Aurora Floyd

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Aurora, the spoiled daughter of a banker, receives an offer to get married. But almost before the wedding, the groom finds out about some secret. Aurora cannot open it and the lovers part. But the girl did not suffer for long, after a few months she marries another of her fans. But the secret has not gone away. She hangs over a married couple, spoils the life of Aurora.

The Clouds

Aristophanes

The old farmer Strepsiad is in debt because of his son Fidippida, squandering money for equestrian sports. Strepsiad seeks help from a neighbor the sage of Socrates; Having come to the thought room, where Socrates teaches young people, Strepsiad asks to teach him tricky speeches and evasions, which would allow not to repay debts. But Strepsiad turns out to be unsuitable for science, and then Fidippid goes to study instead

Двойник (Sobowtór). Петербургская поэма

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fiodor Michajłowicz Dostojewski

Гротескно-фантастическая повесть 201eДвойник201d рассказывает историю обыкновенного тихого и услужливого петербургского чиновника Якова Петровича Голядкина, который мечтает получить повышение по службе и стать своим человеком в среде светской элиты столицы. В условиях острого психологического напряжения с Голядкиным начинают происходить странные вещи. Однажды он встречает своего двойника, который воплощает в жизнь все нереализованные мечты Якова и вместо него пожинает плоды славы. Перед читателем оживают петербургские улицы XIX века, он знакомится с нравами обитателей Петербурга. И совсем в духе Н. В. Гоголя узнает о жизни чиновничьего Петербурга и приключениях господина Голядкина. Ф. М. Достоевский показывает масштабную картину идеального человечества и падения нравов среди людей.

A Matter of Millions

Anna Katharine Green

The main plot of the story is a dying man and his will. Having no relatives, the man wants to give his money to someone worthy and resembling a woman whom he loved and lost too early. Most of the book is devoted to various actions of the characters, reactions and plans for this money millions in the title. The book also has a love story.

Dom bez klucza

Earl Derr Biggers

Dom bez klucza to pierwsza powieść E.D. Biggersa z cyklu o Charliem Chanie. Detektyw Chan musi rozwiązać zagadkę tajemniczego morderstwa Dana Winterslipa, niepokornego bostończyka mieszkającego na Hawajach. Tuż po jego śmierci na jaw wychodzą mroczne tajemnice z jego przeszłości, które rzucają złe światło na ród Winterslipów, będących ostoją bostońskiego konserwatyzmu. W rozwiązaniu zagadki Chanowi pomaga John Quincy, purytanin najczystszej wody.

The Temple of Fire. Or, The Mysterious Island

Fenton Ash

The Temple of Fire, or The Mysterious Island (1905), the authors seventh novel out of an eventual 14. It is an absorbing lost-world adventure, characterized by vividly imaginative. Francis Henry Atkins British speculative fiction writer, working mainly under two pseudonyms (Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash) in sequence, was extremely successful and influential. He played an important role in the History of Science-Fiction.

New Arabian Nights

Robert Louis Stevenson

In the collection New Arabian Nights, the descriptions of the adventures of the fantastic prince of Bohemia are replaced by the mysterious atmosphere of the Pavilion on the Hill, vivid pictures of medieval France give way to the real facts of the series of villainous murders that formed the basis of the horror story The Thief of Corpses. And, as always with Stevenson, the reader will be pleased with a tense entertaining plot, picturesque figurativeness of speech, and a refined style. The book is intended for a wide range of readers, especially for children of middle and senior school age.

Valvedre

George Sand

Cest une histoire de souffrance humaine. Le personnage principal parle de sa souffrance dans lenfance, quil a souffert. Il y avait mme des jours, voire des semaines, quand il vivait, sans savoir o il se trouvait vraiment. Il est parfois utile de tirer les leçons des erreurs des autres et dapprendre par eux-mmes lexpérience et les enseignements précieux.