Olivia Schreiner was a writer in South Africa. Prominent Democrat South Africa. Born in a missionary family. The author's journalistic works are devoted to pressing issues for South Africa: the status of women, education, racial issues, etc. The Schreiner faith in human capabilities is reflected in the storybook "Dreams". The story "Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland" sounds a protest against the colonial war in South Africa and social injustice....

Alice Brown was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. In 1876 she graduated from Robinson's Seminary in Exeter. For five years after that, she worked as a school teacher, and then moved to Boston, where she decided to devote herself completely to writing. At first she worked in Christian Register magazine, and since 1885 - in Youth's Companion. For many years it enjoyed great fame and reputation as a prolific author, but its popularity waned after the beginning of the 20th century. She published one book a year until 1935, when she withdrew from writing....

The pinnacle of the work of the English writer, journalist and graphic artist William Makepeace Thackeray was the novel Vanity Fair. All characters of the novel - positive and negative - are involved, according to the author, in the "eternal circle of grief and suffering." Saturated with events, rich in subtle observations of everyday life of its time, imbued with irony and sarcasm, the novel "Vanity Fair" took pride of place in the list of masterpieces of world literature....

Daniel and Peachy arrived from Britain to India to undergo military service, but the soldiers had their own plans for life. Fraudulent friends intend to leave for the country called Kafiristan to become its rulers, and take possession of the treasures of the whole country hidden in the bowels of the mountains....

The novel "Hero of Our Time" was first published in 1840. Then no one could have imagined that the author’s life would end so soon, and many contemporaries predicted Mikhail Yuryevich a great future precisely as a prose writer. Gogol, in particular, remarked: "Lermontov the prose writer will be higher than Lermontov the poet." With his novel “The Hero of Our Time” Lermontov greatly expanded the scope of the literary tradition. Unusual was the composition of the work, consisting of five independent stories. A peculiar chronology of events and a constantly changing circle of heroes attracted...

The ruthless Dictator of Mekin has already subjugated twenty-two helpless planets. Now he wants Kandar's unconditional surrender - or he will blast it out of existence!...

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First published in 1894, the “Jungle Book” remains one of the most beloved among children and adults around the world. These classic stories about the boy Mowgli, raised by a wolf pack, give indelible lessons not so much about the laws of the jungle, but about the needs of the soul and heart. Originally from magical and mysterious India, these stories of people and animals living side by side are addressed to both children and adults. In addition to the boy Mowgli, you will meet with the brown and sleepy bear Balu, with the cunning black panther Bagheera, with the python Kaa, who raised...

If there is at least one dubious detail in the case, the famous detective will check it until he gets to the bottom of the truth. So, in the novel `One, two - a buckle fastener ', he doubts the guilt of a man whom the police suspect of several murders. In the novel `Elephants Can Remember, 'there is an endless debate with the writer Ariadne Oliver, in the process of which he finds out the details of the crime. And in the collection of stories `Poirot leads the investigation`, the tireless detective brilliantly investigates a series of crimes....

The adventures of the unlucky, good-natured English traveling across the Thames, about which Jerome wrote in his famous novel Three in a Boat, Not Counting a Dog, translated into almost all the languages ​​of the world and repeatedly filmed, became well known even in the most remote corners of the planet. It was originally planned that the book would be a guide covering local history as the route followed. At first, Jerome was going to name the book "The Story of the Thames." “I was not even going to write a ridiculous book at first,” he admitted in his memoirs. The book was supposed to focus...