Книги англійською мовою

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopia by George Orwell, written in 1948, published in 1949, and is relevant as never before. Today, in the era of the Internet, the social media are monitoring our every gesture, purchase, action, and comment online. They are constantly present in our lives and predict our every desire, our choices being carefully followed. Political organizations also play upon the feelings of network users. Big Brother is no longer a writer’s fiction, but the framework of the modern world.

The Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho by the English writer Anne Radcliffe (1764–1823) is set in the 16th century in Southern France and Northern Italy.
In the second part of the novel, Emily, now an orphan, is forced to live with her aunt, Madame Cheron. The aunt marries Montoni, a nobleman from Italy. He wants his friend Count Morano to become Emily’s husband. Finding Morano almost broke, Montoni takes Emily and her aunt to his castle, Udolfo. Montoni is trying to force his wife to transfer the property to him. Madame Cheron dies. Emily manages to escape...

This book is about love. It does not contain a single word beginning with ‘lo…’, but it is still about love. It is about magic: not the cheap kind you see on TV screens, but the real kind, the kind that stems from your tribe and from your roots, the kind that has you diving headfirst into the Primordial Sea and surfacing with a fish between your teeth. It is about courage, too: about the out-and-out courage to claim what is rightfully yours, to recognise it, to dig in your heels, and never give away to anyone what is yours: your home, your motherland, your heart, your right to walk with your head held high.

The White Company is a historical novel by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), which tells about the adventures of the main character, a young squire, as well as English archers.

Oleksandr Krasovytskyy's latest book, TODAY, develops in the present, serving as a sequel to the author's previous novels. The narrative delves into current times, featuring recognizable characters and events that have unfolded recently. The plot is richly woven through the perspectives of various characters, whose lives would likely never intersect in normal circumstances, if not for the Kremlin dictator and his circle initiating a bewildering global partition.

The Professor is the first novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë’s (1816–1855). Young William Crimsworth is forced to look for work. After an unsuccessful experience as a clerk, and following a friend’s advice, William takes up teaching English. He unexpectedly falls in love with one of his students.

Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914) was an American writer, journalist, poet, satirist, American Civil War veteran. The short story master, the author of stories on the themes of death and horror. In this genre, his name is placed next to those of Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. Can Such Things Be? is a collection of scary stories, including The Death Of Halpin Frayser, A Psychological Shipwreck, A Diagnosis of Death, among others.

The Strange High House in the Mist is a collection of several mystical stories by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). In the story of the same name, Thomas Olney is intrigued by a strange house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. Local residents are afraid of this place, which no one visits. With great difficulty, Olney climbs the rock, approaches the house and meets the mysterious man who lives there.

The mysterious murder that Sherlock Holmes investigates in the novel The Valley of Fear is connected with ancient events in a distant land. The victim of the persecution manages to happily avoid death, but on his way there is a genius of the criminal world Professor Moriarty.

«Котику-коточку, не ходи в садочку, а ходи до хати Сашу колисати». Так співала мені моя мама. А я слухав і співав потім своїм дітям, передаючи їм мамину любов через роки і покоління. Так будете слухати, співати, любити і ви.

In the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), the dramatic story of Michael Henchard is described. The life path of Henchard—The Man of Character—was determined by fate at the moment of anger and a cruel joke in his youth. Despite the achievements of all subsequent years of life, a shameful act weighs on him and leads to an inevitable collapse.

Kharkiv is a hero city. From the first moments of the Russian army’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kharkiv residents stuck together and summoned up all their strength to defend the city. First of all, Kharkiv is about people who are fighting, working, and not losing hope.

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Agnes Grey (1847) by English writer Anne Brontë is the story of a governess. The novel is based on the author’s own five-year experience. Like Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the work describes the difficult lives of poor girls who are forced to work for other families.

The novel «Mansfield Park», the third published novel of Jane Austen (1775–1817), belongs to the mature period of her work.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopia by George Orwell, written in 1948, published in 1949, and is relevant as never before. The main character of the novel, Winston Smith, is a censor at the Ministry of Truth. All its employees and he are watched by Big Brother, who sees everything, and everyone is spying upon everyone else even in their homes—citizens are being followed through special screens.

