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This story of Lewis Carroll (1832—1898) is loved both by children and adults. It is about a little girl Alice, who fell into a rabbit hole and discovered a completely different world — incredible, wonderful and full of all sorts of dangers. Since then, Alice's immortal adventures have begun. Цю...

David Copperfield is perhaps one of the most popular novels by Charles Dickens, and not only in English-speaking countries. Besides, it was screened numerously. The book is written in the first person as memories of a decent gentleman David Copperfield of his life that deserved the attention...

By the will of fate, the son of an Indian woman and an English officer, a boy named Kim, was a participant in the confrontation between the British and French intelligence services. Using the advantages given by age and height, the spy boy performs a real feat in the camp of the enemy. By the...

'Heart of Darkness’ is a small, but perhaps the most famous adventure story written by Joseph Conrad. The narrative is written on behalf of the sailor Marlowe, who tells the reader about his past adventures. In the African wilds, there is an illegally operating elephant bone mining company...

This is the last novel of the writer published in the United States in 1895. It describes the life story of a young man, Jude, a bricklayer from a small provincial town who dreams of becoming a scientist. The book has everything: passionate love as well as deep disappointment in feelings along...

An English writer, a Scotsman by origin, Robert Lewis Stephenson has gone down in the history of literature not only as a classic of neo-romanticism, the author of the most fascinating adventure novels, but also as a subtle stylist, master of psychological portrait, who can subtly and reliably...

The Way We Live Now is a novel by Anthony Trollope, one of the most talented English writers of the Victorian era. Every admirer of this literature period will be able to find something special for himself. The reader can observe here the first love as well as the late and unexpected love...

Mary Anne Evans (this is the real name of the writer) was a woman of educated, talented and creative mind — a kind of English George Sand. The width of her views and deep knowledge are reflected in her books. The most recognized masterpiece of the literary heritage of the writer was her novel...

Herman Melville’s classic masterpiece tells the story of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a white sperm whale of tremendous size and ferocity. In a previous...

Three months of carefree life in London has brought Richard Hannay a terrible boredom. Numerous discussions about the weather, restaurants, horse racing and endless tea parties remained the same throughout the whole period. However, suddenly a miracle happened - on the threshold of his house a...

Thomas Love Peacock (1785 - 1866), English author who satirized the intellectual tendencies of his day in novels in which conversation predominates over character or plot. Nightmare Abbey, like Frankenstein, appeared in 1818. Strangely, it was also inspired by Shelley, who was friends with...

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 Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley...

"The Scarlet Letter" – published first in 1850, was in its time considered as an innovative and at the same time scandalous novel, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book was strongly disapproved by the fellow countrymen of the author and banned by the Russian tsars. Now "The Scarlet Letter"...

What is the Vanity Fair? Here is one of the opinions: it is a gathering of the most vile people, who are only interested in themselves. To survive at this "fair" is to constantly have to lie, pretend, and be hypocritical. They do not appreciate sincere feelings, only the contents of your wallet...

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a classic satirical novel by Henry Fielding. The way of writing, plot and characters show that it is also one of the first European realistic novels. Tom Jones, an unknown founding, is brought up by his guardian Squire Allworthy, near whose house Jones...

The only mistake George Orwell made in his anti-utopia 1984 was the date. A lot of things that he described as if happening in 1984 can be observed in the nowadays world. However, he depicted the future that everyone should be afraid of at any time. The iconic story Animal Farm and the novel...

“Frankenstein” is an epistolary Gothic novel by the English writer Mary Shelley (1797—1851). The book is about Victor Frankenstein, who managed to comprehend the mystery of the origin of life and learn to revive lifeless matter. Later he renounces his creation, but the nameless monster begins to...

“Dracula” is an epistolary novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker (1847—1912). The characters in the novel tell of their nightmarish encounters with the insidious Count Dracula. Excerpts from their diaries and letters will step by step bring the reader closer to unraveling the sinister mystery of...

Jane Eyre, the protagonist of the novel of the same name by British writer Charlotte Brontë (1816—1855), was raised in an orphanage. Having received an excellent education, the girl gets a job as a governess in the family of a wealthy Mr. Rochester. After a while, Jane begins to realize that...

Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. It deals in themes of love, honour and betrayal, against a backdrop of the seemingly...

«The Wind in The Willows» is a fairy tale by the Scottish writer Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932). The work is full of subtle irony towards capitalist civilization. In this book, nature transforms the characters and teaches them wisdom. The work touches on simple but eternal values of life —...

