kala Nag the elephant to catch wild elephants in the hills. Toomai comes to help and risks his life throwing a role up to o…

"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales. The story was …

Daß man den so unheimlichen und doch so natürlichen Geschehnissen, die ich jetzt berichten will, Glauben schenkt, erwarte ich nicht, verlange es auch …

Der Trotzkopf ist der Titel eines 1885 erstmals erschienenen Mädchenbuches von Emmy von Rhoden. Der Roman wurde vom Verlag Weise kurz nach dem Tod der…

Crabbed Age ad Youth is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson: There is a strong feeling in favour of cowardly and prudential proverbs. The sentimen…

Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules V…

Un caso de identidad (título original: A Case of Identity) es uno de los 56 relatos cortos sobre Sherlock Holmes escrito por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. F…

"The Adventure of the Second Stain", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the c…

"An Apology for Idlers" is a story by Robert Louis Stevenson: 1 Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting t…

The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in November-December 1931. It forms part of the Cthulhu Myth…

Diese Sammlung enthält fünf Kriminalgeschichten des britischen Schriftstellers Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle der durch die Kriminalfigur Sherlock Holmes …

«Подлинная история А-кью» – маленький шедевр китайской литературы начала XX века, первое произведение, в полной мере раскрывающее богатство разговорно…

First published in Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in successive subsequent editions of this collection, in which it was the fourth of the Mul…

Жизнь Гарри Фабиана, альфонса и гениального изобретателя, проходит в вечном поиске внезапного богатства. Все его мечты и идеи не могут никого ввести в…

Erzählt wird der Leidensweg des armen Dorfschullehrers Mendel Singer aus einem jüdischen Schtetl in Russland um 1900. Wie der biblische Hiob wird auch…

This story was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on 11 May 1887, and collected in the first edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1…

«Отец Горио» – один из самых знаменитых романов Бальзака, вошедших в цикл «Человеческая комедия». Основные события романа происходят в Париже, в панси…

Der junge Engländer oder Der Affe als Mensch: Im südlichen Teil von Deutschland liegt das Städtchen Grünwiesel, wo ich geboren und erzogen bin. Es ist…