Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "Tales of the Fish Patrol" is a collection of stories drawn from author`s own experiences and memories of the days as a teenager aboard the fishing boats of San Francisco Bay.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08116-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Мастер готического ужаса, основоположник детектива, гений мрачной прозы — Эдгар Аллан По создал мир, где разум сталкивается с безумием, а страх скрывается в тенях повседневности. В этом сборнике вы найдете леденящие душу произведения: от жуткого "Падения дома Ашеров" до мрачной исповеди "Черного кота" и загадочного "Сердца-обличителя". Грань между реальностью и кошмаром размывается, а каждое слово, словно...
ISBN: 978-5-17-166363-6
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: май 2025
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "Tales of Mystery" includes short mystery stories like "The Lost Special", "The Beetle-Hunter" and "The Man with the Watches" filled to the brim with suspense, wild twists, and turns.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08060-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. "Tales of Men and Ghosts" is a collection of ten masterful ghost stories like "The Bolted Door", "His Father`s Son", "The Daunt Diana" and "Full Circle".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07843-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Tales of Blue Water" is a collection of short stories about the sea. Mixing adventure, romance, and humor, these tales present an interesting view of life in the sea.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07155-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VI is a wonderful short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel\'s themes, as well as its unique writing style. The collection contains six stories, including Absolution in which a boy confesses to a priest and The Sensible Thing, where George O\'Kelly, an aspiring engineer turned insurance salesman, fights to recapture the love of Jonquil Cary.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07589-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
This book features an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. This collection of Poe`s best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Premature Burial" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", all of Poe`s Auguste Dupin stories are included. These are the first modern detective stories and include "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter".
ISBN: 978-1-84022-072-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. A collection of incredible short stories Tales of the Jazz Age III brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing. For example, The Ice Palace features a Southern belle whose marriage to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity. The volume also containing The Offshore Pirate, Head and Shoulders and The Cut—Glass Bowl.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07586-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This volume includes a collection of entertaining short stories like "The Green Flag," "The Crime of the Brigadier," "The Lord of Chateau Noir," "A Shadow Before," and others.
ISBN: 978-5-517-05852-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2021
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06675-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Tanglewood Tales are incomparable retellings of Greek myths. And stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within an another story. Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts. All the tales are modified from the original myths. This volume also includes such an amazing three tales as Fanshawe, The Snow-Image and The New Adam and Eve.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07769-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Мастер готического ужаса, основоположник детектива, гений мрачной прозы — Эдгар Аллан По создал мир, где разум сталкивается с безумием, а страх скрывается в тенях повседневности. В этом сборнике вы найдете леденящие душу произведения: от жуткого "Падения дома Ашеров" до мрачной исповеди "Черного кота" и загадочного "Сердца-обличителя". Грань между реальностью и кошмаром размывается, а каждое слово, словно...
ISBN: 978-5-17-166362-9
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: май 2025
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "Tales of Adventure" is an astounding collection that anthologizes some of the best short fiction stories of the author outside of the world-famous detective`s canon including excellent tales like "The Surgeon of Gaster Fell", "The Sealed Room" and "The Great Brown-Pericord Motor".
ISBN: 978-5-521-08055-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. Filled with supernatural events, horrific scientific experiments, and bizarre events, "Tales of Mystery" is an excellent opportunity to discover another side of author`s ability to immerse and surprise. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08099-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Meet a girl who fights dragons, a brave warrior queen, and a daughter in search of her Samurai father...This beautifully illustrated collection brings you eight fantastic fairy tales from around the world. Full of wit, charm, compassion and courage, these heroes will inspire and empower a new generation of readers.Retold by Ian Cook, Rachel Firth, Sarah Hull, Andy Prentice.
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VIII is a collection of brilliant short stories, including "Two Wrongs" and an ironic "The Night of Chancellorsville" in which a trainload of light ladies is catapulted unawares into the realities of the Civil War.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07615-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. A collection of incredible short stories Tales of the Jazz Age IV brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate Fitzgerald\'s writing. For example in Bernice Bobs Her Hair the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy. Also containing Benediction, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong and The Four Fists.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07587-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. In The Tanglewood Tales Hawthorne retells famous classical myths with imaginative charm that captures the Universality and moral wisdom of the stories. Hawthorne`s lively, fresh retelling of six famous myths-"The Minotaur," "The Pygmies," "The Dragon`s Teeth", "Circe`s Palace," "The Pomegranate Seeds," and "The Golden Fleece"- captures the essence of these great stories.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07693-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Tender is the Night (1934), tells the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst, and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald worked on the book, were the darkest years of his life, and the novel\'s bleakness reflects the author’s own experiences.
ISBN: 978-5-517-07545-1
Издательство:
Рипол Классик
Дата выхода: август 2022
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. (1896–1940) - а famous American novelist and short story writer. F. Scott Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers from the so-called "Lost Generation". He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, promise, age, and despair. Tender is the Night (1934), tells the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst, and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald worked on the book, were the darkest years of his life, and the novel\'s bleakness reflects the author’s own experiences.
ISBN: 978-5-517-08782-9
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: февраль 2023