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) — American writer, author of works about the generation of the «Jazz Age». «The Great Gatsby» novel depicts America in the 1920s. The main character is a man who created himself according to the recipes of American morality, rich, but very lonely. Френсіс Скотт...

«The Valley of Fear» is a detective story by the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930). The last of the four Sherlock Holmes stories. The plot of the story is partially based on real events related to the activities of a secret society of Irish-born miners in the coal mines of...

The novel «Wuthering Heights» by the English writer Emily Brontë (1818—1848), as before, attracts the reader. This is a story of fatal passion full of love and hate. The novel fascinates with its beauty and amazes with the depth of the author’s penetration into the secrets of the human soul...

«The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» is a novel by the American writer Mark Twain (1835—1910). The main character of the work desperately does not want to live by the rules of the house: go to school, wear decent clothes and behave politely. He escapes from the hospitable family of the widow...

«The Moonstone» is a novel by the classic of English literature by Wilkie Collins (1824–1889). It tells the mysterious story of the theft of a diamond, which passed from one illegal owner to another, bringing with it a curse. Logic is intertwined with romance, and the everyday life of Victorian...

«The Age of Innocence» is a novel by the American writer Edith Wharton. A story of pure and light love unfolds before the reader, but will the heroes be able to save their own world? The work conveys emotions and tension when one century passes and another comes. «Епоха невинності» — роман...

Mrs. Dalloway is the novel by Virginia Woolf (1882–1941). It is a masterpiece of the “golden age” of English modernism. It tells the story of one day in the life of middle-aged aristocrat Clarissa Dalloway; it also reveals events from her past. The content of the novel is not limited to the...

The most famous and popular novel of English writer Oscar Wilde (1854—1900). Dorian Gray is a very attractive young man who wishes to make a link between his soul and his portrait so that the picture gets old but he stays young forever. However, not only the picture gets older instead of him —...

Jerome K. Jerome (1859—1927) was an English humorist. The situations he portrayed from the lives of ordinary Englishmen in his work «Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)» are still witty. Any minor thing — from packing to trying to open a can with food — can cause a number of...

«The Sign of the Four» is a novel by the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930) about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Who sends Miss Morstan the pearl boxes every year? Abloody trail stretches to the treasures, which can only be attacked by knowing what the «Sign of the Four» is and...

«Frankenstein» is an epistolary Gothic novel by the English writer Mary Shelley (1797—1851). The book is about Victor Frankenstein, who managed to comprehend the mystery of the origin of life and learn to revive lifeless matter. Later he renounces his creation, but the nameless monster begins to...

От издателя: Посібник малятам 4-7 років, які вивчають англійську. Ігри, вірші; перші слова; сталі вирази; словничок. В доступній та цікавій формі книжка ознайомить дітлахів із англійськими словами та фразами, що супроводжуються транскрипцією українськими літерами. Використовуючи їх, батьки, які...

Сьогодні володіння англійською — нагальна потреба. Наша книга адресована тим дорослим, що прагнуть допомогти дітям вивчати англійську легко і з задоволенням. Веселі вірші й малюнки не дозволять малятам нудьгувати на заняттях. Діти в доступній і захоплюючій формі крок за кроком накопичуватимуть...

Набір із шести картонок-білінгв, завдяки яким ваша дитина навчиться називати мешканців подвір'я і лісу, моря та джунглів, савани та трави, птахів та лісових звірів українською та англійською мовами. Чудових тварин, риб та птахів з фетру, фотографіями яких проілюстровано книгу, пошила Олена...

Книга 1. Малюк Коргі Малюк Коргі — бешкетне цуценятко, яке знайомиться з великим світом. Він знає, що мама найкраща, біля неї тепло і спокійно. А тато великий і сильний — Коргі хоче бути на нього схожим. І ще собаки дружать з котами, як він із Хвостиком, хоч дідусь і каже інакше. Малюк невтомно...

This story of Lewis Carroll (1832—1898) is loved both by children and adults. It is about a little girl Alice, who fell into a rabbit hole and discovered a completely different world — incredible, wonderful and full of all sorts of dangers. Since then, Alice’s immortal adventures have begun. Цю...

Ulysses is a contemporary novel by an Irish writer James Joyce. Although this novel, which is considered to be the top of the contemporary literature, has an ordinary plot, it includes a lot of historical, philosophical, literature and cultural references. The main character and plot are rather...