The best works of Russian classics. The most famous Russian writers and their works

Ancient Greece

Homer "Odyssey" and "Iliad"

Did Homer really write these poems? Was he blind? And did it exist in principle? These and other questions still remain unanswered, but they fade in the face of the eternity and value of the texts themselves. The epic Iliad, which tells the story of the Trojan War, for a long time was better known than the Odyssey, and in to a greater extent influenced European literature. But the wanderings of Odysseus, written in simple language, are almost a novel, perhaps the first one that has come down to us.

Great Britain

Charles Dickens "The Adventures of Oliver Twist"

A groundbreaking novel featuring real life without embellishment, Dickens composed it at the age of 26. He didn’t have to strain his imagination much: the main character, who lived in poverty, is the author himself, whose family went bankrupt when the future writer was just a child. And Dickens even took the surname of the main villain Feigin from life, borrowing, however, from his best friend.

The release of Oliver Twist had the effect of a bomb exploding in England: society, in particular, vied with each other to discuss - and condemn - child labor. Thanks to the novel, readers learned that literature can serve as a mirror.

Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"

Cornerstone for British literature a text as classic as “Eugene Onegin” in Russia. A quiet, homely young lady, Austen wrote Pride when she was very young, but published it only 15 years later, after the success of Sense and Sensibility. The Austen phenomenon, among other things, is that almost all of her novels are classics, but Pride and Prejudice stands out from the crowd because of the presence of one of the most amazing couples in world literature - Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Darcy is a common noun; without him, Britain is not Britain. In general, “Pride and Prejudice” is the very case when the sign “ women's novel"causes not a grin, but admiration.

Germany

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust"

The 82-year-old Goethe finished the last, second part of Faust six months before his death. He began working on the text when he was twenty-five. Goethe put all the meticulousness, efficiency and attention to detail inherited from his pedantic father into this ambitious work. Life, death, world order, good, evil - “Faust,” like “War and Peace,” in its own way is a comprehensive book in which everyone will find answers to any answers.

Erich Maria Remarque "Arc de Triomphe"

“One of the two always leaves the other. The whole question is who will get ahead of whom,” “Love does not tolerate explanations. She needs actions” - Remarque’s novel is one of those books that are divided into quotes. The love story in Paris besieged by the Germans turned the heads of more than one generation of readers, and the author’s romance with Marlene Dietrich, and persistent rumors that it was Dietrich who became the prototype of Joan Madou, only add to the charm of this beautiful book.

Russia

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”

Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote this novel forcedly, due to the need for money: gambling debts, the death of his brother Mikhail, which left his family without funds. The plot of Crime and Punishment was "inspired" by the case of Pierre François Lacière, a French intellectual murderer who believed that society was to blame for his actions. Dostoevsky composed in parts, each of which was published in the magazine “Russian Messenger”. Later, the novel was published as a separate volume, in a new edition, abridged by the author, and began independent life. Today “Crime and Punishment” is part of the world classics, one of the symbols of Russian literature and culture in general, translated into many languages and filmed many times (up to the manga comic of the same name).

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy “War and Peace”

The epic four-volume masterpiece, written over several sessions, ultimately took Tolstoy almost six years to complete. “War and Peace” is inhabited by 559 characters, the names of the main ones - Bezukhov, Natasha Rostova, Bolkonsky - have become household names. This novel is a large-scale (many believe that it is completely exhaustive) statement about everything in the world - war, love, state, etc. The author himself quickly lost interest in War and Peace, calling the book “wordy” a few years later, and at the end of his life simply “nonsense.”

Colombia

Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

The saga of the Buendía family is the second most popular text in Spanish throughout the world (the first is Cervantes' Don Quixote). An example of the “magical realism” genre, which has become a kind of brand that unites completely different authors, such as Borges, Coelho and Carlos Ruiz Zafon. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” was written by 38-year-old Marquez in a year and a half; To write this book, the father of two children quit his job and sold his car. The novel was published in 1967, at first it sold poorly, but eventually gained world fame. Total circulation“One Hundred Years” today - 30 million, Marquez is a classic, laureate of everything in the world, including Nobel Prize, a symbolic writer who has done more for his native Colombia than anyone. It is thanks to Marquez that the world knows that in Colombia there are not only drug lords, but also

Works of classical literature, undoubtedly, are the foundations of the foundations: they contain the culture, history, philosophy of the people about whom the authors narrated in their works. Russian literature occupies a fairly significant place in the niche of world classical literature: a huge number of works by Russian authors are read with pleasure abroad. We will try to consider 15 of the most iconic works of Russian classical literature, which everyone should be familiar with.

