The year is 1793, the darkest days of the French revolution, and little Charles-Léon is ill. The delicate son of Louise and Bastien de Croissy is recommended country air, but travel permits are needed and impossible to come by. Louise's friend, Josette, believes she knows a way out. For Josette is convinced that her hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel, will come to their rescue. She refuses to believe that he only exists in her imagination. 'I say that the Scarlet Pimpernel can do anything! And I mean to get in touch with him,' she vows, and sets forth into the Paris streets....

According to legend, the ancient Greek fabulist Aesop lived in the VI century BC. er Herodotus and Plato wrote about him. Demetriy Falersky at the end of the IV century BC. E. The name of Aesop entrenched itself to the genre he created, because in the ancient world all the fables were called “Aesop's fables”. The plot of "Aesop's fables" was processed in world literature. The themes of Aesop in their own way broke Lafontaine and Krylov....

In the first novel by Lucy Montgomery, whose action unfolds in Canada at the end of the 19th century, we are familiar with the main character, Anne Shirley. An eleven-year-old girl, red-haired Ann, is brought from a orphanage to a small family on the Greengaby farm ......

Hercule Poirot receives a letter from a South American millionaire asking for help. Could not have time to save the unfortunate man in the golf course. You should have killed a millionaire....

The book includes the famous story by Arthur Conan Doyle “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (1902), the plot of which is based on a randomly heard author. The investigation of the strange origin is a consequence of the attack on monstrous dogs, which predetermine the persecution of family Baskervilles. The mystery of the family portrait, jealousy, the struggle for the inheritance and explicit recognition in the finale of the narrative create a unique flavor of one of the best works of the detective genre. You can read the book The Hound of the Baskervilles for free. To read the book of the...

Publication of the work "For the grandiose work and evil" in 1886 in the light of the modern philosophical views of Friedrich Nietzsche. He clearly and boldly rejects all the customs and thoughts of God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is immersed in false piety and infection by “slave morality.” In this innovative work, the philosophical and literary talents of Nietzsche are at the highest point of realization. Mortal irony and sparkling wit, he explodes the accumulated experience over centuries, which has become generally accepted metaphysics, moral and...

A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say", without any doubt this book can be considered a ClassicThis book is also a Bestseller because as Steinberg defined: "a bestseller as a book for which demand, within a short time of that book's initial publication, vastly exceeds what is then considered to be big sales"....

The turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is the time when the expansion of national self-consciousness occurs, and the voices of not only individual or black Americans in US literature are heard more and more clearly. The artistic creativity of the United States of America continued to develop, including in the book Islamic Tribes and Charles Eastman From the Wilderness of Forests to Civilization (1916). Along with a similar narration on autobiographical material, poetry and short prose, mostly humorous, are becoming more common story. A national policy in which people often...

Franz Kafka, a Prague Jew who wrote in German, barely published his works during his lifetime, only excerpts from the novels The Process (1925) and The Castle (1926) and a few short stories. The most remarkable of his short stories, The Transformation, was written in the fall of 1912 and published in 1915. The hero of the "Transformation" Gregor Zamza - the son of not rich Prague inhabitants, people with purely materialistic needs. Five years ago, his father went bankrupt, and Gregor entered the service of one of his father’s creditors, became a traveling salesman, a cloth merchant. Since...

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