Книги в жанре «Классическая проза» (4647 книг)Показаны книги с 11 по 2011. The Adventures of Oliver Twist Читать →Автор: Dickens Charles Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date… 12. Jane Eyre Читать →Автор: Brontg Charlotte Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that… 13. Where Angels Fear to Tread Читать →Автор: Forster E. M. This etext was prepared by Richard Fane, Haddonfield, NJ Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 14. Wuthering Heights Читать →Автор: Brontg Emily 1801.—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and… 15. A Farewell to Arms Читать →Автор: Hemingway Ernest The greatest American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms cemented Ernest Hemingway’s reputation as one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century. Drawn largely from Hemingway’s own experiences, it is the story of a volunteer ambulance driver wounded on the Italian front, the beautiful British nurse with whom… 16. For Whom the Bell Tolls Читать →Автор: Hemingway Ernest In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good fight,” For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in… 17. The Old Man and the Sea Читать →Автор: Hemingway Ernest The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the… 18. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories Читать →Автор: OConnor Flannery With an keen eye for the dark side of human nature, an amazing ear for dialogue, and a necessary sense of irony, Flannery O’Conner exposes the underside of life in the rural south of the United States. One of the powers in her writing lies in her ability to make the vulnerability of one into… 19. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story Читать →Автор: Orwell George Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of… 20. Manalive Читать →Автор: Chesterton Gilbert Keith A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. It a million holes and corners it refreshed a man like a flagon, and astonished him like a blow. In the inmost… 21. The Ball and the Cross Читать →Автор: Chesterton Gilbert Keith The flying ship of Professor Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue emptiness of the evening. That it was far above the earth was no expression for it; to the two men in it, it seemed to be far above the stars.… 22. The Flying Inn Читать →Автор: Chesterton Gilbert Keith THE sea was a pale elfin green and the afternoon had already felt the fairy touch of evening as a young woman with dark hair, dressed in a crinkly copper-coloured sort of dress of the artistic order, was walking rather listlessly along the parade of Pebblewick-on-Sea, trailing a parasol and looking out upon the sea’s… 23. The Man Who Was Thursday Читать →Автор: Chesterton Gilbert Keith It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, therefore,… 24. The Napoleon of Notting Hill Читать →Автор: Chesterton Gilbert Keith THE human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, “Keep to-morrow dark,”… 25. The Return of Don Quixote Читать →Автор: Chesterton Gilbert Keith The end of the longest room at Seawood Abbey was full of light; for the walls were almost made of windows and it projected upon a terraced part of the garden above the park on an almost cloudless morning. Murrel, called Monkey for some reason that everybody had forgotten, and Olive Ashley were taking advantage… 26. The Tin Drum Читать →Автор: Grass Gunter Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Willfully stunting his growth at three feet for many years,… 27. THE NEW MACHIAVELLI Читать →Автор: Wells Herbert Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living, and I have found myself with the teeming interests of the life I have abandoned still buzzing… 28. The World Set Free Читать →Автор: Wells Herbert WE ARE ALL THINGS THAT MAKE AND PASS, STRIVING UPON A HIDDEN MISSION, OUT TO THE OPEN SEA. 29. Adventure Читать →Автор: London Jack He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly– headed, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular block of carved wood three inches in diameter. The torn ear had been pierced again, but this time… 30. Martin Eden Читать →Автор: London Jack FROM THE PUBLISHER Martin Eden, Jack London's semiautobiographical novel about a struggling young writer, is considered by many to be the author's most mature work. Personifying London's own dreams… |