A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin"

The most famous novel in verse tells us unusual story love between the main character, Evgeny Onegin and Tatyana. Their feelings are born in different time and influence the characters in different ways: having fallen in love first, Tatyana, after an explanation with her beloved, withdraws into herself, but, in essence, remains herself. Onegin’s feeling, which flared up much later, changes him beyond recognition. He appears before the reader full of passion and tenderness, having lost his former coldness and pride and is capable of real, sincere, human feeling.

Against the background of the main storyline, the remaining actions of the novel unfold, during which the Russian poet raises a huge number of important problems, such as, for example, the social, everyday and cultural way of the entire Russian society of the early 19th century.

A.N. Ostrovsky "Dowry" An immortal play telling about the sad fate of Russian women, the heartlessness of rich people and the petty-bourgeois character small people

. It was superbly filmed by E. Ryazanov.

Chekhov wrote many stories, both funny and tragic. Chekhov's main character is an ordinary person with his own daily affairs and worries. The stories “Rothschild’s Violin”, “Ward No. 6”, “The Cure for Hard-drinking”, “The Man in a Case”, “Tears Invisible to the World”, etc. tell us that no one else understood the soul of the Russian person like Chekhov. Despite the genre, Chekhov's stories are a gem of Russian literature.

A.S. Griboedov "Woe from Wit"

The main idea of Griboedov's comedy is expressed in the title of the work. The main character, Chatsky, who returned from abroad, comes to the house of the nobleman Famusov to see his daughter Sophia, his ex-lover. This is where his rather unpleasant meeting takes place with the entire “Famusov society”: Famusov himself, Sophia, Molchalin, Skalozub, who live, fenced off from the world with their stereotypes and long-outdated views of the world. They instantly take Chatsky, a progressive, educated man who looks at the world differently, as crazy and dangerous to society.

The problem of a person who stands out from the stereotypical crowd and because of this is not accepted by society, so acutely posed by Griboyedov, is still relevant to this day.

L.N. Tolstoy "Anna Karenina" Main story line of this novel - tragic story love between married Anna Karenina and officer Vronsky. Meeting your true love changes Anna's life, she is ready to sacrifice everything for her, but does not see a reciprocal gesture in her direction from her lover. The heroine, forced to struggle with her own feelings and public contempt, decides to throw herself under a train. The problematics of the work are questions about marriage, love and family that concern

modern society

no less than at the time of writing this novel. L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace" Tolstoy's epic novel describes the life of Russian society during the period Patriotic War reveal to readers their character, their spiritual qualities and life values. Among the huge number of heroes, Pierre Bezukhov and Andrei Bolkonsky stand out from the rest, whose names are known even to those who are not familiar with this novel. The first is soft, afraid of committing wrong acts, and non-conflict later becomes a Decembrist. Bolkonsky, presented at the beginning of the novel as cold, tired of the entire society surrounding him, is revealed as a sensitive nature, capable of feats for the sake of his Motherland and for strong feeling towards the woman he loves.

This novel certainly deserves the attention of any literature connoisseur for its variety of problems raised and all the brightness and contrast of the social life described.

F.M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment" The plot of the socio-psychological novel is based on the murder of an old money-lender by Rodion Raskolnikov and his subsequent state of mind

, searching for an answer to the question “is he a trembling creature or does he have the right.”

The reader is immediately struck by the problem of poverty raised by the author, which, in part, pushes Raskolnikov to commit a terrible act. But here the author’s idea about faith in goodness and love, about the ability to forgive and about those bright feelings that should suppress cruelty in the struggle for power borders. M.A. Sholokhov "Quiet Don" Sholokhov's novel touches on pictures of the life of the Cossacks, their traditions, customs and life values. Their cruel, strict morals of life make the Cossacks special, and what unfolds against this background

