Дата выхода: сентябрь 2007
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
Macmillan Readers Pre-Intermediate D. H. Lawrence, Selected Short Stories by
ISBN: 978-0-230-03516-4 Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Дата выхода: июль 2011
Книга продолжает знакомить читателей с творчеством О.Уайльда. В сборник включены произведения разных жанров, наиболее отражающие все многообразие творчества писателя.
ISBN: 5-8346-0100-6 Издательство: Менеджер Дата выхода: октябрь 2002
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
Anton Chekhov is the greatest master of the short story. He changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. But his stories are ostensibly about living, about love for people, Chekhov`s story radiate with a love for being alive. In this beautiful edition you will find such stories as "Ward ", "A Dead Body", "The Looking-Glass" and etc. that especially faithful to the meaning of Chekhov`s prose and the unique rhythms of his writing, giving readers an authentic sense of his style and a true understanding of his greatness.
ISBN: 978-5-521-05809-9 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2017
ISBN: 9780241372517 Дата выхода: январь 2019
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
Сборник знакомит читателя с рассказами известного американского писателя О.Генри, написанными в разные периоды творчества. Острые ситуации, в которые попадают герои, тема судьбы "маленького человека", пытающегося устроить свое личное счастье, яркий и образный язык делают сборник интересным и полезным для всех изучающих английский язык.
ISBN: 5-8346-0007-7 Издательство: Менеджер Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Seven of the best Lawrence stories, each turning on some facet of sexual feeling, attitude or convention. "The Prussian Officer" focuses on an aristocratic captain’s homoerotic obsession for his young orderly. "The Shadow in the Rose Garden" and "The White Stocking" deal with sexual jealousy. "Daughters of the Vicar" brilliantly describes two exceedingly class-conscious mating rituals. "The Christening," "Second Best" and "Odour of Chrysanthemums" etch memorable portraits of a family’s shame at an illegitimate birth, a country courtship and a brutish marriage abbreviated by death. Note.
ISBN: 0-486-27794-1 Издательство: Dover Дата выхода: апрель 2004
В сборник включены наиболее известные произведения представителя английского неоромантизма Р.Л.Cтивенсона: `Дом на дюнах`, `Алмаз раджи`, `Странный случай с доктором Джекилем и мистером Хайдом`, `Ночлег Франсуа Вийона`. Разнообразные по тематике произведения объединяет увлекательность сюжета, тонкие психологические характеристики, яркие образы персонажей, прекрасный английский язык. Сборник...
ISBN: 5-8346-0071-9 Издательство: Менеджер Дата выхода: апрель 2002
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
ISBN: 9780141181110 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: январь 2000
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
Рассказы выдающегося мастера детективной прозы Агаты Кристи, включенные в сборник, интригуют читателя с первой минуты. Всегда неожиданные развязки психологически убедительны. В разгадке преступлений побеждает умнейший. Тонкая работа ума, отточенность мысли, логика и умение анализировать факты приковывают внимание читателя на протяжение всей книги.
ISBN: 5-8346-0089-1 Издательство: Менеджер Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
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
The undisputed master of terror and mystery, Edgar Allan Poe was a unique inventor in fiction. In "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Black Cat" he wrote the first and best tales of terror, with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and his fictional detective M- Dupin he invented the detective story; and tales such as "MS. Found in a Bottle" and "Von Kempelen and His Discovery" pioneered modern science-fiction. As readers will discover, Poe possessed an unrivalled capacity to create atmosphere and suspense, and to probe the dark depths of the human psyche. All the stories in this volume push back the boundaries, making the improbable possible, the familiar terrifying and strange.
ISBN: 0-14-062116-4 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: апрель 2002
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
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
ISBN: 9781840224948 Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Дата выхода: январь 2019
Книга для чтения на англ. языке.
ISBN: 5-94962-029-1 Издательство: Химера Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
ISBN: 9788877542328 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
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
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
