"The remembrance of that life is fraught with so much pain to me, with so much mental suffering and want of hope, that I have never had the courage even to examine how long I was doomed to lead it. Whether it lasted for a year, or more, or less, I do not know. I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, And there I leave it." An abandoned boy and his search for acceptance.
FRANZ KAFKA, 1883 IN PRAG GEBOREN UND 1924 GESTORBEN, HAT DEN GRЦSSTEN TEIL SEINES HEUTE BEKANNTEN UND BEWUNDERTEN WERKES VON DER VERЦFFENTLICHTUNG ZURЬCKHALTEN WOLLEN. NUR DIESE WENIGEN, IN DIESEM BAND VERSAMMELTEN ERZДHLUNGEN LIESS ER GELTEN. KAFKAS ERZДLUNGEN UND ROMANE GEHЦREN HEUTE, WAS IHREN RANG BETRIFFT, ZUM UNUMSTRITTEN BESTAND DER LITERATUR DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS.
The famous story of Dr.Victor Frankenstein and his creation, the monster, was successfully dramatized throughout the last century and continues to fascinate audiences.
На англ.яз. “THE HANDSOMEST AMONG THESE MAIDS OF HONOUR, A PLEASANT FROLICSOME GIRL OF SIXTEEN, WOULD SOMETIMES SET ME ASTRIDE UPON ONE OF HER NIPPLES, WITH MANY OTHER TRICKS, WHEREIN THE READER WILL EXCUSE ME FOR NOT BEING OVER PARTICULAR.” SWIFT`S STARTLING SATIRE ON THE SMALLNESS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.
на англ.яз. “If we had a vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.” George Eliot’s masterpiece, the searching story of noble Dorothea Brooke in Midlands town in Reform era England.
На англ.яз. NO ONE WHO HAD EVER SEEN CATHERINE MORLAND IN HER INFANCY, WOULD HAVE SUPPOSED HER BORN TO BE AN HEROINE. HER SITUATION IN LIFE, THE CHARACTER OF HER FATHER AND MOTHER, HER OWN PERSON AND DISPOSITION,WERE ALL EQUALLY AGAINST HER.” JANE AUSTEN’S DRY, WITTY AND JUSTLY CELEBRATED BURLESQUE OF GOTHIC ROMANCES.
На англ.яз. “THE WIDOW DOUGLAS ALLOWED SHE WOULD CIVILIZE ME; BUT IT WAS ROUGH LIVING IN THE HOUSE ALL THE TIME, CONSIDERING HOW DISMAL REGULAR AND DECENT THE WIDOW WAS IN ALL HER WAYS.” HUCKLEBERRY FINN CAN’T STAND IT ANY LONGER AND LIGHTS OUT — HEADED FOR ADVENTURE ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
На англ.яз. “TOM APPEARED ON THE SIDEWALK WITH A BUCKET OF WHITEWASH AND A LONG-HANDLED BRUSH. HE SURVEYED THE FENCE, AND ALL GLADNESS LEFT HIM, AND A DEEP MELANCHOLY SETTLED DOWN UPON HIS SPIRITS. THIRTY YARDS OF BOARD-FENCE NINE FEET HIGH! LIFE TO HIM SEEMED HOLLOW, AND EXISTENCE BUT A BURDEN.” THE TRIALS, TRIBULATIONS AND TRIUMPHS OF CHILDHOOD IN TWAIN’S IMMORTAL TALE OF A CANNY AMERICAN BOY.
на англ.яз."WE COULD NEVER HAVE LOVED I HK EARTH SO WELL I EWE HAD HAD NO CHILDHOOD IN IT.— IF IT WERE NOT THE EARTH \VHERi SAME ELOWERS COME UP AGAIN EVERY SPRING THAT WE USED TO GATHER WITH OUR TINY FINGERS AS WE SAT LISTENING TO OURSELVES ON THE GRASS —THE SAME HIPS AND HAWS ON THE AUTUMN HEDGEROWS — THE SAME REDBREASTS." GEORGE ELIOT`S MASTERLY TALK OK THE CHILDHOOD JOYS AND WOES AND THE ADULT TR14LS OF MAGGIE AND Том TULLIVER.
