Rudyard KIPLING - If (poem)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, 
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

Henry BEERBOHM - Zuleika Dobson

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Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872 – 1956)

Born in England, studied at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford. He started his career as a secretary in the theatrical company in the USA. On his return to the UK he began publishing essays and books, besides he was a successful parodist and caricaturist. He wrote: The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896), The Happy Hypocrite (1897), More (1899), Yet Again (1909), Zuleika Dobson (1911), A Christmas Garland (1912), Seven Men (1919), And Even Now (1920), A Peep into the Past (1923), Around Theatres (1924), A Variety of Things (1928), The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill (1928), Mainly on the Air (1946), etc.

 

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'The Man Who Was Thursday' by Chesterton

Gilbert Keith CHESTERTON (1874 – 1936)
Born in London, studied at the Slade School of Art, then turned to writing. He wrote: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), Wisdom of Father Brown and other novels.
 

'The Man Who Was Thursday'
THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built of a bright brick throughout; its sky-line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild. It had been the outburst of a speculative builder, faintly tinged with art, who called its architecture sometimes Elizabethan and sometimes Queen Anne, apparently under the impression that the two sovereigns were identical. It was described with some justice as an artistic colony, though it never in any definable way produced any art.

'The Secret Garden' by F.Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson BURNETT(1849 – 1924)

Born in Cheetham, England. In 1865 emigrated with the family to the USA, where she began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. Later she began to write novels. She wrote: That Lass o' Lowrie's (1877), Through One Administration (1883), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), Sara Crewe or What Happened at Miss Minchin's (1888), Little Saint Elizabeth, and Other Stories (1893), A Lady of Quality (1896), A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time (1905), The Secret Garden (1911), My Robin (1912), etc.

'The Secret Garden' When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people.

Samuel Butler 'CAMBRIDGE PIECES'

Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902)

Born at Langar Rectory, Nottinghamshire, England. He studied at Cambridge, became a sheep farmer in New Zealand, then turned to writing and music. He wrote Erewhon (1872), Erewhon Revisited (1901), The Way of All Flesh (1903).

150 works by S.Butler Cambridge Pieces, by Samuel Butler I sit down scarcely knowing how to grasp my own meaning, and give it a tangible shape in words; and yet it is concerning this very expression of our thoughts in words that I wish to speak.  As I muse things fall more into their proper places, and, little fit for the task as my confession pronounces me to be, I will try to make clear that which is in my mind.

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• опубликованные в блоге и новые отрывки из классических романов британских и американских писателей.

1. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
2. Frank Baum – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
3. Arnold Bennett - The Grand Babylon Hotel
4. Arnold Bennett – How to Live 24 Hours a Day
5. Samuel Butler - Cambridge Pieces
6. Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
7. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield – Letters to Son
8. Gilbert Keith Chesterton - The Wisdom of Father Brown
9. Kate Chopin - The Awakening
10. Winston Churchill - Richard Carvel
11. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Empty House  
12. Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
13. Richard Harding Davis - Cinderella
14. Richard Harding Davis - The Reporter Who Made Himself King
15. Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
16. John Meade Falkner – Moonfleet
17. Fransis Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise
18. Benjamin Franklin - The Autobiography
19. John Galsworthy - The Forsyte Saga
20. Sir William Gerald Golding - Lord of Flies
21. George Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody
22. Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
23. Ian Hay – The Oppressed English
24. Ernest Hemingway - The Old man and the Sea
25. O.Henry - Holding up a Train
26. O.Henry - Compliments of the Season
27. Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
28. Henry James - Washington Square
29. Jerome Klapka Jerome - Three men in a boat
30. James Joyce – Ulysses
31. Annie E.Keeling - Great Britain and Her Queen
32. Rudyard Kipling - Kim 
33. David Herbert Lawrence - The Rainbow
34. Jack Griffith London - Martin Eden
35. William Somerset Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence
36. George Orwell - Animal Farm
37. Edgar Allan Poe - The Gold Bug
38. Eleanor Porter – Pollyanna
39. Agnes Repplier - The Mission of Humour
40. Rafael Sabatini - Captain Blood  
41. Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
42. Robert Louis Stevenson - Across the Plains
43. John St Loe Strachey - The Adventure of Living
44. Lilyan Stratton - Reno – A Book of short stories and information
45. Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels
46. William M. Thackeray - Vanity Fair
47. Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
48. Joseph Reddeford Walker - Robin Hood  
49. Herbert George Wells - The Invisible Man
50. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray 

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John FALKNER - Moonfleet

John Meade Falkner (1858 – 1932)

Born in Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire, England. He attended Marlborough College, then Hertford College at Oxford University. He wrote The Lost Stradivarius (1895), Moonfleet (1898), The Nebuly Coat (1903).

