Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. «The Mystery of Cloomber» is a suspenseful gothic novel that centers around mysterious general Heatherstone and his family. Every single year his paranoia rises around the autumn time. Only his new neighbor John Fothergill West is curious enough to uncover the secret of such unusual behavior.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller Henry Rider Haggard.

In this novel William Wilkie Collins explores the powers of telepathy while telling a skilful tale that interweaves suspense with the familiar ingredients of Victorian melodrama. Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first doesn’t seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each other. But when George saves a young woman from drowning, a strong connection seems to develop between them, which seems to be almost supernatural.

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The plot of The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers revolves around two sealers stranded in amongst Antarctic ice.

Haggard’s faith-fortifying novel is a delicious blend of stirring events, captivating characters, and historical detail. The story is about the destruction of Jerusalem, about first-century life as they follow the hardships and trials of Miriam, a young believer; and Marcus, the Roman officer who wishes to marry her.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The adoptive daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is waiting for a profitable marriage. What hides her past? She lived in a shelter, dragged on a miserable existence and in a moment of desperation she appropriated other people’s documents, another’s life story. But the specter of the past breaks into a real life — a deceived miser requires an answer. Will the Princes have enough courage to turn into Cinderella, sacrifice love and wealth?

Civil war rages between the native tribes of the Malay straits. Captain Tim Wingard sides with the Rajah Hassim. An English yacht blunders into this confusion and runs aground. When Wingard goes aboard to offer assistance, the crew gives him insolence, not gratitude. He prepares to leave…then sees a woman. She captivates him, literally holds him spellbound. It is a spell that soon wrecks all his hopes and leads to the failure of the important cause to which he is bound.

Эта книга представляет собой документальную реконструкцию истории (1888-1923) знаменитого магического братства современной эпохи — Герметического ордена Золотой Зари. В работе над книгой использовались воспоминаниями современников, письма, неопубликованные документы из частных архивов, многие из которых совершенно случайно дошли до наших дней. Автору удалось восстановить общую канву событий. Членами Ордена стали неординарные люди (С.Л.Мазере, У.Б.Йейтс, А.Кроули, А.Э.Уэйт, Флоренс Фарр и др.), посвятившие себя необычной деятельности. Они получили доступ к сокровищнице «тайных» знаний, в те времена не имевшей себе равных в странах Запада, причем эти знания были сведены в очень стройную систему герметических наук и практической магии. Автор рассказывает, какими были эти люди, чего достигли благодаря работе в Ордене, как реагировали на ситуации, выходившие за рамки обыденности.Помимо увлекательного исследования Эллика Хоува в данную книгу включены документы, на основании которых С.Л.Мазерсом и была создана магическая система Ордена, и список членов Герметического ордена Золотой Зари с их орденскими девизами.

This novel takes place in ancient Egypt. The hero, prince Rames, goes through many challenges and daring encounters to win his way through to the woman he loved with all his heart and the recognition that was rightfully his. Neter-Tua, The Morning Star, daughter of the Pharaoh, daughter of the ages, high priestess of Amen, beautiful and glorious as no woman before her, sent down by the god.

In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures for Dickens’ periodical Household Words, producing a showcase of both long-cherished and entirely novel sides of these well-loved men of letters. Through their fictional counterparts, the men relentlessly satirize Dickens’ maniacal energy and Collins’ idleness. The result is an exuberant diary of a journey and a rare insight into one of literature’s most famed and intriguing friendships.

The Pioneers enters of Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town of the American frontier. The heart of the novel is a conflict over who owns America, and by what concept of right. The competing claims of Native Americans, Tory loyalists, roving hunters, and visionary cultivators are pitted against one another in the area of history, and the magical village of Cooper’s youth becomes the scene in which a nation’s destiny is forged. Just as accessible and enjoyable for today’s modern readers as it would have been when first published well over a century ago, the novel is one of the great works of American literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world.

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. «The Kempton-Wace Letters» is an epistolary novel written by Jack London and Anna Strunsky. It consists of philosophical thoughts on love and relationships, written as a series of letters between two men, young scientist Herbert Wace, and a poet Dane Kempton.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Smith and the Pharaohs, the title tale of Collected Tales I concerns a budding Egyptologist who is accidentally locked up one night in the Cairo Museum. Falling asleep, he dreams that he is put on trial by the ghosts of Egypt’s pharaohs and queens.

