Peter Pan by James BARRIE

James Matthew BARRIE (1860 – 1937)

Born in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, studied at Glasgow Academy, Forfar Academy, Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh University. He worked for a year and a half as a staff journalist on the Nottingham Journal, later started as a playright. He wrote: Better Dead (1887), When a Man's Single (1888), The Little Minister (1891), Two of Them (1893), A Lady's Shoe (1894), The Little White Bird, or Adventures in Kensington Gardens (1902), Little Mary (1903) Peter Pan (1904), Alice Sit-by-the-Fire (1905), Pantaloon (1905), Peter and Wendy (1911), A Kiss for Cinderella (1912), Mary Rose (1920), etc.

Kim by Rudyard KIPLING

Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936)

Born in Mumbai, India. He studied at boarding school in England, in 1882 he returned to India to work as a journalist. In 1889 he returned to London, in 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote Plain Tales From the Hills (1892), Barrack Room Ballads (1892), The Seven Seas (1896), Jungle Books (1894-1895), Kim (1901), Just So Stories (1902), Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906), Something of Myself (1937).

There was some justification for Kim - he had kicked Lala Dinanath's boy off the trunnions - since the English held the Punjab and Kim was English. Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white - a poor white of the very poorest.

The Grand Babylon Hotel - Arnold Bennett

  

Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931)

Born near Hanley, Staffordshire, England. He studied at London University, clerked in London, soon became a journalist. He wrote The Man from the North (1898), Anna of the Five Towns (1902), The Old Wives’ Tale (1908), Clavhanger (1910), Hild Lessways (1911), These Twain (1916).

'YES, sir?' Jules, the celebrated head waiter of the Grand Babylon, was bending formally towards the alert, middle-aged man who had just entered the smoking-room and dropped into a basket-chair in the corner by the conservatory. It was 7.45 on a particularly sultry June night, and dinner was about to be served at the Grand Babylon. Men of all sizes, ages, and nationalities, but every one alike arrayed in faultless evening dress, were dotted about the large, dim apartment. A faint odour of flowers came from the conservatory, and the tinkle of a fountain. The waiters, commanded by Jules, moved softly across the thick Oriental rugs, balancing their trays with the dexterity of jugglers, and receiving and executing orders with that air of profound importance of which only really first-class waiters have the secret. The atmosphere was an atmosphere of serenity and repose, characteristic of the Grand Babylon. It seemed impossible that anything could occur to mar the peaceful, aristocratic monotony of existence in that perfectly-managed establishment. Yet on that night was to happen the mightiest upheaval that the Grand Babylon had ever known.

27 книг в 2012 г.

В 2012 г. были опубликованы отрывки из 27 книг на английском языке с переводом на русский. Ниже приведён их список со ссылкой на страницы блога, там же можно найти видеоролики, фильмы, линки для скачивания книг.

1. George Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody
   
2. Philip Chesterfield - Letters to his Son 
   
3. Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea (+ Movie Clip) 
   
4. Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland 
   
5. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (+ Movie clip) 
   
6. Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels 
   
7. Eleonor Porter - Pollyanna (+ Movie Clip) 
   
8. Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (+Movie Clip) 
   
9. Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (+Movie Clip) 
   
10. Winston Churchill - Richard Carvel 
    
11. George Orwell - Animal Farm (+Cartoon) 
    
12. Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent (+Movie Trailer)
    
13. John Strachey - The Adventure of Living 
    
14. Lilyan Stratton - Reno - A Book of Short Stories and Information
    
15. Benjamin Franklin - The Autobiography 
    
16. Kate Chopin - The Awakening
    
17. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Empty House
    
18. Rafael Sabatini - Captain Blood
    
19. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
    
20. Robert L.Stevenson - Across the Plains
    
21. Robert L.Stevenson - Treasure Island
    
22. William S.Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence
    
23. Francis.S.Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise
    
24. Agnes Repplier - The Mission of Humour
    
25. Richard Davis - The Reporter Who Made Himself King
    
26. Joseph Walker - Robin Hood
    
27. Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    

Robert Stevenson - Across the Plains

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894)

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh, dropped the profession of lawyer and began to write travel sketches and short stories. He wrote Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), The Master of Ballantrae (1889), the unfinished Weir of Hermiston (1896), others.

Monday. — It was, if I remember rightly, five o’clock when we were all signalled to be present at the Ferry Depot of the railroad.  An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on Sunday afternoon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to travel.  There was a babel of bewildered men, women, and children.  The wretched little booking-office, and the baggage-room, which was not much larger, were crowded thick with emigrants, and were heavy and rank with the atmosphere of dripping clothes.  Open carts full of bedding stood by the half-hour in the rain.  The officials loaded each other with recriminations.  A bearded, mildewed little man, whom I take to have been an emigrant agent, was all over the place, his mouth full of brimstone, blustering and interfering.  It was plain that the whole system, if system there was, had utterly broken down under the strain of so many passengers.