Forbidden love

Gregory and Aksinya - extraordinary, contrary to all the rules, rebellious, but sincere to the depths of the soul. N.V. Gogol "The Inspector General" Gogol’s well-known comedy “The Inspector General” sets as its primary goal ridicule the city authorities, who, having learned about the arrival of the inspector, became seriously worried, and then, in his presence, began to openly grovel before him, missing only one

important detail

The book tells about the adventures of Chichikov Pavel Ivanovich, the main character of the poem, a former collegiate adviser posing as a landowner. Chichikov arrives in an unnamed town, a certain provincial “city N”, and immediately tries to gain the trust of all any important inhabitants of the city, which he successfully succeeds in doing. The hero becomes an extremely welcome guest at balls and dinners. The townspeople of the unnamed city have no idea about Chichikov’s true goals. And its goal is to buy up or acquire free of charge dead peasants who, according to the census, were still listed as living among local landowners, and then register them in their own name as living.

M.Yu. Lermontov "Hero of Our Time"

We will talk about the spiritual world of man. This topic is well covered thanks to the contradictory image of Pechorin. This person is not the most pleasant character, not always noble deeds, but also a very difficult fate. Someone may condemn him for his treatment of Bela, Maksim Maksimych and the princess, someone empathizes with him, especially after his monologue about the difficulty of his fate in “Princess Mary”. Pechorin is a person who is in deep conflict with society, but at the same time, a person who cannot but arouse admiration from this same society for the strength of his personality.

I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons"

The novel became iconic for its time, and the image of the main character Evgeniy Bazarov was perceived by young people as an example to follow. Ideals such as uncompromisingness, lack of admiration for authorities and old truths, the priority of the useful over the beautiful were accepted by the people of that time and were reflected in Bazarov’s worldview.

I.S. Turgenev "Notes of a Hunter"

The classic hunted a lot in the Oryol province. There he met different people, he followed the life of the Russian people, which he describes in his book. This collection of stories published in 1847-1851 in the Sovremennik magazine and published separate publication in 1852. Three stories were written and added by the author to the collection much later.

M.A. Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita"

The main theme of the novel “The Master and Margarita” is the search for truth, the search for oneself, one’s personality, one’s direction, one’s path in life. The Master's novel is presented here as truth, but one who has comprehended and found the truth inevitably becomes mentally ill. One of the main ideas in the novel is also the struggle between good and evil, which affects all the heroes of the novel, intertwining the genres of fiction, satire and philosophy. Although the novel was published in, it has become an undisputed classic.

M.A. Bulgakov "Heart of a Dog"

At the heart of the story " dog's heart" - a story about how Professor Preobrazhensky decides to transplant a human pituitary gland and ovaries into a homeless dog. His fantastic experiment ends with the transformation of a cute stray dog into a disgusting representative of the proletariat, Sharikov.

The problem of the proletariat, by the way, is one of the main issues of the story. The post-revolutionary structure of society, which causes Preobrazhensky's undisguised irritation, makes the reader think deeply. One can only guess to what level the outstanding Russian classic writers raised our culture; here the facts speak better than us. Museums, libraries, metro stations, squares, schools and streets in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are named after many of them. The works of Russian classics are popular all over the world; they are perceived and loved not only by Russians, but also by foreigners. Significant contribution to development Russian state classics of Russian civil law also contributed, who can be called classics of Russian civil law 19th and 20th centuries. These include V.P. Gribanov, L.A. Luntz, G.F. Shershenevich,

DI. Meyer, K.P. Pobedonostsev, O.S. Ioffe et al.

List of Russian classic writers

Books call for reflection, foster independent judgment, strengthen the reader’s strength and give birth to a dream:
A.A. Block.
A.I. Kuprin.
A.N. Ostrovsky. A.P. Chekhov. Masterpieces of Anton Chekhov, describing daily life
, continue to evoke delight and peace. His famous plays do not lose their relevance today; they continue to be performed on the stage of theaters.
A.S. Griboyedov. A.S. Green. I would like to note Green's works, which tell about the romantic sublime love to beautiful women, about faithful and strong friendship
. His books radiate light, they are marked by subtle sadness, purity and chastity. Green created a Miracle in his imagination, failing to find it in life.

