Here in one compact and modestly priced edition are the celebrated Russian playwright`s most popular works. In addition to five full-length plays—The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and Ivanov—this anthology features five of Anton Chekhov`s one-act comedies: The Anniversary, An Unwilling Martyr, The Wedding, The Bear, and The Proposal. Chekhov`s taste for vaudeville shows and French farces influenced his comic one-acts, which are widely regarded as masterpieces of the genre. His greatest fame rests upon his full-length tragedies, which focus on mood and characterization rather than plot. Chekhov considered his famous tragedies a form of comic satire—with the bleakness of life in czarist Russia at the...
Penguin Student Editions have been specifically designed for readers who are studying a text in detaol. They include a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, character sketches, a text summary, a chronology, language notes, a selection of questions and topics for discussion and analysis, as well as suggestions for further reading. There is not a modern short story writer anywhere to be compared with Roald Dahl. Each of his stories is so clever has such a startling twist at the end of it leaves the reader gasping. The then stories in this book may depict human nature at its darkest, but they are also brilliantly funny and completely unforgettable.
ISBN: 0-14-081779-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Penguin Student Editions have been specifically designed for readers who are studying a text in detail. They include a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, character sketches, a text summary, a chronology, language notes, a selection of questions and topics for discussion and analysis, as well as suggestions for further reading.There is not a modern short story writer anywhere to be compared with Roald Dahl. Each of his stories is so clever has such a startling twist at the end of it leaves the reader gasping. The then stories in this book may depict human nature at its darkest, but they are also brilliantly funny and completely unforgettable.
ISBN: 9780140817799
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2019
INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts from intermediate level upwards (unabridged short stories or extracts from novels, as well as complete unabridged plays) from English-speaking countries, designed to introduce students to the world of literature. The aim of these volumes is to familiarise readers with the language of literature and encourage them to formulate their own response to what they read. Each volume concentrates on a particular theme, genre or literary current. Key features: • biographical details about each author • carefully selected texts relevant to the theme of the volume • linguistic accessibility with numerous footnotes to guide understanding • stimulating, graded activities...
ISBN: 978887754-749-1
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A controversial artist is found dead in her own art installation inside a riverside gallery with locked doors and windows - the only witness is a small boy who insists the murderer was a masked man on a horse. A television presenter is struck by lightning while indoors… Two seemingly impossible crimes that only Arthur Bryant and John May of the Met`s Peculiar Crimes Unit might be able to solve. But Bryant has lost his nerve following a disastrous public appearance, and May is fighting to keep the unit from closure. Worse still, the case of the Leicester Square Vampire, an unsolved mystery from the past that changed both their lives, has returned to haunt them. With a sinister modern-day highwayman bringing terror to the London streets...
ISBN: 978-0-553-81720-1
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When mysterious Helen Graham and her son move to Wildfell Hall, it sets her neighbours talking. Who exactly is Helen Graham, and why does she keep her past a secret?
ISBN: 978-0-230-03518-8
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
When Helen Huntingdon decides to leave her brutish, drunkard husband, she is not only flouting convention but also going against the laws of the land. Fleeing with her small son, she determines to lead an independent existence and takes on the tenancy of Wildfell Hall. Self-possessed, surrounded by secrecy, it is not long before Helen finds herself the victim of local slander. Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
ISBN: 978-0-14-062428-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is one of few nineteenth-century novels to address alcoholism, psychological abuse, violence and the inequality of women`s property rights. In a powerful psychological narrative, Anne Bronte tells the strange tale of the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Graham, the mysterious tenant of Wildfell Hall. When it was first published in 1848, Anne Bronte`s second novel was attacked by the Spectator for its `morbid love of the coarse, if not the brutal`. In her defence, Anne stated that she `wished to tell the truth,...
ISBN: 978-1-905716-03-6
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2012
This sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty sees a mysterious new tenant at Wildfell Hall, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a `wicked woman` as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully, desperate to protect her son. Using her own experiences with her brother Branwell to depict the cruelty and debauchery from which Helen flees, Anne Bronte wrote her masterpiece to reflect the fragile position of women in society and her belief in universal redemption.
ISBN: 978-0-007-44990-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2013
Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст психологического романа Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда "Ночь нежна" (1934). Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
ISBN: 5-9542-0001-7
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: март 2004
