Зарубежная старинная литература

Джозеф Конрад – Youth: a Narrative & The End of the Tether

Portraying a young man’s fi rst sea-voyage to the East in Youth, and the blind old age of Captain Whalley in The End of the Tether, the stories in this volume are united in their theme – the ‘Ages of Man’ – and in their scepticism. Conrad’s vision has infl uenced twentieth-century writers and artists from T. S. Eliot to Jorge Luis [...]

Элизабет Гаскелл – The Moorland Cottage

Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward. Through the example and guidance of her mother, who dotes on Edward constantly, a ypung woman learns that self-sacrifi ce is the key to living a fulfi lled life. How much personal happiness can one forgo [...]

Уильям Уилки Коллинз – The Yellow Mask

The secret of Wilkie Collins’s success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating plotskillfully combines melodrama, detective and a manners novel in his books, generously fl avoring them elements of the Gothic novel. The Yellow Mask – a complete mystery [...]

Уильям Уилки Коллинз – The Frozen Deep

Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham is haunted by the memory of Richard Wardour, and his mistaken belief that they will one day marry. With her gift of ‘Second Sight’, Clara foresees terrible tragedy ahead and is racked by guilt. Allied to two different ships, the two men at fi rst [...]

Даниэль Дефо – The History Of The Remarkable Life of John Sheppard & Atlantis Major

John Sheppard was a notorious English robber and thief of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723. He was arrested and imprisoned fi ve times in 1724 but escaped from prison, making him a notorious public fi gure, and wildly popular with the poorer [...]

Генри Райдер Хаггард – The Wanderer’s Necklace

Olaf, a Norseman in the eighth century A.D. flees his homeland after challenging the Norse god Odin’s right to a human sacrifice, travels to Constantinople to protect the Empress Irene Augusta from her son Constantine the Fifth and other enemies of the Eastern Roman Empire. From Byzantinum, to the pyramid tombs of Upper Egypt, Olaf becomes a [...]

Генри Райдер Хаггард – The Ivory Child

While Quartermain visits Lord Randall, two foreigners come asking for Macumazana – that is, asking for Allan Quartermain by the name he used among the Africans. The two visitors are Harut and Marut, priests and doctors of the White Kendah People and they have come to ask Allan Quartermain for his help. The White Kendah people are at war with the [...]

Генри Райдер Хаггард – The Mahatma and the Hare & Barbara Who Came Back

The Mahatma and the Hare is the story of the selfcalled mahatma – a spiritual man who is able, when asleep, to view “The Great White Road” on which the souls of those recently departed enter heaven – encounters the hare of the title after that animal’s death. Barbara Who Came Back is the story of Septimus Walrond, who was returning from [...]

James H. Schmitz – The Golden Bowl

Генри Джеймс – не только один из самых известных классиков мировой литературы, но и ярчайший представитель трансатлантической культуры рубежа XIX и XX веков. “Золотая чаша” – последний [...]

Генри Райдер Хаггард – The Treasure of the Lake

Treasure and the occult are vividly blended in this stirring tale of Africa. Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future [...]

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