James Joyce (1882-1941) is the greatest Irish classis writer and at the same time the destroyer of the classic cannons. Thanks to him, new schools of literature and trends of the 20th century arose. The novel “Ulysses” (1922) is his main work that was not once recognized as the best and the most significant novel during the entire period of existing of this genre. The novel determined the further development of the art of prose. “Ulysses” is a story about a one day of life of a man, who lived in a small European town. This story accommodates all the literature - all of its styles and...
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...
A Tale of Two Cities is a Charles Dickens novel and one of the most popular English books. It became the bestseller long before this term arose. Only in English more than two hundred million copies were printed. This is a story about how the French Revolution changed life of both London and Paris. This is a story of violent passion and exciting adventures in the Era of changes. In those days, a prison cell in Bastille and guillotine were as real as evenings at the fireplace and lace parasols. Love and hate, touching dedication, self-sacrifice and vile betrayal show us all features of the...
The novel was filmed and set in the theaters many times. One of the most famous version is modern film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert De Niro. This is a story of two people. Pip was a simple boy born in a poor, peasant family, but got a chance to become a gentleman and join the London high society. Estella was a weapon of vengeance in arms of her mad aristocrat guardian, who made Estella a femme fatale breaking the hearts. The story fascinates readers from the first pages and colorful bright patterns of Victorian London complement its wittiness and charm....
In the book about the adventures of Tom Sawer the writer, using great skills, shows us the everyday-life of an American small town in 40s of the 19th century. Thanks to the thrilling story and excellent humor, this book is loved by readers from all over the world....
In the book about the adventures of Tom Sawer the writer, using great skills, shows us the everyday-life of an American small town in 40s of the 19th century. Thanks to the thrilling story and excellent humor, this book is loved by readers from all over the world....
It is a satirical pamphlet, which was written anonymously by Jonathan Swift and published in 1729. He suggested selling Irish poor men’s children as food for the English upper class....
To evaluate this book you have to forget how many times it was named “the greatest American novel” and “a masterpiece of the world literature”. Let the reader not be scared of the labels put on the book during the last hundred years. It is definitely the great success that “Moby-Dick” is not included into the school program. There is no sense to try to describe this novel. In case you will finish reading and decide that you understand everything, you will have to read it again....
First publications of the detective novel “The mystery of Edwin Drood”, which is one of the best Dickens’ books or even the best one, came out in April in 1870. They were remarkably successful, and England went crazy with guessing if John Jasper succeeded in carrying out his ominous plan for the sake of towering passion, who did not pity unhappy Edwin Drood. But, in June Charles Dickens died and the novel remained unfinished. What the final should be, the author told nobody… Under this cover the very novel and two enclosures were printed. One of them was printed for the first time! Someone...
“Five Weeks in a Balloon” is a bright and fascinating fiction novel of a famous French writer Jules Verne. Such books promote humanitarian development of young people, liberalizing and getting knowledge about the world and a human. They can be used for the studying....
In “Around the World in Eighty Days” Verne describes an imperturbable Englishman and his deft servant who hurry to double the terrestrial globe on a bet and experience many adventures. In contrast to many other invented adventures of Verne’s books where heroes travelled on imaginary and not yet invented transports, here characters use the existing ones....
Kidnapped or the Adventures of David Balfour contain the stories about how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild mountains; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson....
The setting of events takes place in the XV century during the Wars of the Roses. A young man Dick Shelton meets a leader of riflemen John Amend-All and experiences many adventures....
It is one of the gripping novels in the world adventure fiction. A real person became a prototype of a noble filibuster Blood. He was an Englishman Henry Morgan who once was a slave and a pirate, and who became a vice-governor of Jamaica....
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....