A.S. Pushkin. The genius Alexander Pushkin lit the way for subsequent generations for centuries to come. Through his works, the reader perceives the diversity and wisdom of this world.
V.V. Mayakovsky.
DI. Fonvizin.
I.A. Bunin.
I.A. Goncharov.
I.S. Turgenev. He wrote many novels, novels and plays, stories, increasing and enriching world literature. K.M. Stanyukovich. The works of Konstantin Stanyukovich are also unique, who, at the insistence of his father, chose a career as a naval sailor, going to. The writer has seen a lot, he was promoted to midshipman, and suffered from a fever. His eventful life was reflected in his work; most of his works describe the life of the navy.
L. N. Tolstoy. Raised Russian literature to highest level writer Leo Tolstoy, whom the whole world reads. An original person, with a huge charge of energy, extremely versatile, he was able to express in his works the full depth and beauty of his own worldview.
M. A. Bulgakov.
M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin.
M.I. Sholokhov.
M. Yu. Lermontov.
Maksim Gorky. It wasn't easy life path, he has seen a lot in his lifetime. His works, which describe the real, “undisguised” lives of people, emanate strength and vital truth.
N.V. Gogol. The works of Nikolai Gogol, a writer who is included in the treasury of world classical literature, are endowed with great power, sometimes even mystical, and beauty.
N. A. Nekrasov.
N. G. Chernyshevsky.
N. M. Karamzin.
N. S. Leskov. He is the author of the works “Lefty”, “Devil's Dolls”, “The Unbaptized Priest”, “The Life of a Woman”, and is considered the most national author of Russia, the most Russian writer.

S.A. Yesenin.
F.I. Tyutchev.
F.M. Dostoevsky. Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the most famous and significant writers Russia, one of the most respected Russian authors in the whole world.

The list of writers of classics of Russian literature is not limited to these most popular authors of works. Each of us can discover new books throughout our lives that the classics of Russian literature gifted us with.

The best books of Russian classics

Russian classics teach us life and wisdom. Only that person who knows classical literature can consider himself educated, in the full sense of the word. For each of us there is a list of works, which includes the best books of Russian classics. We all love them, appreciate them, and re-read them many times.

Classics in the Russian province

Russia belongs to one of the most reading countries in the world. Today books are being replaced by the Internet, television, computer games to the 2nd plan. A literary event called “Classics in the Russian Province” took place on June 1, covering the cities of the Association of Small Tourist Cities. The event was conceived to preserve the value of literature. The promotion dates back to 2014. Then, in June last year, in the city of Myshkin one could observe an amazing living picture: in the merchant estate of T.V. Chistov, ladies dressed in 19th-century outfits strolled leisurely, like a lord. The summer breeze played with their curls, and the gentlemen, poised, walked along the ancient pavement. Played classical music, against the background of which the poems of A.S. Pushkin sounded incredibly beautiful. The festival began in such a charming way in June 2014. Thus, the classics began to sound their incessant voice again in the Russian provinces.

June 2015 continues this wonderful tradition by holding a literary event for the 2nd time. Its participants, as last year, read excerpts from works of Russian classical literature into a microphone for several hours. In honor of the anniversary of the Victory, the audience heard the work “Vasily Terkin” by A. Tvardovsky, which was included in the event program.

The action in the city of Azov took place at 3 city sites. In Kungur, excerpts from classical literature were heard in all city libraries. In Uglich, the action took place on the main city square, Uspenskaya. The participants of the celebration read out the works of M. Chekhov and O. Berggolts. In general, the number of people who participated in literary event, reached 3 thousand people. In Guryevsk, book exhibitions were installed on the main square and in the Park of Culture and Leisure, where the event was held.

In total, the literary event lasted about 5 hours, imbuing the participants with the depth and beauty of classical works.

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Sylvia Plath. Under a glass cover

Esther Greenwood is invited to New York for an internship at a magazine about women's fashion. She goes there, determined to conquer the city and become a writer. But behind the magnificent scenes hides an indifferent society and difficulties adult life. Esther loses control of herself and is overcome by depression and loneliness. Further

Ken Kesey. Over the cuckoo's nest

A work that describes harsh and extremely honest images of points of contact common sense and madness, brought Ken Kesey the title of the most talented writer. At the time of its appearance, the novel was popular among representatives of the beat movement and hippies, but even today it has not lost its relevance. Further

William Somerset Maugham. Theater

What does the book hide in itself? A graceful and sarcastic narrative by a peerless, witty actress who experiences a midlife crisis while dating a young kidnapper women's hearts? Vanity stories of the roaring twenties? Or is this an exciting romance for all times? One thing is for sure, “Theatre” will appeal to even the most fastidious reader. Further

