Mr. and Mrs. Allen invite a young, naive, never leaving a village home, Catherine Morland to visit them in Bath. There she is busy with the eccentric general Tinley, his son Henry Tinley, his daughter Elenor Tinley. Catherine is invited to the general’s family estate - Northanger Abbey, where the girl, a lover of Gothic novels, imagines the sinister secrets and horrors surrounding the general’s family. The reality will be much more prosaic....
A medical officer Dr. Watson on his return from Afghanistan is looking for a low cost accommodation. His housemate appears to be a puzzling detective consultant Sherlock Holmes solving sophisticated crimes. When a chain of mysterious murders puzzle metropolitan police an incomparable Holmes gets down to business!...
Heart of Darkness is a story about an English sailor’s journey inland Africa. This is the psychological representation of a struggle between civilization and nature, investigation of obscure human heart that was written by Joseph Conrad after eight years in Congo. The scenario of a famous movie “Apocalypse Now” by Francis Ford Coppola based on the plot of the novella “Heart of Darkness”. The collection includes novellas “Typhoon” and the “Duel” and a novel “Lord Jim” in which delivered magnificence and treachery of the waves, greatness and impotence of human being. Many famous writers as...
A lot of historical, adventure and fantastic novels, spiritualism papers were written the English writer, journalist and publicist Arthur Conan Doyle, but the world knows him as the Creator of the greatest Detective of all time – Sherlock Holmes. He is the noble and fearless fighter against Evil, the owner of a sharp mind and extraordinary observation, who using his deductive method solves the most intricate puzzles to save a somebody’s life. He ingeniously changes his roles, having a talent of actor. Holmes knows how to make the end of each brilliantly conducted the investigation more...
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is the most famous novel of the English writer Mary Shelly. Victor Frankenstein managed to breathe life in inanimate matter, but it became a scary monster. Other outsatanding novels of Mary Shelly are “The last man”, “Journal of a Six Weeks' Tour”, “The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck”, “Lodore”, “Falkner”, Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca”. Mary Shelly is considered the founder of science fiction literature. The birth story of “Frankenstein” is truly incredible. When the couple Shelley spent their holidays in...
Having bought a castle in Styria, an English family was going to lead a quiet and solitary life. But, accomplishment of their desires was disturbed by a meeting of an enigmatic and attractive beauty, whose appearance brings illnesses and forbidden passion. It is a sample of classical gothic story about vampires, which was screened many times. Bram Stoker imitated many of its details....
Bram Stoker is an author of many books, which were very popular at the time – “The Lair of the White Worm”, “The Snake's Pass”, “The Lady of the Shroud”. However, only one of his novels obtained real immortality. This novel is “Dracula”. This book is not the first narration about vampires but it became a classic of the genre, his etalon and gave occasion to an outburst of worldwide passion of a “vampire” theme, which is not subsided to this day. On basis of different myths, Stoker could create his own immensely beautiful world from Middle Ages up to now, from mysterious Transylvania to cozy...
