The Darling family has three weather children. The eldest is Wendy, then comes John, and then Michael. They have an unusual nanny - a big black diver dog named Nena. One evening, going into the bedroom with the children already in bed, Mrs. Darling sees a boy flying into the window, and after him - a strange ...

: A story about the life of drug addicts in Edinburgh, one of which finds the strength to get off the needle. Together with friends, he sells a batch of heroin and runs away with money to the mainland to start a new life.The novel consists of seven large parts, which are divided into short stories, not going in chronological order....

The action takes place in medieval France, amid wars and complicated court intrigues, the French king Louis XI, a smart and subtle politician, is fighting with powerful European rulers for the prosperity of France. Unprincipled and cautious Louis - the antithesis of Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, ...

Francis Coldheim built the Aspen Factory in the attic of his house - a device made up of a dial and traps, he launches a wasp there, and it depends on where she crawls, what death she will die. F. consults with the Factory, brings her sacrifices - rats, gulls, dragonflies. F. not registered, he is nowhere ...

Coma We literally burst into the stream of consciousness of the hero, which conveys his sensations from the "interweaving" with the wreckage of the machine. We understand that this man had an accident and is on the verge of life and death. He himself is aware of his “problem” and discusses this in a tone that is not without irony and even self-irony....

Introduction Having received a small inheritance, the retired captain Clatterbuck settles in the village of Kennakweir in southern Scotland. Out of boredom, he is interested in the ruins of an old village monastery, which attract visitors to the village. Having studied its history and architecture, the captain becomes a local guide....

The action takes place in the 1920-1930s. In Great Britain. In the small mining town of Blanelli, the young doctor Andrew Manson, the new assistant doctor, Dr. Page, arrives. Arriving, he learns that his cartridge is paralyzed and that he will have to bear a double load. Page Bloodua's wife, ungrateful and greedy ...

The action takes place in England in the second half of the 15th century, during the war of the Scarlet and White Roses. In the village of Thanstall, owned by Sir Daniel Brackley, a messenger appears who brings the order of Sir Daniel to the entire male population of the village to immediately march. The squad should lead Bennett ...

Humphrey Clinker's Journey is the last work of an English writer: the novel was published a few months before his death in Livorno, where Smollett voluntarily went into a kind of “exile”. The novel was written in an epistolary style, which was not an innovation for English literature; ...

The action takes place in the 1880s. in the small Scottish town of Leavenford. In the house of bizarre architecture, the project of which was developed by James Brody himself, there are: an elderly mother of the head of the family, for whom the only entertainment is food, his wife Margaret, a woman exhausted by life, daughters ...

Nearly one hundred and thirty years have passed since the Norman Duke William the Conqueror defeated the Anglo-Saxon forces and captured England at the Battle of Hastings (1066). The English people are going through hard times. King Richard the Lionheart did not return from the last crusade, ...

On May 5, 1679, in the quiet outback of Upper Ward Clydesdale, a place in Scotland, all new participants arrive at the annual show. Smart ladies and gentlemen, a motley crowd of onlookers. The picture is quite peaceful. But it only seems. The Privy Council, the highest executive in Scotland, mercilessly punished ...

The novel Rob Roy gives a broad and complex picture of Scottish and English public relations at the beginning of the 18th century. The action develops quickly, more lively than in other Walter Scott novels. The main character, Francis Osbaldiston, is suddenly recalled from Bordeaux to his father on an important matter. Arriving in London, twenty ...

The Adventures of Perigrin Pickle, the second of three novels that brought glory to Smollet, reveals features that are inherent in the “upbringing novel,” the enlightening novel, the satirical one, and even the pamphlet. Partly we can talk about the influence of "sentimentalists." His hero truly walks before us ...

The story takes place in London, at the end of the XIX century. Mr. Atterson, a notary public, was an introverted man, laconic and awkward in society, and yet very pretty. He was strict with himself, but to the weaknesses of his neighbors showed indulgence, preferring to help, rather than condemn. But because ...

Roy Strang is in a coma, but his mind is full of memories. Some are more real - about the life of the Edinburgh suburbs - and are conveyed in a grotesquely vulgar, inert language. Others - the fantasy of hunting an African marabou stork - are told in the vivid, imaginative language of an English gentleman. Both stories ...