This book will be an assistant for schoolchildren of all ages. With it, neither children nor parents will have to spend a lot of their time searching for certain work: the collection already contains a large amount of necessary literature that teachers advise reading. Further

The main character, who is a bank employee, is suddenly arrested on the day he turns 30. But he is not taken into custody, and he takes advantage of this to try to figure out what he did wrong. In this process, he becomes more and more immersed in the judicial world. Will the hero be able to figure out what the accusation is? Further

Kerouac became famous all over the world thanks to his work On the Road, although the attitude towards him different people it was very controversial. The novel, in a very unusual, non-linear way, tells the story of the plight and suffering of one generation of people, and in the center of attention is Dean, a witty man who loves drink and women. Further

Famous novel in Polish classics, written in historical genre. Events take place in the mid-16th century. Then the Swedes were eager to conquer Poland. But the Poles also caused confusion among their people: some went over to the side of their enemies, others tried with all their might to defend their land. And in the center of events are the adventures of a couple in love. Further

A novel that will be relevant at all times. The book touches on themes of religion and philosophy, which are perfectly revealed in an ideally constructed plot: the actions of each hero carry within them makes a lot of sense. In this work, the author showed how one can avoid immorality in society. Further

The original opposite of the well-known dystopia “Wonderful World”. What's worse for people? A consumerist society driven to the point of meaninglessness? Or a society dominated by ideas, which led to ideal perfection? Orwell believes that the worst thing is the massive loss of freedom. Further

The book tells the story of generations of the Buendia family. Events during the war, forbidden love between family members, the appearance of new people, magic - all this can be found in the work of Marquez. The novel involves the reader in the feelings of each character: his experiences and loneliness are acutely felt. Further

The tragedies of people in wartime, the problems of the lost generation. This book will reveal the range of all feelings from love to betrayal. The heroes of the novel are three friends who are united by the front; their feelings, thoughts about the past, desires and dreams are described. This work is for those who want to immerse themselves in the life of the last century. Further

The book that laid the foundation for the culture of European postmodernism. It can be perceived in different ways: a masterpiece novel of avant-gardeism, written in the style of surrealist philosophy, or, on the contrary, a masterpiece philosophical story, written in the style of a novel with surrealism. Further

The busy life of the 20s of the last century, when it was popular to throw luxurious parties, when people were confident that they would find happiness only after achieving great heights of power and wealth. And Gatsby, who unsuccessfully chased the dream of love, was inherent in all this. Further

The boys, who had only recently graduated from school and had not yet had time to experience adult life, found themselves in a war that spares no one, together with their teacher. Young men try to find joy in the most ordinary things, in things that they never paid attention to before, because every day could be their last. Further

Events take place in a sanatorium where there are people suffering from tuberculosis. I feel acutely cut off from the rest of the world, with which I can occasionally communicate via mail. Here no one is afraid of death anymore, everyone desperately clings to the slightest manifestations of relationships between people, this helps not to go crazy. Further

A masterpiece of literary art that will never lose its relevance: people of all times will read this book with great pleasure. Jane Austen was the first to show that the novel could be a serious genre without the superficiality of its plot. With this she won everyone's love. Further

A book that takes you headlong into the story of the plight of two brothers and a sister who begin to live separate lives after their father dies. Everyone along the way encounters many obstacles that prevent them from finally achieving their dreams. The work teaches you to find happiness in what you already have, but have not yet learned to appreciate. Further

Hugo writes about how people who are not accepted by society live. For example, a man who was sentenced to 20 years because he was caught forcibly stealing bread, because his poor family starved; or the boy who lived on the street. The novel touches on themes of crime, police, politics and the church. Further

At the time of the first delivery of the novel, books were subject to strict censorship; the publication of forbidden topics could not be allowed, so this work was cut by almost a third. This option The book is compiled from all the materials that were found in the archive, it is the first complete edition that you can read. Further

An excellently written work that was awarded a film adaptation. But if you want to feel the whole gamut of emotions and be completely immersed in deep history about a crazy woman leading nowhere, unrequited love beautiful paralyzed girl to a soldier, it's worth reading this novel Zweig. Further

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Anna Karenina. Lev Tolstoy

The greatest love story of all time. A story that never left the stage, filmed countless once - and still has not lost the boundless charm of passion - passion that is destructive, destructive, blind - but all the more bewitching with its greatness.

