A classic of world literature, one of the most famous playwrights in the world. His works have been translated into more than one hundred languages. His plays, especially The Seagull, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, have been staged in many theaters around the world for over a hundred years. The story “The Darling” reflected Chekhov’s life impressions and memories associated with his stay in Taganrog, Moscow and Yalta, it reproduced real signs of the time. The image of the main character caused an ambiguous reaction among Chekhov's contemporaries, although in general, “The Darling” was...
The relationship of the past and the present, the interpenetration of reality and science fiction, romantic pathos and detailed biography, satirical grotesque form the ideological and artistic originality of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter”. Nathaniel Hawthorne - classic American writer. He is part of a galaxy of writers who stood at the origins of national American culture and determined its further development. `Scarlet Letter` is Hawthorne's first and most famous novel....
Civilization in its progressive movement produced only three important non-alcoholic drinks - tea plant extract, cocoa bean extract and coffee bean extract. This book is about everything related to coffee, about varieties and methods of roasting, cooking and so on. Everything that mankind knew about coffee until the 1920s is in this book....
In his works, Prosper Merimet, a novelist, short-story writer, playwright and historian who became a classic of 19th-century French literature, addresses both historical events and the contemporary reality of France, shows interest in exoticism and colorful, distinctive characters. Proof of this is the novel "Carmen", which has become the basis of numerous ballet, opera, theater and film adaptations....
A novel in which Gaskell, referring to the life of Manchester weavers 30-40-ies. XIX century., Paints the difficult conditions of their work and life, reveals the high moral qualities of ordinary people. John Barton, the true hero of the novel, goes a long way from an ordinary worker to a chartered revolutionary and political leader....
The novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra tells the story of a middle-aged hero who had read chivalric novels and decided to become an itinerant knight. Nothing special: the text was written and perceived as an amusing parody of knightly novels loved by the reader of that time, but in reality everything turned out to be much more complicated. Don Quixote is an innovative work, and its influence on European literature began shortly after its release....
Gibbons, James - American theologian, cardinal, one of the most influential figures of the Catholic Church in the United States. His works are widespread in the United States. In 1889, he founded the Catholic University of America in Washington and was its first president. In this book, the author substantiated the right of the Catholic Church to be the only God-anointed mentor in matters of faith....
The Guibert of Nogent story about the first crusade is an important but complex chronicle presented in this first English translation. It is a valuable addition to the repertoire of materials by Boydell and Brewer on the Crusade and is an interesting text, since the author showed himself to be an original writer and, to some extent, an innovator, and tried to create a critical story from sources of eyewitnesses - “Acts of Francs” and “Fulker Chartres” “ History of the expedition to Jerusalem. " From this book you can learn significant details about the attitude of the West towards the First...
James I published his Demonology, while still a Scottish king, in Edinburgh in 1597. There were two London editions in 1603, later it was translated into Latin, French and Dutch. As Stewart Clark emphasizes, “although the obvious aim of the treatise was simply to refute the two main skeptics, Reginald Scott and Johann Weyer, the treatise was called upon, along with other theological and political works, to demonstrate the intellectual and religious bona fides of James I as ruler.” In this sense, the royal "Demonology" can be read as an intellectual "declaration of an ideal monarchy." Based on...
James Boyle is a Scottish legal scholar, writer, specialist in copyright, information law and the public domain. In his most recent intellectual property work, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, Boyle argues that the current copyright system does not fulfill its original mission: to award and promote creativity....
This is a story about the adventures of Mr. Punch during the First World War, told by the language of witty satire. Despite the humor, the book is intended not only to preserve the memory of the bloody war, but also to look at it from the other side....
The book by Emily Post “Etiquette” (a monument to American good manners) was published in its first edition in 1922. She was honestly addressed to a narrow layer of the American public. Emily Post's books were different from all previous ones. Firstly, she wrote them almost like fiction - on the examples of imaginary families, to which she gave speaking, directly phonvizinian surnames: The Eminents, The Toploftys, The Kindhearts. But the main thing - already in the first edition of the book "Etiquette" Emily Post offers a certain opportunity, purpose, seductive for the general reader: High...
This book is a collection of original recipes, as well as cleaning tips and etiquette, adopted in the White House. This collection contains recipes for the first ladies of Washington and Lincoln, as well as menus for special receptions....
A small-volume, beautifully written story-parable about a magician-astrologer who set off on a journey beyond the Star of Bethlehem, but was late for a meeting with three other magi, was late for Bethlehem, not having caught the Great King whom He wanted to bring his gifts. All these failures occurred because he could not and did not want to leave those who turned to him for help in trouble. In the end, a meeting with the One whom he was looking for, nevertheless happens - the sorcerer, after many years of searching and wandering, having spent the precious gifts destined for the King is in...
The action begins in 1897 in the Australian outback. Hard farm work, on the uniformity of which no one complains except Sibylla Melvin. This young lady, contemptuously engaged in milking cows and dreaming of the glory of the pianist, is determined to make a brilliant career, which she writes about in her girl’s diary. Mother tells her daughter that she can no longer support such an adult girl, offers to go to... maids! But a saving letter comes from her grandmother with an invitation to move to her....
