New Classics

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime. Shakespeare's use of his poetic dramatic structure, especially effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, his expansion of minor characters, and his use of subplots to embellish the story, has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill.

Set in England during the 15th-century Wars of the Roses, this swashbuckling historical novel by the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped tells the story of young Dick Shelton. Betrayed by his treacherous and brutal guardian, Sir Daniel Brackley, Dick seeks the help of John Amend-All, leader of the mysterious fellowship of the Black Arrow - and Brackley's sworn enemy. Pitted against fierce fighters, a treacherous priest, and Sir Daniel, Dick seeks to become a knight and rescue his true love.

Here's a marvellous tale by the famous Hans Christian Andersen, adapted by the renowned producer Mike Bennett, about two cunning weavers who promise an emperor a beautiful set of clothes that they say appears invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, incompetent, or stupid. Voiced by the wonderful Anita Harris.

The book Moscow and Muscovites, written by Mikhail Nikolayevich Zagoskin, author of the famous historical novel Yuri Miloslavskii or Russian in 1612, Roslavlev or Russian in 1812," and many other works. Moscow and Muscovites - vivid and fascinating essays, short stories, stage "of the home and social life in Moscow," since 1814, and 40s of the XIX century.

The poem has always been attributed to Ivan Semenovich Barkov, who died 30 years before the birth of Pushkin. But Barkov, by all indications, couldn't have written it. Recent studies suggest the collective work of Prov Sadovsky and his comrades, the Maly Theatre actors. So, this work will most likely came into being around the mid-19th century and then evolved over time.

The classic story of a king buying invisible clothes from con men. See what peer pressure can do.

While the title "His New Mittens" doesn't sound like an inspired title, acclaimed author Stephen Crane wrote this classic to help everyone understand - or identify - with the brain of boyhood. The early experiences of anger, pain, shame, and love most of us experienced as children, and escorted us into puberty, that we look back upon as adults.

Bertie Ross has a few more deliveries to make for Sampson's store before the New Year's holiday. After a delivery at the Forbes' house, Dr. Forbes' daughters invite cold-looking Bertie in to get warm and ask why he isn't wearing mittens. Explaining that he lent them to his sickly brother William John, the sisters hatch a plan to provide a proper New Year's celebration with the Ross brothers and provide them with a little holiday warmth in the meantime.

Far away, in the fairy country, there lived a king and Queen; they have no children. Went to the king in foreign lands, far to the sides, for a long time the house had never been; at that time the Queen bore him a son, Ivan Tsarevich, and the king was about to say something and does not know.

Glenn Hascall narrates this charming Hans Christian Anderson story of the vain Emperor who rather than be thought stupid or incompetent because he can't see the "beautiful" cloth to conniving weavers have sold him parades through the kingdom naked until a child too young and naïve to go along with the deception spills the beans.

Ocherk Moj Pushkin - ne literaturovedcheskaya rabota. Eto skoree psihologicheskij etyud, popytka voskresit i vosproizvesti detskoe vospriyatie pushkinskogo tvorchestva, kotoroe - pri vsej naivnosti etogo vospriyatiya - okazyvalos' pervoj, na vsyu zhizn' neizgladimoj shkoloj ne tol'ko poticheskih vpechatlenij, no i nravstvennyh ponyatij.

The Petty Demon is one of the funniest Russian novels. It is also the most decadent of the great Russian classics, replete with naked boys, sinuous girls, and a strange mixture of beauty and perversity. The main hero, Peredonov, is as comical as he is disgusting. He is at once a victim, a monster, a silly hypocrite, and a sadistic dullard. The plot moves from Peredonov's petty quest for a promotion to arson and murder via one of the most incredible and uproarious scandal scenes in world literature, the masquerade ball, which the boy Sasha attends as a beautiful geisha.

Børnene i Nyskoven (1847) har en historisk baggrund; den foregår i midten af det 17. århundrede under den engelske borgerkrig mellem Karl den Første og parlamentet. Romanens hovedpersoner er de fire forældreløse søskende Edward, Humphrey, Alice og Edith, der indtil fortællingens begyndelse har boet på herresædet Arnwood lige uden for Nyskoven.

Dystopian literature is a genre of fictional writing used to explore social and political structures in a nightmarish world. The term dystopia refers to a society characterized by misery, squalor, or oppression, and the theme is most commonly used in science-fiction and speculative-fiction genres.

This book includes: "Rothschild's Violin", "The Man in a Case", "A Conversation of a Drunk with a Sober Imp", "Life in Questions and Exclamations".

The story describes the invention of a substance by a Professor Gibberne, which exponentially accelerates an individual's physiological and cognitive processes. The elixir has considerable advantages, but also many risks. Although the individual perceives no change in themselves, the external world seems to be almost immobile and only the motion of rapidly moving objects can be perceived.

"Приемная дочь богатой аристократки - красавица, которую ждет выгодное замужество. Что скрывает ее прошлое? Она жила в приюте, влачила жалкое существование и в минуту отчаяния присвоила себе чужие документы, чужую историю жизни. Но призрак прошлого врывается в настоящую жизнь - обманутая несчастная требует ответа. Хватит ли мужества у Принцессы превратиться в Золушку, пожертвовать любовью и богатством.

Here is the delightful story of how a little boy was the only one in a crowd of worshippers who was honest enough to say that the emperor's "magic new clothes" were really no clothes at all.

Laugh at the ironic jibes and the bumbling Detective Fix, gasp at the high adventure and perilous misadventures, and feel the thrill of haste and ingenuity, but no longer wince at badly aged language and harmful stereotypes. This gentle modernization changes only as much as necessary, retaining everything that has made this novel an immortal classic.

In Cameo ~ A Profile In Courage, Mary McMahon, a Cornell University student in the year1900, mourns her lover, Casey, who dies when a wagon wheel crushes his neck. Her ashamed parents demand their pregnant daughter remain hidden until they can arrange a marriage. Mary rehearses the attitude of a lonely wife before fleeing to New York City. She lives with cockroaches in Una's tenement and rolls tobacco into cigars in Kezrat Carr's sweatshop. Checkmated by Casey who died and a child who lives, Mary trades the cameo Casey carved for her in exchange for an illegal abortion performed by Mrs. ...