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
`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language`. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Rimbaud as one of the most outstanding poets of late nineteenth-century France whose work is associated with the early Symbolists, the Decadents, and the Parnassiens. Remarkable not only for his delicacy and exquisitely crafted verse, Verlaine is also the poet of strong emotions and appetites, with an unrivalled gift for the sheer music of poetry, and an inventive approach to its technique. This bilingual edition provides the most comprehensive selection of his poetry yet, offering some 170 poems in...
ISBN: 978-0-19-955401-0
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
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
Maupassant`s keenly observed short stories reveal a world of vice and virtue, passions and obsessions. Adultery, prostitution, the Franco - Prussian War, the pleasures of river and countryside, the cunning and greed of the Norman peasantry - these are familiar themes throughout his work, yet they are treated differently each time, producing stories of a dazzling originality. BOULE DE SUIF, Maupassant`s earliest triumph, and the opening story in this selection, exposes the smug complacency of a group of travellers towards the prostitute in their midst. THE PIECE OF STRING and THE DEVIL centre on avarice, while tales of honour such as A DEAL and MADAME HUSSON`S MAY KING, from a rich contrast to the gentle pathos of TWO FRIENDS. Masterly,...
ISBN: 0140621830
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
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
Оскар Уайльд - английский писатель, досконально изучивший все подводные камни семейной жизни. В трех самых известных своих пьесах ("Веер леди Уиндермир", "Как важно быть серьезным", "Идеальный муж") он предоставляет читателю право самому ответить на животрепещущие вопросы: следует ли безоговорочно доверять своей второй половине? Надо ли идеализировать спутника жизни или лучше принимать его со всеми...
ISBN: 978-5-9925-0198-8
Издательство:
Каро
Дата выхода: октябрь 2008
Издательство знакомит читателя с произведениями известного английского писателя, яркого представителя жанра психологической прозы Д.Г.Лоуренса. Философское осмысление жизни, вечные темы любви и ненависти, тонкое проникновение в переживания героев делают книгу интересной широкому кругу читателей.
ISBN: 5-8346-0048-4
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2001
Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.
ISBN: 0-451-52879-4
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
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
Chekhov is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His works often asked many more questions than they answered, and he was one of the first writers to use the stream-of-consciousness technique. Considered the greatest short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00553-6
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: май 2017
Книга на английском языке Сборник знакомит читателя с наиболее значительными произведениями известного американского прозаика XX века Ф.С.Фицджеральда, яркого представителя литературы `потерянного поколения`. Издание рассчитано на широкий круг лиц, изучающих английский язык и интересующихся американской литературой.
ISBN: 5-8346-0008-5
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 2000
Contains: A Room of One`s Own, To the Lighthouse, Between the Acts, Three Guineas, Mrs Dalloway, Jacob`s Room, The Waves, The Years, Orlando. Mrs Dalloway, the society hostess Clarissa, 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. Virginia Woolf`s Orlando, `the longest and most charming love letter in literature`,...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-693-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: март 2012
Richly varied in mood and content, this collection captures the essence of Byron’s great poetic achievement. Among the 31 selections: convivial song-like poems, love poems, travel poems, humorous and satiric poems. Included are shorter works such as the famous "She Walks in Beauty," "Stanzas to Augusta" and "So We’ll Go No More a Roving," as well as longer works: "The Prisoner of Chillon," "Beppo" and "The Vision of Judgment," all unabridged. Also here are lyrics excerpted from Don Juan, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and the play Manfred. Explanatory footnotes
ISBN: 0-486-27784-4
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
