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
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
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