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Master and Margarita. Michael Bulgakov

This is the most mysterious novel in history Russian literature XX century This is a novel that is almost officially called “The Gospel of Satan.” This is “The Master and Margarita”. A book that can be read and reread dozens, hundreds of times, but most importantly, it is still impossible to understand. So, which pages of “The Master and Margarita” were dictated by the Forces of Light?

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Wuthering Heights. Emily Brontë

A mystery novel included in the top ten best novels of all time! The story of a stormy, truly demonic passion that has been exciting the imagination of readers for more than one hundred and fifty years. Katie gave her heart to her cousin, but ambition and a thirst for wealth push her into the arms of a rich man. Forbidden attraction turns into a curse for secret lovers, and one day.

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Eugene Onegin. Alexander Pushkin

“Have you read “Onegin”? What can you say about “Onegin”? These are the questions that are constantly repeated among writers and Russian readers,” noted the writer, enterprising publisher and, by the way, the hero of Pushkin’s epigrams, Thaddeus Bulgarin, after the publication of the second chapter of the novel. For a long time now it has not been customary to evaluate ONEGIN. In the words of the same Bulgarin, it is “written in Pushkin’s poems. That's enough."

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Cathedral Notre Dame of Paris. Victor Hugo

A story that has survived centuries, become canon and given its heroes the glory of household names. A story of love and tragedy. The love of those to whom love was not given and not allowed - by religious dignity, physical weakness or someone else's evil will. The gypsy Esmeralda and the deaf hunchback bell-ringer Quasimodo, the priest Frollo and the captain of the royal riflemen Phoebe de Chateaupert, the beautiful Fleur-de-Lys and the poet Gringoire.

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Gone With the Wind. Margaret Mitchell

The Great Saga of Civil War in the USA and about the fate of the wayward and ready to go over heads Scarlett O'Hara was first published more than 70 years ago and does not become outdated to this day. This is Margaret Mitchell's only novel for which she received Pulitzer Prize. A story about a woman whom neither an unconditional feminist nor a staunch supporter of house-building is ashamed to emulate.

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Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare

This is the highest tragedy about love that human genius can create. A tragedy that has been filmed and is being filmed. A tragedy that does not leave the theater stage to this day - and to this day it sounds as if it was written yesterday. Years and centuries go by. But one thing remains and will forever remain unchanged: “There is no sadder story in the world than the story of Romeo and Juliet...”

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The Great Gatsby. Francis Fitzgerald

“The Great Gatsby” is the pinnacle not only in Fitzgerald’s work, but also one of the highest achievements in world prose of the 20th century. Although the novel takes place in the “roaring” twenties of the last century, when fortunes were made literally from nothing and yesterday’s criminals became millionaires overnight, this book lives outside of time, because, telling the story of the broken destinies of the generation of the “Jazz Age”.

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Three Musketeers. Alexandr Duma

The most famous historical and adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas tells about the adventures of the Gascon d'Artagnan and his musketeer friends at the court of King Louis XIII.

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Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandr Duma

The book presents one of the most exciting adventure novels of the French classic literature of the 19th century century of Alexandre Dumas.

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Triumphal Arch. Erich Remarque

One of the most beautiful and tragic love novels in history European literature. The story of Dr. Ravik, a refugee from Nazi Germany and entangled in " unbearable lightness Being" by the beautiful Joan Madu takes place in pre-war Paris. And the alarming time in which these two happened to meet and fall in love with each other becomes one of the main characters of the Arc de Triomphe.

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The man who laughs. Victor Hugo

Gwynplaine, a lord by birth, was sold as a child to comprachicos bandits, who made a fair jester out of the child, carving a mask of “eternal laughter” on his face (at the courts of the European nobility of that time there was a fashion for cripples and freaks who amused the owners). Despite all the trials, Gwynplaine retained the best human qualities and his love.

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Martin Eden. Jack London

A simple sailor, in whom it is easy to recognize the author himself, goes through a long, full of hardships path to literary immortality... By chance, finding himself in secular society, Martin Eden is doubly happy and surprised... both by the creative gift that awakened in him, and by the divine image of the young Ruth Morse, so not similar to all the people he knew before... From now on, two goals are relentlessly facing him.

