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

Словник укладений відповідно до типових освітніх програм, Державного стандарту початкової освіти та чинних підручників. У виданні подано лексику з основних тем вивчення англійської мови. Словник розроблений відповідно до вікових особливостей першокласників, запропоновані ілюстрації розвинуть зорову пам’ять, допоможуть збагатити словниковий запас дитини. Для учнів першого класу та усіх, хто самостійно вивчає англійську мову.

People have always been interested in mysterious treasures, secretly hidden innumerable riches and in it's searching, which always accompanied by a lot of adventures.

Anne’s House of Dreams is a novel by the Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942), which is a sequel of the book series about Anne Shirley.

Hearts of Three novel is a gem of the creative work of the American classic writer Jack London (1876–1916).

Mrs. Dalloway is the novel by Virginia Woolf (1882–1941). It is a masterpiece of the “golden age” of English modernism.

America's black intellectuals - writers, historians, educators, and community activists - have made major contributions to the struggle for equality and human rights throughout American public life.

Napoleon Hill is one of the most-read authors in the field of new thought and one of the creators of the modern “self-help” genre.

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a horror novel by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). Charles Dexter Ward, a young man from a famous family, mysteriously disappeared from a mental hospital. Family doctor Willet tries to investigate the cause of Ward’s insanity and physiological changes. Willett learns that Ward has been trying to find the grave of his ancestor, Joseph Carven, for the past few years.

The protagonist of the novel This Side of Paradise (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amory Blaine, is a middleclass Princeton University student. He is convinced that he has an extremely promising future. But his family inheritance has dissipated, and he is unlucky in love. In a crisis, he travels from New York to his alma mater. Blaine believes that the new generation has inherited disappointment and loss of faith, but still yearns for love and success.

The edition includes two works by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930). The Great Shadow—an adventure story set in an Anglo-Scottish border village at the end of the Napoleonic era, including a fascinating interpretation of the Battle of Waterloo, as well as The Disintegration Machine—which is a fantasy story from the Professor Challenger series.

In his thriller stories Poe tries to show psychic side of the crime from the inside. He is not interested in social roots of the crime, but in unmotivated actions that go beyond normal behavior of a person in the society.

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by the English writer H. G. Wells (1866–1946). A stranger appeared in an English village during a snowstorm. No one saw his face, it was hidden under medical bandages. But one day a stranger took off the bandages and... he was left without a head!

The Shunned House is a collection of several mystical stories by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
For many years, Dr. Elihu Whipple has been investigating an old shunned house in Benefit Street. The people who once lived in this house have died of a mysterious illness. Whitish phosphorus fungous vegetation grow in the cellar of the house. The doctor and his nephew decide to spend the night in the house and destroy the dangerous supernatural power. They arm themselves with military flamethrowers...

Works by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–1944) are full of almost mystical echoes with the present days.