Chekhov is truly the grand-master of the short story. With supreme delicacy he constructs stories where the action and drama are often Implied rather than described, and which rely on the intelligence and imagination of his readers. This collection contains some of his earliest and briefest comic sketches, and some of his more elaborate yet equally subtle pieces. All are written with an extraordinary compassion and with a view of life that, though tragic, is tempered by his delight in the farcical situation and the incongruities of human behaviour. Chekhov presents life as he sees it, with no apology, and certainly without moral judgement.

ISBN: 1-85326-288-9
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

"Adam Bede" was George Eliot`s first full-length novel. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book tells a story of seduction, and is also a pioneering record of a long lost rural world. "Middlemarch" is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate, illuminating the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. "The Mill on the Floss" is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. Maggie Tulliver`s love for her brother Tom turns to...

ISBN: 978-1-84022-062-9
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011

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

Тексты не адаптированы и не сокращены, поэтому Вы сможете насладиться безукоризненным стилем Эдгара По. Серия предназначена для тех, кто учит английский всерьез, кто действительно хочет знать этот красивый и многогранный язык.

ISBN: 5-8168-0046-9
Издательство: Химера
Дата выхода: январь 2001

One of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation - his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick and the wonderful Rabbit trilogy gives us an incitingly honest look at the makings of an American writer - and of an American man. Here is Updike on his childhood, on ailments both horrible (psoriasis) and hilarious (his experiences at the hands of a dentist), on his stuttering, on his feelings during the Vietnam War, on his genealogy. and on that most elusive of subjects, his innermost self. What emerges is a fascinating, fully formed portrait - candid, often very, funny, and always illuminating.

ISBN: 978-0-449-21821-1
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Every morning a very large and very snappy crocodile shouts this selfish message: `Stay away from my river! It`s MY river! If you come in my river, I`ll eat you all!` The animals in the forest don`t know what to do. They are frightened of the crocodile. Even the fish, tadpoles, frogs, crabs and crayfish stay out of the water. Until one day, the creatures are woken by a loud groaning sound which turns out to be the selfish crocodile in a lot of pain, and the smallest of them all, a little mouse, finds a way to solve their snappy dilemma! Astoundingly bright, bold illustrations bring to life all the wonderful creatures of the forest in a rainbow of colours. The Author: Faustin Charles is a renowned poet and story-teller. His collection of...

ISBN: 978-0-7475-4193-6
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: май 2012

ISBN: 9781292240022
Дата выхода: январь 2001

The selfish giant does not want the children to play in his garden, but there is a happy ending.

ISBN: 978-0-582-45609-9
Издательство: Longman
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Deep in the forest, a very large and very selfish crocodile shouts, `Stay away from my river! If you come in my river, I`ll eat you all`. All the animals are thirsty and frightened - until one Put the jigsaw puzzles together to discover how the animals solve their snappy dilemma! This fantastic jigsaw storybook includes six puzzles with press-out pieces that neatly fit back into the book to be used again and again.

ISBN: 978-1-4088-1453-6
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

ISBN: 978-0-582-45611-2
Издательство: Longman
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Faustin Charles has specially created for this collection over 40 new rhymes inspired by traditional nursery rhymes and all featuring animal characters. The rhymes are illustrated throughout by Michael Terry, illustrator of the bestselling The Selfish Crocodile, and whose animal portrayals have become legendary. Combined with a fantastic audio CD that has Faustin Charles narrating the poems with lots of amazing animal sounds and noises, this will make a much-loved and much-listened to collection for younger readers.

ISBN: 978-0-7475-9524-3
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: май 2012

It`s spring 1983. It seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world`s most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler. What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping of experts, and the exchange of extraordinary sums of money for world-wide publishing rights. But that was just the beginning of the story.

ISBN: 978-0-09-979151-5
Дата выхода: август 2011

Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia - wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton - is Meri`s new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Tom`s chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. Soon Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, as they both reckon with the contours and mysteries of marriage: one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. With precision and a rich vitality, Sue Miller - beloved and bestselling author of...

ISBN: 978-0-7394-9925-2
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 9780099509844
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2009

ISBN: 9781526621771
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2022

Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father`s death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success are beset with disappointment but together they attempt to find a way to happiness.

ISBN: 9781784871741
Издательство: Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: январь 2019

"Чувство и чувствительность" - одно из самых популярных и любимых произведений известной английской писательницы Джейн Остин, которое было неоднократно экранизировано. С иронией и лёгкостью автор рисует быт, нравы английского общества, а также судьбу двух сестёр: благоразумной Элинор и пылкой Марианны. Их сердечные драмы до сих пор не оставляют равнодушными читателей во всём мире. Читайте зарубежную...

ISBN: 978-5-521-05178-6
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2017