The Queen of Spades — Александр Пушкин
The Queen of Spades is a short story with supernatural elements by Alexander Pushkin about human avarice. Pushkin wrote the story in autumn 1833 in Boldino and it was first published in the…
The Prussian Officer — Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс
The first narrative in the collection is «The Prussian Officer», which tells of a Captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has been left with only his military career,…
The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is…
The Prince — Никколо Макиавелли
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus…
The Poems — Уильям Блейк
«William Blake an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic…
The Other Wise Man — Henry Van Dyke
The Other Wise Man is a short novel or long short story by Henry van Dyke. It was initially published in 1895 and has been reprinted many times since then. The story is…
The Outrage — Александр Куприн
The Outrage – A True Story, Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin. Kuprin wrote the story immediately after the bloody demonstrations in St. Petersburg, Russia, in January, 1905, known as “Bloody Sunday”—an event considered as the…
The Offshore Pirate — Фрэнсис Скотт Кэй Фицджеральд
«The Offshore Pirate» is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920. It is one of eight short stories included in Fitzgerald’s first published collection, Flappers and Philosophers. The story is…
The Odyssey — Гомер
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic. The Odyssey is fundamental to the…
The Monkey's Paw — William Wymark Jacobs
«»«The Monkey’s Paw»» is a supernatural short story by author W. W. Jacobs, first published in England in the collection The Lady of the Barge in 1902. In the story, three wishes are…
The Metamorphosis — Франц Кафка
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka’s best-known works. Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed…
The Madman — Kahlil Gibran
The Madman, His Parables and Poems is a book written by Kahlil Gibran, which was published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1918, with illustrations reproduced from original drawings by…
The Luck of Roaring Camp — Bret Harte
«The Luck of Roaring Camp» is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international…
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe — Даниэль Дефо
«The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work’s protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many…
The Little Angel — Леонид Андреев
Leonid Nikolaivich Andreyev was born in Orel in 1871. After his father’s death he was thrown upon his own resources, but managed to study at both Petrograd and Moscow Universities, graduating in Law…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Вашингтон Ирвинг
«The favorite story of the Dutch settlement of Sleepy Hollow, New York, is an ominous ghost story. A headless horseman is waiting for belated travelers. Ikabod Crane, who believes in everything beyond, cares…
The Lees of Happiness — Фрэнсис Скотт Кэй Фицджеральд
The Lees of Happiness – one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald «Tales of the Jazz Age» (1922). The Lees of Happiness is…
The Lady with the Dog — Антон Чехов
«The Lady with the Dog» is a short story by Anton Chekhov. First published in 1899, it describes an adulterous affair between Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, an unhappily married Moscow banker, and Anna Sergeyevna…
The King in Yellow — Robert Chambers
«The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a play with the…
The Jelly-Bean — Фрэнсис Скотт Кэй Фицджеральд
The Jelly-Bean – one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald «Tales of the Jazz Age» (1922). This is a Southern story, with the…
The Great God Pan — Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen (3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for…
The Embroidered Towel — Михаил Булгаков
In «The Embroidered Towel» by Mikhail Bulgakov the young doctor arrives at his new post after a bone-jarring 24-hour wagon ride. He frets about how young he looks, and feels intimidated by the…
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man — Федор Достоевский
«The Dream of a Ridiculous Man» (Russian: Сон смешного человека, Son smeshnovo cheloveka) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that…
The Diary of Adam and Eve. Short Stories — Марк Твен
Размышления главных персонажей новеллы – Адама и Евы – преподаны Твеном в форме дневниковых записей. Автор вновь поднимает вечный вопрос о земном существовании с двух точек зрения – мужской и женской. Сквозь юмор…
The Divine Comedy: Inferno — Данте Алигьери
The Divine Comedy Inferno by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, that gives the widest synthesis of medieval culture and world ontology. Dante’s Inferno a real medieval encyclopedia of scientific,…
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz — Фрэнсис Скотт Кэй Фицджеральд
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in…
The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Лев Толстой
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the…
The Day We Celebrate. Stories — О. Генри
О’Генри – американский писатель. Рассказы О’Генри отличаются изобретательной фабулой, неожиданными развязками и насмешливым юмором. Они образуют сказочно-авантюрную эпопею американской жизни, полную достоверных бытовых примет и метких авторских наблюдений. Подлинный герой О’Генри – «маленький…
The Cut-Glass Bowl. The Lees of Happiness (Хрустальная чаша. Осадок счастья) — Фрэнсис Скотт Кэй Фицджеральд
В настоящее издание включены два рассказа из раннего периода творчества американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда [1896 – 1940], вошедшего в историю мировой литературы романами о жизни Америки 20-х годов. «Хрустальная чаша» – огромная…
The Dead — Джеймс Джойс
«»The Dead»» is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. The other stories in the collection are shorter, whereas at 15,952 words, «„The Dead“» is almost long enough…
