In the ancient English castle of Canterville lives a real English ghost. It scares the inhabitants of the castle at night - the venerable Otis family. In the arsenal of ghosts, there are petty pranks, and quite terrible horror stories. But no one in the castle for some reason believes in mysterious ghosts ... What a disrespect for traditions! The Canterville Ghost is ready for the most decisive action. But it turned out that angels were also among these unpardonable Americans: a sweet, brave girl who is not without compassion....
In this book you will meet the girl Alice and get with her into the amazing, mysterious world of miracles of Lewis Carroll. The story tells how a little girl Alice jumps into a rabbit hole, where she discovers a fairy-tale world inhabited by unusual creatures....
Numerous generations of readers read and re-read Lewis Carroll's tale of a little girl who, through a rabbit hole, enters a fairy-tale world full of charming creatures. And it all began on a July afternoon in Oxford in 1862, when Charles Dodgson, a teacher of mathematics, went on a boat trip with the daughters of his college dean. To entertain the girls, he began to tell them the story of Alice, an inquisitive girl who fell into a wonderful country. The children were fascinated, and the youngest, Alice, asked Charles to write down a fairy tale for her, which he did....
After the invention of the cure for death, mankind faces a new problem: how to squeeze out these harmful old people, home tyrants who manipulate others by constantly copying the will....
The strange and mysterious story of the mysterious Henry Jekyll infused the inexplicable horror of the unaccountable. Thus, a conscientious, respected person, with an even, calm character, can be associated with this vicious person, Edward Hyde, committing atrocious acts? Why such strange conditions in the will of the doctor? Does it constantly disappear without a trace? Intricate incidents in which these two faces are depicted end tragically ... And only the diary of the deceased, replete with terrible details, clarifies the picture of the events....
This is a very peculiar story about the horrors of interstellar flights: outer space with its impenetrable darkness is a true abode of nightmares. Monsters living in interstellar space are incomprehensible. Telepathic humans perceive them as dragons; and the People’s Partners — the great warrior cats — Captain Woof and Lady May — like giant rats. Light is the doom of these monsters. Going beyond the salvific sunlight, people doom themselves to death or insanity. Thus, interstellar flights turn into an eternal battle for survival....
Lacking food and provisions, a team of earthlings takes from Mars a large batch of animals. Among them there is an animal, nicknamed the local natives Wub. Wub is a bit like a pig, and the captain of the ship Franco suggests immediately tasting the meat of this beast. But the fact is that the Wub itself doesn’t really want to be eaten, which Franco reports right there ......
Entertaining mathematics is one of the most beloved by readers of the genres of popular literature. Solving its non-standard peculiar tasks, people experience the joy of joining creative thinking, intuitively feel the beauty and greatness of mathematics, they realize the absurdity of the widespread, but nevertheless deeply erroneous idea of it as something dull and frozen (“Is it in mathematics isn't everything open yet? ”), they begin to understand why mathematicians, speaking about their science, often resort to aesthetic categories (“ elegant result ”,“ beautiful proof ”). At the same...
Every toy dreams of becoming real. But this does not happen by magic. If you want to become real, you need to be truly loved. This is where the magic begins ......
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally...
One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A true literary wonder, Hurston's masterwork remains as relevant and affecting...
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too...
Lucy Carroll's literary masterpiece "The Snark Hunt", in which more than a hundred years remained in the shadow of two "Alice", and modern writer's opinion was about him as a "delusional and harmless flight of fantasy." Current researchers of creativity believe that "The Snark Hunt" is not only a great triumph, but also the central work of classical English nonsense poetry. In this edition, in addition to "The Hunt for the Snark" in the best translation of G. Kruzhkov, presents the stories of Carroll, as well as a collection of articles and messages entitled "Food for the mind."...
