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by John Galsworthy
Loyalties
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John Golsworthy is an English prose writer and playwright, author of the famous cycle “The Forsyte Saga,” Nobel Prize in Literature (1932). In the drama "Fidelity," he expressed concern for the "lost generation" that comes into life after the end of World War I. Although the author’s position is limited by his belief in the inviolability of the bourgeois system, loyalty to realism led to the fact that the panorama he created correctly reflected the gradual decline of the English bourgeoisie. But if in the pre-war period, in his writings, the predatory egoism of the Forsytes was mainly...
Number of pages: ~ 84 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.9/5

by Walter Jerrold
Charles Lamb
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Walter Jerrold wrote and edited, also as Walter Copeland for children. From a theatrical family, he rose to deputy editor of The Observer newspaper, spending most of his life in London. "Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor."...
Number of pages: ~ 70 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 5/5

by Cheiro
Palmistry for All
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The famous scientist Cheiro introduces us into the wonderful world of one of the most ancient sciences of human civilization - palmistry. One of the most popular and bright palmists, foretellers and clairvoyants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was William John Warner. But the world remembered him under the name Cheiro, which is an abridged version of the English word "palmistry." But the count himself had in mind a completely different interpretation of his pseudonym "Hiro" from the Greek "hand." Famous and powerful clients made him famous and wealthy, including politicians and...
Number of pages: ~ 125 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.4/5

by Cory Doctorow
Little Brother
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"Younger Brothers" - against the almighty Elder Brother. Seventeen-year-old hacker and his team are against the System. They are the kings of the Web, they are sure that they can do anything. But the System monitors each of us... And each of us can instantly fall into its claws. Freedom has long become a myth. People are pawns in the Great Game of Governments and Special Services. And everyone who wants to strike back at the System must be not only desperately brave, but also very, very smart......
Number of pages: ~ 386 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.5/5

by G. K. Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse
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The poem is dedicated to the battle of Alfred the Great, the first Anglo-Saxon king of Britain with the pagan Danes. Chesterton sees this event as an allegory of the confrontation between civilization and barbarism, faith and unbelief, life and death. Chesterton transforms the image of a white horse, an ancient drawing on the chalk hills of Oxfordshire, into a symbol of the European Christian tradition: this silhouette has survived to this day, because generation after generation has cleared its outlines, preventing it from overgrown with turf, - so our ideas about good and evil, duty ,...
Number of pages: ~ 92 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4/5

by Gertrude Stein
Three Lives
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  • Fiction
  • 1909
  • Autor: Gertrude Stein
Published in 1909, the famous book by Gertrude Stein marked the beginning of an era of bold experiments with literary form and language. The stories of three women from Bridgepoint are inspired by the ideas of modern artists. In the non-linear narrative of Good Anna, the reader will notice the influence of Cezanne, Stein’s friendship with Picasso inspired free syntax and open sexuality of the story of Melankte, the influence of Matisse is noticeable in The Quiet Lena. The books of Gertrude Stein are works not only of literature, but also of painting. Words, like paints, lie on a canvas, all...
Number of pages: ~ 204 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.6/5

by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Sport of the Gods
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  • Fiction
  • 1902
  • Autor: Paul Laurence Dunbar
The novel "Sports of the Gods" is dedicated to urban life of blacks in America. Their family was forced to leave the south, but life in the northern city was not what they imagined it was, and the family was falling apart....
Number of pages: ~ 124 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.2/5

by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
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  • Fiction
  • 1906
  • Autor: Upton Sinclair
At the beginning of the 20th century, works appeared in realistic US literature, which sharply critically portrayed the life of American society. The founder of this trend, whose representatives were called "mud rakers", was Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). In 1906, his novel “The Jungle” was published - about Chicago slaughterhouses. The novel was a success and made a lot of noise. Jack London called it "Uncle Tom's Cabin of Industrial Slavery." The fascinating plot did not hide or embellish the socially revealing character of the novel....
Number of pages: ~ 250 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.5/5

by Bernard Shaw
Heartbreak House
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"Heartbreak House" is one of the Show's "visiting cards", the witty and subtle tragicomedy of the morals of British secular society after the First World War, to which the author was inspired, in his own words, by Chekhov's dramaturgy. The action takes place on a September evening in an English provincial house that resembles a ship in shape, for its owner, a gray-haired old man, captain Châtover, sailed the whole life through the seas. His daughter Hesion invited Ellie, her father and Mengen, to upset her marriage, because she does not want the girl to marry an unloved man because of the...
Number of pages: ~ 238 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4/5

by Tom Taylor
Our American Cousin
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The work of Tom Taylor dates back to 1850-1870, to the time when, after the suppression of the Chartist movement, to replace the socio-political novel of 30-50. and poetry of social pity came, on the one hand, aesthetics, and on the other - sensational literature, reactionary in its class ideology. This literature is characterized by a sharp plot. Taylor's melodramas are extremely typical in this respect. Rich in acute situations, dynamic and spectacular, they did not leave the scene until the last years of the 19th century....
Number of pages: ~ 88 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.4/5