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 Margaret, windy with the boyish character of Joe, good Bess, refined Emmy; they all love their family, everyone has their own talent and zest. Like the murmur of a stream. She is inspired and delivers a lot of pleasant moments....
Awakening is one of the greatest works in American literature. Released in 1899, the novel shocked readers and critics. The author was accused of disorder. She was not banned. Kate Chopin for a long time went unnoticed. "Awakening" was recognized only many years later. Brilliant beauty Edna Pontellier, together with her husband and two wonderful kids, spend the summer in the Grand Isle resort town Eddie's unexpected encounter with Robert, a charming young man, suddenly changed by the calm and measured life of a woman....
John Milton (1608-1676) - one of the greatest poets of England. Milton's poetry has always been distinguished by its elevation, its greatest beauty, appreciated by poets such as Pushkin, Byron, Goethe, can not be left indifferent and modern reader, despite the fact that we share the time and the difference in cultural and different artistic characteristics and tastes. Three poems included in this collection - “Paradise Lost”, “Returned Paradise” and “Samson-Wrestler” - were final for Milton....
Mr. Scrooge is a miser and a misanthrope. He loves only his account book and his savings. One day an old friend visits Mr. Scrooge on Christmas Eve. And everything would be fine, but only a friend died a long time ago ......
Siddhartha is an allegorical parable of the Nobel Laureate Hermann Hesse. The book is about the path of a loner. She tells about Siddhartha, a young brahmana, all respected and amazing, devoted her life to the search. In this search, a brahmana becomes an adversary - an ascetic and a beggar. Siddhartha's friend, Govinda, follows him. Together they make a pilgrimage to the Buddha Gautama. They say that this will be possible due to their own experience, and goes back on the road. So begins his new period of life....
The book includes the legendary novel by HG Wells "War of the Worlds", repeatedly filmed and inspiring entire generations of science fiction writers to create exciting works about the struggle of civilizations and star wars....
The American family was forced to rent out a family estate for the duration of the renovation of their apartment. The main character, John’s wife, didn’t like the yellow wallpapers in their room, which they made into a bedroom. The wallpapers were coarse, their color was repulsive, and the pattern prompted research and observation; it seemed that something was wrong with this wallpaper....
Forrest J. Ackerman, prominent Los Angeles agent and Science Fiction enthusiast, reports on the recent World Convention in New York. Mr. Ackerman, who attended the first World Convention seventeen years ago, has been prominent in SF circles since the early thirties...
Something moving on the ledge attracted my attention: it was a scurrying black ant. If I had thought about it, I might have wondered how it came there. But the next moment a more curious object on the sill caught my eye. I bent over. I couldn't make out what it was at first. A bug, perhaps. Maybe it was too small for a bug. Just a little dancing dust, no doubt. Then I discerned -- and gasped. On the sill, there -- it was a man! A man on the streetcar's window sill -- a little man! He was so tiny I would never have seen him if it hadn't been for his white attire, which made him visible...
Few people realize it today, but famed actor Alan Arkin wrote two science fiction short stories in the 1950s, beginning with "Whiskaboom" in 1955 and "People Soup" in 1958. This volume collects both classic tales!...
Classic Science Fiction! The twins were a rare team indeed. They wanted to build a printing plant on a garbage dump. When Muldoon asked them why, their answer was entirely logical: "Because we live here."...
"Youth" is a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to turn the animals into a circus act. The astronomer, meanwhile, tells the industrialist that he has been in contact with space aliens who want to...
The riot of the individual against the impersonal system. All MUST BE beautiful. At a certain age, everyone undergo a transformation procedure. All beautiful, all the same, all good? She does not want to become forever young and beautiful. This is her father and grandfather knocked down with a pantalica. To read the books and cheerfully, although they are nowhere left now - brain-diluted in beautiful heads is enough of a film. Do you want to stay in your body?...
This is not just a golden classic of world literature, but a novel that turned in its time the idea of romantic prose. Years and decades pass, but the history of Heathcliff’s stormy, tragic love and Katie is still beyond the reach of time. THROUGH POSSIBLE has been already read by many generations of women - they continue to be read now. This book does not age, as true love does not age. See the Book's Video Review/Recommendation:...