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Sister Kerry. Theodore Dreiser

The publication of Theodore Dreiser's first novel was fraught with such difficulties that it led its creator to severe depression. But further fate The novel “Sister Carrie” turned out to be lucky: it was translated into many foreign languages, reprinted in millions of copies. New and new generations of readers enjoy immersing themselves in the vicissitudes of Caroline Mieber's fate.

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American tragedy. Theodore Dreiser

The novel “American Tragedy” is the pinnacle of creativity of the outstanding American writer Theodore Dreiser. He said: “No one creates tragedies - life creates them. Writers only portray them.” Dreiser managed to portray the tragedy of Clive Griffiths so talentedly that his story does not leave the modern reader indifferent.

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Les Misérables. Victor Hugo

Jean Valjean, Cosette, Gavroche - the names of the heroes of the novel have long become household names, the number of its readers in the century and a half since the publication of the book has not become smaller, the novel has not lost popularity. A kaleidoscope of faces from all strata of French society in the first half XIX century, bright, memorable characters, sentimentality and realism, intense, exciting plot.

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The adventures of the good soldier Schweik. Jaroslav Hasek

A great, original and outrageous novel. A book that can be perceived both as a “soldier’s tale” and as classic, directly related to the traditions of the Renaissance. This is a sparkling text that makes you laugh until you cry, and a powerful call to “put down your arms,” and one of the most objective historical evidence in satirical literature.

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Iliad. Homer

The attractiveness of Homer's poems is not only that their author introduces us to a world separated from modernity by tens of centuries and yet unusually real thanks to the genius of the poet, who preserved in his poems the beat of contemporary life. Homer's immortality lies in the fact that his brilliant creations contain inexhaustible reserves of universal human values - reason, goodness and beauty.

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St. John's wort. James Cooper

Cooper managed to find and describe in his books the originality and unexpected brightness of the newly discovered continent, which managed to captivate the whole of modern Europe. Every new novel The writer was eagerly awaited. The exciting adventures of the fearless and noble hunter and tracker Natty Bumppo captivated both young and adult readers..

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Doctor Zhivago. Boris Pasternak

The novel “Doctor Zhivago” is one of outstanding works Russian literature, throughout for long years remained closed for wide range readers in our country, who knew about him only through scandalous and unscrupulous party criticism.

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Don Quixote. Miguel Cervantes

What do the names of Amadis of Gaul, Palmer of England, Don Belianis of Greece, Tyrant of the White tell us today? But it was precisely as a parody of novels about these knights that “The Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha” by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was created. And this parody has survived the genre being parodied for centuries. "Don Quixote" was recognized best novel throughout the history of world literature.

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Ivanhoe. Walter Scott

“Ivanhoe” is a key work in the series of novels by W. Scott, which take us to medieval England. The young knight Ivanhoe, who secretly returned from the Crusade to his homeland and was deprived of his inheritance by the will of his father, will have to defend his honor and love beautiful lady Rowena... King Richard the Lionheart and the legendary robber Robin Hood will come to his aid.

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Headless horseman. Reed Main

The plot of the novel is so skillfully constructed that it keeps you in suspense until the very last page. It is no coincidence that the exciting story of the noble mustanger Maurice Gerald and his lover, the beautiful Louise Poindexter, investigating the sinister mystery of the headless horseman, whose figure terrifies the inhabitants of the savannah upon his appearance, was extremely loved by readers in Europe and Russia.

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Dear friend. Guy de Maupassant

The novel “Dear Friend” became one of the symbols of the era. This is Maupassant's most powerful novel. Through the story of Georges Duroy, who is making his way to the top, the true morals of high French society are revealed; the spirit of corruption that reigns in all its spheres contributes to the fact that an ordinary and immoral person, such as Maupassant’s hero, easily achieves success and wealth.

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Dead Souls. Nikolay Gogol

The publication of the first volume of N. Gogol’s “Dead Souls” in 1842 caused heated controversy among contemporaries, splitting society into fans and opponents of the poem. “...Talking about “Dead Souls”, you can talk a lot about Russia...” - this judgment of P. Vyazemsky explained main reason disputes. The author’s question is still relevant: “Rus, where are you rushing, give me the answer?”