Flaubert's story of the beautiful Madame Bovary scandalized Paris when first published in 1856. Seen as flagrantly amoral, its writer was himself prosecuted and, after a sensational trial, acquitted. Today, however, his novel is recognized as a milestone in European literature. Emma Rouault leaves her father to marry Charles Bovary, an insignificant local doctor, and to live among the bourgeoisie of Yonville. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, Emma fills her head with fantastic notions of gallantry and high romance, which she soon finds lacking in her dull husband. Disillusioned and frustrated she finds solace in a tempestuous love affair with the local squire, naively imagining that he will fulfil her desires. Torn between...

ISBN: 0140621792
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2000

ISBN: 9780140449129
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2003

A vast apparition towered over her on the doorstep. It wore a loose salmon pink and tucked under its arm was an enormous imitation crocodile skin `I`m Madame Doubtfire, dear.` Lydia, Christopher and Natalie Hilliard are used to domestic turmoil and have been torn between their warring parents ever since the divorce. But all that changes when their mother takes on a most unusual cleaning lady. Despite her extraordinary appearance, Madame Doubtfire turns out to be a talented and efficient housekeeper and, for a short time at least, the arrangement is a resounding success. But, as the Hilliard children soon discover, there`s more to Madame Doubtfire than domestic

ISBN: 978-0-14-037355-4
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

In 1888 Henry James wrote "There was the customary novel by Mr. Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight". Madam Crowl`s Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu`s stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals, and their haunting, sinister qualities still have an enormous appeal for the modern reader. The great , who collected and introduces the stories in this book, considered that Le Fanu "stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories".

ISBN: 978-1-84022-067-4
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2012

ISBN: 9780141394671
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2014

Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. This book includes two wonderful works of literature: the tale about love and divorce "Madame de Treymes" and a short story "The Triumph Of Night". .

ISBN: 978-5-521-07845-5
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018

ISBN: 9780143106494
Дата выхода: январь 2011

ISBN: 9781788881869
Дата выхода: январь 2021