Detective fans of all races and creeds, of all tastes and fancies will delight in the exploits of this wise and whimsical padre. Father Brown's powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes, but he is also "in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being," according to American crime novelist Rufus King. You will be enchanted by the scandalously innocent man of the cloth, with his handy umbrella, who exhibits such uncanny insight into ingeniously tricky human prob...

“This is our challenge, our invitation: to tune, to heighten, to awaken our senses to the God who is already all around us, surrounding us, hemming us in, behind and before.”Eroding our commonly-held and heavily-baked image of God as some kind of superhuman in the sky, ‘Exploring Elohim’s Embrace’ draws us towards the infinite trinitarian God who is three persons mutually indwelling, intimately enveloping and passionately embracing.The God who is L...

The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character. A stranger, offended by the pious reputation of the town, devises a plan to bring its honored residents to shame. Is there even one righteous man in Hadleyburg?

The Diary of Adam and Eva The 1000000 Bank-Note The Death Disk A Curious Dream A Medieval Romance Science vs. Luck The Man Who Put at Gadsby's

Charles Dickens. THE Baron of grogzwig Charles Dickens. The queer chair Jerome K. Jerome. From «evergreens» Jerome K. Jerome. A Pathetic story Rudyard Kipling. The gardener Virginia Woolf. The legacy

The Rescue Mission presents the Bible's overarching narrative as a pause-resisting novel.With subversive twists and turns, mesmeric highs, and gut-wrenching lows, Pete Atkinson's "ambitious and captivating" debut work skillfully weaves the threads which run from Genesis to Revelation, marrying brevity and listenability with scale, depth, and detail."Impeccably researched", this "beautifully written" rendering features three narrative voices: one zo...

"The Long–Legged Uncle" is a very famous work by Jean Webster. Who is he, the Long-Legged Uncle? A young college student saw him only once, from behind. He arranged for her to go to college on the condition that she would write letters to him without hope of an answer. And disappeared from her life… Trying to solve the mystery of the Long-Legged Uncle, in fact, a teenage girl opens up the world and her own soul. This touching, humorous work leaves a feeling of freshness and warmth. Webster...

Prodolzhaem predstavlyat' anglijskuyu klassicheskuyu literaturu na anglijskom yazyke. Sbornik ob"edinyaet filigrannye rasskazy dvuh izvestnyh anglijskih pisatelej nachala XX veka: nobelevskogo laureata, znamenitogo svoej epicheskoj Sagoj o Forsajtah, Dzhona Golsuorsi i Ketrin Mensfild, pisatel'nicy novozelandskogo proiskhozhdeniya, avtora iskusnyh psihologicheskih novell. John Galsworthy SALVATION OF A FORSYTE Katherine Mansfield THE STRANGER PSYCHOLOGY MR AND MRS DOVE

Рассказ Харчевня двух ведьм повествует о странном и загадочном случае, приключившимся с одиноким путником в старой харчевне. Джозеф Конрад (настоящее имя - Юзеф Теодор Конрад Коженевский) - английский писатель польского происхождения, автор многочисленных романов и новелл, мастер морской темы в мировой литературе. Произведения Конрада проникнуты романтическими мотивами, его герои - волевые, решительные и мужественные люди. Идиоты - драматическая история, случившаяся однажды ночью на пустын...

Who doesn't know a boy who didn't want to become an adult? Of course, everyone knows Peter Pan!.. After all, there is a child in everyone's soul who does not want to grow up for anything. This was especially felt by James Barry, who wrote in his novelistic work about a lost boy who did not want his parents to find him and raise him. And when Barry started writing for children… Children's works more fully reflected the main features of his work: reality is often mixed with fiction, and humo...

Голсуорси Джон - один из ведущих писателей-реалистов в английской литературе XX века, Нобелевский лауреат 1932 г. Первая любовь для Меган, героини рассказа Яблоня, оказалась последней. Девушка не смогла пережить предательство любимого человека и ушла из жизни. Страшная развязка любовной истории настигает виновника происшествия в зрелом возрасте: Что же я сделал плохого? - спрашивает себя респектабельный, добропорядочный господин и не находит ответа... Аудиокнига на английском и русском язы...

What happens if you follow a hurrying White Rabbit in a vest? Is it possible to be out of your mind, but in someone else's? Have you ever met a smile without a cat? And why can't you kill time having tea with a March Hare? Amazing answers to amazing questions can be found only in Wonderland, diving after the brave Alice down the rabbit hole, experiencing many exciting adventures and solving a thousand puzzles along the way.