30 лучших рассказов британских писателей / 30 Best British Short Stories

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Коллектив авторов. 30 лучших рассказов британских писателей / 30 Best British Short Stories

A.J. Alan. My Adventure in Norfolk

Stacy Aumonier. Where Was Wych Street?

Sabine Baring-Gould. Aunt Joanna

James Matthew Barrie. The Inconsiderate Waiter

Walter Besant. The Solid Gold Reef Company, Limited

Act I

Act II

Act III

Act IV

Act V

Ernest Bramah. The Coin of Dionysius

Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The Queer Feet

Wilkie Collins. The Traveller’s Story of a Terribly Strange Bed

Prologue to the First Story

The Traveller’s Story of a Terribly Strange Bed

Note by Mrs. Kerby

Arthur Conan Doyle

That Little Square Box

The Horror of the Heights

Charles Dickens

The Lamplighter

The Dancing Academy

Thomas Hardy

An Imaginative Woman

The Grave by the Hand-post

William Fryer Harvey. The Beast with Five Fingers

I

II

III

IV

William Hope Hodgson. The Voice in the Night

Jerome K. Jerome. The Ghost of the Marchioness of Appleford

James Joyce. The Boarding House

David Herbert Lawrence. The Rocking-horse Winner

Sheridan Le Fanu. The Dead Sexton

George MacDonald. The Gray Wolf

Richard Middleton. The Ghost-ship

Saki

The Open Window

Reginald on Christmas Presents

Reginald’s Christmas Revel

Walter Scott. The Tapestried Chamber

Robert Louis Stevenson. The Body-snatcher

Bram Stoker

The Judge’s House

Dracula’s Guest

Oscar Wilde. The Remarkable Rocket

Notes

A.J. Alan. My Adventure in Norfolk

Stacy Aumonier. Where Was Wych Street?

Sabine Baring-Gould. Aunt Joanna

James Matthew Barrie. The Inconsiderate Waiter

Ernest Bramah. The Coin of Dionysius

Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The Queer Feet

Wilkie Collins. The Traveller’s Story. of a Terribly Strange Bed

Arthur Conan Doyle. That little Square Box

Charles Dickens. The Lamplighter

Thomas Hardy. An Imaginative Woman

William Fryer Harvey. The Beast with Five Fingers

I

III

IV

William Hope Hodgson. The Voice in the Night

Jerome K. Jerome. The Ghost of the Marchioness of Appleford

David Herbert Lawrence. The Rocking-horse Winner

Sheridan Le Fanu. The Dead Sexton

George MacDonald. The Gray Wolf

Richard Middleton. The Ghost-ship

Saki. The Open Window

Walter Scott. The Tapestried Chamber

Robert Louis Stevenson. The Body-snatcher

Bram Stoker. The Judge’s House

Oscar Wilde. The Remarkable Rocket

Отрывок из книги

I don’t know how it is with you, but during February my wife generally says to me: ‘Have you thought at all about what we are going to do for August?’ And, of course, I say, ‘No,’ and then she begins looking through the advertisements of bungalows to let.

Well, this happened last year, as usual, and she eventually produced one that looked possible. It said: ‘Norfolk – Hickling Broad – Furnished Bungalow – Garden – Garage, Boathouse,’ and all the rest of it – Oh – and plate and linen. It also mentioned an exorbitant rent. I pointed out the bit about the rent, but my wife said: ‘Yes, you’ll have to go down and see the landlord, and get him to come down. They always do.’ As a matter of fact, they always don’t, but that’s a detail.

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Three weeks later old Stephen Garrit was lunching with the Lord Chief Justice. They were old friends, and they never found it incumbent to be very conversational. The lunch was an excellent, but frugal, meal. They both ate slowly and thoughtfully, and their drink was water. It was not till they reached the dessert stage that his lordship indulged in any very informative comment, and then he recounted to Stephen the details of a recent case in which he considered that the presiding judge had, by an unprecedented paralogy, misinterpreted the law of evidence. Stephen listened with absorbed attention. He took two cob-nuts from the silver dish, and turned them over meditatively, without cracking them. When his lordship had completely stated his opinion and peeled a pear, Stephen mumbled:

‘I have been impressed, very impressed indeed. Even in my own field of limited observation – the opinion of an outsider, you may say – so often it happens – the trouble caused by an affirmation without sufficiently established data. I have seen lives lost, ruin brought about, endless suffering. Only last week, a young man – a brilliant career – almost shattered. People make statements without–’

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