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It was twenty years ago, and on an evening in May. At sunset, I leaved the house. I preferred to go for a walk, the weather was warm and there was an unwonted sweetness in the air. I saw an old bookshop and visited it. In the shop, I chose a book and went to a stall. I had been vaguely aware of someone...

George Gissing was an English author considered as the important representant of the naturalistic genre. “The Salt of the Earth” is one of fifteen stories, entered in the collection “The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories”, published in 1906. Together with other stories, “The Salt of the...

George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English writer whose works belonged to the literary movement of naturalism. In his books George Gissing revealed the social topics and depicted the life of lower classes of the English society. His main characters often were poor people, drifters and prostitutes who...

George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English writer whose works belonged to the literary movement of naturalism. In his books George Gissing revealed the social topics and depicted the life of lower classes of the English society. His main characters often were poor people, drifters and prostitutes who...

"The House of Cobwebs" consists some stories, including the title story. Each story was focused on a main hero and plunged the heroes in the different adventures that allow to a reader to understand the person of the story. While the reader may be led to expect a dramatic resolution, Gissing's...

«George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English writer whose works belonged to the literary movement of naturalism. In his books George Gissing revealed the social topics and depicted the life of lower classes of the English society. His main characters often were poor people, drifters and prostitutes...

George Gissing was an English author considered as the important representer of the naturalistic genre. “The Riding-Whip” is a short story, entered in the collection “The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories”, published in 1906. Together with other stories, “The Riding-Whip” focuses on a...

George Gissing was an English author considered as as the important representant of the naturalistic genre. “The Scrupulous Father” is one of fifteen stories, entered in the collection “The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories”, published in 1906. Together with other stories, “The Scrupulous...

«George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English writer whose works belonged to the literary movement of naturalism. In his books George Gissing revealed the social topics and depicted the life of lower classes of the English society. His main characters often were poor people, drifters and prostitutes...

Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang gave many of the tales their first appearance in English.  Andrew Lang included The Six Hungry Beasts in The Crimson Fairy Book. Once upon a time there lived a man with his...

Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (1871-1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the Tsarist government. Much of the novels...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling   was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Не was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children, and he also...

Jerome Klapka Jerome was a renowned English writer and humorist, best known for his humorous and comic masterpiece “Three Men in a Boat”, apart from his other notable works of literature. He was born on 2nd May, 1859 in Caldmore, Walsall, England, and was raised amidst poverty in London. His other...

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an American writer and human rights fighter of African origin. He was born in slavery and fled to the American North to become an abolitionism leader there. There he began publishing ‘The North Star’ newspaper. His most famous literary work is his own autobiography:...