The Little Angel
Аннотация к аудиокниге Leonid Nikolaivich Andreyev was born in Orel in 1871. After his father’s death he was thrown upon his own resources, but managed to study at both…
The Lees of Happiness
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Lees of Happiness – one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald «Tales of the Jazz…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Аннотация к аудиокниге «The favorite story of the Dutch settlement of Sleepy Hollow, New York, is an ominous ghost story. A headless horseman is waiting for belated travelers. Ikabod…
The Lady with the Dog
Аннотация к аудиокниге «The Lady with the Dog» is a short story by Anton Chekhov. First published in 1899, it describes an adulterous affair between Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, an…
The King in Yellow
Аннотация к аудиокниге «The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book…
The Jelly-Bean
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Jelly-Bean – one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald «Tales of the Jazz Age» (1922)….
The Great God Pan
Аннотация к аудиокниге Arthur Machen (3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early…
The Embroidered Towel
Аннотация к аудиокниге In «The Embroidered Towel» by Mikhail Bulgakov the young doctor arrives at his new post after a bone-jarring 24-hour wagon ride. He frets about how young…
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Аннотация к аудиокниге «The Dream of a Ridiculous Man» (Russian: Сон смешного человека, Son smeshnovo cheloveka) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the…
The Diary of Adam and Eve. Short Stories
Аннотация к аудиокниге Размышления главных персонажей новеллы – Адама и Евы – преподаны Твеном в форме дневниковых записей. Автор вновь поднимает вечный вопрос о земном существовании с двух точек…
The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Divine Comedy Inferno by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, that gives the widest synthesis of medieval culture and world ontology. Dante’s…
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The…
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Death of Ivan Ilyich – first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written…
The Cut-Glass Bowl. The Lees of Happiness (Хрустальная чаша. Осадок счастья)
Аннотация к аудиокниге В настоящее издание включены два рассказа из раннего периода творчества американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда [1896 – 1940], вошедшего в историю мировой литературы романами о жизни…
The Day We Celebrate. Stories
Аннотация к аудиокниге О’Генри – американский писатель. Рассказы О’Генри отличаются изобретательной фабулой, неожиданными развязками и насмешливым юмором. Они образуют сказочно-авантюрную эпопею американской жизни, полную достоверных бытовых примет и метких…
The Dead
Аннотация к аудиокниге «»The Dead»» is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. The other stories in the collection are shorter, whereas at 15,952…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Аннотация к аудиокниге «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in Collier’s Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was…
The Conquest of Bread
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Conquest of Bread is an 1892 book by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin. Peter Kropotkin was born a Russian prince whose father owned 1,200 serfs….
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Аннотация к аудиокниге There is no riddle that sharp mind of detective Sherlock Holmes can’t solve. Observation, intelligence, selflessness and bravery distinguish a famous literature character created by writer…
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Christmas Tree and the Wedding» is a short story written by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky published in 1848. The piece is narrated by an awkward…
The Christmas Mistake
Аннотация к аудиокниге Linda Grant, beset by medical bills and other pressing obligations, tells her children that they will not be celebrating Christmas this year. Older Keith takes the…
The Christmas Banquet
Аннотация к аудиокниге «First published in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, XIV (January, 1844), “The Christmas Banquet” shares its subtitle—”from the unpublished “Allegories of the Heart”—with “Egotism;…
The Chimes
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Chimes, is a novella written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his…
The Cat
Аннотация к аудиокниге Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror…
The Camel's Back
Аннотация к аудиокниге When Perry Parkhurst decides that his long-time engagement to Betty Medill has gone on long enough, he presents her with a marriage license and an ultimatum:…
The Call Of The Wild
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold…
The Best of Washington Irving
Аннотация к аудиокниге «Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He…
The Best of Oscar Wilde
Аннотация к аудиокниге «Selected works of Oscar Wilde «„Best of Oscar Wilde“» is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. “The ones who are…
The Awakening
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of…
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however,…
The Apology of Socrates
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Apology of Socrates was written by Plato. In fact, it’s a defensive speech of Socrates that he said in a court noted down by Plato….
The Allegory of the Cave
Аннотация к аудиокниге The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato’s Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare «the effect of education…