In 1877, Symonds began to have severe pulmonary hemorrhage, and since 1880 he began to live in a mountain resort in Davos in Switzerland, choosing a climate that is useful for treating tuberculosis. Here he created his most famous work, glorifying it in the 19th century. This was a seven-volume study in the field of culture and aesthetics called “Renaissance in Italy”. He also wrote studies of the poetry of Shelley (1879), Ben Johnson (1886), Michelangelo (1893), and Walt Whitman (1893), with whom he corresponded. He also published the first English translation of Sonnets by Michelangelo...
The fame of Douglas was brought by the satirical novel South Wind (1917), whose theme was suggested to the author by Joseph Conrad and who was highly appreciated, among others, by Vladimir Nabokov. Graham Greene wrote that his generation grew up on South Wind, but Douglas himself placed his book of notes on travels in Greece, Austria, Italy, North Africa, India and others above all, which, among other things, opened the Italian South to several generations of Englishmen....
After the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe wrote another story about adventures at sea. The result was this lesser-known work, which is a first-person account of pirate life. In response to a letter accusing him of the worst possible act, Captain Avery writes the answer, trying to justify himself. He considers it appropriate to provide a full account of the life of the captain of a pirate ship. And his letters show that he is just a romantic con man....
1798 year. Napoleon's Egyptian campaign failed. His doomed army crosses the Sahara, repelling the attacks of the Mameluke warriors. The young French officer Augustin Robert fearlessly fights the enemy, believing in his salvation. But the Sahara completes destruction by overthrowing the surviving soldiers beyond reality. Being at that moment in a semi-unconscious state, Augustin escaping from his pursuers meets with a leopard. It was supposed to be a meeting with death....
In 1842, the prominent English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870) took a trip to America. Returning to England, he published American Notes (1842), and a little later, Martin Cheslwith (1844), two works in which the lying legend of "American Paradise" was exposed. At that time, America knew the slavery of blacks, in addition, Dickens could observe wild political mores, the controllability of the American press. He showed all this in his notes....
This ironic, witty and extremely informative story about the American journey through the Old World captivated the readers and spread in a huge circulation. And Mark Twain himself, who first tried his hand in the genre of travel notes, came to the conclusion that anyone who has been living in a corner of the world for a century will never learn tolerance, will not be able to look at life broadly and sensibly. Almost one hundred and fifty years after the release of his book, it is difficult to disagree with him....
Black Jack is a Western adventure story told by master brand teller Max Brand about the son of a murdered bad guy who is raised as a good gentleman. A bet was made about his fate: will genetics or the environment win? Will he become bad, like his father, or will become an outstanding person?...
After Sunday service, John Orphan meets two villagers. They claim to inspect homes after a night flood. The guy suspects that men are looking for the ghost of Blackbeard and a precious diamond. He had previously heard sounds from the crypt where members of the Mohun family are buried. Water washed a funnel at the burial site. A guy descends through an educated passage and enters a network of caves. He finds an old medallion in which a secret code is hidden......
Nervous by Mrs. Hudson's visit, Dr. Watson finds his friend Sherlock Holmes in terrible condition. The great detective contracted a deadly virus and you need to stay away from him. Dr. Watson wants to invite the best virus specialist, but Holmes protests so much that Watson is scared. It was scary to look at Holmes - anyone would be struck by the sight of his thin, emaciated face with a sickly blush. The detective’s thin hands frantically moved along the blanket, the voice of the great Holmes was hoarse and breaking. What kind of affliction struck Holmes, who was dying?...
The talented and extremely ambitious reporter Eduard Melone received a humiliating refusal from his beloved girl to marry him only on the grounds that he is too ordinary. The offended youth rushes to the editorial office and begs the authorities to send him to the most dangerous corner of the Earth so that he can make a report there. An experienced editor indeed gives the young man a difficult task: at any cost to get an interview with the scandalously dangerous, impulsive Professor Challenger, famous for his hatred of journalists. After a small but very colorful fight, the professor invites...
In the adventurous novel The Mad King, the superior forces of enemies and the insidious machinations of envious people end with a "victory of the forces of light over the forces of the cold mind."...
The novel opens a series about the adventures of Billy Byrne, who was born in the backyards of Chicago and knew the fall and fame, incredible adventures in exotic lands and sublime love ... At the beginning of the book, Billy is a cruel and cunning "bully" - a lawless person who does not cost anything to beat a woman, rob the old man, beat him half to death. But becoming a sailor on a ship, he was surrounded by notorious bastards. And life at sea changed Billy, preparing for extraordinary adventures ......
Robinson Crusoe - The hero of the novels of Daniel Defoe, the first two of which were published in 1719. The first book about Robinson gave rise to the classic English novel and spawned the fashion for pseudo-documentary prose; it is often called the first "authentic" novel in English. This literary character has a real prototype - Alexander Selkirk, the boatswain of the ship "Cinque Ports" ("Senk Por"), distinguished by an extremely quarrelsome and quarrelsome character. Selkirk was landed in 1704, at his request, on an uninhabited island, supplied with weapons, food, seeds and tools....
A book about mischievous boys Hecke and Tome. Huckleberry is a homeless boy, with a sense of internal duty and conscience, who can be content with little and be happy with what is. Heku's life in the house of the widow Douglas, where everything is on call, is strictly according to the established order, so he lives in a barrel, because he is free! He prefers hell with Sawyer, than paradise in the company of the widow and her sister, Miss Watson, who constantly harasses Huck with his remarks: do not put your feet on a chair, do not yawn, do not stretch. Brave, resourceful, with incredible...
