The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson`s short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson`s brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", as well as "The Beach of Falesa" and Stevenson`s previously uncollected stories. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes explanatory notes, a Scots Glossary, and a unique appendix dedicated to Stevenson`s influence on the Oxford English Dictionary.
`The Owl and the Pussy-Cat`, `Calico Pie` and `The Pobble Who Has No Toes`, together with Edward Lear`s crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verses and stories of the `Book of Nonsense`, `More Nonsense`, `Nonsense Songs`, `Nonsense Stories` and `Nonsense Alphabets` and `Nonsense Cookery`. It has a biographical Preface by Lear himself, and concludes with some delightful `heraldic` sketches of his cat, Foss.
ISBN: 1-85326-144-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
A collection of 52 pieces of writing displaying Woody Allen's own brand of humour. Allen's three outrageously funny collections in one volume Complete Prose brings together Allen's three outrageously funny collections, Without Feathers, Getting Even and Side Effects. "No 500-page book ever contained a laugh a line, but this one gets pretty close". Daily Telegraph
ISBN: 978-0-330-32821-0
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
These volumes represent each author`s best and most famous writings. This finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience. Includes "Alice in Wonderland, "The Hunting of the Snark, "Sylvie and Bruno, and "Through the Looking Glass.
ISBN: 978-1-907360-44-2
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
For 150 years, the tales of Hans Christian Andersen have been delighting both adults and children. This edition contains all of Andersen`s 168 tales, and among the favourites are "The Red Shoes", "The Mermaid", "The Emperor`s New Clothes", and "The Ugly Duckling".
ISBN: 978-1-84022-173-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2017
Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the dour temperament of the Scot with the stiff upper lip of the Englishman, Hannay is pre-eminent among early spy-thriller heroes. Caught up in the first of these five gripping adventures just before the outbreak of war in 1914, he manages to thwart the enemy`s evil plan and solve the mystery of the `thirty-nine steps`. In Greenmantle, he undertakes a vital mission to prevent jihad in the Islamic Near East. Mr Standfast`, set in the decisive months of 1917-18, is the novel in which Hannay, after a life lived `wholly among men`,...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-655-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Since tales of his exploits began appearing in The New Yorker more than thirty years ago, Henry Bech, John Updike`s playfully irreverent alter-ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido. The Bech stories - collected in one volume for the first time, and featuring a final, series-capping story, His Oeuvre - cast an affectionate eye on the famously unproductive Jewish-American writer, offering up a stream of wit, whimsy, and lyric pungency unmatched in American letters. From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the...
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: 978-1-84022-557-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2017
For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain`s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", to the bitter vision of humankind in "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", to the delightful hilarity of "Is He Living or Is He Dead?" Surging with Twain`s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career...
ISBN: 978-0-553-21195-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator together in a single bumper volume, with a great new Quentin Blake cover and a new end section about Roald Dahl.
ISBN: 978-0-14-132272-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lewis Carroll is best known for his two books describing Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, but he was a prolific author of fantasy and nonsense verse, which are represented here in the complete Sylvie and Bruno and The Hunting of the Snark. Also included are early verse, Puzzles from Wonderland, prologues to plays, Phantasmagoria, college rhymes and notes, acrostics, inscriptions, Three Sunsets and other poems. Illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, Henry Holliday and Harry Furniss, the book is bound in real cloth, with head and tail bands, a ribbon marker, top edge gilt and a gold-blocked jacket.
ISBN: 978-1-905716-84-5
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"The Jungle Book" introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear. How did the Leopard get his spots? How did the Elephant get his trunk? In Just So Stories Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions. "Puck of Pook`s Hill" relates how Dan and Una`s magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and And later, in "Rewards and Fairies", the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to `Good Queen Bess` and Sir Francis Drake. In Kipling`s rattling school yarn "Stalky & Co", Stalky, M`Turk and the Beetle are a trio of...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-057-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales. Together with their well-known tales of "Rapunzel", "The Goose Girl", "Sleeping Beauty", "Hansel and Gretel" there are darker tales which deserve to be better known. This is a collection of their tales.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-174-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This work combines two of Bill Bryson`s best-loved books and demonstrates his take on life - from either side of the pond. The books, "Notes from a Small Island" and "Notes From a Big Country", went on to become major bestsellers. "The Complete Notes" combines these two popular books into one volume. Written in the form of bite-sized essays, both books are gently humorous as they highlight the idiosyncracies of the USA and Great Britain.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77623-3
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
William Shakespeare is the best known writer in all of English literature and has not earned this reputation without reason. This volume contains the complete dramatic works of the literary genius whose work has enthralled audiences since Elizabethan times. In his works you will find tragedy, comedy, history, romance, fantasy, horror and a vast range of human experience that is still poignant in modern times. Shakespeare's heroes and heroines, villains and rogues, are amongst English literature's most enduring characters. Once experienced, who can forget the reasoning of Portia, the scheming of Richard III, the contradiction that is Hamlet, the calculated determination of Lady Macbeth, the jealousy of Othello, the...
ISBN: 978-1-85534-997-1
Издательство:
Geddes & Grosset
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This edition contains "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass". It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too, are Carroll's delightful verses such as "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, "The Jabberwocky".
ISBN: 1-85326-118-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 1999
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective in the world. The hero of 56 short stories and four novels, he is so convincing that letters still arrive at 221b Baker Street seeking his help, and when it was thought that he had died in his clash with the evil Professor Moriarty ('the Napoleon of Crime') young men in London wore black armbands. This handsome edition, bound in real cloth, with head and tail bands, a ribbon marker, top edge gilt and a gold-blocked jacket, presents all of the short stories, many illustrated by Sidney Paget, who prepared these drawings for the original publication in The Strand Magazine. It also contains the four novels: A Study in Scarlet in which Holmes and Dr Watson first meet, The Sign of...
ISBN: 978-1-907360-45-9
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
From the exquisite lyric “To Helen”, to the immortal masterpieces “Annabel Lee”, “The Bells”, and “The Raven”, The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates the author’s gift for the form.
ISBN: 978-0-451-53105-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
