Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian's own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction and the burden of conscience. Oscar Wilde's only full-length novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lasting gem of sophisticated wit and playfulness, which brings together all the best elements of his talent in a reinterpretation of the Faustian myth.
ISBN: 9781847493729
Издательство:
Alma Books
Дата выхода: август 2020
The stunning debut fantasy novel from author Peter V. Brett. The Painted Man, book one of the Demon trilogy, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. Sometimes there is very good reason to be afraid of the dark! Arlen lives with his parents on their small farmstead, half a day`s ride from the isolated hamlet of Tibbet`s Brook. As dusk falls each evening, a mist rises from the ground promising death to any foolish enough to brave the coming darkness. For hungry demons materialize from the vapours to feed, and as the shadows lengthen, all of humanity is forced to take shelter behind magical wards and pray that their protection holds until the dawn. But when Arlen`s...
ISBN: 978-0-00-727614-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game ... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death.
ISBN: 978-1-85723-146-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Роман Портрет Дориана Грея одно из самых известных произведений Оскара Уайльда. Эгоизм и жажда наслаждений постепенно разрушают душу героя, приводя его к гибели. Изысканность деталей, парадоксальность сюжетных ситуаций и речи персонажей, элементы фантастики, блестящие афоризмы делают книгу интересной и увлекательной.
ISBN: 5-8346-0088-3
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Important collectors, like Peggy Guggenheim, have become almost as famous, if not more so, than the artists they nurtured and collected. As colorful and daring as the art she collected, Peggy Guggenheim was one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century art world. Born into a wealthy New York family, she traveled throughout Europe during the 1920s and 1930s, where she was witness to the development of the most influential art movements. With a keen eye and exalted social standing, she amassed one of the most significant, privately owned, modern art collections in the world from her palazzo in Venice, Italy. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Modern Art is the only complete book on this exceptional collection and the woman...
ISBN: 0847823792
Издательство:
Rizzolli
Дата выхода: май 2002
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The fourth work chronologically in Cooper`s Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers is a historical novel that follows the later life of Natty Bumppo. Already introduced by the previous novels as the archetypal American frontiersman and friend to Indians, Natty now struggles with hunting and new societal laws that restrict the freedom of the wilderness he has always known. Just as accessible and enjoyable for today`s modern readers as it would have been when first published, the novel is one of the great works of...
ISBN: 978-5-521-07961-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
One of the most popular and respected series of simplified readers for English learners, with stories from contemporary and classic authors. Adapted from Mark Twain`s classic story of what happens when two boys - Edward Tudor, a prince and the future King of England, and the poor son of thief - swap lives.Retold by Chris Rose.
ISBN: 9780230436329
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2016
Who is the Phantom of the Opera? And who is training the young singer, Christine Daae? Gaston Leroux`s chilling tale uncovers the secrets behind the horror which haunts the Paris Opera House. Retold by Jenny Dooley.
ISBN: 9781844669585
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
THE `ROMANOV` BONES DISCREDITED - New scientific analysis challenges the authenticity of the DNA tests and of the bones themselves. THE PLOTS TO SAVE THE TSAR - Primary documentary evidence, including recently declassified intelligence files, reveals that Britain and her allies were pouring money and their finest secret agents into Russia as part of a top secret plan to topple the Bolsheviks and save the Tsar. A SAFE HOUSE - Incontrovertible proof that a secret house intended for the Tsar was built in a remote part of northern Russia and paid for by British Intelligence. A TALE OF SURVIVAL? - Urgent, coded telegrams sent by the American Embassy and Department of State five months after the Romanov family`s disappearance suggest the...
ISBN: 0-09-929810-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
In The Portrait of a Lady Henry James tells the story of one of his most enchanting heroines, Isabel Archer, a young New York woman whose life is changed when she is visited by her aunt Mrs Touchett following the death of her father (her mother
ISBN: 978-1-904633-80-8
Издательство:
Collector's Library
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but here he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick? Embarking on a journey in which he encounters movers and shakers past and present, he discovers: • that Prime Ministers have often lost a parent in childhood • why Trollope is the politician’s novelist of choice • that Lloyd George once hunted Jack the Ripper • how an Admiral’s speech in parliament helped win WWII Where do politicians come from? How do they get elected? What do they do all day? And why do they seek power? All these questions and many more are addressed in Paxman’s thrilling dissection of that strange and elusive breed – the...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103296-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Lucy, Hermione and Sam offer to accompany the captain and his dog, Biscuit on the next trip to keep a lookout for danger. But danger is exactly what they run into! The pirates aren`t just after more popcorn they want new recruits too! Will three children - and a dog - defeat the greediest gang of grub-guzzling pirates ever to sail the high seas?
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8054-6
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Книга из серии "Хрестоматия британской литературы" знакомит читателя с творчеством знаменитого английского писателя ХIХ века Оскара Уайльда. Тексты произведений, вошедших в книгу, адаптированы с учетом уровня владения языком учащихся 7-9 классов.
ISBN: 5-8112-0148-6
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: январь 2002
Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, "Lady Windermere`s Fan". The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", and his undisputed masterpiece, "The Importance of Being Earnest". This volume includes all Wilde`s plays from his early tragedy "Vera" to the controversial "Salome" and the little known fragments, "La Sainte Courtisane" and "A Florentine Tragedy". The edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde`s best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention. Wilde`s plays...
ISBN: 1-8402-2418-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Джек Лондон - классик американской литературы XX века, автор ярких, живых приключенческий романов и рассказов. «Люди бездны» - знаменитая книга социологических очерков, результат журналистского расследования, проведённого в Лондоне. Очерки написаны через призму взгляда человека «со дна» - городского пролетария, жившего и работавшего в кварталах Ист-Энда, чтобы показать читателю правдивую...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05757-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
This is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.
ISBN: 978-0-571-20198-3
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Pickwick Papers, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet lite of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, he embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens`s best-loved characters.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07930-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Джеймс Фенимор Купер - известный американский романист и сатирик, классик приключенческой литературы. Его произведения заставляют задуматься о нашем месте в мире и месте людей нас окружающих. "Прерия" - это последний роман о Натти Бампо, главном герое историко-приключенческой пенталогии Фенимора Купера "Кожаный чулок". Читателя ждут невообразимые приключения, смелые и статные индейцы, лихой сюжет и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05765-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Wilde`s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in `art for art`s sake`, to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outragethe Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he later recalled the `note of doom` which runs like `a purple thread` through its carefully crafted prose.
ISBN: 1-85326-015-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001