В сборник произведений одного из ведущих советских драматургов С. И. Алешина вошло восемь пьес: "Гражданское дело", "Лестница", "Белое платье для грешницы", "Гоголь", "Ее превосходительство", "Старушка", "Если..", "Точка опоры"

Предпосылки к написанию романа “Мать” у Горького появились уже в конце XIX века, хотя сам роман был создан лишь в 1907 году. Конец XIX века можно охарактеризовать как зарождение революционного движения и формирование общественно-политического сознания рабочего класса. Эта идея (идея революции) проходит через весь роман. Написанию романа способствовало происхождение писателя и его раннее знакомство с революционерами. Эти связи нашли отражение и в его дальнейшем творчестве

Автор посвятил свою книгу одному из выдающихся умов Возрождения, человеку, ставшему легендой, Никколо Макиавелли

A classic of American political thought, The Federalist is a series of eighty-five essays by three authors - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay - written to curry support for the proposed new Constitution of the United States, a document that many considered too redical

One of the most influential books ever published in America, W.E.B. Du Bois`s The Souls of Black Folk is an eloquent collection of fourteen essays that discribe the life, the ambitions, the struggles, and the passions of African Americans at the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century

Set in the 1740s just as the French and Indian wars have begun, the novel opens as Natty Bumppo - known as Deerslayer - and his friend Hurry Harry travel to Tom Hutter`s house in upstate New York. Hurry plans to marry Tom`s beautiful daughter Judith, while Deerslayer has come to help his close friend Chingachgook save his bride-to-be, Wah-ta-Wah, from the Huron Indians. When war breaks out, and Hurry and Tom are captured by Indians, Deerslayer must go on his first warpath to rescue them

Considered the most important poem of the twentieth century, T.S. Eliot`s The Waste Land is an oblique and fascinating view of the hopelessness and confusion of purpose in modern Western civilization

Greed, treachery, mesmerism, and murder are just some of the bricks Hawthorne uses to build The House of the Seven Gables. Generations before the present story begins, wealthy Colonel Pyncheon covets Matthew Maule’s land. When Maule is hanged for witchcraft, he puts a curse on the Colonel—and all his descendants. Now the menacing Judge Pyncheon continues the family tradition of hiding cruelty under a dazzling smile, while his scowling niece, Hepzibah, and half-mad nephew, Clifford, are reduced to poverty by his machinations. But the younger generation, embodied in their distant cousin Phoebe, becomes a ray of hope penetrating the dark house

In what has become a landmark of American History and literature, Incidents in the kife of a slave girl recounts the incredible but true story of Harriet Jacobs, born a slave in North Carolina in 1813. Her tale gains its importance from her description, in great and painful detail, of the sexual exploitation that daily haunted her life - and the life of every other black female slave