ДАВАЙТЕ ПОЧИТАЕМ В ОРИГИНАЛЕ! The Gift of the Magi
Today we are reading “The Gift of the Magi” - a short story written by an American short story writer William Sydney Porter. He has written his literary works under the pen name of O. Henry. This story was first published in 1906. The story might be the most famous short story of all time. It's certainly the most famous of O. Henry's, standing out among many stories with surprise endings, like "The Last Leaf" and "After Twenty Years."
ДАВАЙТЕ ПОЧИТАЕМ В ОРИГИНАЛЕ! The Picture of Dorian Gray
Today we are reading “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, moral fantasy novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had six additional chapters when it was released as a book in 1891. The work, an archetypal tale of a young man who purchases eternal youth at the expense of his soul, was a romantic exposition of Wilde’s own Aestheticism.
ДАВАЙТЕ ПОЧИТАЕМ В ОРИГИНАЛЕ! The Speckled Band
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes, a world-famous detective and his assistant Dr. Watson.
There is something magical about the character of Sherlock Holmes. He is known and loved all over the world. The image of the tall, thin man with a cape, carrying a magnifying glass and wearing a deerstalker is recognized immediately. He is the international icon for the detective, the crime-solver and the righter of wrongs. Since their publication, the stories of Sherlock Holmes have never been out of print. They are available in almost every language in the world and there are versions in Pitman’s shorthand and Braille. Sherlock Holmes is the most filmed of all literary characters.
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ДАВАЙТЕ ПОЧИТАЕМ В ОРИГИНАЛЕ! The Last Leaf
Today we are reading “The Last Leaf” – a story written by an American short-story writer O. Henry.
“The Last Leaf ” was first published in 1907. It was written in the time period when New York was experiencing rapid population growth partly due to the immigration of European immigrants to the United States.
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ДАВАЙТЕ ПОЧИТАЕМ В ОРИГИНАЛЕ! The Forsyte Saga
Today we are reading “The Forsyte Saga” - the best-known work of English novelist John Galsworthy (1867-1933), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
As published in 1922, “The Forsyte Saga” consisted of the novel “The Man of Property” (1906), the interlude (a short story) “Indian Summer of a Forsyte” (1918), the novel “In Chancery” (1920), the interlude “Awakening” (1920), and the novel “To Let” (1921). The saga chronicles the lives of three generations of a large upper middle-class family between the late Victorian era and the 1920s.
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ДАВАЙТЕ ПОЧИТАЕМ В ОРИГИНАЛЕ! The Great Gatsby
Today we are reading “The Great Gatsby” - the third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925. Set in what was called the Jazz Age (a term popularized by Fitzgerald) New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth. “The Great Gatsby” vividly captures its historical moment: the economic boom of postwar America, the new jazz music, the free-flowing illegal liquor. As Fitzgerald later remarked in an essay about the era, it was “a whole race going hedonistic, deciding on pleasure.”
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ДАВАЙТЕ ПОЧИТАЕМ В ОРИГИНАЛЕ. The Last of the Mohicans
Today we are reading James Fenimore Cooper’s novel «The Last of the Mohicans».
«The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757» is the second and most popular novel of the Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper. It was first published in two volumes in 1826. In terms of narrative order, it is also the second novel in the series, taking place in 1757 during the French and Indian War.
Today we are reading “The Ballads of Robin Hood”. Cегодня мы читаем «Баллады о Робин Гуде».
“The Ballads of Robin Hood“ have a rich history. Ballads were the first way of stories about the man named Robin Hood. They were told among the people of England. This tradition of passing on stories or history was the best because the minstrel (a medieval singer or musician) could sing in different places to different people.
In the ballads the man who is Robin Hood loves nature and freedom, he has merry time with his men, He fights against evil, but he does not have a problem with king. He is simple against those people who are unjust. Robin becomes the hero of the people for fighting this injustice. Robbing the rich and giving to the poor was his way of bringing the common people to his side.
Today we are reading Jack London’s novel «White Fang»
«White Fang» is a short novel written by Jack London and published in 1906. «White Fang» is set largely in the Arctic Northland, specifically in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories of Canada, and in Alaska, sometime during the Klondike Gold Rush in the 1890s. The story is about a half-wolf, half-dog who is born from a she-wolf. His name is White Fang he is the only survivor of the litter.
White fang is a wolf born into a cruel life, but endures it and becomes stronger because of it.
The book tells the tale of the wolfdog White Fang’s long and eventful transformation from a feral and savage animal of the Wild to a domesticated household pet.
ДАВАЙТЕ ПОЧИТАЕМ В ОРИГИНАЛЕ! Mark Twain’s novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Today we are reading Mark Twain’s novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
The book which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Although its slow popularity could not fetch the desired wealth for Mark Twain, its forceful entry into the classic American fiction won the author matchless fame later. Marked with colorful description of the Mississippi River and its adjoining areas and people, the novel shows the use of different colloquialisms used in the South at that time. The storyline introduces a young boy, Huckleberry Finn, unveiling racism and slavery during his adventures on the Mississippi River.