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Писательское дарование и гражданская мужество Александра Казбеги особенно ярко проявились в его творческой деятельности 80-х годов XIX века. В его романах и рассказах с большой художественной силой передан внутренний мир героев, их чувства и переживания. Лучшие страницы его романов «Отцеубийца», «Циция» посвящены жизни чеченцев, а повесть «Элисо» – целиком о чеченцах, к которым грузинский писатель…
Студия «МедиаКнига» представляет аудиокнигу поэта-символиста, эссеиста, одного из виднейших представителей русской поэзии Серебряного века Константина Дмитриевича Бальмонта – «Фейные сказки». "Фейные сказки" – это волшебный по своей красоте сборник стихотворений, который олицетворяет пик писательской карьеры Константина Бальмонта. Погружая слушателя в очаровательный сказочный мир, автор увлекает В…
После путешествия в Страну Чудес и встречи с улыбающимся Чеширским котом и вечно спешащим Мартовским Зайцем Алиса решила отправиться в Зазеркалье. Дом за зеркалом оказался полон необычных вещей, таинственных событий и новых встреч. Алисе предстоит разыграть самую настоящую шахматную партию и стать ни больше ни меньше – самой королевой. Вот только путь до получения заветной короны ей предстоит совс…
После путешествия в Страну Чудес и встречи с улыбающимся Чеширским котом и вечно спешащим Мартовским Зайцем Алиса решила отправиться в Зазеркалье. Дом за зеркалом оказался полон необычных вещей, таинственных событий и новых встреч. Алисе предстоит разыграть самую настоящую шахматную партию и стать ни больше ни меньше – самой королевой. Вот только путь до получения заветной короны ей предстоит совс…
The Chimes, is a novella written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of «„Christmas books,“» five novellas with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s. In addition to A Christmas Carol and The Chimes, the Christmas books include The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and …
The Chimes, is a novella written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of «„Christmas books,“» five novellas with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s. In addition to A Christmas Carol and The Chimes, the Christmas books include The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and …
The first narrative in the collection is «The Prussian Officer», which tells of a Captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has been left with only his military career, and though he has taken on mistresses throughout his life, he remains single. His young orderly is involved in a relationship with a young woman, and the captain, feeling sexual tension towards the youn…
The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen have inspired, frightened, and amused readers since they were first published in 1835. The power of his tales to charm and elevate runs like a living thread through whatever he writes. Only a few children's authors will be ranked among the Immortals, and Hans Andersen is without a doubt one of them.
A Doll's House is a three-act play written by Norway's Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879. The play is significant for the way it deals with the fate of a married woman, who at the time in Norway lacked reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a…
The Other Wise Man is a short novel or long short story by Henry van Dyke. It was initially published in 1895 and has been reprinted many times since then. The story is an addition and expansion of the account of the Biblical Magi, recounted in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. It tells about a «„fourth“» wise man (accepting the tradition that the Magi numbered three), a priest of the Ma…
Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and…
Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his tales include Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (…
Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his tales include Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (…
"Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" is a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. In the December 1784 publication of the Berlinische Monatsschrift (Berlin Monthly), edited by Friedrich Gedike and Johann Erich Biester, Kant replied to the question posed a year earlier by the Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner, who was also an official in the Prussian government. Zöllner's question …
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, the novel compiles traditional material into a coherent narrative in a colorful, invented «old English» idiom that preserves some flavor of the ballads, …