Зарубежная классика

Es war einmal ein König und der war krank und alle Ärzte kamen darin überein, dass er nicht zu retten sei, als wenn er den Vogel Phönix singen hörte. …

«Ваш покорный слуга кот» – ироничная жемчужина японской классики, где домашний питомец становится самым наблюдательным хроникёром человеческих слабост…

"The Lady's Maid" is a story by Katherine Mansfield: Eleven o'clock. A knock at the door… I hope I haven't disturbed you, madam. Y…

«Моряк, которого разлюбило море», возможно, самый страстный роман Юкио Мисимы. Небольшое, но глубокое и символичное произведение отражает перелом в ми…

Der Detektiv auf dem Sterbebett (The Dying Detective) erschien erstmals im November 1913 im Collier's Weekly. 1917 wurde er mit sieben anderen Fä…

The Sorrows of Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is a loosely autobiographical epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first pu…

«Робинзон Крузо» – классика приключенческой литературы, роман, положивший начало жанру робинзонада. Книга сразу завоевала популярность и стала гимном …

Violet Hunter consults Holmes after being offered a governess job subject to a number of unusual conditions, including cutting her hair short. The wag…

The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de La Valliere and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask. This …

"The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of …

Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizab…

Mr. and Mrs. Dove is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Sphere on 28 November 1921, and later reprinted in The G…

The Adventure of Black Peter is a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale is in the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes, but w…

"An Ideal Family" is a 1921 short story written by Katherine Mansfield. The story circles around a man who is complimented about how perfect his …

This tale was first published in The Week's News on 25 February 1888, and then included the same year in Volume 5 of the Indian Railway Library –…

"The Mode in Monuments: Stray Thoughts in Highgate Cemetery" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire …

Monday or Tuesday is a 1921 short story collection by Virginia Woolf published by The Hogarth Press. 1000 copies were printed with four full-page wood…

"The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from Th…

Der gewitzte Pater Brown hat ein gefährliches Hobby: Er löst mysteriöse Kriminalfälle durch Intuition und Einfühlungsvermögen. Vor allem sein hellsich…

Сколь счастлив тот, кто хотя бы раз пережил страсть – чувство, которое ослепляет, лишает сна и покоя. Но страсть не всегда созидательна. Чаще бывает о…

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to…

«Робинзон Крузо» – классика приключенческой литературы, роман, положивший начало жанру робинзонада. Книга сразу завоевала популярность и стала гимном …

"Die Schatzinsel", der große Abenteuerroman der frühen Moderne, hat die Leser vom ersten Augenblick an gefesselt und Generationen von Schriftstel…

Фантастический и ни на кого не похожий Томас Вулф. Его поэтическая проза завораживает с первых строк и не отпускает до конца. Чаще всего при упоминани…

"The Soul of Man" is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity. The writing o…

"Frauenseelen" ist eine Novellensammlung aus dem Jahre 1901 von Gabriele Reuter, Inhalt: Treue / Graue Stunden / Clementine Holm / Kinder / Die F…

«Обедня теней» – это сборник рассказов Анатоля Франса, персонажи которых сталкиваются с моральными дилеммами, сложными эмоциональными переживаниями и …

Примечание: Собрание сочинений Г. Б. де Мабли. Полный вариант заголовка: «Oeuvres complètes de l'abbé de Mably. T. 4».

"The Dreams in the Witch House" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle. Written in January/…

This wide-ranging collection comprises the following six short stories by Joseph Conrad:Youth: A Narrative (1902), Karain: A Memory (1898), An Outpost…

There was once a Prince who wished to marry a Princess; but then she must be a real Princess. He travelled all over the world in hopes of finding such…

"The Emperor's New Clothes" (Danish: Kejserens nye Klæder) is a short tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, about two weave…

Примечание: Собрание сочинений Г. Б. де Мабли. Полный вариант заголовка: «Oeuvres complètes de l'abbé de Mably. T. 6».

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the …

"Her First Ball" is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Sphere on 28 November 1921, and later reprinted in T…

"On Schooling and the Phases of Mr. Sandsome" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. I d…

A Flea, a Grasshopper, and a Leap-frog once wanted to see which could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and everybody else besides who c…

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her Years of W…

The Rudyard Kipling story «The Broken-Link Handicap» was first published in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in sub…

The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York ca…

"The Naval Treaty", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as…

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