In America, in the rich family estate of Saddle Meadows, the Glendinning family leads a luxurious and carefree existence - Mrs. Glendinning rotates in the upper circles of local society; her son, Pierre, an athlete and a talented young writer who gained his first fame, is going to marry the lovely Lucy, whom he seems to have a crush on. But an accidental meeting with the mysterious beauty Isabel threatens to destroy Pierre's entire happy life, as she opens the veil of gloomy family secrets......
The book of the English traveler and artist A. Henry Savage Land tells about his journey to the Kailash region and a visit to the origins of the Brahmaputra. This work is a valuable repository of information about southern Tibet and its people. During this incredibly difficult journey undertaken 120 years ago, full of hardships and dangers, Lendor was held captive, he was tortured and miraculously survived......
At birth, the leader’s daughter received the name Amonut, but among her relatives she was known as Matoaka. Pocahontas was the nickname given to her by her father. In the language of her people, this meant something like “prankster” or “playful child”. About 30 local communities, united by language and culture, were subordinate to the leader Paukhatan, all together they formed the Pouhatan tribe. Pocahontas first saw Europeans, probably in 1607 or in 1608, these were colonists from Jamestown, an English settlement in Virginia. One of the directors in this colony was the same captain John...
Richard Francis Burton is a British traveler, writer, poet, translator, ethnographer, linguist, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He became famous for his studies of Asia and Africa, as well as his exceptional knowledge of various languages and cultures. During his life, Burton was a very controversial figure. Although many revered him as a hero, others saw him as an unprincipled adventurer and an immoral person. His free views on sexuality shocked contemporaries and created the basis for rumors....
Mary Ann Evans chose to write realistic works, so the first and only genre work of Mary Ann was the story The Lifted Veil, about a man wielding the gift of foresight. This is one of the classic works of Victorian Gothic....
Behind the outward success of the influential prim Forsyths, representatives of the top of the English bourgeoisie, who are discreetly discussing dividends and stock prices, the madness of passion, family enmity, hopeless love and the pain of loneliness......
The novel "Main Street" brought the author literary fame and placed him among the most significant American writers of that era. Sinclair Lewis's work evolved under the sign of the great events of the twentieth century: the first imperialist war, the October Socialist Revolution. Social inequality at this point became more apparent. Imperialist America presented itself as a rattling reinforced concrete hell with the bestial rudeness of possessive customs. From the feeling of heartlessness and cruelty of modern bourgeois civilization, the theme of the tragedy of a depressed and impersonal...
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen, and, with the difference in a few days, by the British expedition of Scott, in Antarctica there was only one big goal for travel - crossing the continent from sea to sea....
J. M. Barrie is a Scottish playwright and novelist, author of a series of fabulous works about Peter Pan. Since 1897, Barry has turned to drama. He is famous for Quality Street, a comedy depicting England at the beginning of the 19th century. Barry’s plays, among which “What Every Woman Knows,” introduced him to the circle of outstanding playwrights of the time....
Very much in love with her husband, Charity Coe Cheever discovers that her husband is in love with Zada L'Etoile, a popular dancer, and so she divorces him. Jim Dyckman, who has always loved Charity since their childhood days, after finding it impossible to win Charity had married film actress Kedzie Thropp. When Jim is free but Charity is not, Jim is very disappointed, but both decide to make the best of it....
Cory Doctorow is a journalist, science fiction writer and political activist. One of the founders of boing-boing.net, a popular portal on science, culture and politics, coordinator of the human rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation, a regular author of many magazines and newspapers....
In 1877, Symonds began to have severe pulmonary hemorrhage, and since 1880 he began to live in a mountain resort in Davos in Switzerland, choosing a climate that is useful for treating tuberculosis. Here he created his most famous work, glorifying it in the 19th century. This was a seven-volume study in the field of culture and aesthetics called “Renaissance in Italy”. He also wrote studies of the poetry of Shelley (1879), Ben Johnson (1886), Michelangelo (1893), and Walt Whitman (1893), with whom he corresponded. He also published the first English translation of Sonnets by Michelangelo...
The comedy of the French playwright and poet Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" still does not leave the theatrical stage of many countries of the world. In a duel for the love of beautiful Roxanne, two met. The limited and narrow-minded Christian is handsome; Cyrano is courageous in military affairs, but timid in love, his words and feelings are sublime and beautiful, but his face is ugly and ridiculous. But in the end it becomes clear: the main thing is not appearance, but the individuality of each person....
"Madame Bovary" is a great novel by the French writer Gustave Flaubert. The main character, Emma Bovary, suffers from the inability to fulfill her dreams of a brilliant, secular life full of romantic passions. Instead, she is forced to eke out the monotonous existence of the wife of a poor provincial doctor. The painful atmosphere of the outback strangles Emma, but all her attempts to escape beyond the bounds of a gloomy world are doomed to failure: a boring husband cannot satisfy his wife's requests, and her outwardly romantic and attractive lovers are actually egocentric and cruel. Is...
George Barr McCutchen is an American writer and playwright. The most famous novel is "Millions of Brewster" and a series of Ruritanian novels about the state of Graustark....
