An American Girl in London

Sara Jeannette Duncan

Mamie Vick from Chicago, USA travels alone to London to do some sightseeing, with the full approval of her family. Mamie does all the typical American tourist stuff; she visits Madame Tussauds, London Zoo, Epsom Derby, boat races in Oxford. The protagonist is full of little unexpected insights and surprises.

The Divine Comedy. The Vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

Dante Alighieri

A unique poetic work, about which historians and critics, philosophers and even adherents of various mystical and esoteric teachings are desperately arguing about. Hell is a colossal funnel of concentric circles, the tapering end of which is adjacent to the center of the earth. Having passed the threshold of hell, in which the souls of indecisive, insignificant people dwell, they enter the first circle of hell the limb. In the earthly paradise, Dante meets Beatrice, seated on a chariot drawn by a vulture.

Flappers and Philosophers

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Published soon after Fitzgeralds debut novel This Side of Paradise, the novel that had made him famous at the age of twenty-three, Flappers and Philosophers was the authors first iconic collection of short fiction. In these pages we meet Fitzgeralds trademark characters: the beautiful, headstrong young women and the dissolute, wandering young men who comprised what came to be called the Lost Generation. This collection evokes 1920s America through the eyes of a writer indelibly linked to that singular era.

Sons of the Air

T.C. Bridges

This spring was the most treasured possession of Kurt, since without him there could not have been a trout farm that gave him life. There was never a day when he did not inspect it, and it was very fashionable to keep a thermometer in it to see that the temperature does not change. He never knew a change of more than four degrees from thirty-eight degrees to forty-two. When he picked up the thermometer, he noticed a flicker of white in the dark jaws of spring. Something rose, spinning in a rush of water.

The Case of Oscar Brodski

R. Austin Freeman

A suburban train runs over a man lying on the rails. Passengers at the nearest station recognize the famous gem dealer Oscar Brodsky as the deceased. Was it an accident, suicide or murder? In less than half a day, Dr. Thorndike, known for his scientific method of solving crimes, solves the mystery.

Крейцерова соната (Sonata Kreutzerowska)

Лев Николаевич Толстой, Lew Nikołajewicz Tołstoj

Пожалуй, ни одно художественное произведение Льва Толстого не вызывало столь бурной полемики в обществе, как повесть 201eКрейцерова соната201d. Редко литературное произведение становилось предметом столь широкой и противоречивой дискуссии. Книга провозглашает идеал воздержания и описывает от первого лица гнев ревности. Небывалая общественно и культурно-критическая острота рассказа завораживала и шокировала одновременно. Искусная композиция рассказа, переплетающая ситуацию монолога рассказчика в купе вагона с самим событием, о котором идет речь, представляет собой дихотомическую структуру, несущую особую смысловую нагрузку. Не удивительно, Толстой затрагивает самые значимые темы повседневного существования любого человека: любовь, борьба с плотью, интимные отношения, верность и непостоянство, разрушение института семьи.

An Impossible Ideal

Sara Jeannette Duncan

The action of the story takes place in the summer capital of the British Raj, is a narrative. The author questions the concepts of taste, distinction and pretension in a colonial context. The book keeps you in suspense until the very end.

Ailsa Paige

Robert W. Chambers

This book is one of the most popular novels by Robert William Chambers and has been translated into several other languages around the world. No history of the 3rd Zouave or 8th Lancers has ever been written except in this narrative; and historians and veterans alike would look in vain for any record of these two regimentsregiments that could have been, but never were.