"The Rainbow" is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within this historical framework Lawrence`s essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters andhe explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a religious symbolism in which the "rainbow" of the title is his unifying motif. His primary focus is on the individual`s struggle to growth and fulfilment within marriage and changing social circumstances, a process shown to grow more difficult through the generations. Young Ursula Brangwen, whose story is continued in "Women in Love", is finally the central figure in Lawrence`s anatomy of the confining structures of English...
ISBN: 1-85326-250-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: февраль 2007
British Intelligence recruits a derelict, saxophone-playing publisher who visits the Moscow Book Fair and stumbles across the hottest Soviet defence secrets in years. Classic spy moves in what is both a love story and a thriller from the creator of Smiley and author of "A Perfect Spy".
ISBN: 0-340-51121-4
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies uncovers cinema`s funniest and most varied genre, from silent slapstick, to 90s gross-out and the dark indie humour of today. The canon of fifty greatest funnies runs from The Gold Rush and Duck Soup to Airplane and Shaun of the Dead, plus double-acts, drag-acts and ensembles from Laurel & Hardy and the Marx Bros, to the Pythons and the Coen Brothers. Seeking out the films that have amused people the most - or simply amused the most people - the Rough Guide gives you the ultimate lowdown on laughter in the movies from Wes Anderson`s Rushmore to Withnail and I, and from John Belushi to Billy Wilder.
ISBN: 978-1-84353-464-8
Издательство:
Rough Guides
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates-an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost-and that`s where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in. Frost`s violent-tempered husband has just killed her lover and tried to kill her, and he is bound to make another attempt. Bell has tangled with Harry Frost before; he knows that the man has made his millions leading gangs of thieves, murderers, and thugs in every city across the country. He also knows that Frost won`t be only after his wife, but after Whiteway as well....