Jess Croft lives with sister Bessie and old Silas, a farmer raising ostriches on the great Transvaal veldt. He is a reserved and aloof, with a quietness about her brought on by the misfortunes of her young childhood, when she and Bessie arrived motherless from England to South Africa. Then an Englishman, Captain John Niel, arrives to try his hand at the farming life. To his eyes, Bessie is lively and lovely of face and figure — yet Jess is mystery, with a bright and roving mind and splendid, searching eyes… and unwillingly the three of them are drawn together, then torn apart, by the emotions that flare among them.

Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady is a fascinating example of Collins’ later fiction. Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband’s past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must endure an even greater shock the revelation that her husband has been on trial for poisoning his first wife, Convinced of his innocence, Valeria is prepared to do anything to clear her husband’s name, and in so doing upturns the conventions of polite nineteenth century society.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. In Black Heart and White Heart, Henry Rider Haggard mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white. He rides, too, with all his old dexterity, and the story concerning Zulus, witches, battles, sacrifices, and traitors.

Philip Caresfoot is all but promised to marry the local heiress, Maria Lee. They are both to inherit small fortunes in their own right. And thus their marriages to each other would make an ever wealthier household. However, when Hilda, a noblewoman with no wealth of her own, arrives in town to become Maria’s companion, Philip begins to fall in love with her. They have an affair when Philip is sent away to Oxford and they marry in secret. When Philip returns to his home, his father inquires about his relationship with Maria Lee. Philip tells him that Maria Lee and himself are engaged. How will he keep all his lies together and still inherit the land and money from his father?

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 first have no cause to meet — until disaster strikes and they find themselves united in a battle for survival. It cannot be long before they discover the nature of their rivalry.

В романе «О дивный новый мир» (1932) показана продуманная, стройная система общественного устройства в 2541 году — общество потребления, в котором уничтожено все, что вызывает сильные эмоции: любовь, семья, искусство, наука… Вместо них — эрзац счастья, для которого достаточно свободных отношений, развлечений и наркотиков. В этот мир приходит Дикарь — человек, рожденный естественным путем, что для того времени случай исключительный. Стремлением к свободе чувств и поступков он проверяет на прочность основы нового мира. Но мир ломает Дикаря, утверждая неспособность изгоя-бунтаря противопоставить хоть что-то системе, которая, отняв у людей все человеческое, делает их абсолютно, бесконечно, безусловно счастливыми.

Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolific author and he is credited for writing the first modern detective novel in English literature. The novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another ‘fallen leaves’, who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and also by secrets from the past

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Mercedes of Castile; or, The Voyage to Cathay is a 1840 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel is set in 15th century Europe, and follows the preparations and expedition of Christopher Columbus westward to the new world.

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. «The Game» is a story about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death on the ring. Since London was a sports reporter, he based the novel on his personal observations.

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Jack Tier; or, the Florida Reefs is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper. Set during the Mexican-American war, the novel relates a untraditional lovestory.

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. «The Faith of Men» is a short story collection containing eight of Jack London’s amazing adventure tales. All of them are set in London’s favorite place, the Yukon Territory.

Jane Austen is one of England’s most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature’s most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. This selection of Jane Austen’s earliest writing remained unpublished during her lifetime. The title story was written before she was 15, while the other stories were completed before she was 17.

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. «The Death Voyage» includes a vast collection of intriguing short stories, such as «The Confession» and «The Centurion,» featuring a wide range of the author’s literary talent written on paper.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. The Way of the Spirit is a story of a young man named Rupert Ullershaw who falls in a love with the wife of his much older cousin, Lord Devene. The woman commits suicide, and Rupert promises his mother to henceforward «follow The Way of the Spirit, not that of the Flesh». After 11 years of soldiering in India and Egypt, Rupert returns to England, where he marries his cousin Edith, a woman who is repelled by him but agrees to matrimony only because of Rupert’s career prospects. Edith is actually in love with another of her cousins, the dastardly Dick, who arranges for Rupert to be sent back to Egypt, for a highly dangerous mission.

Придворные карты обычно считаются самой трудной частью колоды Таро в плане толкования и интерпретации. На этих картах традиционно изображают фигуры средневекового королевского двора. Когда-то считали, что они обозначают конкретных людей, которых можно ид

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This volume is a collection of famous stories about the legendary sleuth. Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature’s greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. The Wanderer’s Necklace is a story of Olaf, a Norseman in the eighth century A.D. who flees his homeland after challenging the Norse god Odin’s right to a human sacrifice. He 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 traveling Christian who must reject the adulterous advances of Irene. In Red Eve Haggard sets a suspenseful love story against some of the most dramatic events in history, including the devastation brought by the Black Plague.

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with Satanstoe and ending with The Redskins. The novel focuses mainly on issues of land ownership and the displacement of American Indians as the United States moves Westward.