The wealthy Vanstone family from the novel No name has two daughters—Norah and Magdalen. Suddenly, their parents die in a train accident. It suddenly turns out that the daughters are illegitimate, they have no name, no rights, no property. All the property is inherited by an uncle, who refuses to provide any support to the orphaned nieces.

Rilla of Ingleside (1919) is the final novel according to the chronology of events in the Anne Shirley series by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The main character is Rilla, Anne and Gilbert’s youngest daughter.

Любов має сенс завжди. Смерть має сенс, лише коли вона недаремна. Такими настроями пронизана збірка поезій і фотокнига «Стежки війни, стежки любові». На її сторінках ви знайдете найвідвертіші рефлексії, почуття, спогади, фотофіксації, травми та зцілення, пов’язані з російсько-українською війною.

«Northanger Abbey» is a novel by the English writer Jane Austen (1775–1817), written in the Gothic style fashionable at the time with irony characteristic of the author.

The Forsyte Saga brought the English writer John Galsworthy (1867–1933) the Nobel Prize in Literature (1932).

The Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho by the English writer Anne Radcliffe (1764–1823) is set in the 16th century in Southern France and Northern Italy.
In the first part of the novel, the reader learns about Emily St. Aubert, a young Frenchwoman, the only child in a once wealthy family. After the death of her mother, she accompanies her father on a journey. She meets Valancourt, a handsome man, and falls in love. Emily’s father dies, and Emily, now an orphan, is forced to live with her aunt, Madame Cheron.

Українська народна казка «Ріпка» у переказі Івана Франка знайшла творчо-ілюстративне втілення у проекті художньої майстерні «Аґрафка» (Романа Романишин та Андрій Лесів, м. Львів) та по-новому звертає погляд читачів до ще з дитинства усім добре відомого твору. Навіть тому, хто знає текст казки на пам’ять, важко встояти перед спокусою здійняти футляр, у який дбайливо «зодягнена» «Ріпка», та так хочеться, сторінка за сторінкою, долучитися до нелегкої праці – тягнення ріпки! Відтепер пропонуємо ще й англомовне видання у перекладі Оксани Лущевської та Майкла Найдана. Калейдоскоп барвистих ілюстрацій, якісний переклад, вдале поєднання дизайну книги з її змістом зробить видання не лише цікавим і пізнавальним для маленьких читачів, а й окрасою кожного дому. «Ріпка», щойно з’явившись на полицях книгарень, уже здобула відзнаку Дитячої книжкової премії «Левеня-2012» – за найкращий арт-проект. А у 2013 році «Ріпка» увійшла до престижного щорічного каталогу найкращих дитячих видань світу «Білі круки» («White Ravens»), який охоплює 250 найкращих дитячих книжок із понад 40 країн світу та вважається одним із ключових орієнтирів у світі дитячої й підліткової літератури, не лише представляючи найкращі видання, а й визначаючи домінуючі тенденції для видавців, критиків, продавців книжок — і, звісно ж, для маленьких читачів і їхніх батьків.

«Emma» is the fourth novel penned by the esteemed English writer Jane Austen (1775–1817).

The Forsyte Saga brought the English writer John Galsworthy (1867–1933) world fame and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), based on a true story. It is the first part of the «Trilogy of Desire.» Frank Cowperwood, the son of a banker, starts his own business. He married a wealthy widow. Over time, Cowperwood began to misuse municipal funds with the help of the city treasurer. When the Great Chicago Fire causes a stock market crash, he goes bankrupt, and his fraud is exposed. Frank has an affair with Aileen Butler, the daughter of one of his business partners. Aileen promises to wait for him after his imprisonment.

Ця книжка стане у пригоді тим, хто цікавиться київською історією, любить гумор і цінує мистецтво. На початку ХХ ст. поштові листівки були популярним засобом спілкування. Картки видавництва Соломона Абрамова «Рассвет» мали великий успіх серед киян завдяки різноманітним ілюстраціям та якісному друку. 1911 року «Рассвет» розпочав випуск гумористичних листівок, які яскраво відображали тогочасне київське життя. Багато з них зберегли колекціонери до наших днів. Автор знайомить читачів із цими унікальними поштовими картками, з історією створення самого видавництва і його гумористичних серій.