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 volume includes such wonderful stories like "The Voice of the City", "The Complete Life of John Hopkins", "A Lickpenny Lover", "Dougherty's Eye-Opener" and many others. Наличные, б/н, visa, qiwi, webmoney, я.деньги.
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The Outcry" is an effervescent comedy of money and manners...
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Notes and Introduction by Mark G Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (16321704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth century, and Locke's works are often ? rightly ? presented as foundations of the Age of Enlightenment...
A fallen woman would seem a lessthanideal choice for a Victorian heroine Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her Ruth Overturning the conventional assumption that a woman once seduced is condemned to exclusion from respectable society, Gaskell draws a heroine whose emotional honesty, innate morality, and the love she shares with her illegitimate son are sufficient for redemption...
Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric archintriguer Miss Aldclyffe On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright "Fraternity" is his early satire of middleclass complacency and artistic aspiration This work stands as one of his best novels outside "The Forsyte Saga"...
F S Fitzgerald (18961940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, "The Beautiful and Damned" is the story of Harvardeducated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria, As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice...
Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer This is a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne's stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly"...
Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of bestloved, essential classics.'Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.'Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuohistory of the Highlands in his classic adventure novel Rob Roy...
Worldfamofor his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing In 1919 Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer...
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history His view is that of an 18thcentury Presbyterian he blames the Devil for the Crusades and sees him as close to Europe's Catholic powers...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The American" is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman...
It is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury Captain Macwhirr has a reputation as a solid, steadfast man, who "having just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day, and no more" cannot fully believe any storm would be a match for his powerful ship...
Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright "Love moves the world." And this statement was reflected on the pages of the novel "Freeland" And no matter where the love storyset in bright living room or in a solitary mansion feelings and experiences of Galsworthy characters are equally deep and sincere...
The novel Wyandotte arrived at a time when a patriotic mythology about the American Revolution was developing, and Cooper's somber tale of the sufferings of an isolated family in upstate New York during the Revolution was not congruent with the celebratory stories then being told...
Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice andagency...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright "The Burning Spear" is a work that reveals to the reader a completely different Galsworthy a sarcastic and witty cynic, a true master of British ironic prose...
Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright One of his notable works is the novel "Beyond" Together with his heroes the author goes to spheres of unrestrained feelings...
Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet "The Return of the Native" illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies...
John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions...
