Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great storytellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter. The heroes of his "Lives" were the great men of antiquity, often greatly flawed, but with tragic depth and epic stature. Thomas North`s translation, one of the most splendid works of sixteenth-century English prose, presents a vigorous and passionate version of the "Lives" whose qualities so attracted Shakespeare that he used North as his major source for Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony & Cleopatra. This collection includes all the Lives which Shakespeare used and a selection of others which aim to show the variety and range of Plutarch`s writing.
ISBN: 978-1-85326-794-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2011
`Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid moral code, individual desire at war with tradition`. Manuel Duran Federico Garcia Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for several collections of poems published both in his short lifetime and after. Lorca`s poetry is steeped in the land, climate, and folklore of his native Andalusia, though he writes memorably of New York and Cuba too. Often in modernist idiom, and full of startling imagery, he evokes a world of intense feelings, silent suffering, and dangerous love. This selection balances poems from Lorca`s early collections with his better-known work to give...
ISBN: 978-0-19-955601-4
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Издательство продолжает знакомить читателя с рассказами выдающегося мастера английской прозы XX века Уильяма Сомерсета Моэма. Философское осмысление жизни, нетрадиционный взгляд на события и поступки людей, тонкие психологические характеристики героев делают рассказы Моэма интересными современному читателю.
ISBN: 5-8346-0027-1
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul`s School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from that beginning went on to become not only one of the most prolific writers of all time but, in the opinion of some, the best writer of the twentieth century. Chesterton, an absent-minded, overgrown elf of a man, standing 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighing around 21 stone, was a well-known figure invariably to be seen in voluminous cape and crumpled hat, with tiny glasses pinched to the end of his nose and swordstick in hand. Despite a chaotic life-style this was the genius who wrote "The Everlasting Man", a book which led a young atheist named C....
ISBN: 978-1-84022-081-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Lord Jim, first published in 1900, confirmed Conrad`s place in literature as one of the first `modernists` of English letters. Set in the Malay Archipelago, not only does the novel provide a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental Province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressure? The Secret Agent, Conrad`s story of espionage and anarchists, tells of Winnie Verloc...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-061-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Сборник включает в себя хорошо знакомую российским читателям пьесу Б. Шоу "Пигмалион", в которой вопросы языка и культуры, внешнего и внутреннего в, человеке рассматриваются автором, переносящим действие древнегреческого мифа о скульпторе Пигмалионе в современную ему Англию. Пьеса "Дом, где разбиваются сердца" - одно из лучших произведений Шоу - написана в подражании образцам русской реалистической драмы...
ISBN: 5-8346-0189-8
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: август 2002
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Although Charlotte Bronte`s heroine is outwardly plain, she possesses an indomitable spirit, and great courage. Forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic Mr Rochester. Villette is based on Charlotte Bronte`s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. Rising above the confinement of a rigid social order, it is the story of a woman`s right to love and be loved. Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte`s wild, passionate tale of the intense love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine`s father....
ISBN: 978-1-84022-060-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
The educated son of a poor cotter, Burns became known for his rustic background, his fraternity with the working man, his Jacobite loyalty and his amorous entanglements. Yet his contribution to literature is immense. His use of dialogue and colloquial speech is comparable to that of Chaucer and Byron, but is also uniquely his own. He liberated the language, allowing freedom to the Romantic movement, and his use of old folk tunes enormously enhanced the Scottish musical tradition. With imaginative zest he satirized the Scottish community and offered shrewd insight into human nature. Although he was supremely aware of local concerns - religion and politics in particular - his work transcends the parochial and is now admired internationally...
ISBN: 978-0-14062-429-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2010
This specially commissioned selection of Conrad`s matchless short stories includes such favourites as `Youth`, a modern epic of the sea; `The Secret Sharer`, a thrilling psychological drama; `An Outpost of Progress`, a blackly comic prelude to `Heart of Darkness`; `Amy Foster`, a moving story of a shipwrecked, alienated Pole; and `The Lagoon` and `Karain`, two exotic, exciting Malay tales. `Il Conde` and `The Tale` are subtle portrayals of bewildered outrage; `An Anarchist` and `The Informer` are sardonic depictions of revolutionaries; and `Prince Roman` is a tale of magnificent, doomed heroism set in Conrad`s native Poland during the Uprising of 1831. Both those new to Conrad`s work and those familiar with his novels will delight in...
ISBN: 1-85326-190-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf`s novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf`s novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children`s perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Orlando,...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-558-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a passionate supporter of the struggle for Greek independence. Describing himself as `born for opposition`, his work was largely directed against what he called the `cant political, cant poetical, and cant moral` of the English and European worlds. He was rocketed to fame by the publication of "Childe Harold" in 1812, and lionized by society until his departure from England amid a whirlpool of private gossip and newspaper scandal in 1816. His is, in every sense, a poetry of experience, and a Romantic emphasis on the personality...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953878-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies, featuring tales by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, RL Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Anthony Trollope and many others.
ISBN: 9781840224078
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Chekhov is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His works often asked many more questions than they answered, and he was one of the first writers to use the stream-of-consciousness technique. Considered the greatest short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00553-6
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: май 2017
Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.
ISBN: 0-451-52879-4
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
