Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Collected Short Stories I contains two of the Conrad\'s most powerful, gripping stories, including Amy Foster — a classic story of a young foreign man who survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07576-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Smith and the Pharaohs, the title tale of Collected Tales I concerns a budding Egyptologist who is accidentally locked up one night in the Cairo Museum. Falling asleep, he dreams that he is put on trial by the ghosts of Egypt\'s pharaohs and queens.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07601-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Tales contains some amazing stories: "October and June", "Greater Coney", "Law and Order" and others.
ISBN: 9785521076864
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by James, ‘Stories I Have Tried To Write’, which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are ‘Casting the Runes’, ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you, My Lad’, ‘The Tractate Middoth’, ‘The Ash Tree’ and ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-551-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Collected Tales II from master storyteller includes two stories: Little Flower and Only a Dream, a ghost story about the strange experience of a widower about to remarry, who is visited on the eve of his wedding by the ghastly apparition of his dead first wife.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07602-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories, a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne`s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". Hawthorne shows us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered at the time.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07692-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. “Collected Tales” is a collection of early Doyle’s short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08069-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Wilde`s works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is "The Happy Prince". Counterpoints to this were his novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece "The Importance of Being Earnest". His essays - in particular "De Profundis" - and his "Ballad of Reading Gaol", both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-550-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories, a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne`s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". Hawthorne shows us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered at the time.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07691-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name 0. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Tales includes "The World and the Door", "The Theory and the Hound", "The Hypotheses of Failure", "Calloway`s Code", "A Matter of Mean Elevation" and others
ISBN: 978-5-521-07687-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories is a collection of humorous and sentimental stories of sheepherders, cowpunchers, trail cooks, prospectors, outlaws, and Texas Rangers that offer the modern reader a window into American West. Perhaps reflecting O. Henry`s own experience as a young man in the middle of nowhere, where women were few and far between, many of the stories are comic tales of romantic rivalry.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07679-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Colonel Jack is one of Daniel Defoe\'s most entertaining, revealing, and complex works. It is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his brothers are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland. Jack\'s story is one of dramatic turns of fortune that ultimately lead to a life of law-abiding prosperity as a plantation owner.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06426-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night`s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness.This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare`s Sonnets, as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.
ISBN: 9781853268953
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2022
Роберт Ирвин Говард (1906–1936) — американский писатель, признанный мастер жанра фэнтези, создатель поджанра "меч и колдовство". В настоящее издание вошли избранные рассказы Говарда о воине Хайборийской эры, киммерийце Конане, ставшем одним из самых популярных фантастических персонажей XX века. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-5-517-09688-3
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
Henry James (1843—1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. «Confidence» is a great novel which centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angela Vivian. The plot rambles through various romantic entanglements before reaching an uncomplicated, but still believable happy ending.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07069-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Cousin Henry" is a novel that deals with the trouble arising from the indecision of a squire in choosing an heir to his estate. It is the most unusual and intriguing of Trollope`s shorter novels.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08345-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
A father and child discover the joys of his crazy hair in this brilliant picture book. Bonnie tries to tame her father`s hair, but to no avail, as birds and beasts of every type jostle for space amongst the curls and tresses of this hirsute book. A warm and funny conversational text combine beautifully with Dave McKean`s edgy and dramatic illustrations to make this another, perfect picture book by Gaiman and McKean.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9599-1
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: август 2011