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Впервые напечатано с цензурными изъятиями в газете «Волжский вестник», 1893, номер 211, 18 августа; номер 212, 19 августа; номер 214, 21 августа. Подпись: М. Г-ий. Цензорский экземпляр был обнаружен после смерти Горького в казанском архиве.Горький предполагал включить «Месть» в III т. «Очерков и рассказов».В собрания сочинений рассказ не включался.Печатается по тексту газеты с восстановлением вычеркнутого цензурой.

Рассказ основан на реальных фактах, имевших место быть в 63 г. до н.э., когда римский полководец Гней Помпей вторгся на территорию Палестины и после трехмесячной осады взял Иерусалим.

The world's most famous monster comes to life in this 1818 novel, a compelling narrative that combines Gothic romance and science fiction to tell of an ambitious young doctor's attempts to breathe life into an artificial man. Despite the doctor's best intentions, the experiment goes horribly wrong in a timeless tale about the hazards of playing creator.

В «Американской трагедии», самом известном произведении Теодора Драйзера (1871 — 1945), затронуты острые социальные проблемы американской действительности, показана реальная картина деятельности американского суда, прессы и политических деятелей.

В романе Томаса Гарди (1840—1928) рассказывается о печальной судьбе девушки, наделенной красотой и тонко чувствующей душой. Проклятие лежащее на Тэсс, обрекает ее расплачиваться за преступления некогда могущественных предков. Готовая пожертвовать собой ради близких, она протестует против грубого посягательства на человеческое достоинство и вынуждена совершить убийство.

«Бюг-Жаргаль» – первый роман известного французского писателя В.Гюго. События романа развиваются на фоне восстания негров 1791 года во французской колонии Сан-Доминго. Вождь восставших, Бюг-Жаргаль, добр, мудр и справедлив.

В книгу включены ранние рассказы великого русского писателя Л.Н.Толстого, повествующие о героической обороне Севастополя в 1854-1855 гг.; кавказская повесть «Казаки» 1852г. и рассказ «Поликушка».

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKTo all persons to whom these presents may come greeting be it known that JAMES AGEE has been awarded THE PULITZER PRIZE IN LETTERS FICTION for A DEATH IN THE FAMILY in accordance with the provisions of the statutes of the University governing such award.In witness whereof we have caused this certificate to be signed by the President of the University and our corporate seal to be hereto affixed in the City of New York on the fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty eight.Grayson KirkPRESIDENTJames Agee’s novel A Death in the Family is a classic American story, chronicling just a few days in 1915 during which a husband and father is called out of town to be with his own father, who has had a heart attack, and while returning is killed in a car accident. Agee patterned the story closely after his own life, focusing on a boy who is the same age that he was when his father died. The narrative shifts from one perspective to another, including the young widow and her two children and her atheistic father and the dead man’s alcoholic brother, to name just a few, in an attempt to capture the ways in which one person’s loss immediately and powerfully affects everyone around.The book was published in 1957 by McDowell, Obolensky, two years after Agee’s death from heart failure at the age of 46, and was awarded the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Although Agee had worked on it for almost a decade, he had not produced a definitive final draft, and so his publishers had to put the book together in a way that they believed would make the most sense. They have indicated places where they added materials that come from outside of the flow of the story, such as the opening section “ Knoxville: Summer, 1915,” which was first published in the 1940s. Critics agree that the end product is a consistent novel, one of the most moving works ever written about one of the most traumatic experiences a child could ever face.

Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone,the discoverers of "The Lost World"