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Коллектив авторов. Лучшие повести британских и американских писателей / Best Short Novels by British & American Authors
Wilkie Collins. Dream Woman
The First Narrative. Introductory Statement of the Facts by Percy Fairbank
I
II
III
The Second Narrative. The Hostler’s Story – Told by Himself
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
The Third Narrative. The Story Continued by Percy Fairbank
XIV
XV
XVI
The Fourth Narrative. Statement of Joseph Rigobert: Addressed to the Advocate Who Defended Him at His Trial
Last Lines – Added by Percy Fairbank
Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness
I
II
III
Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Found among the Рapers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker
Jerome K. Jerome. Told after Supper
Introductory
How the Stories Came to be Told
Teddy Biffles’ Story
Johnson and Emily or The Faithful Ghost (Teddy Biffles’ Story)
Interlude – the Doctor’s Story
The Haunted Mill or the Ruined Home (Mr. Coombes’s Story)
Interlude
The Ghost of the Blue Chamber (My Uncle’s Story)
The Blue Chamber
A Personal Explanation
My Own Story
David Herbert Lawrence. England, My England
Jack London. The Call of the Wild
Chapter I. Into the Primitive
Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man
Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
Herman Melville. Bartleby the Scrivener
Notes
Wilkie Collins. Dream Woman
The First Narrative. Introductory Statement of the Facts by Percy Fairbank
I
II
III
The Second Narrative. The Hostler’s Story – Told by Himself
IV
VII
VIII
The Third Narrative. The Story Continued by Percy Fairbank
XIV
XV
The Fourth Narrative. Statement of Joseph Rigobert: Addressed to the Advocate Who Defended Him at His Trial
Last Lines – Added by Percy Fairbank
Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness
I
II
III
Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Found among the Papers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker
Jerome K. Jerome. Told After Supper
David Herbert Lawrence. England, My England
Jack London. The Call of the Wild
Chapter I. Into the Primitive
Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man
Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
Herman Melville. Bartleby the Scrivener
Отрывок из книги
‘Hullo, there! Hostler! Hullo-o-o!’
‘My dear! why don’t you look for the bell?’
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Do you wonder if I was happy at this time? I should have been perfectly happy but for one little drawback. It was this: I was never quite at my ease in the presence of my promised wife.
I don’t mean that I was shy with her, or suspicious of her, or ashamed of her. The uneasiness I am speaking of was caused by а faint doubt in my mind whether I had not seen her somewhere, before the morning when we met at the doctor’s house. Over and over again, I found myself wondering whether her face did not remind me of some other face – what other I never could tell. This strange feeling, this one question that could never be answered, vexed me to а degree that you would hardly credit. It came between us at the strangest times – oftenest, however, at night, when the candles were lit. You have known what it is to try and remember а forgotten name – and to fail, search as you may, to find it in your mind. That was my case. I failed to find my lost face, just as you failed to find your lost name.
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