O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, is known for his short stories with surprise endings. In this collection you will find the following beloved O. Henry stories: “The Plutonian Fire”, “The Princess and the Puma”, “By Courier”, “The Gift of the Magi”, “The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein”, “Mammon and the Archer”, “The Memento”, “Springtime A La Carte”, “The Last Leaf”, “The Skylight Room”, “The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock”, “The C ...
“The Death of Ivan Ilyich” tells a tale of a man in his 40s who has spent his entire life climbing the social ladder in Russia. Barely tolerant of his wife and generally indifferent to the other people around him, Ivan has a minor accident hanging curtains in a new apartment that proves to be a terminal injury. As his life slowly and painfully spirals inexorably toward death, Ivan struggles immensely against what he perceives to be an unfair fat ...
Some of the most popular horror and mystery stories of all time are collected together here in “The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe.” A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these chilling and classic tales. Included in this collection is “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the story of a man and his sister who suffer from a strange, debilitating illness. Her death drives him to the point of madness as their fragile man ...
What would the genre of detective fiction be without the inimitable Sherlock Holmes? One can only speculate as to its state given the absence of its most famous character. “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” was the first anthology of Sherlock Holmes stories and collected together the stories that were first serialized in “The Strand Magazine” between June 1891 and July 1892. The stories included in this reprint of that volume are as follows: “A ...
Коронавирус перекроил современный мир до неузнаваемости. Но что он принесет человеку – возможность для стремительного рывка в развитии или станет последним шагом в пропасть, зависит только от нас самих.
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"Seeing ourselves through others' eyes is often instructive…[Prime Minister Giulio] Andreotti, a fixture of postwar Italian government, brings [to this examination of U.S. politics] a keen mind and the perspective of a political system in which charisma is suspect…"— Foreign Affairs «Rich, not only in the usual anecdotes of the author's encounters with famous Americans, but also in reflections on the moments that molded ...
В этой книге автор, гражданин России, рождённый в СССР, описывает события в России последних лет с точки зрения изменений, произошедших в стране за последние шесть лет.
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В 1891 году аббат небольшого прихода Ренн-ле-Шато Соньер Беранже, реставрируя местную церковь, обнаруживает в одной из снесенных колонн полость, в которой оказываются скрученными свитки, представляющие неоценимое значение, в корне переворачивающее привычное представление о библейских событиях и ставящее под сокрушительный удар шаткое положение мирового христианского центра.
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