Moonfleet  by John M. Falkner The village of Moonfleet lies half a mile from the sea on the right or west bank of the Fleet stream. I shall first speak of one evening in the fall of the year 1757. It must have been late in October, though I have forgotten the exact date, and I sat in the little front parlour reading after tea. My aunt had few books; a Bible, a Common Prayer, and some volumes of sermons are all that I can recollect now; but the Reverend Mr Glennie, who taught us village children, had lent me a story-hook, full of interest and adventure, called the Arabian Nights Entertainment. At last the light began to fail, and I was nothing loth to leave off reading for several reasons; as, first the parlour was a chilly room with horse-hair chairs and sofa, and only a coloured-paper screen in the grate, for my aunt did not allow a fire till the first of November; second, there was a rank smell of molten tallow in the house, for my aunt was dipping winter candles on frames in the back kitchen; third, I had reached a part in the Arabian Nights which tightened my breath and made me wish to leave off reading for very anxiousness of expectation. It was that point in the story of the "Wonderful Lamp", where the false uncle lets fall a stone that seals the mouth of the underground chamber; and immures the boy, Aladdin, in the darkness, because he would not give up the lamp till he stood safe on the surface again. This scene reminded me of one of those dreadful nightmares, where we dream we are shut in a line room, the walls of which are closing in upon us, and so impressed me that the memory of it served as a warning in an adventure that befell me later on.

The Rainbow - David H.LAWRENCE

Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England. He studied at Nottingham University College, became a schoolmaster, later he left the profession. He wrote The White Peacock (1911), Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1919), Aaron’s Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923), Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923), The Plumed Serpent (1926), Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928).

The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. Two miles away, a church - tower stood on a hill, the houses of the little country town climbing assiduously up to it. Whenever one of the Brangwens in the fields lifted his head from his work, he saw the church-tower at Ilkeston in the empty sky. So that as he turned again to the horizontal land, he was aware of something standing above him and beyond him in the distance.

Robert Stevenson - Treasure Island (+Movie)

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.

Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17—, and go back to the time when my father kept the "Admiral Benbow" Inn, and the brown old seaman, with the saber cut, first took up his lodging under our roof.

I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pig-tail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the saber cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:

Rafael Sabatini - Captain Blood

Rafael Sabatini (1875 – 1950)

Born in Jesi, Italy. In 1905 he settled in England, wrote in English The Tavern Knight (1904), The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (1922), others.

PETER BLOOD, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the town of Bridgewater. Sternly disapproving eyes considered him from a window opposite, but went disregarded. Mr. Blood's attention was divided between his task and the stream of humanity in the narrow street below; a stream which poured for the second time that day towards Castle Field, where earlier in the afternoon Ferguson, the Duke's chaplain, had preached a sermon containing more treason than divinity.

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Empty House

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930)

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, but later gave it up. He wrote A Study in Scarlet (1887), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891–3), The White Company (1890), The War in South Africa (1902). 

It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.  The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came out in the police investigation; but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts... The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.  Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and incredulity which utterly submerged my mind. Let me say to that public which has shown some interest in those glimpses which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very remarkable man that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge with them, for I should have considered it my first duty to have done so had I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was only withdrawn upon the third of last month.

John Strachey - The Adventure of Living

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John St Loe Strachey (1860 – 1927)

Born in Britain. A British journalist and newspaper proprietor.

But though I was so fully convinced that the doors of The Spectator were shut against me, I was, of course, determined that my two reviews should, if possible, make the editors feel what a huge mistake they had made and what a loss they were incurring.  But, alas! here I encountered a great disappointment.  When I had written my reviews they appeared to me to be total failures!  I was living at the time in an “upper part” in South Molton Street, in which I, my younger brother, Henry Strachey, and two of my greatest friends, the present Sir Bernard Mallet and his younger brother Stephen Mallet, had set up house.  I remember to this day owning to my brother that though I had intended my review of Gulliver’s Travels to be epoch-making, it had turned out a horrible fiasco.  However, I somehow felt I should only flounder deeper into the quagmire of my own creation if I rewrote the two reviews.  Accordingly, they were sent off in the usual way.  Knowing my father’s experience in such matters, I did not expect to get them back in type for many weeks.  As a matter of fact, they came back quite quickly.  I corrected the proofs and returned them.  To my astonishment the review of Swift appeared almost at once.  I supposed, in the luxury of depression, that they wished to cast the rubbish out of the way as quickly as possible.

Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent (+Movie Trailer)

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Joseph Conrad (Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) (1857 – 1924)

Born in Berdichev, the Ukraine. After his service in the British merchant navy he got the British citizenship in 1886. He wrote Almayer's Folly (1895), The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1914)and many short stories.

Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law.  It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening.  Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business.  And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law. The shop was small, and so was the house.  It was one of those grimy brick houses which existed in large quantities before the era of reconstruction dawned upon London.  The shop was a square box of a place, with the front glazed in small panes.  In the daytime the door remained closed; in the evening it stood discreetly but suspiciously ajar.

George Orwell - Animal Farm (+Cartoon)

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) (1903 - 1950)

Born in Motihari, Bengal, India. He studied at Eton, served in Indian Imperial Police, and soon moved to London, later to Paris. He fought for the Republicans in Spain, worked a war correspondent in the World War II period. He wrote Down  and Out in Paris and London (1933), Burmese Days (1934), A Clergyman’s Daughter (1935), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), The Road to Wigan Pier (1936),  Homage to Catalonia (1938), The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), Animal Farm (1945), 1984 (1949).

All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door. When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting attentively, he cleared his throat and began:

Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (+Movie Clip)

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927)

Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England. He worked a clerk, schoolmaster, reporter, actor, journalist, and editor of a weekly. In 1889 he wrote the well-known novel Three Men in a Boat, in 1900 - Three Men on the Bummel and in 1902 - Paul Kelver.

A picture would have come home from the frame-maker’s, and be standing in the dining-room, waiting to be put up; and Aunt Podger would ask what was to be done with it, and Uncle Podger would say: “Oh, you leave that to me.  Don’t you, any of you, worry yourselves about that.  I’ll do all that.”

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (+Movie Clip)

Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731)

Born in London, England. He trained at a dissenting academy, traveled in Europe. In 1702 he was imprisoned for seditious libel, released in 1704. He wrote The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702), Robinson Crusoe (1719-1720), A Journal of the Plague Year and Moll Flanders (1722), Roxana (1724).

The wave that came upon me again buried me at once twenty or thirty feet deep in its own body, and I could feel myself carried with a mighty force and swiftness towards the shore — a very great way; but I held my breath, and assisted myself to swim still forward with all my might.  I was ready to burst with holding my breath, when, as I felt myself rising up, so, to my immediate relief, I found my head and hands shoot out above the surface of the water; and though it was not two seconds of time that I could keep myself so, yet it relieved me greatly, gave me breath, and new courage.  I was covered again with water a good while, but not so long but I held it out; and finding the water had spent itself, and began to return, I struck forward against the return of the waves, and felt ground again with my feet.  I stood still a few moments to recover breath, and till the waters went from me, and then took to my heels and ran with what strength I had further towards the shore.  But neither would this deliver me from the fury of the sea, which came pouring in after me again; and twice more I was lifted up by the waves and carried forward as before, the shore being very flat.

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

Born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at Dublin, moved to England, wrote A Tale of a Tub (1704) and Gulliver’s Travels (1726), The Drapier’s Letter (1724), A Modest Proposal (1729).

I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes.  I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.  In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (+ Movie clip)

Oscar Wilde (Fingal O’Flahertie Wills) (1854 - 1900)

Born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at Trinity College (Dublin) and at Oxford. He wrote Poems (1881), the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and several comic plays, such as Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). In 1888 he created the classic children's fairy stories The Happy Prince and Other Tales. He died an exile in Paris.

In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.

Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832 - 1898)

Born in Daresbury, Chesire, England. He studied at Oxford and became a lecturer in mathematics. He wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872).

Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole:  she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.  How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; `and even if my head would go through,’ thought poor Alice, `it would be of very little use without my shoulders.  Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope!  I think I could, if I only know how to begin.’  For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.