Книги англійською мовою

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616).

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 The Beautiful and Damned (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald begins shortly before World War I. Anthony Patch, a twenty five-year-old Harvard University graduate, returns to New York. He is the likely heir to his grandfather’s vast fortune. Anthony meets the beautiful Gloria Gilbert. They fall madly in love and decide to get married. But Gloria and Anthony’s marital happiness is short-lived, as each person’s selfishness comes to the fore.

The first volume of Scotland Yard Book by the English writer Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) included the thriller novel The Clue of the Silver Key.  In the story, Surefoot Smith of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate when petty thief Tom Tickler is murdered and left in a cab with £100 in his pocket. His discovery eventually leads to the mysterious businessman Washington Wirth.

This book is the rough truth of the morals in today’s Russian Federation, the country turned into a GULAG, of being a prisoner of war, when the past is ruined, and the future is nowhere.

Homage to Catalonia is a book written by George Orwell (1903–1950), and it is based on his personal experience of participating in the Spanish Civil War on the republican side. the writer protested against the political repressions carried out by the Spanish Communists, as well as against the total lies and slanders spread by the Comintern (Communist International) against its opponents.

«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.

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other.

The heroine of Sanditon, Charlotte Heywood, the eldest daughter in a large family of a country gentleman from Willingden in Sussex, accidentally meets the Parker family from the town of Sanditon. The new friends invite the girlto stay with them for the summer and share ambitious plans to turn Sanditon into a fashionable seaside resort.

Burmese Days is the first novel by the British writer George Orwell (1903–1950).