“The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans” is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His

Careening was a very necessary operation for the old pirate. On his superior speed he depended both for overhauling the trader and escaping the man-of-war. But it was impossible to retain his sailing

Блестящий, тонкий юмор, колоритные диалоги, непредсказуемая развязка, многообразие героев (миллионеры, клерки, бандиты, продавщицы, ковбои, пожарные, художники) - в сборнике мастера жанра

Его считали джедаем, защитником мира и справедливости, но его первый подвиг – убийство огромного количества людей одним выстрелом торпеды. Его считали светлым – но он был рожден от истинного

«Никто кроме нас». Это девиз ВДВ. Никто кроме нас не мог выполнить многие военные задачи. Никто кроме нас не сможет рассказать всю правду.

Doyle’s first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world’s best-known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes’s Boswell, the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military

In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels.

Dostoyevsky’s short stories show him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender

Опубликовано в журнале Нева, номер 2, 2014 Гузель Шамилевна Яхина родилась в Казани. По профессии PR-менеджер. Живет в Москве. Публикуемый рассказ — литературный дебют автора.

Литературные имитации, пародии и просто стеб.

Вы устали от своей работы? Надоело топтаться на месте и быть посредственностью? Если вы ответили «да» хотя бы на один из этих вопросов, пришло время взять свою жизнь под контроль и искупаться в море

The Schoolmistress and Other Stories contains twenty-one tales by Russian master of drama and the short story, Anton Chekhov. Among the stories is one of Chekhov’s classics, The Bet, in which a

This book contains the following stories: The Schoolmaster, Enemies, The Examining Magistrate, Betrothed, From the Diary of a Violent-Tempered Man, In the Dark, A Play, A Mystery, Strong Impressions,

During the last ten years of his life, Anton Chekhov penned his great plays, spent time treating the sick, and wrote a small number of stories that are considered his masterpieces. The eleven stories

G. K. Chesterton was an early critic of the philosophy of eugenics, expressing this opinion in his book, Eugenics and Other Evils. Its advocates regarded eugenics as a social philosophy for the

All Things Considered features more than thirty columns that G. K. Chesterton wrote for the London Daily News in the years before World War I. Covering a variety of themes, each is written with the

This structurally and psychologically compact drama takes place on an estate in 19th-century Russia, exploring the complex interrelationships between a retired professor, his second wife, and the

Anton Checkhov’s The Witch and other stories is one of his many collection of short stories. Included in this book are fifteen of Chekhov’s; The Witch, Peasant Wives, The Post, The New Villa, Dreams,

The Seagull is the first of Anton Checkov’s four full-length plays. It explores the romantic and artistic tension in the relationships between a young woman, a fading older lady, her playwright son