- Fiction, 1818, Jane Austen
How hard it is to live if you were separated from your loved one, for whom I’m ready to give your life. It doesn’t matter what contributed to this. Heart is so sick. What is life after that? And what if you ruined your happiness with your own hands, you yourself rejected your beloved person and you understand that it was he who was the only one...
- Children's / Fiction, 1905, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The heroine of the story of the famous American writer Francis Burnett, Sarah Crewe, is a girl from a wealthy family. She gets all the best - the best toys, the most beautiful clothes, the most delicious goodies. But suddenly the luxurious life of little Sarah ends, and a new one begins, full of suffering and deprivation. But Sarah Crewe - a noble...
- Fiction, 1933, Wallace West
Millions of millions of creatures living on planet Earth are slowing and falling. What is the reason? The sense of time disappears ... What awaits our world?...
- Fiction, 1996, Charles Dickens
David was born half an orphan - six months after the death of his father. At first, the boy grew up surrounded by the love of his mother and nanny, but with the advent of his stepfather, a stubborn tyrant who considers the child his burden, he had to forget about his former life. Another "mentor", an ignorant Mr. Crickle, a former hop merchant who...
- Fiction, 2017, Mia Sheridan
Fall in love with this emotional New York Times bestselling romance between two tortured souls who find their chance at happiness in the most unexpected way. I wanted to lose myself in the small town of Pelion, Maine. To forget everything I had left behind. The sound of rain. The blood. The coldness of a gun against my skin. For six months, each...
Emma Woodhouse, a young twenty-year-old girl, lives with her father in Highbury, a small village near London. The Wodehouse is the first family in the village. The affair begins immediately after Emma arranged the marriage of her pupil Miss Taylor to become Mrs. Weston and rise in society. After Emma succeeds, she realizes that this is her...
- Fiction, 1996, Charles Dickens
English writer Charles Dickens is understandable and dear to readers of all generations and nationalities. And this is not surprising, since he wrote about what is well known to everyone: about good and evil, about family values, about punishment of vices and the reward of virtue. The ingenious imagination of Dickens gave him the opportunity to...
- Fiction, 1996, Louisa May Alcott
This story is about a little warmth in life. This beautiful book is like a mixture of depression, blues and melancholy. Sisters March, girls from an impoverished American family of the late 19th century, seeking to become worthy love of their parents. Each heroine is a jewel of narration with its own character, aspirations. Serious beauty...
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities....
In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue....