William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women, of ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his art. Wordsworth spent most of his adult life in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy and his wife Mary, by whom he had four children. His remarkable autobiographical poem The Prelude was completed in 1805, but was not published until after his death, and it is included in this full edition of...
ISBN: 1-85326-401-6
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues as he was with extended ballads. He is often thought of as glorifying war, militarism and the British Empire, but an attractive reading of his poems does not confirm that view. This edition reprints George Orwell`s hard-hitting account of Kipling`s poems, first published in 1942, and generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical...
ISBN: 1-85326-405-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his ‘very self’ into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman’s greatness, described him as ‘one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them’. For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, Yeats’s work is essential. This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to...
ISBN: 1-85326-454-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
John Milton has a strong claim to be considered the greatest English poet after Skakespeare. His early poems, collected and published in 1645, include the much loved pair L`Allegro and Il Penseroso (`the cheerful man and the thoughtful man`), Lycidas (his great elegy on a fellow poet) and Comus (the one masque which is still read today). When the Civil War began Milton abandoned poetry for politics and wrote a series of pamphlets in defence of the Parliamentary party, then in defence of the execution of Charles I: these include his great defence of the freedom of the press, Areopagitica. In the course of this work he lost his sight, and was blind for the last twenty years of his life. During this time he wrote his two great epics,...
ISBN: 1-85326-410-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. In June 1786 his first collection of verse, "Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect", which included "To a Mouse" and "The Cotter`s Saturday Night", was greeted with huge acclaim by all classes of society. His later poems and ballads include Auld Lang Syne, the beautiful song "My Love is like a Red Red Rose", "Highland Mary", "Scots Wha Hae" and his masterpiece, "Tam o`Shanter".
ISBN: 1-85326-415-6
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin, , and more recently beat poet Allen Ginsberg and the `flower power` generation. He is one of England`s most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies and subvert `the mind-forged manacles` of restriction. This volume contains many of his writings, including: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and a generous selection from the Prophetic Books including Milton and Jerusalem.
ISBN: 1-85326-452-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Twenty years after he earned a reputation for killing eighty-seven men during the Vietnam War, Bob Lee Swagger finds that his skills are in demand when an organization with ties to the CIA hires him for a particularly dangerous mission.
ISBN: 978-0-553-56351-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
When an investigation into a series of mysterious deaths leads agents to an elite prep school for rebellious kids, MI6 assigns Alex Rider to the case. Before he knows it, Alex is hanging out with the sons of the rich and powerful, and something feels wrong. These former juvenile delinquents have turned well-behaved, studious and identical overnight. It`s up to Alex to find out who is master-minding this nefarious plot, before they find him.
ISBN: 978-0-14-240612-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Aldous Huxley`s lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer - themes and characters repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another in a tone that is at once critical and sympathetic. First published in 1928, Huxley`s satiric view of intellectual life in the `20s is populated with characters based on such celebrities of the time as , Katherine Mansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, as well as...
ISBN: 978-0-09-945819-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
`Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo`s late novels` - Sunday Telegraph. Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, `somewhere south of nowhere`. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience in a one-take film. The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Weeks go by. And then Elster`s daughter Jessie visits. When a devastating event follows, all the men`s talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and isolation, is thrown into question. Written in hypnotic prose, this substantial novel is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51239-8
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This No. 1 "New York Times" bestseller pits Virginia`s chief medical examiner against an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. And when Scarpetta learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved, the investigation gets personal and tragedy strikes closer to home. An LG and Mystery Guild selection.
ISBN: 0-425-16986-3
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Учебное пособие, составленное на основе двух рассказов Агаты Кристи, предназначено для изучающих английский язык на среднем уровне. Пособие может быть использовано как в аудитории, так и для самостоятельных занятий.
ISBN: 5-8346-0274-6
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: январь 2004
Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish professional reputation was always going to be a fascinating experience. With his career still in its formative years, the panache with which Hercule Poirot could solve even the most puzzling mystery is obvious. Chronicled by his friend Captain Hastings, these eighteen early cases - from theft and robbery to kidnapping and murder - were all guaranteed to test Poirot's soon-to-be-famous
ISBN: 978-0-00-712113-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Kingsolver`s national bestseller paints an intimate portrait of a crisis-ridden family amid the larger backdrop of an African nation in chaos. Examine how the tragedy of the Price family mirrors the political unrest in the Congo, how the novel views religion and marriage, and how Kingsolver reconciles the demands of art with her belief that writing should support a political cause.
What`s your poison? Fethering residents, Jude and Carole, get more than they bargained for when a lunchtime meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified and when a series of disasters start to befall his business, it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor. Left with a bad taste in their mouths - and not just from the food - the two amateur lady detectives wonder if it might just be more than a run of bad luck, which is forcing their favourite pub into bankruptcy. When Ray, a young man with the mental age of a five year old, is found in the kitchen of the pub with a knife through his heart - Carole and Jude swing into action. There`s a killer on the loose in Fethering...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44849-9
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: август 2011
What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child? Lots of noise! Children will chant the rhythmic words. They`ll make the sounds the animals make. And they`ll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book- look at the last page! Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle are two of the most respected names in children`s education and children`s illustrations. This collaboration, their first since the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See (published more than thirty years ago and still a best-seller) shows two masters at their best. A Redbook Children`s Picture Book Award winner The rollicking companion to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See.
A new title in the fantastic "First Reading" series, aimed at children who are beginning to read. Wrap up warm to explore the world of polar bears, where young children can discover how polar bears keep warm, catch their prey and survive in the dangerous icy wastes of the Arctic Circle. Developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. A great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-9896-7
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Renko, Volovoi read, as if familiarizing himself with a problem. Chief Investigator, dismissed, expelled from the Party, Psychiatric rehabiliation. You see, I have the same file as the captain has, assigned to labour in the eastern section of the Russian Republic, Siberia. Arkady Renko is exiled on Polar Star, a Soviet factory ship which trawls the freezing waters from Siberia to Alaska: current status seaman (second class), his movements shadowed by those who know his past. Then, Renko is given a chance to reclaim his freedom - by investigating a lonely and very mysterious `Polar Star is not merely the work of our best writer of suspense, but one of our best writers, period` - New York Times. ` reader will be kept guessing to the end` -...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44925-0
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Polar Shift: It is the name for a phenomenon that may have occurred many times in the past. At its weakest, it disorients birds and animals and damages electrical equipment. At its worst, it causes massive eruptions, earthquakes and climatic changes. At its very worst, it would mean the obliteration of all living Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger such a shift, but then his work disappeared, or so it was thought. Now, the charismatic leader of an anti-globalization group plans to use it to give the world`s industrialized nations a small jolt, before reversing the shift back again
ISBN: 978-0-425-21133-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child? Lots of noise! Children will chant the rhythmic words. They`ll make the sounds the animals make. And they`ll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book - look at the last page! Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle are two of the most respected names in children`s education and children`s illustrations. This collaboration, their first since the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (published more than thirty years ago and still a best-seller) shows two masters at their best. A Redbook Children`s Picture Book Award winner. The rollicking companion to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
ISBN: 978-1-4272-0728-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
