In the work of this greatest of English poets of the late XIX century, poetry collections occupy a special place, it was they who brought the author worldwide fame (and at the same time the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1907). To this day, they remain an unsurpassed example of poetic creativity....
Finding himself on the brink of poverty after the death of his father, the young and largely naive Nicholas Nickleby, under the pressure of his cynical and pragmatic uncle, becomes a teacher in one of the notorious closed English schools... Even now, even the most trained reader is shocked by pictures of ruthless corporal punishment and humiliation of older students - teachers and younger students - elders. Closed schools, in which, according to most Victorian writers, forged the color of the British Empire, became a monstrous prison for the humanist Dickens, breaking children's destinies and...
A terrible anti-utopian pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, which shocked the contemporaries of the writer - and shocking even modern readers with his cold, almost ironic objectivity. The victims of the "black death" that fell upon England could be counted in the hundreds of thousands. However, the story of one person who survived the "Plague Year" affects us much more than dry numbers......
After the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe wrote another story about adventures at sea. The result was this lesser-known work, which is a first-person account of pirate life. In response to a letter accusing him of the worst possible act, Captain Avery writes the answer, trying to justify himself. He considers it appropriate to provide a full account of the life of the captain of a pirate ship. And his letters show that he is just a romantic con man....
The satirical science fiction novel by Jonathan Swift, in which human and social vices are vividly and wittily ridiculed. The book has become a classic of moral and political satire, although its abridged alterations (and film adaptations) for children are especially popular. Shipwrecked, Lemuel Gulliver woke up thrown to an island inhabited by tiny little men, whose serious passions around growth and fashion seem ridiculous. His subsequent wanderings will lead Gulliver to Brobdingneg, the land of giants, to the philosophical guigngnms, to the vile yekha. During these journeys, Gulliver will...
A novel where the bitter fury of a realist writer is hidden under external sentimentality, for which the imperfection of human nature and the darkness of the human soul are not news - and still cause rejection. Friendship and betrayal, love and hate, the confrontation of minions and stepsons of fate - these are just a few storylines of this truly comprehensive, epoch-making novel, where the history of the country and era is reflected in the history of a small town....
“A series of reckless, but sincere articles,” as Chesterton defined “Heretics” in “Orthodoxy” (by the way, this most famous treatise was written in response to the accusation that even Chesterton criticizes different philosophies in “Heretics”, but does not give his own) . A collection of Chesterton's essays on people whom he considered modern heretics. The book is directed against the most dangerous ideas of our time. By the way, "Heretics" is the first of the famous Chesterton's apologetic treatises....
White people build a bridge over the sacred Mother Ganges. The chief engineer of the project is very worried whether his brainchild will survive the catastrophic flood of the river. By circumstance, with a single servant, he falls on a small island and sees an amazing collection of ancient gods of India....
1798 year. Napoleon's Egyptian campaign failed. His doomed army crosses the Sahara, repelling the attacks of the Mameluke warriors. The young French officer Augustin Robert fearlessly fights the enemy, believing in his salvation. But the Sahara completes destruction by overthrowing the surviving soldiers beyond reality. Being at that moment in a semi-unconscious state, Augustin escaping from his pursuers meets with a leopard. It was supposed to be a meeting with death....
In 1842, the prominent English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870) took a trip to America. Returning to England, he published American Notes (1842), and a little later, Martin Cheslwith (1844), two works in which the lying legend of "American Paradise" was exposed. At that time, America knew the slavery of blacks, in addition, Dickens could observe wild political mores, the controllability of the American press. He showed all this in his notes....
Joseph Rudyard Kipling is a famous writer, great poet and short story writer, the first Englishman to receive a Nobel Prize in literature. Perhaps, rarely did anyone have such a successful literary fate: Kipling's works were enthusiastically accepted by critics, royalties turned out to be record-breaking, four collected works were published during the author's lifetime - this is a truly unique case....
The literary heritage of the English novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) is quite extensive. Of the eighty novels, however, most were written by her in order to make money. One of the results of this was the dominance of the “sensational novel” motifs, which was very popular among the reading public of that time, which led to numerous attacks on Braddon by literary critics of her time, as well as modern English literary critics accusing her of a lack of artistic skill....
May 24, 1819 in the family of Edward, the Duke of Kent, and Victoria, Princess Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeldskaya, a daughter named Alexandrina Victoria was born. After 18 years, she will ascend to the British throne and become Queen Victoria. Victoria's 63-year reign — one of the longest in history — has become perhaps the most successful for Britain: this small island nation will be the most powerful and developed country in the world, an empire that “the sun never sets over”....
A collection of Kipling's most famous works for people of any generation. Kipling took the plots of his tales primarily not from books, but from the stories of his exciting travels. Tales of Rudyard Kipling primarily teach friendship, mutual assistance and compassion, and for a long time settle in the hearts of children and adults....
