Зарубежная старинная литература

"First published in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, XIV (January, 1844), “The Christmas Banquet” shares its subtitle—”from the unpub…

""«The Monkey's Paw»" is a supernatural short story by author W. W. Jacobs, first published in England in the collection The Lady of the Barge in 1902…

Марк Туллий Цицерон – выдающийся римский юрист и государственный деятель, избирался консулом, был провозглашен сенатом отцом отечества, а воинами ввер…

Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. H…

Phædo or Phaedo (Greek: Φαίδων, Phaidōn), also known to ancient readers as On The Soul, is one of the best-known dialogues of Plato's middle period, a…

"The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named …

""«Rip Van Winkle»" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in coloni…

Беатрис Поттер – английская детская писательница, жившая и творившая в начале прошлого века. В Англии сказочницей гордятся и даже считают ее сочинения…

Euthyphro (Ancient Greek: Εὐθύφρων, romanized: Euthyphrōn; c. 399–395 BC), by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue whose events occur in the weeks before the…

The Menexenus (Greek: Μενέξενος) is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, traditionally included in the seventh tetralogy along with the Greater and Lesser Hi…

"Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer w…

"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (Russian: Сон смешного человека, Son smeshnovo cheloveka) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It c…

Беатрис Поттер – английская детская писательница, жившая и творившая в начале прошлого века. В Англии сказочницей гордятся и даже считают ее сочинения…

The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare «the effect of edu…

The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον, Sympósion [sympósi̯on]) is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385–370 BC. It depicts a friendly contest o…

"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass …

The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" is a short story written by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky published in 1848. The piece is narrated by an awkwa…

Беатрис Поттер – английская детская писательница, жившая и творившая в начале прошлого века. В Англии сказочницей гордятся и даже считают ее сочинения…

he Republic (Greek: Πολιτεία, Politeia; Latin: Res Publica) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice (δικαιοσύνη), t…

Lysis (Greek: Λύσις), is a dialogue of Plato which discusses the nature of philia (φιλία), often translated as friendship, while the word's original c…

The Conquest of Bread is an 1892 book by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin. Peter Kropotkin was born a Russian prince whose father owned 1…

Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is…

Беатрис Поттер – английская детская писательница, жившая и творившая в начале прошлого века. В Англии сказочницей гордятся и даже считают ее сочинения…

Meno (Greek: Μένων, Menōn) is a Socratic dialogue scripted by Plato. It appears to attempt to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning vi…

Насреддин – народный герой разных стран. Он возник в эпоху Средневековья, но взывает ко всем временам. Роль его меняется: то он глупец, то мудрец, то …

"Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early …

For a while, the famous writer Irving Washington was an employee of the American diplomatic mission in Spain. He spent three months in the famous Alha…

В книгу вошли стихотворения английских поэтов эпохи королевских династий Тюдоров и Стюартов (XVI и XVII столетия). Всего 69 поэтов, разных по таланту,…

The Laches (Greek: Λάχης) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Participants in the discourse present competing definitions of the concept of coura…

Беатрис Поттер – английская детская писательница, жившая и творившая в начале прошлого века. В Англии сказочницей гордятся и даже считают ее сочинения…

"A Changed Man is a collection of twelve tales written by Thomas Hardy. The collection was originally published in book form in 1913, although all of …

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works. G…

Среди памятников мировой литературы очень мало таких, которые могли бы сравниться по популярности со сказками “Тысячи и одной ночи”, завоевавшими любо…

Crito (Ancient Greek: Κρίτων [krítɔːn]) is a dialogue by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. It depicts a conversation between Socrates and his wealt…

Беатрис Поттер – английская детская писательница, жившая и творившая в начале прошлого века. В Англии сказочницей гордятся и даже считают ее сочинения…

"Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, «„A little, true book, both b…

Nobody loves Mary – the heroine of the famous story of Francis Burnett «The Secret Garden.» However, she does not burn with love for others, and moreo…

Аудиостудия «Ардис» предлагает вашему вниманию книгу Марка Твена «Том Сойер за границей», повествующую о дальнейших приключениях любимых героев многих…

The Apology of Socrates was written by Plato. In fact, it’s a defensive speech of Socrates that he said in a court noted down by Plato. The main subje…

Основным препятствием в развитии человека и реализации им собственной уникальной судьбы автор считает Командующее Я. Книга Идриса Шаха раскрывает прир…

Thomas Paine was born in Great Britain; he came to America at the age of 37 for the first time. He is rightly considered to be the Anglo-American writ…

"Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illum…

Чарльз Диккенс – наверное, лучший английский романист Викторианской эпохи. Но удавались ему и рассказы. В них он запечатлевал портреты своих современн…

In Plato's Ion (Greek: Ἴων) Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether…

До сих пор неизвестная в России, эта книга в течение семисот лет использовалась в качестве инструмента для развития проницательности и сверхчувственно…