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Фрэнсис Скотт Кэй Фицджеральд - The Great Gatsby
Фрэнсис Скотт Кэй Фицджеральд - The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. Many literary critics consider The Great Gatsby to be one of the greatest novels ever written.The story of the book primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval and excess, creating a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.Fitzgerald, inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's North Shore, began planning the novel in 1923, desiring to produce, in his words, «„something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.“» First published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold poorly. In its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title of the «„Great American Novel“». Famous works of the author F. S. Fitzgerald: «„This Side of Paradise“», «„The Beautiful and Damned“», «„The Great Gatsby“», «„Tender Is the Night“», «„The Last Tycoon“», «„The Diamond as Big as the Ritz“», «„May Day“», «„The Rich Boy“», «„The Curious Case of Benjamin Button“», «„The Offshore Pirate“», «„The Ice Palace“», «„Head and Shoulders“», «„The Cut-Glass Bowl“», «„Bernice Bobs Her Hair“», «„Benediction“», «„Tales of the Jazz Age“».
Даниэль Дефо - The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Даниэль Дефо - The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
"The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called «„Más a Tierra“», now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. It is generally seen as a contender for the first English novel. Before the end of 1719, the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature but also in film, television and radio, that its name is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade. Famous works of the author Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress. "
Николай Гоголь - 50 Stories from Russia’s Greatest Authors
Николай Гоголь - 50 Stories from Russia’s Greatest Authors
"This audiobook collects a magnificent set of works by Russian classical authors: Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Turgenev, Aleksandr Kuprin. Each original story, springing from a common creative heritage, delivers a glimpse of the immortal Russian Soul and has influenced modern literary trends.These stories are interesting to their core and will bring pleasure to readers and listener alike.Get ready to immerse yourself within these immortal works that have long been counted among the best of classic world literature. Fyodor Dostoyevsky – THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MANNOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUNDTHE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDINGIvan Turgenev – MUMUFIRST LOVETHE DISTRICT DOCTORAleksandr Kuprin – THE OUTRAGEAlexander Pushkin -THE QUEEN OF SPADESLeo Tolstoy – A LETTER TO A HINDUTHE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICHGOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITSA RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS PARTYAnton Chekhov – THE WIFETHE SLANDERTHE HORSE-STEALERSTHE PETCHENYEGA DEAD BODYA HAPPY ENDINGTHE LOOKING-GLASSOLD AGEDARKNESSTHE BEGGARIN TROUBLEFROSTMINDS IN FERMENTGONE ASTRAYTHE AVENGERTHE JEUNE PREMIERA DEFENCELESS CREATUREAN ENIGMATIC NATUREA HAPPY MANA TROUBLESOME VISITORAN ACTOR'S ENDVANKAA COUNTRY COTTAGEFAT AND THINNERVESTHE DOCTORABOUT LOVEA LOTTERY TICKETLeonid Andreyev – THE LITTLE ANGELLAZARUSMaxim Gorky – ONE AUTUMN NIGHTHER LOVERMikhail Bulgakov – THE EMBROIDERED TOWELNikolai Gogol – CHRISTMAS EVETHE NOSEA MAY NIGHTTHE CLOAKTHE VIY"
Николай Гоголь - The Viy
Николай Гоголь - The Viy
""Viy"", also translated as «„The Viy“», is a horror novella by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, first published in the first volume of his collection of tales entitled Mirgorod (1835). The title is also the name of the demonic entity central to the plot.Every summer, there is usually a large procession of all the students moving around the area as they travel home. However, the group is reduced to three students: the theologian Khaliava, the philosopher Khoma Brut, and the rhetorician Tibery Gorobets.As the night draws in, the students hope to find a village near the main road where they can find some rest and food. However, they become lost in the wilderness, eventually coming upon two small houses and a farm. An older woman there tells them she has a little room and cannot accommodate any more travelers, but she eventually agrees to let them stay.At night, the woman comes to Khoma. At first, he thinks she is trying to seduce him, but then she draws closer and he sees that her eyes are glowing strangely. She leaps on his back, and he reluctantly finds himself galloping with her all over the countryside with a strength he previously never knew. He eventually slows the witch by chanting exorcisms out loud, and then rides on her back and later picks up a piece of wood and beats her as punishment. The older woman later collapses, and he discovers she has turned into a beautiful girl.Khoma runs away to Kyiv and resumes his easy life, when a rumor reaches his dean that a rich cossack’s daughter was found crawling home near death, her last wish being for Khoma the philosopher to come and read psalms over her corpse for three nights after her death.The most famous and inspirational works of Nikolai Gogol include The Mantle, Evenings at the Farm, St Petersburg Stories, Taras Bulba, a tale of the Cossacks, The Revizor, The Viy, The Nose, A May Night, The Cloak, Memoirs of a Madman and many more.